Bahrain is not a market we hope to reach one day. It is where the company was conceived, by two
founders working out the idea while one of them was stuck in Manama during the Iran
conflict, and it is where our Gulf entity and our Gulf relationships already sit. Bahrain
is the natural gateway into the GCC: an English-speaking financial centre, a regulator used
to new categories, and a bridge to Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
The American track and the Gulf track run in parallel, not in sequence. The apps launch
into US campuses and venues while the same architecture is introduced through our Bahraini
partners into the Gulf. One brain, two go-to-markets, neither waiting on the other.
United States
Infinite King Agents, a California corporation. Principal office in Los Angeles. Both apps live here first.
The Gulf
IKA Bahrain, a separate entity co-owned with our Bahraini partners, holding 40% between them, with the founders holding the balance.
On the board
Shaikh Saud Salman Al Khalifa and Tawfeek Zaid Ali Almoosa sit on the board of the California corporation, alongside directors in the United States and Morocco.
What that means
Gulf introductions, Gulf regulatory literacy, and a standing route into the GCC from day one, carried by people on our own board, not by an agency.
Said precisely. Shaikh Saud Salman Al Khalifa is a member of the Bahraini
royal family who serves as a director of this company and as a co-owner of IKA Bahrain.
That is a board relationship and a business partnership. It is not an investment,
endorsement, or guarantee by the Kingdom of Bahrain, its government, or its ruling family,
and we will never describe it as one.