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Wittify.ai, the AI-native startup transforming how businesses engage with their customers, announced today the successful close of a $1.5 million pre-seed funding round led by prominent angel investors and business figures in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n
The funding will accelerate product development, regional expansion, and deep investment in Arabic speech technologies.<\/p>\n
Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with offices in Dubai and Cairo, Wittify is reimagining customer interaction through AI agents that speak, listen, act, and integrate into real business workflows.<\/p>\n
The company has officially launched its platform in beta, enabling businesses to build voice, text, or hybrid (voice + text) agents tailored to the Arabic-speaking world.<\/p>\n
Nader El-Batrawi, Founder and CEO of Wittify.ai Said:<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe\u2019re not only addressing a regional gap in Arabic conversational AI \u2014 we\u2019re building world-class technology that\u2019s ready to compete globally,Our goal is to empower organizations with AI that doesn\u2019t treat Arabic as an afterthought, but as a core language, while also enabling multilingual excellence at scale”.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
He add:”This funding allows us to scale faster, onboard more partners, and continue developing technologies that think, speak, and understand like we do.\u201d<\/p>\n
About Nader El-Batrawi<\/h2>\n
Nader El-Batrawi is a seasoned, award-winning entrepreneur with 20+ years of international experience, and brings both strategic leadership and technical insight to the company.<\/p>\n
His strategic vision is now being executed alongside co-founder Dr. Sarah Alhumoud, Wittify.ai\u2019s Chief AI Officer and one of the Arab world\u2019s leading minds in Arabic artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n
Wittify\u2019s AI agents are designed for seamless integration across digital and physical touchpoints, from mobile apps, websites, and CRMs to telephony systems, contact centers, and social platforms.<\/p>\n
Built using a no\/low-code interface, these agents don\u2019t just respond, they perform tasks, trigger workflows, and deliver real business outcomes.<\/p>\n
Dr. Sarah Alhumoud, Co-Founder and Chief AI Officer Said:<\/h2>\n
\u201cAt Wittify, we\u2019re not just localizing global models, we\u2019re building Arabic-native AI capabilities from the ground up, By leveraging top-tier international AI models and combining it with our proprietary Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems \u2014 trained to handle the vast richness of more than 25 different Arabic dialects\u2014 we\u2019re enabling businesses to create agents that are truly human-like, local, and culturally intelligent.\u201d<\/p>\n
About Dr. Sarah Alhumoud<\/h2>\n
Dr. Sarah Alhumoud is one of the Arab world\u2019s foremost experts in Arabic AI, with over 20 years in computer science and a decade focused exclusively on Arabic NLP.<\/p>\n
She is the former Head of AI at King Salman\u2019s Complex for Arabic Language, an Associate Professor at Al Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud University, a PhD graduate from the University of Glasgow, a former MIT postdoctoral researcher, and a 2030 MISK Leader.<\/p>\n
Wittify has already gained traction with enterprise and government clients and is currently part of three of the region\u2019s top accelerator programs:<\/p>\n
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- inspireU from stc<\/li>\n
- MISK Enterpreneurship Foundation (in partnership with Plug and Play)<\/li>\n
- TikTok x Blossom Accelerator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
These partnerships are helping Wittify scale across MENA while laying the foundation for long-term global competition in the conversational AI space.<\/p>\n
About Wittify.ai<\/h2>\n
Wittify.ai is the leading Arabic-first conversational AI platform empowering organizations with human-like voice and text agents.<\/p>\n
With deep expertise in Arabic speech and dialects, and seamless system integration, Wittify combines global AI innovation with regional precision to transform customer engagement across the Middle East, and the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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