Saudi healthtech Nuxera AI raises $2.5 million pre-Seed
Arabic-first AI platform targets clinical workflow transformation
#SaudiArabia #funding– Saudi Arabia-based healthtech startup Nuxera AI has secured $2.5 million in pre-seed investment from Sanabil Venture Studio by New York headquartered Redesign Health, according to a report by entrepreneurship and venture capital platform Wamda. The funding will be used to accelerate development of the startup’s Arabic-first AI-powered clinical workflow solutions. Founded in 2024 by Amin El Hemaily, Asad Khan and Nada Hassan, Nuxera positions itself as an AI hub for healthcare providers, offering integrated, scalable technologies for health clusters and private hospitals across the Kingdom. The capital will be used to expand engineering and commercial teams in Saudi Arabia, support hospital-wide deployments and enhance AI models through clinical partnerships. Nuxera is the first to emerge from Redesign Health’s Sanabil Venture Studio.
SO WHAT? – Nuxera is one of a growing number of Middle East startups that are beginning to address the AI language-gap, bringing Arabic-first AI solutions to a wide range of industries. Nuxera’s SERA platform integrates with legacy hospital systems to capture and analyses doctor–patient conversations in 28 Arabic dialects, automatically generating structured, SNOMED, ACHI, SBS and ICD-10-coded notes, delivering savings in documentation time of over 70%. The Arabic-first platform’s Talk to Your Data engine also enables hospital leaders to ask questions in plain Arabic and receive instant, reliable answers to clinical, operational, and financial matters.
Here are the key details of Nuxera’s pre-Seed funding:
Riyadh-based healthtech startup Nuxera AI has secured $2.5 million in pre-seed investment from Sanabil Venture Studio by New York headquartered Redesign Health, according to a report by entrepreneurship and venture capital platform Wamda. Nuxera’s flagship product SERA captures doctor-patient conversations across 28 Arabic dialects and automatically generates structured medical notes.
The funding will be used to accelerate development of the startup’s Arabic-first AI-powered clinical workflow solutions, support additional hospital deployments, with enhanced AI models developed through clinical collaborations as the company expands its presence across Saudi Arabia’s healthcare sector.
Nuxera has designed its artificial intelligence to embed within daily realities of Saudi healthcare systems, understanding Arabic dialects as spoken by doctors, coding notes according to payer requirements and surfacing insights aligned with hospital leadership decision-making processes.
Nuxera’s flagship product SERA captures doctor-patient conversations across 28 Arabic dialects and automatically generates structured medical notes coded to SNOMED, ACHI, SBS and ICD-10 standards.
SERA is designed to add value by integrating seamlessly into existing hospital systems without requiring workflow changes. According to the company, the platform reduces documentation time by over 70 per cent through real-time clinical documentation capabilities.
The platform aims to function as an engine for time savings, accuracy and clarity across entire hospital institutions. Its data analytics engine enables hospital leaders to ask questions in plain Arabic and receive instant answers on clinical, operational and financial matters.
The founding team comprises Amin El Hemaily as Chief Executive Officer, Asad Khan as Chief Technology Officer and Nada Hassan as Chief Commercial Officer.
The healthcare-focused Sanabil Venture Studio by Redesign Health provides Nuxera with hands-on operational support and healthcare expertise alongside venture capital investment.
ZOOM OUT – Arabic language AI solutions are receiving increasing attention from investors as technology reliability improves and market opportunities become clearer. Global AI models have historically underperformed in Arabic language processing due to dialectal complexity, whilst most Arabic AI development has focused on text rather than speech recognition. A growing number of startups are addressing this gap, with Saudi Arabia emerging as a hub for Arabic-first platforms. Arabic language processing represents a persistent challenge for global healthcare platforms, with most natural language processing systems being optimised for English and other Latin-script languages. The recent increase ing venture capital funding for Arabic-native solutions reflects mounting pressure on the region’s AI ecosystem to deliver reliable colloquial Arabic conversation capabilities at scale.
[Written and edited with the assistance of AI]
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