Sabbar
ActiveAn on-demand staffing and gig-economy marketplace that lets Saudi retail, hospitality, and entertainment businesses book pre-vetted hourly and temporary workers, and lets job seekers find flexible shift work.
Sabbar is a Riyadh-based gig-economy and on-demand staffing platform founded in 2019 by Mohamed T. Ibrahim, Abdul Rahman Al-Mudaiheem, Afnan Sherbeeni, and Sara Alshimemri. It connects retail, hospitality, and entertainment businesses with a vetted pool of temporary workers using a proprietary matching engine, and has processed over 100,000 job applications from Saudi nationals since its mid-2019 launch. It has raised a $1.5M seed round (December 2019) and a $4M pre-Series A (July 2021).
Founders
Funding Rounds
Lead: STV
Investors: STV, Derayah VC, SEEDRA Ventures
Investors: STV, Derayah VC, SEEDRA Ventures.
Lead: VentureSouq
Investors: VentureSouq, 500 Startups, Derayah VC, Saudi angel investors
Company blog post carries a 2023 re-publication date; the round was announced 15 Dec 2019 (Wamda/MENAbytes). Crunchbase dates it 25 Nov 2019. Jawlah reports it as SAR 5.6M (= ~$1.49M at peg). The Startup Scene headline says '$1 million' but its body says $1.5M. Also: https://www.wamda.com/2019/12/sabbar-raises-15-million-seed https://www.menabytes.com/sabbar-seed/ https://aimgroup.com/2019/12/23/sabbar-com-raises-1-5m-in-seed-round/ https://thestartupscene.me/INVESTMENTS/Saudi-Arabian-On-Demand-Workforce-Startup-Sabbar-Scores-1-Million-in-Seed-Round Confidence: confirmed (round 13, Sabbar).
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