The Saudi Arabia Startup Ecosystem is a regional Leader in innovation, ranked at number 72 globally, and shows a negative momentum -1 spots since 2021. Saudi Arabia also ranks at number 5 for startups in Middle East.
There are 5 cities ranked in the top 1,000 in Saudi Arabia and the top ranked city in Saudi Arabia is Riyadh at 254 globally. Riyadh is followed by Jeddah at 385 and Dammam at 563. Saudi Arabia is an ideal place to locate for Hardware & IoT, Transportation and Ecommerce & Retail startups. As the most popular industries in the country, there is a sample of 25 Hardware & IoT startups in Saudi Arabia, 24 Transportation startups in Saudi Arabia and 13 Ecommerce & Retail startups in Saudi Arabia, on the StartupBlink Map. On the StartupBlink Global Startup Ecosystem Map there is a sample of 105 startups in Saudi Arabia, no accelerators in Saudi Arabia, 2 coworking spaces in Saudi Arabia, 2 organizations in Saudi Arabia and 1 leaders in Saudi Arabia.View top ecosystems:
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Medina, Saudi Arabia
2022 National Rank & Change | City | Global Rank & Change | Total Score | Quantity Score | Quality Score | Business Score |
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1st 0 | 254th - 62 | 2.916 | 0.60 | 0.27 | 2.04 | |
2nd 0 | 385th - 91 | 1.281 | 0.28 | 0.11 | 0.90 | |
3rd new | 563rd new | 0.566 | 0.12 | 0.05 | 0.40 | |
4th - 1 | 977th - 282 | 0.168 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.12 |