A Saudi-based startup seeks to expand availability of AI solutions

A Saudi-based startup seeks to expand availability of AI solutions

A serial entrepreneur, with almost 15 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, Alnahhas has a proven track record of building businesses and relationships in the GCC, and has served as an adviser to other startups in the Middle East and the US. After earning his bachelor's degree in marketing and entrepreneurship from the University of Houston, he completed further leadership training at Wharton School of Business and at INSEAD, a graduate business school with campuses in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The idea for nybl came about when Alnahhas decided he wanted to develop a tech company that would make AI more accessible and serve the common good. "We wanted to centralize that vision around AI and machine learning," the 37-year-old Alnahhas said. "We wanted to develop something not just profit-related, but that added value and left the world in a better place. So it is conscious capitalism." The team's goal was to enable anybody to turn an idea into an AI solution without the barrier of needing to understand coding and data science. By democratizing the technology, nybl has become a kind of "Shopify of AI," says Alnahhas, referring to the Canadian e-commerce site, which