Sultan H Ghaznawi

Chairman & Managing Director of Scene Holding Venture builder & Proactive Investor

📍 Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia🔄 Updated September 2026💼 16 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 Saudi Arabia
16
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5
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Late stage
8y
Years active

Portfolio

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Board Member
Jul 2025
We enable any online business to offer insurance with just a single line of code. Our plug-and-play APIs provide instant, compliant insurance at checkout, increasing revenue at every sale. At Yasmina, were redefining how insurance is integrated, distributed, and experienced. Founded with a vision to streamline the embedding of insurance products across diverse platforms, Yasmina leverages cutting-edge technology to facilitate seamless partnerships between insurance providers and businesses looking to offer insurance as an embedded product. Our proprietary platform has become the cornerstone of digital insurance solutions, offering unparalleled ease of use for end-users and a robust suite of APIs for our partners. Our Mission is to innovate at the intersection of technology and insurance, making it easier for companies to offer their customers tailored insurance solutions that are integrated seamlessly into their existing platforms.
mid stageInsurance
Board Member
May 2025
Ebra is the first AI-powered debt collection company in the Middle East, transforming the industry through AI and fintech. Ebra enhances efficiency, ensures regulatory compliance, and delivers seamless, customized solutions. With a commitment to transparency and innovation, we set a new standard for debt collection. إبراء هي أول شركة لتحصيل الديون بالذكاء الاصطناعي في الشرق الأوسط، حيث تعيد تعريف القطاع من خلال الذكاء الاصطناعي والتكنلوجيا المالية. تعزز إبراء الكفاءة، تضمن الامتثال التنظيمي، وتوفر حلولًا سلسة ومخصصة. بالتزامنا بالشفافية والابتكار، نضع معيارًا جديدًا لتحصيل الديون.
Board Member
Feb 2025
lite is a Saudi-based fintech startup founded by a team of payment industry experts. lite aims to provide comprehensive payment solutions tailored to meet the needs of businesses across the Kingdom, enabling them to operate more efficiently and improve financial management.
Board Member
Jul 2023
شركة تقنية مالية مرخصة من البنك المركزي السعودي برؤية وآفاق واسعة تتحقق بخدمات متعددة ومتجددة وطموح #ماله_آخر✨🚀
Investor
Feb 2023
The 9Round KSA team is the sole operator of 30+ 9Round fitness centers in Riyadh, Jeddah, and Dammam. 9Round is a global brand with open locations in 17 countries, all of them delivering on the promise of making members stronger in 30 minutes, physically and mentally!
Seed Investor
Oct 2022
Nitros is a smart shipping web-app that provides professional shipment management solutions for individuals and e-store owners and connects them directly and easily with shipping carriers
Seed Investor
Feb 2022
Fintech Galaxy was founded in the United Arab Emirates as a global platform that fuels innovation in financial services, drives ecosystem collaboration, and facilitates Open Banking API integration between financial institutions and fintech companies. Fintech Galaxy’s platform - FINX - is redesigning finances by providing an Open Finance infrastructure that ensures secure and stable API integrations between all industry players and grants more control over data and payments to consumers.
Investor
Feb 2022
Nana is the largest digital grocery shopping platform in Saudi Arabia. We began in the capital, Riyadh, and are expanding to cover the Kingdom. If we’re not in your hometown just yet, sit tight and keep an eye out for us… we’ll be there soon.
Investor
Oct 2020
Our story began in 2017, Previously known as Saati Adventures LLC, We changed the way we travel and discover by creating Destifind experiences. DOORS OPEN, HEARTS WELCOMING! We welcome explorers from all over the world, introducing them to new horizons in Saudi Arabia and journeying into infinite sites.   TAKEAWAYS Whether you come by yourself, with a group of friends or colleagues, you will build a community. The nature of our travels, the challenges, the triumphs create unforgettable memories, as all our travelers learn the delicate nature of humanity in the face of sand, sea & sky adventures.   Welcome to the hub!
Board Member
Nov 2019
مجموعة عقال هي (مزيج من كلمتي "عقول"​ و "أموال"​) هي من ابتكار مجموعة من شباب الأعمال للربط بين الشباب من ذوي الشركات الناشئة الابتكارية الرقمية القائمة مع الشباب من ذوي الأموال والإمكانات المادية لتكوين كيانات ذات جدوى اقتصادية تساهم في الرفاهية وتنفع الاقتصاد المجتمع بشكل عام .
Investor
Nov 2018
Lucidya is an AI-native platform for customer experience (CX) intelligence that manages entire customer lifecycles autonomously, from initial engagement through retention and growth. Unlike platforms that only surface insights and leave the action to you, Lucidya completes the loop with proprietary NLU capabilities developed entirely in-house and trained on millions of multilingual conversations, equipping marketing, support, CX, and research teams to deliver personalized experiences that drive measurable improvements in customer satisfaction, retention, and lifetime value. Lucidya maintains uncompromising data encryption and security through full compliance with SOC2, GDPR, US privacy laws (CCPA/CPRA and others), and NIST CSF, as well as Saudi PDPL and NCA frameworks for companies with MENA presence.
Investor
Oct 2018
dopay is a fintech company that delivers smart, modern, and best in class payroll payment solutions, built on secure and fast technology. We believe every employee and worker deserves access to financial services with dignity — digital financial services built on global standards and the latest technologies. And we believe every business owner deserves a smart, simple, and secure system to manage payroll without complexity, saving them time and effort so they can focus on what matters most — their business and their people. That’s why we designed the entire dopay ecosystem to serve all types of companies and employees — especially sectors that struggle to access banking services — helping them shift to a modern, best in class payroll payout solution with no minimum or maximum employee requirements. Our vision is that every person, regardless of their job or income, has the right to access high quality financial services easily, simply, and with dignity. And we are building this ecosystem day by day to make sure no one gets left behind. This isn’t a luxury — it’s a basic right for everyone who works and earns a living.
Experience · 25 entries
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2025
Board Member
Jul 2025
We enable any online business to offer insurance with just a single line of code. Our plug-and-play APIs provide instant, compliant insurance at checkout, increasing revenue at every sale. At Yasmina, were redefining how insurance is integrated, distributed, and experienced. Founded with a vision to streamline the embedding of insurance products across diverse platforms, Yasmina leverages cutting-edge technology to facilitate seamless partnerships between insurance providers and businesses looking to offer insurance as an embedded product. Our proprietary platform has become the cornerstone of digital insurance solutions, offering unparalleled ease of use for end-users and a robust suite of APIs for our partners. Our Mission is to innovate at the intersection of technology and insurance, making it easier for companies to offer their customers tailored insurance solutions that are integrated seamlessly into their existing platforms.
mid stageInsurance
Board Member
May 2025
Ebra is the first AI-powered debt collection company in the Middle East, transforming the industry through AI and fintech. Ebra enhances efficiency, ensures regulatory compliance, and delivers seamless, customized solutions. With a commitment to transparency and innovation, we set a new standard for debt collection. إبراء هي أول شركة لتحصيل الديون بالذكاء الاصطناعي في الشرق الأوسط، حيث تعيد تعريف القطاع من خلال الذكاء الاصطناعي والتكنلوجيا المالية. تعزز إبراء الكفاءة، تضمن الامتثال التنظيمي، وتوفر حلولًا سلسة ومخصصة. بالتزامنا بالشفافية والابتكار، نضع معيارًا جديدًا لتحصيل الديون.
Board Member
Feb 2025
lite is a Saudi-based fintech startup founded by a team of payment industry experts. lite aims to provide comprehensive payment solutions tailored to meet the needs of businesses across the Kingdom, enabling them to operate more efficiently and improve financial management.
2023
Board Member
Jul 2023
شركة تقنية مالية مرخصة من البنك المركزي السعودي برؤية وآفاق واسعة تتحقق بخدمات متعددة ومتجددة وطموح #ماله_آخر✨🚀
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