{"id":45885,"date":"2025-05-19T12:48:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T09:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/?p=45885"},"modified":"2025-05-20T14:33:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T11:33:50","slug":"flat6labs-invests-in-green-desert-technologies-to-advance-sustainable-biotech-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/2025\/05\/flat6labs-invests-in-green-desert-technologies-to-advance-sustainable-biotech-in-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Flat6Labs Invests in Green Desert Technologies to Advance Sustainable Biotech in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-start=\"236\" data-end=\"344\">Flat6Labs invests in <strong data-start=\"257\" data-end=\"286\">Green Desert Technologies<\/strong> through its <strong data-start=\"299\" data-end=\"341\">Startup Seed Fund in Saudi Arabia \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\udde6<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-start=\"236\" data-end=\"344\">The company develops <strong data-start=\"368\" data-end=\"401\">sustainable biotech solutions<\/strong> like algae cultivation to address food security and environmental challenges.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-start=\"236\" data-end=\"344\"><strong data-start=\"484\" data-end=\"515\">Founder Abdulmajeed Hashem:<\/strong> &#8220;We\u2019re turning harsh desert climates into engines of prosperity\u2014through technology.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-start=\"607\" data-end=\"821\"><br data-start=\"628\" data-end=\"631\" \/>Flat6Labs has announced a new investment in <strong data-start=\"675\" data-end=\"704\">Green Desert Technologies<\/strong>, a Saudi-based biotech startup, through its <strong data-start=\"749\" data-end=\"770\">Startup Seed Fund<\/strong> as part of <strong data-start=\"782\" data-end=\"820\">Cycle 5 of the Riyadh Seed Program<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-start=\"823\" data-end=\"1133\">Founded by <strong data-start=\"834\" data-end=\"856\">Abdulmajeed Hashem<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"858\" data-end=\"873\">Omar Hashem<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"879\" data-end=\"899\">Ashley Pursglove<\/strong>, Green Desert Technologies is focused on <strong data-start=\"941\" data-end=\"973\">optimizing bio-manufacturing<\/strong>, such as <strong data-start=\"983\" data-end=\"1004\">algae cultivation<\/strong>, to tackle critical challenges in <strong data-start=\"1039\" data-end=\"1091\">food security, sustainability, and biotechnology<\/strong>\u2014particularly within arid desert climates.<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" data-start=\"1135\" data-end=\"1389\">\n<p data-start=\"1137\" data-end=\"1389\"><strong data-start=\"1137\" data-end=\"1174\">Abdulmajeed Hashem, Founder &amp; CEO<\/strong>, stated:<br data-start=\"1183\" data-end=\"1186\" \/>\u201cThis investment is another step forward in our mission to turn harsh desert climates into sources of prosperity and abundance\u2014through technology. We\u2019re grateful to have Flat6Labs backing that vision.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-start=\"1391\" data-end=\"1596\">The company is also a graduate of the <strong data-start=\"1970\" data-end=\"2003\">Sunbula Program \u2013 2024 cohort<\/strong>, an initiative dedicated to supporting startups innovating in the agri-tech and food systems sectors.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-start=\"1391\" data-end=\"1596\">The investment aligns with Flat6Labs\u2019 commitment to empowering <strong data-start=\"1454\" data-end=\"1480\">impact-driven startups<\/strong> that use science and innovation to address pressing environmental and socio-economic issues across the MENA region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flat6Labs invests in Green Desert Technologies through its Startup Seed Fund in Saudi Arabia \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\udde6. The company develops sustainable biotech solutions like algae cultivation to address food security and environmental challenges. Founder Abdulmajeed Hashem: &#8220;We\u2019re turning harsh desert climates into engines of prosperity\u2014through technology.&#8221; Flat6Labs has announced a new investment in Green Desert Technologies, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":45889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1810],"tags":[3048,8352],"class_list":["post-45885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fintech","tag-flat6labs-2","tag-green-desert-technologies-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}