Welcome to Jameel Deeptech Initiative 2025, a groundbreaking venture building initiative designed to propel your R&D deeptech project into a tangible, market-ready solution. We're here to revolutionise Saudi Arabia's deeptech ecosystem by empowering the next generation of innovators, entrepreneurs, and researchers.
The Jameel Deeptech Initiative 2025 provides a unique 26-week journey, integrating technical, commercial, and human resources to forge high-value cohorts of market-ready R&D startups. Our approach combines competitive events, co-founding interventions, hands-on workshops, and dedicated mentorship, all aligned with Community Jameel’s vision to drive local innovation and establish Saudi Arabia as a global leader in the health, environmental, and energy sectors.
This is more than a initiative; it's a movement. We're building a vibrant and sustainable deeptech ecosystem by connecting the brightest minds from academia, industry, finance and government. Join us and be part of a transformative initiative that's shaping the future.
The Jameel Deeptech Initiative 2025 is strategically designed to achieve ambitious goals that will catalyse the deeptech sector in Saudi Arabia
We aim to empower the next generation of innovators, entrepreneurs, and researchers to commercialize their groundbreaking technologies.
We facilitate crucial connections between startups and key enables, investors and industries to drive local content development and seamless integration.
We're dedicated to raising the profile of emerging opportunities within the Kingdom's health, environmental, and energy landscapes.
We're committed to enhancing the support infrastructure for startups, particularly in the high-impact health, environmental, and energy sectors.
The Initiative is Vision 2030 aligned, as we look to catalyse local innovation, we champion local content and value chain integration to position Saudi Arabia as a global powerhouse in STEM research and development.
In 1945, the late Sheikh Abdul Latif Jameel established a commitment to giving back to society, spearheading philanthropic initiatives, and launching social welfare programs.
Community Jameel Saudi foundation was established in 2010 to spearhead societal and developmental programs supporting socio-economic development and is committed to supporting Saudi communities through strategic areas of development focused on Competency Development, Women Empowerment, Entrepreneurs Advancement, Community Wellbeing, Science and Technology, Preserving the Environment, Continuous Development of Education, and Humanitarian Initiatives.
Launched in 2016 by Community Jameel Saudi Foundation, StartSmart Saudi is a leading initiative dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship and innovation across the Kingdom.
It offers a comprehensive, year-round platform that supports aspiring entrepreneurs across multiple sectors through a variety of programs, ranging from competitions, accelerators, incubators, mentorship, and educational events.StartSmart Saudi seeks to drive economic growth in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by empowering entrepreneurs to build resilient startups. Thusly, generating high-quality jobs, attracting investment, and enhancing the contribution of SMEs to Saudi Arabia’s GDP.
KACST plays a vital role in enriching the research, development and innovation ecosystem as a national laboratory and innovation park, and the main engine of the research, development and innovation sector, and the technical reference entity for government agencies and the private sector in the Kingdom.
Additionally, it supports innovation by conducting scientific and applied research, accelerating technical development, localizing emerging technologies, and building national capabilities, in order to achieve technical progress and enhance sustainable development in the Kingdom.
Furthermore, KACST creates technology parks, innovation hubs, incubators, and business accelerators, and provides support capabilities for them, and makes its laboratories and infrastructure available in order to assist researchers, scientists and innovators in developing their ideas and transferring them into startups, in addition to establishing non-profit entities and attracting entrepreneurs to enhance local technical content with emerging technologies.
Community Jameel is delighted to partner with KACST in the Jameel Deeptech Initiative 2025
