Velents.ai, an enterprise AI startup founded by Mohamed Gaber and Abdulaziz Almuhaydib, has raised $1.5 million and unveiled Agent.sa, which it describes as the first fully integrated Arabic-speaking AI employee for companies in the Middle East. The announcement reflects the company’s shift from AI-assisted recruitment into broader AI automation across sales, customer service, and operations. Velents says the product is built to function inside an organization like a human team member rather than a traditional software tool.
Funding Round and Strategic Backing
The $1.5 million round was backed by prominent angel investors, including senior leaders at Google, BCG, and other global firms. Velents says the new capital will support product rollout across Saudi Arabia and Egypt, where the company is already working with private sector clients, universities, and ministries. The company also signaled that it is preparing a follow-on round expected to close in early 2026.
From Hiring Tools to Enterprise AI Infrastructure
Velents launched as a recruitment-focused platform and initially built AI-powered smart interview tools to help companies evaluate talent. In 2023, the company repositioned itself around a broader mission, aiming to help organizations attract, engage, and support talent through end-to-end digital agents. That pivot accelerated adoption, and the company reports rapid growth after deploying agents in functions such as customer service, sales, and quality assurance across Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Agent.sa as an Arabic-Speaking Digital Employee
Agent.sa is positioned by Velents as a fully autonomous AI employee that speaks Arabic natively, understands regional dialects, and can function alongside human teams. The company argues that artificial intelligence in the region is now moving beyond support tooling and into roles historically performed by staff. “We’re delivering a real digital employee who works alongside human teams,” said CEO Mohamed Gaber, who added that the goal is to give Arab companies an intelligent worker that understands their language and improves daily productivity.
How Agent.sa Works Inside the Business
According to Velents, Agent.sa can answer phone calls, manage WhatsApp conversations, handle Instagram or Telegram messages, track customer requests, and execute operational tasks. The system can also analyze data, manage order tracking, and generate insights, all in Arabic and without relying on translation layers or complex dashboards. Co-founder and COO Abdulaziz Almuhaydib described the product as an embedded worker that learns and adapts inside each organization in real time, not an off-the-shelf software license.
Industry Applications and Scale Potential
Velents is targeting sectors such as banking, telecom, logistics, and healthcare, where companies face high support volume and regulatory pressure on responsiveness. The company says Agent.sa can run 24 hours a day, handle thousands of simultaneous customer interactions, respond to complaints, process orders, and even close sales. The agent can also coordinate internally with staff through platforms like Slack or Microsoft Teams, effectively acting as an always-available team extension.
Data Sovereignty and Localization
A core differentiator, according to Velents, is full Arabic interaction and localized deployment. In practice, any company can create an AI employee in under five minutes, train it on internal files and policies, and customize its tone of voice, dialect, and communication style. The product integrates with more than 20 systems, including CRM platforms and payment gateways, and runs on a proprietary Arabic-language model that Velents says was trained on millions of texts and conversations, with data stored inside national borders in markets like Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
Velents is betting that the next competitive edge for Middle East companies will not just be AI-enabled processes, but AI-native workers embedded directly into core workflows. By tying language, compliance, and real-time execution into a single agent, the company is positioning Agent.sa less as a chatbot and more as a digital hire. With fresh funding secured and another round already in motion, Velents is moving to scale that vision across the region’s most regulated and customer-facing industries.