{"id":103363,"date":"2025-12-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/?p=103363"},"modified":"2025-12-25T04:28:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T04:28:44","slug":"18-saudis-make-forbes-middle-east-30-under-30-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2025\/12\/25\/18-saudis-make-forbes-middle-east-30-under-30-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"18 Saudis make Forbes Middle East 30 Under 30 in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong> <\/strong><strong>Saudis made a<\/strong><strong> strong showing on Forbes Middle East\u2019s 30 Under 30 2025<\/strong>, almost doubling their count to 18 from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/ksa\/en\/news\/story\/f4010d9a-336d-4e0c-8f7b-f32ad15f3288\/%253cmark%253eforbes%253c%2Fmark%253e-me-features-10-saudis-in-its-30-under-30-list\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">last year\u2019s<\/a> ten. Commerce and finance led the way with seven spots, followed by six in science and technology and five in social impact, sports, and lifestyle. Count non-nationals based in Saudi, and the total jumps to 25.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;text-align:left\"><strong>Haroon Al Rasheed<\/strong>, CEO of Tadawul-newcomer Alramz Real Estate, made the list, as did <strong>Munira Alkadi<\/strong> and <strong>Abdulrahman Alammar<\/strong>, the co-founders of Aya. The team behind Ejari, including co-founders <strong>Yazeed Al-Shamsi<\/strong>, <strong>Fahad Albedah<\/strong>, <strong>Khalid Almunif<\/strong>, and <strong>Mohammed Alkhelewy<\/strong>, were also honored for their work in the BNPL sector.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Also on the list-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Esraa Fakeih<\/strong> and <strong>Lama Alahdal<\/strong>, co-founders of femtech startup Gees;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Majed Alshuraya<\/strong>, co-founder of National Security Systems (NSS);<\/li>\n<li><strong>Meaad Aflah<\/strong> and <strong>Muslih Alzahrani<\/strong>, co-founders of Starvania Studio;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yousef Alsayed<\/strong> and <strong>Abdulaziz Bin Mugayel<\/strong>, co-founders of edtech Aila.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudis made the strongest showing in commerce and finance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2578],"tags":[10,3472,2479],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-103363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kudos","tag-enterpriseam-ksa","tag-forbes","tag-kudos","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"46b086be-7c41-420e-9192-da3bfe301f92","order":"8","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2025\/12\/1233.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"18 Saudis feature on Forbes Middle East 30 Under 30 2025","related_issue":[103350],"teaser":"Saudis made the strongest showing in commerce and finance"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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