Aumet Raises $12M to Revolutionise Healthcare Supply Chains with AI-Driven Procurement

Mohammed Fathy

Last updated 13-05-2026

4 min

Aumet raised $12m Series A to expand its AI-first procurement platform.

It targets healthcare supply chains plagued by “lack of coordination and intelligence”.

Its cloud “Pulse” system combines inventory, marketplace and AI-driven automation.

Enterprise AI Procurement OS now powers Jordan’s largest hospital and public system.

Fresh funds will scale across GCC and position Aumet as core infrastructure.

Aumet, the Saudi Arabia-based healthtech building what it calls an AI-first procurement operating system, has secured $12 million in a Series A round led by Emkan Capital. The funding marks a significant moment for the company as it pushes to reshape how healthcare supply chains work across emerging markets, and, eventually, further afield.

Founded by Yahya Aqel and Adel Haddad, Aumet started with a fairly straightforward idea: make it easier for pharmacies and healthcare providers to procure what they need. Anyone who has spent time around hospital procurement departments knows it can be a bit of a faff, endless calls, patchy data, and stock levels that never seem spot on. I’ve seen startups in the region struggle with similar inefficiencies, so this feels like a pain point that’s been waiting for proper attention.

Over time, Aumet has evolved well beyond a marketplace. It now describes itself as building the infrastructure layer for healthcare procurement, inventory management and decision-making. At the core is a cloud-based system that combines inventory tools, a marketplace and AI-driven procurement automation. The company says its “Pulse” platform is the first at scale globally to integrate both inventory and marketplace functions specifically for pharmacies.

From there, the offering expands. Aumet has developed a solution for centralised procurement across multi-branch pharmacy chains, enabling AI-led decisions across locations. Its most advanced product is an AI-powered cognitive procurement operating system aimed at hospitals, ministries of health and even national healthcare systems.

That enterprise-grade solution was first rolled out at Al-Basheer Hospital, the largest hospital in Jordan. Since then, the system has been scaled more widely in partnership with Jordan’s Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship (MODEE). The deployment also involves Presight, the Abu Dhabi-based AI company, which signed an agreement with Aumet to scale the AI Procurement OS across the public healthcare system.

It’s a big bet. Healthcare supply chains don’t necessarily suffer from lack of products; rather, they often suffer from lack of coordination and intelligence. As CEO Yahya Aqel put it, the issue is not supply but the absence of smart decision-making tools. He said Aumet aims to power procurement decisions across the full spectrum of the healthcare ecosystem, from individual pharmacies to national systems, with ambitions to take its Middle East model global.

Globally, companies like Clarium are tackling similar enterprise supply chain challenges in the United States. That said, emerging markets, particularly across the Middle East, present a different puzzle. Systems are more fragmented, data is less standardised, and local context matters more. I reckon this is where Aumet sees its edge.

Alongside Emkan Capital, the Series A round drew participation from investors including SABAH.fund and AAIC, as well as existing backers and strategic healthcare investors. Ghassan from Emkan Capital described Aumet as building what they believe could become the foundational operating system for healthcare supply chains in emerging markets. Abbas Kazmi of SABAH.fund pointed to what he called strong founder-market fit, while AAIC’s Hiroki Ishida said the firm was pleased to deepen its partnership.

With fresh capital in hand, Aumet plans to further develop its AI capabilities, scale Pulse internationally, expand enterprise deployments and enter new GCC markets and beyond. It’s an ambitious roadmap, perhaps even a little idealistic, but in a region where supply chain gaps are painfully obvious, ambition can be a good thing.

For founders across MENA reading on Arageek, there’s something quietly encouraging here. Healthcare is notoriously complex, and not always glamorous. Yet this raise shows investors are definately willing to back deep infrastructure plays when the vision, and traction, line up. And believe it or not, sometimes fixing the plumbing of an industry is what truly moves the needle.

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