Former Foodics COO launches Governata, Saudi’s first Arabic knowledge governance platform 

Governata, Saudi Arabia’s first enterprise knowledge administration platform, has formally launched with an AI-powered resolution designed particularly to assist native organizations adjust to the dominion’s knowledge laws whereas leveraging synthetic intelligence for decision-making.

The Riyadh-based startup, co-founded by former Foodics COO Djamel Mohand alongside knowledge governance veterans Jehad Senan and Khalid Almudayfir, unveiled its flagship product as the primary and solely Saudi-made Arabic-language knowledge governance software program constructed to align with the necessities of the Saudi Knowledge & AI Authority (SDAIA).

The platform is particularly designed to adjust to the Nationwide Knowledge Administration Workplace (NDMO) requirements, Nationwide Knowledge Index (NDI), and Private Knowledge Safety Legislation (PDPL), positioning it as a crucial instrument for organizations trying to navigate Saudi Arabia’s evolving knowledge regulatory panorama whereas getting ready for AI adoption.

“Knowledge is the muse of the current and future digital financial system, and our aim is to assist Saudi and world organizations handle it extra effectively and responsibly to allow them to take extra correct, swift and related choices,” stated Djamel Mohand, Co-Founding father of Governata.

He brings over 16 years of expertise in funding advisory and scaling know-how startups within the area. He beforehand served as COO at Foodics, the main restaurant administration platform in MENA, the place he helped scale the corporate to serve greater than 30,000 eating places throughout 25+ nations and managed over 2,000 group members earlier than stepping down in February 2025 to launch his new enterprise.

The founding group combines complementary experience with Jehad Senan, an information analytics and governance veteran with 20 years of expertise throughout world advisory companies, and Khalid Almudayfir, an achieved knowledge scientist who has led nationwide knowledge governance and AI frameworks for over 12 years throughout private and non-private sectors.

Governata’s platform options what it says is a user-friendly Arabic interface and is constructed to align with the rules of Saudi Arabia’s Nationwide Knowledge Administration Workplace (NDMO). It affords automated instruments to assist organizations keep compliant with native knowledge laws, together with the Private Knowledge Safety Legislation (PDPL). The platform additionally supplies centralized instruments for organizing and classifying knowledge, enhancing knowledge high quality, and managing consumer entry securely.

“Governata serves because the gateway for organizations to unlock the complete potential of Generative AI,” commented Jehad Senan, co-founder of Governata. “Our distinctive strengths lie in with the ability to connect with a agency’s knowledge sources, interpret technical metadata, enrich it with enterprise metadata, and classify it fully in step with NDMO requirements.”

The startup has world aspirations and plans to launch extra merchandise constructed on prime of its foundational knowledge governance software program, together with a unified AI-driven enterprise decision-making platform concentrating on the broader MENA area.

The platform’s Arabic-first method and NDMO compliance focus handle a big hole out there, as organizations throughout Saudi Arabia work to fulfill more and more stringent knowledge governance necessities whereas positioning themselves for AI adoption.

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