Mawdoo3 is the world's most visited Arabic website, serving more than 45 million unique users monthly with nearly 150,000 articles across topics including lifestyle, health, education and food. The site publishes the equivalent of two novels every day, reflecting rapid content growth. Mawdoo3 is expanding its AI capabilities and distribution channels, including plans to launch "Salma," an Arabic voice assistant that will answer factoid questions from the platform. Salma is intended to be deployed as an Arabic voice interface for businesses in travel, automobile, telecom and electronics, enabling consumers to engage and transact via voice. The company frames its work as addressing the scarcity of Arabic content online — roughly 1% of web content despite Arabic speakers making up over 5% of the global population. CEO Rami Al-Qawasmi cited six years of user trust as motivation for further expansion of content and technology.

Total raised

$14M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Jul 2018