Overview
If you run an SME anywhere in the GCC, here’s what Beehive spent Q2 doing for businesses like yours. We are regulated in KSA now, backed more SMEs than ever, and kept building the kind of company SME community actually want to work with. Here’s what that looked like, in numbers and milestones.
More SMEs funded
We continued to expand our support for SMEs across the region:
0+ SMEs
funded to date
in total funding facilitated
Behind every one of those numbers is a real business: one that hired someone, opened a new branch, or shipped a bigger order, because the funding came through when it needed to.
*These numbers are cumulative for the Beehive group since inception.
Expanding our regional presence
Strengthening our position in Saudi Arabia
This quarter, we completed a majority acquisition of Themar, Saudi Arabia’s SAMA-regulated debt crowdfunding platform. That makes Beehive the first digital SME financing platform regulated across the UAE, Oman, and Saudi Arabia. It’s a real step toward Vision 2030’s SME goals, and toward funding businesses in the Kingdom faster.
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Building the future of private credit
We also announced a partnership with ZIGChain to explore on-chain infrastructure for private credit. It’s early-stage work aimed at making private credit markets more transparent and easier to access.
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Engaging with Oman’s SME community
Our Oman team participated in the Dealmakers and Partnerships Forum, an event that brought together investors, entrepreneurs and SMEs to explore strategic opportunities that support sustainable economic growth and align with Oman Vision 2040.
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Investing in tomorrow’s talent
Our HR team headed to the University of Birmingham careers fair this quarter, meeting students who’ll shape the region’s next businesses and telling them what it’s actually like to work at Beehive.
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On air: talking SME funding with Peter Tavener
CEO and Co-founder Peter Tavener joined Starting Up with Virtuzone on Dubai Eye 103.8 FM this quarter, talking SME funding, private credit, and what it actually takes to build a business that lasts in the Gulf.
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Speaking at ZIGChain Summit 2026
Our CEO and Co-Founder, Peter Tavener, took the stage at ZIGChain Summit 2026, building on the partnership we announced this quarter. Over 12 years, we've funded AED 5.43 billion for SMEs across the Gulf.
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Bringing Beehive closer to SMEs
We put Beehive in front of SMEs where they already are: an Elevision campaign across 79 digital screens in Dubai’s Jumeirah Lake Towers, one of the UAE’s biggest hubs for SME business.
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Looking ahead
Heading into the second half of 2026, our focus doesn’t change: get funding to more SMEs, faster, across all three markets, and keep proving that regulated funding doesn’t have to be slow.
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In the UAE, Beehive P2P Limited, an e& enterprise company, is regulated by the DFSA. In Oman, Beehive Financial Technology SPC is regulated by the FSA. In KSA, Beehive Group Holdings Limited owns a controlling stake in Themar Al Aamal for Crowdfunding Company CJSC, which is regulated by SAMA.
