Green Desert Tech

What Green Desert Tech does

Green Desert Tech is a privately held Saudi Arabian agritech/ biotechnology company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Jeddah, operating an automated spirulina (algae) production facility. The company's core offering is a proprietary algae production system that combines a novel sensor box — continuously tracking algae growth rate, light, temperature, pH, and nutrient levels — with machine learning algorithms and an automated control unit that adjusts cultivation conditions in real time. The company claims the integrated system delivers 400% higher algae yields and 50% lower production costs compared to traditional cultivation methods, while algae itself is positioned as a water-efficient (10x less water than comparable protein) and carbon-negative (25 tonnes CO2 absorbed per hectare annually) alternative to imported protein.

On the products side, the company sells wholesale spirulina powder and algae-based animal feed from its Jeddah facility, alongside retail spirulina pills and forthcoming spirulina food supplements positioned as premium vegan superfoods. On the services side, it provides algae pool set-up and maintenance and licenses its proprietary automation technology to partners looking to integrate the sensor-ML-control stack into existing algae operations. Target customer segments include food industry buyers seeking local sustainable protein, animal feed wholesalers, and algae production businesses in Saudi Arabia and the broader Middle East.

The company is led by a founder-family team of four: CEO Abdulmajeed Hashem (formerly R&D at RedSea, Cambridge-educated chemical scientist), CFO Yusuf Hashem (McKinsey senior consultant, MIT MBA), COO Omar Hashem (Bain associate consultant, Kings College London economics), and CRO Abdulhadi Khader (University of Liverpool, MSc Risk & Uncertainty). It is privately held with no disclosed external investors or funding rounds. Go-to-market is sales-led and direct, relying on the company website, email, and phone contact, with operations confined to a single Jeddah facility and no disclosed marketplace or channel-partner distribution.

Name

Green Desert Tech

Legal name

Green Desert Tech

Website

https://greendesert.tech

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Green Desert Tech is a privately held Jeddah-based agritech company that operates an automated spirulina production facility using proprietary sensors, machine learning, and real-time process control, selling wholesale spirulina powder, animal feed, retail supplements, and licensing its automation technology to algae producers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Algae Biotechnology

NAICS

Automatic Environmental Control Manufacturing for Residential, Commercial, and Appliance Use (334512)

SIC

Agricultural Production-Crops (100), Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823), Agricultural Services (700)

akta.pro primary industry

Algae & Seaweed Proteins (Microalgae/Spirulina, Macroalgae) (AFAJAHAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

CEA Monitoring, Sensors & Automation Software (SCADA, IoT, Climate/Recipe Control) (AFAAAHAG), Seaweed & Algae Aquaculture (incl. microalgae) (AFAEAAAE)

Keywords

• Automated algae production
• Spirulina products
• Algae cultivation technology
• Algae animal feed
• Technology licensing

Headquarters

HQ city

Jeddah

HQ country

Saudi Arabia

HQ region

Middle East

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Spirulina Product Sales: Sale of algae-based products including spirulina powder (wholesale and retail), spirulina pills, and food supplements. Products are produced at the Jeddah facility and sold as nutrient-dense vegan superfoods.
2. Animal Feed Sales: Wholesale algae-based animal feed products offering improved weight gain, immunity, and pigmentation for livestock.
3. Technology Licensing: Licensing of proprietary algae production technology to partners looking to enhance their algae production capabilities. The system can be integrated with existing infrastructure for more efficient, automated operations.
4. Algae Pool Setup and Maintenance Services: End-to-end solutions for setting up and maintaining algae production pools, leveraging domain expertise to ensure smooth processes and consistent yields.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Green Desert Tech develops and operates automated algae production systems that integrate a proprietary sensor box, machine learning algorithms, and a real-time control unit to optimize spirulina cultivation. It sells algae-based spirulina products (powder, pills, food supplements, animal feed) produced at its Jeddah facility and offers algae pool setup/maintenance services and technology licensing to other producers and institutions.

Product overview

Green Desert Tech operates as a dual offering company combining algae-based food products with technology services. The product portfolio centers on spirulina (a nutrient-dense algae) offered as wholesale powders, animal feed, and retail supplements/pills sourced from their Jeddah facility. The services division includes algae pool set-up and maintenance, plus proprietary technology licensing for their automated algae production system.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Spirulina Powder
• Algae Animal Feed
• Spirulina Pills
• Spirulina Food Supplements
• Algae Pool Set-Up and Maintenance
• Technology Licensing

Quantifiable outcome

• 400% increase in algae yields
• +4 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature4 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Corbion: Corbion is a global ingredient company with a substantial microalgae (algae oils, DHA) platform serving food, animal nutrition, and personal care. Comparability: competes with Green Desert Tech across multiple algae-derived product categories and has the capital and scale that Green Desert Tech currently lacks.
• Sapphire Energy: Sapphire Energy developed algae-based feedstock for fuels and chemicals using proprietary cultivation and harvesting technology. Comparability: shares a technology-led approach to commercial-scale algae production but in the fuels/chemicals vertical rather than food/feed.

Direct peers

• Cyanotech Corporation: Cyanotech is a publicly listed US producer of high-value natural products from microalgae, primarily spirulina and astaxanthin. Comparability: both companies produce and sell spirulina-based nutritional products as a core revenue line and operate cultivation facilities as their production backbone.
• AlgaEnergy: AlgaEnergy is a Spanish biotech company producing microalgae-based products for agriculture, food, and cosmetics, with proprietary cultivation technology. Comparability: shares the integrated model of microalgae cultivation plus value-added product commercialization, though at a more mature scale.
• Earthrise Nutritionals: Earthrise Nutritionals is one of the world's largest spirulina farms, producing spirulina powder and related ingredients for food, supplement, and feed markets. Comparability: directly aligned with Green Desert Tech's wholesale and retail spirulina product lines and algae cultivation base.
• RedSea: RedSea is a Saudi agriculture technology company developing controlled-environment agriculture and crop production systems, including algae-adjacent innovation. Comparability: the Green Desert Tech CEO was previously an R&D Specialist at RedSea, and both operate technology-led sustainable agriculture in Saudi Arabia.

Emerging players

• Cellana: Cellana is a US-based algae biotech developing high-yield algae cultivation systems for omega-3 oils, biofuels, and animal feed. Comparability: similar technology-driven approach to commercializing algae biomass across feed, food, and industrial verticals.
• Algix (now Bolder Industries): Algix developed algae cultivation systems for protein and bioplastic feedstocks using controlled-environment pond technology. Comparability: shared technology foundation in algae biomass cultivation with value-added downstream applications, though focused on materials rather than nutrition.

Others

• Aker BioMarine: Aker BioMarine is a Norwegian biotech harvesting krill and developing algae-based omega-3 ingredients for human and animal nutrition. Comparability: adjacent in the marine-derived nutrition and feed ingredient space, sharing key end markets (supplements, animal feed) with Green Desert Tech's spirulina products.

Regional players

• Parry Organic Spirulina: Parry Nutraceuticals (part of Murugappa Group) is a major India-based producer of organic spirulina for global nutraceutical and food customers. Comparability: directly overlaps in spirulina production and global supplement ingredient supply, but operates in a different geography than Green Desert Tech's Saudi base.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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