Company Profile

Company overview

In accordance with the Company''s Bylaws, some of the Company''s activities comprise the following: - Providing telecommunications, information technology, information security, e-business, and credit information sharing services. - Providing electronic connectivity services between the public sector and the private sector. - Managing, equipping, operating, and maintaining data and information centers; - Managing, maintaining, operating and developing electronic hardware and mechanisms, information systems, and communication networks. - Providing, training, and developing the workforce to manage, operate, and develop public and private business and services in ICT and other fields. - Providing all technology development, marketing, and investment activities and services. - Providing technical project management services and supervising their implementation. - Investing inside and outside the Kingdom in technology companies and projects. -Attracting local and foreign investments to participate in any of the Company''s activities. - Providing specialized consultation in technical work, information security, communications, e-business, and credit information sharing.

Company History

The Company was initially established as a limited liability company on 24/10/1408H (corresponding to 09/06/1988G) with a fully paid-up capital of five hundred thousand Saudi Riyals (SAR 500,000), and registered in the Commercial Registry of Riyadh under No. 1010069210 under the name ''Al-Elm Research and Development Company'', which was later changed to ''Al-Elm Information Security Company''. On 03/11/1428H (corresponding to 13/11/2007G), the Company was converted from a limited liability company into a one-person closed joint stock company and its capital was increased from five hundred thousand Saudi Riyals (SAR 500,000) to fifty million Saudi Riyals (SAR 50,000,000) paid in full, divided into five million (5,000,000) ordinary shares with a nominal value of ten Saudi Riyals (SAR 10) per share. On 24/03/1442H (corresponding to 10/11/2020G), the Company''s capital was increased from fifty million Saudi Riyals (SAR 50,000,000) to five hundred million Saudi Riyals (SAR 500,000,000) fully paid, divided into fifty million (50,000,000) ordinary shares. The Company''s name was also changed from ''Al-Elm Information Security Company'' to ''Elm''. On 10/11/1442H (corresponding to 20/06/2021G), the Company''s capital was increased from five hundred million Saudi Riyals (SAR 500,000,000) to eight hundred million Saudi Riyals (SAR 800,000,000) fully paid, divided into eighty million (80,000,000) ordinary shares with a fully paid nominal value of ten Saudi Riyals (SAR 10) per share.

Company Bylaws

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Equity Profile

Investment limits

There are no investment limits on the company's shares as per the amended Rules for Qualified Foreign Financial Institutions Investment in Listed Securities and Instructions for the Foreign Strategic Investors Ownership in Listed Companies based on Company's bylaw and the issued Instructions by related regulators and supervisory authorities.