Aramco Ventures — Saudi Aramco's $7.5 Billion Global Corporate Venture Capital Arm

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Saudi Aramco Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Saudi Aramco, based in Dhahran and led by CEO Mahdi Aladel. The platform links Aramco’s industrial, digital, sustainability, and diversification priorities to startup investments through Wa’ed Ventures, the Digital/Industrial Fund, Prosperity7, the Sustainability Fund, and late-stage capital.

The institutional architecture Aramco Ventures has assembled across its six funds reflects an unusual breadth of strategic ambition. Wa’ed Ventures, with $500 million in dedicated capital, focuses exclusively on Saudi domestic startup ecosystem development. The Digital/Industrial Fund, with $500 million, invests in technologies of strategic importance to Aramco’s core operating business. Prosperity7 Fund I, originally capitalised at $1 billion and expanded to $3 billion through subsequent injections, invests in disruptive technology ventures beyond the energy sector with an emphasis on financial returns and global scalability. Prosperity7 Fund II, capitalised at $2 billion, extends the Prosperity7 thesis with additional dry powder for the next deployment cycle. The Sustainability Fund, with $1.5 billion, supports startups that advance Aramco’s net-zero scope-1-and-2 greenhouse-gas-emissions ambition by 2050. The Late-Stage Fund, with $2 billion, allows Aramco Ventures to be a longer-term investor in its early-stage portfolio winners, providing follow-on capital at scales that retain meaningful equity participation through later funding rounds and into eventual exit. The combined architecture provides Aramco Ventures with the strategic optionality to invest across the full venture capital lifecycle — from early-stage Saudi startups through late-stage international growth equity — and across the full sectoral spectrum from pure-play energy transition to disruptive consumer-tech and frontier AI infrastructure.

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Aramco Ventures — Saudi Aramco's $7.5 Billion Global Corporate Venture Capital Arm