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About

Majara is a Saudi holding company that helps found, build and run companies.

Majara is a Saudi holding company founded in 2021 by Ziyad Al-Qahtani and headquartered in Riyadh. Majara is part of ventures in artificial intelligence, PropTech, real estate development, education and e-commerce, helping found and build them alongside their founders.

Majara at a glance

Name
Majara (مجرة)
Type
Private holding company
Founded
2021, Riyadh
Founder & CEO
Ziyad Al-Qahtani
Headquarters
Head office and Innovation Tower, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Sectors
Artificial intelligence, PropTech, Real estate brokerage & services, Real estate development, Education, E-commerce, Digital health
Team
About 20 people
Exits
Jahez Academy, Tapputi Perfume
Official website
majaracapital.com

The story

Majara (مجرة) is Arabic for galaxy: many companies held together by one center of gravity. Every portfolio company has its own name, brand and market, and draws its speed from Majara's team and shared platform.

Majara's portfolio includes Wukala, an AI agents platform for high-governance organizations; Wakil, a PropTech SaaS platform for real estate brokers in Saudi Arabia; Mashraq Real Estate Co., a brokerage and real estate services company; Lamarya Real Estate Development; and e-commerce brands including Nagsha. Its exits include Jahez Academy, an exam-prep app for the Qudurat and Tahsili tests, and Tapputi Perfume. Its founding team also built Mawidy, a nonprofit health app that reached 500 medical providers during COVID-19.

Majara works from its head office and Innovation Tower in Riyadh.

Create. Build. Run.

Majara is neither an agency nor a fund. We start the company, build it with our own people and run it.

  1. Create

    We start from a real gap in a market we know, and test demand with real customers before heavy spending.

  2. Build

    Majara's own engineering, design and growth teams ship the first product and take it to market.

  3. Run

    We help run every company we build, sometimes alongside outside founders, and then scale it, spin it out or exit.

One platform behind every company

  • Growth

    One growth team markets every company, with ad leads flowing into the CRM automatically.

  • Engineering

    The same engineers and stack carry from company to company: web, mobile and AI agents.

  • Playbook

    The same playbook and automations run in every company, so each new one starts from what already works.

Companies

Every Majara company carries its own name, brand and market. Open any of them to see the product as Majara built it.

CompanySectorStatus
WukalaArtificial intelligenceOperating
WakilPropTechOperating
Mashraq Real Estate Co.Real estate brokerage & servicesOperating
Lamarya Real Estate DevelopmentReal estate developmentFirst project sold out
E-commerce brandsE-commerceTapputi exited · Nagsha operating
Jahez AcademyEdTechExited
MawidyDigital healthNonprofit initiative
KoonServices marketplaceIdeation
Ziyad Al-Qahtani

The founder

Ziyad Al-Qahtani

Founder & CEO of Majara

Ziyad Al-Qahtani is a young Saudi entrepreneur and an AI researcher at the Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA). He founded Majara in Riyadh in 2021 and leads it as CEO. He started building companies as a computer science student at King Saud University.

Majara's portfolio and track record now span nine ventures across AI, PropTech, real estate, education, e-commerce and health, including two exits: Jahez Academy and Tapputi Perfume. He is also the founder and CEO of Wakil, a Saudi PropTech platform, sits on several boards, and is a member of the Saudi Chinese Business Council.

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