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Fountech Labs
Fountech Labs.
A deep tech venture builder operating in Saudi Arabia. We assess, build and back deep tech ventures through The Innovation Races.
Find. Build. Back. Built for Vision 2030.
What we do
Saudi Arabia's universities and institutions produce strong deep tech science. The gap is not ideas, but the path from research to investable venture. We close it in three moves.
Find
The Innovation Races
Data-driven selection powered by TACTIC, our objective assessment of every venture, run as two interconnected races: The Qualifying Races (TRL 4-6) and The Championship Races (TRL 7-9, Race 2027).
Build
TACTIC+
We run an intensive, team-specific build for Championship finalists, using TACTIC+ as the build tool. TACTIC, the assessment, is available free at tactic.science.
Back
Fountech Labs' investment capability
Backing flows through The Innovation Races: grants in The Qualifying Races, investment in The Championship Races. Investment decisions draw on the full build record. We do not accept unsolicited applications; backing is exclusively through the Races.
Who we are
Fountech Labs is a deep tech venture builder operating in Saudi Arabia. Our founding team combines international experience in deep tech, venture building and AI with operating history in the Kingdom. We are not observers of the Saudi deep tech ecosystem; we are part of it.
That is the foundation The Innovation Races is built on.
The team
Salvatore Minetti
CEO
Abdullah Alaraj
Commercial
Nikolas Kairinos
Technology
Khizzer Hayat
Operations
Fountech Labs
Find. Build. Back.
Built for Vision 2030, on the ground in the Kingdom.