Waad Al-Oraifij

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

A Saudi entrepreneur, founder and chief executive of Alhai, a property technology startup in the Kingdom. The company belongs to the Saudi wave of startups that entered the real estate sector in recent years, after the Real Estate General Authority opened its regulatory sandbox and widened the licensing instruments for brokerage and digital property services. This category of company works at the junction between a resident and the neighbourhood they live in, addressing the services, information and local community that make up the residential experience. She is among the women prominent in Saudi property entrepreneurship, a field in which the participation of female founders has widened as the Kingdom's startup ecosystem has grown.