AlGooru

AlGooru (القورو) a Startup and platform specialized in educational technologies located in Saudi Arabia. It has won many local and international awards, including first place in the “Innovate” Award and the Entrepreneurship World Cup for the Top 20 Startups (EWC2022), It was also ranked on HolonIQ's list of the top 50 promising emerging companies in the field of education in MENA and CrunchBase top 20 Saudi companies in the field of education, and it is considered one of the most prominent online education platforms in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region.

It concluded several partnership agreements with famous platforms such as Rwaq and Annab, and in 2023 it joined the Saudi Unicorns Program sponsored by the Saudi Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and the Misk Charitable Foundation in order to qualify it for the billion-dollar evaluation. It also received bold investment rounds from several prominent funds, including : Techstars, RAZ Group, RZM Investment, 100Ventures and others.

History
AlGooru was officially launched by its founders: Khaled Abou Kassem, Omer Awad, and Muhanad AlJaser, who had each begun with a similar concept before merging their ventures in 2021, Khaled Abou Kassem and Omer Awad initiated their project in 2018 to connect university students with trustworthy private tutors, identifying their peers' need for a simpler way to find reliable tutors, Meanwhile, Muhanad AlJaser founded ChillLearn in 2019, an idea that originated in 2014 during his studies in Canada when he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. This led him to seek connections with tutors via Skype, an experience that ignited his vision to create a platform easing the link between students and tutors.

After their companies combined in 2020 and officially launched in 2021, AlGooru has charted a course of continuous success. It was accepted into the Techstars accelerator in Riyadh that same year, securing an initial investment of $600,000 from Nawah Investment, Aqal, and Techstars.

In 2020, the two platforms were merged under the name AlGooru platform, then it achieved acceptance in the TechStars Riyadh business accelerator and obtained $600,000 in its initial stage of investment, and in 2021 it obtained an investment worth 2.25 million riyals in an investment round (pre-Seed), and in 2022 it received an investment worth $1.8 million from several investment funds: RAZ Group, RZM Investment, 100 Ventures, and RAY Investment.

In recent years, several partnership agreements have been concluded with famous platforms such as Rwaq and Annab, it was admission to the first batch in the Saudi Billionaire Companies Program which is exclusive to limited startup companies. It is currently receiving support and embrace from several parties, namely: King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, the Communications and Information Technology Commission, represented by the (CODE) Center, and the General Authority for Small and Medium Enterprises (Monshaat).

Overview
AlGooru includes more than 700 certified private teachers in more than 20 academic fields. Also, the subsidiary company AlGooru Learn has provided its services to more than 10,000 students.

Reception
AlGooru has been mentioned in Fortune Arabia, CNBC, Al Arabiya and Bloomberg Asharq.

It was also ranked on HolonIQ's list of the top 50 promising emerging companies in the field of education in MENA and CrunchBase top 20 Saudi companies in the field of education and ranked on top online education platforms in Saudi Arabia in many lists.

Awards

 * SME 2022 Award as the best company specializing in private education technologies in the region.
 * First place in the Entrepreneurship World Cup for Top 20 Startups (EWC2022).
 * GSV Elite 200 GSV Summit Semi-Final.
 * First place in the "Innovate Award" from Monshaat to support entrepreneurship and emerging innovative companies.