Regional Digital Entrepreneurship Challenges
CODE runs region-by-region challenges that help early founders turn local problems into tech ventures through bootcamps, mentoring and prize money. Rounds have covered the Northern Borders, Hail and Najran regions.
[ What you get ]
Bootcamps, hands-on workshops, one-to-one mentoring and meetings with investors and decision-makers; the Northern Borders round carried a SAR 450,000 prize pool.
[ Who it's for ]
Aspiring entrepreneurs and early-stage tech founders; each round targets solutions for its own region.
- Run by
- Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) – Center of Digital Entrepreneurship (CODE)
- Equity
- No equity taken
- Format
- Hybrid
- Where
- Regional rounds (Northern Borders, Hail, Najran and others)
- Duration
- A few weeks per regional round
- Stages
- Idea · Pre-seed
- Sectors
- General · Digital
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Checked against the operator's own pages on 3 October 2026.
Sources:mcit.gov.sacode.mcit.gov.sa