• Saudi Arabia-based Sadq has closed a $1 million pre-Series A extension led by Impact46.
• Founded in 2022 by Abdullah Allahuo and Salem Al-Badawi, Sadq provides adigital signature and document authentication platform designed to meet national legal and compliance standards.
• The funding will accelerate product development, security enhancements, and market expansion across Saudi Arabia and the region.
• Last April, Sadq raised a $1.5 million pre-Series A round, led by X by Unifonic Fund.

Press release:

Impact46 announced a $1 million investment in Sadq, the Saudi digital-signature and workflow-authentication platform, as an extension of its pre-Series A round.

The funding will be used to accelerate product development, strengthen security and compliance, and scale go-to-market in Saudi Arabia and the wider region. The investment also enables commercial and operating synergies with Impact46’s portfolio companies focused on digital infrastructure and enterprise software.

Underscoring the firm’s conviction in the team and sector, Basmah Alsinaidi of Impact46 said:

“Our conviction in Sadq starts with our conviction in the founders: a deep understanding of the problem, disciplined execution, and an explicit focus on customer value. We see the company building a foundational layer of the Kingdom’s digital infrastructure through trusted e-signature and identity-verification solutions with high standards of security and compliance. Our investment reflects a long-term belief in the team’s ability to scale and create meaningful institutional impact.”

Abdullah Allahuo, Co-Founder & CEO of Sadq, added:

From day one, we believed that Saudi Arabia deserves a robust digital trust infrastructure. Not as a nice-to-have, but as a sovereign necessity.

Sadq was not built in response to a fleeting opportunity, but to address a real and persistent challenge in the market.We encountered regulatory questions, technical complexities, and user behaviors that were not yet ready to adopt local solutions.

Still, we remained committed to our vision: to build a Saudi-born digital signature product, rooted in local regulations and aligned with global standards of security, compliance, and usability.

The entry of Impact46 at this pivotal stage is a strong signal that the market is ready for sovereign digital solutions, and that backing local founders is no longer a gamble but a logical path to creating real value in the local ecosystem.

At Sadq, we continue to push forward with full determination. Relying first on God, and then on the support of our partners, to become a foundational pillar in the journey of digital transformation and a driver of digital trust, both in the Kingdom and beyond.

Salem Albadawi, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Sadq, emphasized that this investment with Impact46 marks a pivotal leap toward broader horizons of technological expansion. It strengthens the company’s ambition to build an advanced innovation ecosystem that reshapes the future of digital trust in the region through the development of reliable, high-integrity products designed to meet local market needs and compete globally.

This investment reflects Impact46’s conviction in founders building Saudi Arabia’s digital infrastructure and adds Sadq to a growing portfolio of companies shaping the future of enterprise technology and digital trust in the region.