About This Fund
Wyld VC Fund I is a $50 million early-stage venture capital fund launched in May 2026 by Riyadh-based investment firm Wyld VC, founded by General Partner Tala Hasan Al-Jabri. The fund marks a historic milestone as the first AI-native venture capital fund to emerge from the MENA region, operating at the intersection of Saudi Arabian strategic capital and Silicon Valley's AI innovation ecosystem. Wyld VC is headquartered in Riyadh with a presence in San Francisco, positioning the fund to bridge two of the world's most dynamic centers of capital formation and frontier technology development. The fund is backed by the family office of Lawrence E. Golub, CEO of Golub Capital, representing the Golub family's inaugural institutional commitment to the GCC venture ecosystem.
Wyld VC Fund I's investment thesis is centered on the artificial intelligence revolution, with a focus on the infrastructure layers driving AI's commercial adoption: agentic AI platforms, physical AI and robotics, edge computing systems, and dual-use technology. The fund invests across stages from pre-seed through pre-IPO, with particular emphasis on category-defining founders building at the frontier of AI development. Al-Jabri's conviction is that the MENA region's most critical gap is AI talent, and Wyld VC's mandate is to identify and support founders whose companies have the potential to disrupt existing markets through AI-native architectures.
The fund's geographic mandate is designed to channel Arabian Gulf capital — projected to flow in the trillions of dollars into AI development — toward next-generation AI-native companies. Existing portfolio companies include Starcloud (orbital data centers), Saronic (autonomous maritime vessels), Perplexity (AI search infrastructure), and Odyssey (generative world models). Tala Al-Jabri is a pioneering figure in MENA venture capital, recognized as the first woman to serve as a partner at a VC firm in Saudi Arabia and named Arabian Business Woman of the Year 2022 in Finance. Her prior investments include Tabby and other regional technology successes.