The Program

Eleven problems. Four domains. One bank ready to deploy the winners.

Everything the founding cohort receives — the challenge you're solving, and the full support package behind it.

The SNB Challenge

This is not a wishlist. It's a bank-issued call to solve.

These are not nice-to-haves. They are eleven unsolved problems inside SNB's own operations — already scoped, prioritized, and waiting on the market. The pain is proven, and a direct pilot pathway sits behind whoever answers well.

Every applicant is scored on which challenge they answer and how directly their solution maps to it — the single highest-leverage thing to get right in your application.

Domain 01

Embedded Finance & BaaS

  • BaaS APIs & white-label products
  • Open banking & data infrastructure
  • Open banking payment initiation
Domain 02

AI Credit Scoring & Alternative Lending

  • Alternative-data credit decisioning
  • Revenue & cash-flow underwriting
  • Micro & nano lending automation
  • Portfolio monitoring & collections
  • KYB & KYC
Domain 03

Merchant Commerce & Vertical SaaS

  • Digital commerce & POS enablement
  • Trade-embedded financing
  • Anchor-led supply chain finance
  • E-invoicing & ZATCA compliance
  • Vertical SaaS & business operations
Domain 04

Fintech Aggregator / Marketplace

  • Aggregator (demand-side)
  • Marketplace (supply-side)

Which challenge will you answer?

Challenge 01Merchant & Vertical SaaS

How can a merchant reconcile sales, settlements, and fees across every channel it sells through?

Challenge 02Merchant & Vertical SaaS

How can financing reach an SME at the point of trade, when the need appears — not weeks later?

Challenge 03Merchant & Vertical SaaS

How can a multi-site SME run inventory, staff, cash, invoicing, VAT/e-invoicing, and reporting as one operation across all its locations?

Challenge 04Merchant & Vertical SaaS

How can a supplier get paid early on a buyer's approved invoices, on the buyer's credit — not its own?

Challenge 05Embedded Finance & BaaS

How can an SME share its own bank data so the tools it already uses can act on it: pre-approved offers, reconciliation, receivables, payables, real cash-flow visibility?

Challenge 06Embedded Finance & BaaS

How can a non-bank platform embed accounts, cards, and lending into its own product without holding a license or building the rails itself?

Challenge 07AI Credit & Lending

How can we underwrite an SME on its full-cycle revenue, not collateral or a single quarter?

Challenge 08AI Credit & Lending

How can we score an SME with no credit history on the data it already generates: POS, sales, cleared invoices?

Challenge 09AI Credit & Lending

How can we make small, short-tenor SME loans profitable to originate and disburse end-to-end, with no manual review?

Challenge 10Aggregator / Marketplace

How can an SME discover, compare, onboard once, and manage all its financial products through one interface — instead of one provider relationship and KYB process at a time?

Challenge 11Aggregator / Marketplace

How can institutions and fintechs find, vet, and integrate each other without starting from zero? (Institution-facing: the customer is SNB, not an SME.)

What You Get

Everything you need to launch and scale.

01

Pre-Seed Funding

Dedicated funding for product development and compliance, via a founder-friendly, 5%-capped SAFE note.

02

Structured Venture Building

Cohort-based workshops: business strategy, deep-tech product development, GTM, and investor pitching.

03

Expert Mentorship

1-on-1 coaching with DTV subject-matter experts and SNB enterprise executives.

04

Pilot-Ready Integration Stack

Direct access to SNB's architecture, APIs, and sandbox environments to validate and deploy.

05

Relocation & Visa Support

Visa assistance, subsidized flights, and arranged housing for up to two co-founders during physical sprints.

06

Dhahran Valley HQ

Six months of subsidized co-working space at the Eastern Province's premier deep-tech hub.

07

Elite Ecosystem Network

A curated community of deep-tech founders, regulators, and regional VCs.

08

Guided Legal Setup

Structured guidance through your MISA Entrepreneurship License and Saudi Commercial Registration.

≤ 5%
Maximum Future Equity Participation

Support is an investment, not a grant — secured via a founder-friendly Engagement Letter, with equity participation capped at 5%.

Found your challenge. Ready to apply?

Tell us which of the eleven problems you're built to solve.