Where Innovation meets impact.

MKMN is a Saudi venture-client partner. We help corporates and government find, test and adopt the startup solutions that solve their real problems, buying from startups as a client rather than investing in them.

Scope it
We frame the problem in business terms and name the success criteria.
See what solves it
Matched use cases, and the startups that deliver them. Saudi and global.
Run a PoC
Scoped pilot, terms agreed up front, delivery supported on the ground.
Adopt it
When the pilot meets its criteria, the startup becomes a supplier and the solution goes into use.

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Get profiled
We describe what you deliver in the language buyers search, against the use cases they browse.
Get matched
When an entity scopes a challenge your technology answers, you are on the shortlist.
Win the work
Meet the person who owns the problem and the budget. Land a pilot, then a contract as their supplier.

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6,716

Startups sourced

Countries sourced

102

Use cases published

Global regions

Venture clienting · challenge → adoption

From a business priority to an adopted solution

Venture clienting, run with you: we frame the problem in business terms, match it against the problems we have already mapped and the startups that solve them, run the pilot on the ground, and carry what works into adoption.

For corporatesCut cost, risk and wasteProblems scoped, startups checked, pilots with clear success criteria. Minimal investment until the PoC →For governmentDeliver on national prioritiesChallenge programs, technology adoption, and a result you can report →

One place to take a problem

The problems worth solving, the startups behind each one, and a way to ask us for what you actually need, a shortlist, a specialist, or the use cases in your domain.

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What are you looking for?

SolutionsStartupsExpertsUse cases

The problem you need solvedOur pumps fail without warning, and a shutdown costs us a full shift.

What is it for?Finding a supplierBy whenThis quarter

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We usually reply within a business day.

What it gives youOne box, four kinds of request: a problem you need solved, startups for a program, an expert for a panel, or the use cases worth framing in your domain.

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Open innovation

Live challenges from Saudi entities

Real problems, scoped with the entity that owns them. Each with a budget, a deadline and a route to contract. Solve one, or bring your own.

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AI-enabled health technologyPrevention against health risks+1Delivered

How might we use AI to prevent, catch and diagnose disease earlier in Saudi Arabia's non-profit health sector?

Posted by Enayah Health Society

Valuable ideas in healthcare come from people with no clear route to develop them: clinicians, specialists, and small companies working outside established channels. Enayah Health Society set three areas where AI could change outcomes rather than just workflow — prevention, early intervention and early diagnosis — and asked teams to build against them.

164 ideas submitted10 technologies applied across submissions

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Opening soon

A defense, space and cybersecurity challenge, opening Q4 2026

Posted by MKMN

The next challenge on this board sits across defense, space and cybersecurity. We are scoping it now with the entity that owns the problem, and the brief, the tracks and the terms are published in the fourth quarter of 2026.

Dates to be announced

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