MENA-based language solutions integrator, Tarjama, has announced that it has raised USD 15m in what the company referred to as Series A funding. The round was led by Global Ventures, with participation from Wamda Capital, TA Ventures, Phaze Ventures, Golden Gate Ventures, and Endeavor Catalyst.
The funding follows the March 2025 launch of Tarjama’s proprietary language model, Pronoia, which reportedly outperforms GPT-4o, DeepSeek, and Cohere in tasks relating to the Arabic language. The language solutions integrator (LSI) also recently launched Arabic.AI, powered by Pronoia.
Commenting on the funding and the recently launched technology, Nour Al Hassan, CEO of Tarjama told Slator, “We’ve seen significant inbound demand from both existing and new enterprise customers across MENA and beyond. Clients are eager to explore how Arabic.AI can automate content creation, contract review, summarization, and internal workflows—in a secure, Arabic-native environment. The demand has confirmed a clear market gap we’re uniquely positioned to fill.”
Al Hassan told Slator that in addition to Arabic and its dialects, the Arabic.AI platform supports 108 languages, and includes human-in-the-loop workflows that create “an agentic ecosystem that’s intelligent, adaptive, and ready for real-world enterprise applications.”
Al Hassan confirmed that the funds raised through the Series A round will be used to scale Arabic.AI, to advance Pronoia’s capabilities — with a focus on domain-specific agents and speech applications, and to launch an Arabic.AI Academy to upskill teams on AI adoption across the MENA region.
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In addition, Al Hassan told Slator, “We’re expanding our R&D and engineering teams, investing in model tuning, and building integrations to embed Arabic.AI across platforms. […] We’re actively developing smaller, task-specific models optimized for real-time applications and domain-focused LLMs tailored to industries like legal, healthcare, and finance.”
“We’re also exploring speech-to-text and speech-to-speech capabilities to expand Pronoia’s utility across voice-driven use cases,” she concluded.
Opportunities in the MENA Region
According to Al Hassan, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) represents an area of growth for the company.
Al Hassan told Slator, “In the GCC, governments are investing heavily in AI infrastructure, compliance automation, and digital public services, all of which require Arabic-native intelligence at scale. Sectors like legal, government, telecom, and financial services are actively seeking trusted AI partners to automate bilingual workflows, improve efficiency, and ensure cultural and linguistic accuracy.”
“Beyond the region, we anticipate major demand coming from global companies expanding into the Middle East, particularly U.S.-based enterprises entering through Gulf investment partnerships. As these organizations scale their operations in MENA, they will need localized, secure, and deeply contextual Arabic AI to succeed. That’s where Arabic.AI steps in,” she concluded.
The funding represents the first major injection of investment capital for Tarjama since French investment firm Amethis acquired a minority stake in the LSI for an undisclosed sum in November 2021.