Riyadh – Sharikat Mubasher: Saudi AI infrastructure startup Think secured more than $8 million in a pre-seed funding round, marking what the company says is the largest AI infrastructure and deeptech pre-seed investment in the MENA region to date.

As per the company’s official press release, this round was co-led by RAED Ventures and Wa'ed Ventures, with participation from Dhahran Techno Valley's Venture Capital arm and several strategic angel investors. The funding will support product development, manufacturing, team expansion and commercial growth across Saudi Arabia, the GCC and selected international markets.

Founded by former Meta executive Ahmed AlSharif and enterprise technology veteran Ammar Enaya, Think develops integrated AI infrastructure combining high-density computing hardware with proprietary orchestration software to improve GPU utilization and reduce AI deployment costs.

The company said its platform enables organizations to deploy AI models more efficiently while maintaining greater control over security and data sovereignty. Think is already working on multiple proof-of-concept projects and production deployments in Saudi Arabia as it seeks to support the Kingdom's ambitions of becoming a global AI hub.

Investors said the startup is well positioned to address growing demand for efficient, scalable and sovereign AI infrastructure amid rising deployment costs and increasing focus on data sovereignty.