anb Innovate Fintech Accelerator
Arab National Bank's fintech accelerator, run with Plug and Play and backed by Fintech Saudi and Monsha'at. It gives growth-stage fintechs a route into a Saudi bank's teams, systems and seed fund. The first edition ran in 2025.
[ What you get ]
Mentoring from Plug and Play and bank teams, testing against anb systems via APIs/sandbox, coworking in Riyadh, partner perks (100+ vendors, USD 200k+ value), investor week and demo day; top performers can be considered for investment by the anb Seed Fund (terms negotiated case by case, no fixed ticket).
[ Who it's for ]
Post-MVP to pre-Series A fintechs already earning revenue in MENA, committed to expanding in Saudi Arabia; Demo Day in Riyadh is in person.
- Run by
- Arab National Bank (anb), delivered by Plug and Play
- Equity
- No equity taken
- Format
- Hybrid
- Where
- Riyadh
- Duration
- 12 weeks per the programme page (onboarding week, 10 virtual focus weeks, investor week, in-person demo day); the 2025 annual report describes the 2025 edition as about 4 months
- Stages
- Seed · Series A
- Sectors
- Fintech · Lending · Payments · Embedded finance · Regtech · Wealthtech · Digital assets
[ Elden Studios ]
Accepted? Show up with a product.
Programmes back founders who ship. Elden Studios builds your MVP in weeks, in your name, so you walk in with something live.
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Checked against the operator's own pages on 2 October 2026.