Kingdom Holding Company is a private equity firm specializing in making investments in banking and financial services, real estate, luxury hotels and hotel management, digital services, e-commerce, investment funds, hospitality, aviation, petrochemicals, media and publishing, entertainment, healthcare including healthcare provision and healthcare management and consultancy, education, energy, manufacturing, consumer and retail, agriculture, social media, technology, and industrial sectors. The firm seeks to invest primarily in Saudi Arabia and developing markets within the Middle East and Africa but also invests internationally including the United States. Kingdom Holding Company was founded in 1980 and is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.