Riyadh - Sharikat Mubasher: Wittify.ai, a Saudi-based conversational AI startup, successfully secured $1.5 million in a pre-seed funding round from several prominent angel investors and business leaders from Saudi Arabia.

Wittify.ai will use the investments to enhance product development and Beta launch, accelerate expansions across the MENA region and the GCC, and broaden engineering, products, and operations teams, the startup announced in a press release yesterday.

This milestone reflects investors’ confidence in the company’s technology and vision to build the Arabic-first, human-level AI to transform customer engagement.

Founded by Nader El-Batrawi and Sarah AlHumoud, Wittify.ai targets enabling businesses to create AI agents for voice, text, or multichannel interactions, with native Arabic speech technologies handling over 25 dialects. Its no-code builder integrates seamlessly with websites, social media, CRMs, call centers, and other systems.