Saudi Tech Entrepreneurs Accelerate Growth with Attliq’s Riyadh Programme Completion

Editorial Team

Last updated 15-12-2025

3 min

The Attliq accelerator's second phase in Riyadh energised local tech founders with structured guidance.

Participants refined their ideas through workshops on customer needs and user experience fundamentals.

The programme highlighted investment opportunities via Bayt Al Monshaat and NTDP support.

Founders enhanced their product pitches, learning to communicate succinctly and effectively.

This represents a vital step for Saudi entrepreneurs in the growing digital economy.

The second phase of the Attliq accelerator wrapped up in Riyadh this week, and from the sounds of it, the three‑day sprint at Code Hub gave local founders exactly the kind of push many of us at Arageek often hear young teams craving. The organisers brought together entrepreneurs and tech developers under one roof, nudging them to turn early sparks of ideas into something sturdy enough to build on. I’ve seen a fair few hackathons over the years, and they can be a bit of a faff, but this one seemed spot on in how it blended structure with the usual creative chaos.

The programme opened with a walkthrough of the accelerator’s goals, plus a look at the investment opportunities available through Ventures, the investment arm of Bayt Al Monshaat. There was also guidance from the National Technology Development Programme, which has been steadily positioning itself as a backbone for Saudi founders by offering a mix of digital tools, financial support and expert services. And believe it or not, a couple of participants told others onsite that just understanding what NTDP actually covers cleared up confusion they’d been sitting on for months.

Workshops were a major part of this phase, ranging from customer‑needs mapping to problem definition and user‑experience fundamentals. Nothing too flashy, but the kind of grounding that can make or break an early product. On the flip side, I reckon some teams might have wished for more time in the mentoring sessions—those one‑to‑one moments often unlock the most practical insights. Still, teams left with sharper prototypes and a clearer view of the market hurdles they’ll face.

By the final day, participants were prepping for their investment pitches, fine‑tuning how to present their projects to a panel of seasoned judges. Pitch polishing can be nerve‑racking—been there myself, back when I was helping a small founder group in Amman—but training like this really does boost confidence. One founder even joked that learning to tell their product story in under five minutes was “harder than coding the whole thing”, which felt pretty spot‑on.

All in all, this phase marks an important step for Saudi entrepreneurs aiming to build scalable tech solutions that strengthen the Kingdom’s growing digital economy. Now the teams are gearing up for the accelerator stage, where the pressure ramps up and ideas start turning into real companies. If they keep the same momentum, they’ll be chuffed to bits with what’s ahead… well, unless the workload gets too wild, which is almost definatley part of the startup game.

For readers following the region’s startup scene, it’s another sign of how fast the ecosystem in Saudi Arabia is knitting itself together—one cohort, one prototype, one long night of debugging at a time.

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