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Investor

Waha Capital

Fund · backs 1 company

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FM featured UAEFintech

Optasia

AI credit scoring that lets mobile operators lend airtime and small loans to the unbanked

$1.4bnValuation

Founders

FM featured UAEFintech

Bassim Haidar

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FounderOptasia

Nigerian-born Lebanese founder who turned airtime top-up data into credit for the unbanked

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