Sinai.ai, an adaptive reading platform, has closed a $1.45 million pre-seed round led by KAUST Innovation Ventures and DisrupTech Ventures, with participation from Maza Ventures and YOUXEL Ventures. The capital will fund AI infrastructure, proprietary technology, user acquisition, and licensing.
The startup’s core product, the aiBook, converts traditionally static books into personalised, multimodal experiences — allowing readers to converse with content in real time, generate study guides, switch between reading and listening, and access titles across multiple languages. Crucially, Sinai operates exclusively on fully licensed content sourced directly from publishers, sidestepping the copyright conflicts that have hampered other AI reading tools.
Co-founder and chief executive Ahmed Kamel positioned the platform as a partnership model for publishers rather than a disruption of them, with the company having already secured agreements with multiple publishing houses across a library of thousands of titles.
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