Regional presence and relationships, built in person
Why Gulf capital
The most motivated healthcare capital in the world is in the Gulf.
Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 has made healthcare a sovereign priority. The capital is allocated, the mandate is public, and the appetite for healthcare technology exposure exceeds the supply of credible ways to get it.
The mandate
A $65 billion transformation, on a deadline
The Kingdom is rebuilding its healthcare system — hospitals, insurance, digital health, genomics and localized pharmaceutical production — under Vision 2030, with roughly $65 billion directed at the transformation. This is not a market forecast; it is a national program with published targets and a date.
For a MedTech or BioTech company, that changes the shape of the opportunity: technologies that address the region's disease burden are not just fundable here — they are sought.
The burden
Diseases of the region, underserved by global pipelines
Diabetes, cardiovascular disease and hereditary genetic conditions affect Gulf populations at rates among the highest globally — yet the region has historically had limited access to the early-stage companies building solutions. A therapy or diagnostic aimed at any of these conditions has a natural first market, and natural first investors, in the Gulf.
Diabetes prevalence among the world's highest
Cardiovascular disease presenting a decade early
A global center of hereditary disease research
The capital
Family offices want healthcare exposure they can underwrite
Gulf family offices and institutions have billions allocated toward healthcare, but limited access to credible early-stage Western healthcare companies. Royalty financing gives them what equity cannot: returns tied to real product revenue, with terms they can model. That is why this capital shows up for raises that Western VC passes on.
The bridge
Why through Alya
Alya exists on both sides of the bridge: relationships with Gulf institutional capital and its intermediaries on one side, and the structuring discipline — securities counsel, regulated digital securities infrastructure, KYC-verified distribution — on the other. We speak both languages, literally and figuratively.
Institutional structuring: counsel, SPV, regulated infrastructure
Bilingual by default — English and Arabic, both first-class
Your technology may already have a mandate here.
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