WideBot, founded in 2016 by Mohamed Nabil (CEO), Mohamed Mostafa and Saif Ahmed and now operating from Riyadh after Egyptian roots, is described as MENA's leading Arabic-first AI-as-a-Service platform for governments and enterprises. Its offering spans conversational AI and chatbots, AI agents for business processes, and AQL, a proprietary large language model positioned as one of the most accurate Arabic LLMs, alongside text-to-speech, speech-to-text, sentiment analysis, OCR document processing and entity extraction. WideBot serves more than 80 million end users and 300+ enterprises across 40+ countries in telecom, finance, healthcare and government, and is a Meta Business Partner and NVIDIA Inception Partner. In March 2025 WideBot raised a $3M pre-Series A round to develop its Arabic LLM 'AQL Mind,' co-led by Enza Capital and Keheilan Asset Management II (backed by Saudi investor Wafra), with participation from DisrupTech Ventures, Den VC and SparkLabs.
WideBot
ActiveArabic-first AI-as-a-Service platform with conversational AI and the AQL LLM
Total raised
$3M
1 round
Stage
Pre Series A
Mar 2025
Team
51-200
since 2016
Pricing
Enterprise
Founded
2016
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Agent-ready
API
Score 40/100
Arabic-first conversational AI and chatbots
AI agents for business processes
AQL proprietary Arabic LLM
Text-to-speech and speech-to-text
Sentiment analysis
OCR document processing
Entity extraction
Government and enterprise deployments
40/100
Developing
MCP server
Public API
Webhooks
OAuth 2.0
SDKs
Mar 2025 Pre Series A $3M ● Enza Capital
Capital network
$3M raised ·6 backers·9 network links
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- What does WideBot do?
- WideBot is an Arabic-first AI-as-a-Service platform offering conversational AI, chatbots, AI agents and its AQL Arabic LLM, plus speech, OCR and NLP services.
- Who founded WideBot?
- WideBot was founded in 2016 by Mohamed Nabil, Mohamed Mostafa and Saif Ahmed.
- How much has WideBot raised?
- WideBot raised a $3M pre-Series A round in March 2025 co-led by Enza Capital and Keheilan Asset Management II.
- What is AQL?
- AQL is WideBot's proprietary large language model positioned as one of the most accurate Arabic LLMs.
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