Ibtekar Award
Monsha'at's annual innovation award spotlights Saudi innovators and tech-adopting companies; its winners have doubled as the national qualifiers for the Entrepreneurship World Cup.
[ What you get ]
Cash prizes (up to SAR 300,000 in total for the 6th edition, per Monsha'at), national and international recognition, and winners represent Saudi Arabia at the Entrepreneurship World Cup.
[ Who it's for ]
Innovators with ideas and enterprises that have adopted an emerging technology or innovation in products, business model or operations.
- Run by
- General Authority for Small and Medium Enterprises (Monsha'at)
- Equity
- No equity taken
- Format
- Not published
- Where
- Multiple cities
- Duration
- unknown
- Stages
- Idea · Pre-seed · Seed · Series A · Growth
- Sectors
- General · Deep tech
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Checked against the operator's own pages on 2 October 2026.
Sources:monshaat.gov.sa