Saudi Arabian investor Hamoud Al-Rumayn, as well as droppGropu, and Hub Culture have invested $5 million in Data Guardians Network (D-GN), a decentralized platform that produces high-precision, ethical AI training data.
As per the press release, the funding will support D-GN’s transition to expand regionally and globally and scale its operations as well as develop multi-modal data pipelines, and enhance enterprise integrations. The blockchain enabled platform leverages a decentralized contributor model where users worldwide perform data-labeling tasks such as image classification, audio annotation, lip-sync verification, and human expression mapping.
Contributors are rewarded with USDT stablecoins, while Solana blockchain integration ensures transparent contribution tracking and fair compensation. The company’s model addresses growing concerns about unlicensed data usage and opaque labor conditions in AI development, offering a traceable, ethical alternative for model training.
Saudi lead investor Hamoud Al-Rumayan highlighted the strategic fit with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030, statiing, “This investment supports building an ethical, transparent infrastructure for AI development that aligns with Saudi Arabia’s digital transformation goals.”
With the fresh capital, Data Guardians Network plans to expand operations across the Middle East, North Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia, aiming to become a global leader in ethically sourced AI datasets.
Recently, Saudi Arabia announced that of the 80,000 new business commercial licenses registered in Q2 of 2025 in Saudi Arabia most of them were in high growth industries such as Blockchain, AI, and Big data analytics. The total number of valid business records in KSA is now 1.72 million. Saudi Arabia witnessed 34% growth in AI commercial registrations, and 51% growth in Blockchain commercial registrations with over 4,000 companies now registered in the country.
