Calgary-based Bidaya AI has raised $840,000 in pre-seed funding, led by Metiquity Ventures with participation from LOI Venture and a group of angel investors. The round, which closed in spring 2025, will support product development and market expansion efforts.
What the startup does
Founded in 2024 by Omar Sabbagh and Majd Alsado, Bidaya AI builds a vertical AI platform for the architecture, engineering, and consulting (AEC) sector that aims to fix a familiar pain point: the fragmented RFP workflow. The company says its product unifies project discovery, automated proposal drafting, and structured knowledge management and importantly, it lives inside Microsoft Word, the primary authoring tool for AEC proposal teams. The promise: faster, more accurate, and more compliant proposals with better reuse of institutional knowledge.
The Significance
Proposal work is often where AEC firms win or lose business. By embedding automation into the document environment teams already use, Bidaya AI is positioning itself to cut time spent assembling bids while tightening compliance and collaboration. For an industry facing persistent pressure on margins and timelines, workflow-native automation could offer measurable gains.
Investor view
“Bidaya AI is solving a high-impact problem for an industry ready for digital transformation,” said Bryan Slauko, Partner at Metiquity Ventures, highlighting the platform’s alignment with AEC workflows and its reported gains in proposal speed, compliance, and knowledge management. Metiquity framed the deal within its broader thesis of backing vertical AI and B2B SaaS tackling operational inefficiencies in large, underserved markets.
Founder view
“We’re delighted to welcome Metiquity Ventures as our lead investor,” said CEO Omar Sabbagh, adding that the firm’s guidance would be “invaluable” as Bidaya scales its product and expands into new markets.
The company plans to use the capital to advance its product roadmap and bolster customer success as it expands across Canada and into the United States. Earlier this year, Bidaya AI was also featured among 10 homegrown startups to watch in 2025 in Calgary’s ecosystem coverage.
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