Where Innovation meets impact.

MKMN is a Saudi platform that turns scientific complexity into practical business value, moving Innovation forward to create real impact.

Scope it
We frame the problem in business terms and name the success criteria.
See what solves it
Matched use cases, and the companies that deliver them. Global and Saudi.
Run a PoC
Scoped pilot, terms agreed up front, delivery supported on the ground.

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Get profiled
We describe what you deliver in the language buyers search, against the use cases they browse.
Get matched
When an entity scopes a challenge your technology answers, you are on the shortlist.
Win the work
Meet the person who owns the problem and the budget. Land a pilot with a reference customer.

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3,065

Deep-tech companies sourced

Countries sourced

Use cases published

Global regions

Advisory · challenge → PoC

From a business priority to a running pilot

We frame the problem in business terms, match it against the problems we have already mapped and the companies that solve them, and run the pilot on the ground with you.

For corporatesCut cost, risk and wasteProblems scoped, companies checked, pilots that clear procurement. Minimal investment until the PoC →For governmentDeliver on national prioritiesChallenge programs, technology adoption, and a result you can report →

One place to take a problem

The problems worth solving, the companies behind each one, and a way to ask us for what you actually need, a shortlist, a specialist, or the use cases in your domain.

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What it gives youOne box, four kinds of request: a problem you need solved, startups for a program, an expert for a panel, or the use cases worth framing in your domain.

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Connecting the ecosystem

What we publish about each sector, the rooms where buyers and founders meet, and access to the network behind the advice.

3,065 sourced companies · 70 countries · 8 regions

Stay in the loop

New challenges and what we are seeing in the market, a short note when there is something worth reading.

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Partners name the technologies they need and startups compete to meet them, held with the demand side in the room.

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Live challenges from Saudi entities

Real problems, scoped with the entity that owns them. Each with a budget, a deadline and a route to contract. Solve one, or bring your own.

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AI-enabled health technologyPrevention against health risks+1Delivered

How might we use AI to prevent, catch and diagnose disease earlier in Saudi Arabia's non-profit health sector?

Posted by Enayah Health Society

Valuable ideas in healthcare come from people with no clear route to develop them: clinicians, specialists, and small companies working outside established channels. Enayah Health Society set three areas where AI could change outcomes rather than just workflow — prevention, early intervention and early diagnosis — and asked teams to build against them.

164 ideas submitted10 technologies applied across submissions

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