Fintech
Companies
Saudi ArabiaFintechTabby
Buy now, pay later and money app for shoppers in Saudi Arabia and the UAE
EgyptFintechMNT-Halan
Egyptian fintech offering loans, payments and e-commerce to underbanked customers
Saudi ArabiaFintechHALA
HALA provides Saudi SMEs with banking, POS, payments and expense management, and raised $157 million Series B at a $900 million valuation.
Saudi ArabiaFintechTamara
Saudi buy now, pay later and shopping app serving the Gulf
Saudi ArabiaFintechFoodics
Foodics provides a cloud-based restaurant POS and payments platform serving the MENA food and beverage sector, with over $170 million raised to date.
UAEFintechFasset
Fasset is a Dubai-headquartered stablecoin-powered neobank offering USD accounts and cross-border settlement, valued at $1 billion after its Series C led by SBI Group.
Saudi ArabiaFintechLean Technologies
Lean Technologies builds MENA open banking and payments APIs, licensed by SAMA and ADGM, and raised $67.5 million in Series B led by General Catalyst.
UAEFintechWahed
Sharia-compliant investing app offering halal portfolios, ETFs and property investments
Saudi ArabiaFintechPetroApp
PetroApp provides NFC-based fuel payment and fleet expense management for Saudi enterprises, with a $50 million round led by Jadwa Investment.
UAEFintechYAP
YAP is a UAE-based digital banking and payments platform that lets consumers manage money, cards and payments through a single app.
UAEFintechNymCard
NymCard builds MENA payments infrastructure including card issuing, lending and money movement, with a $33 million Series B led by QED Investors.
UAEFintechFlapKap
FlapKap provides revenue-based financing for MENA SMEs, with a $34 million pre-Series A led by BECO Capital.
UAEFintechDeribit
Crypto options and futures exchange, headquartered in Dubai and owned by Coinbase since 2025
UAEFintechMal
AI-native Islamic digital bank being built in Abu Dhabi
JordanFintechDESAISIV
DESAISIV builds software that uses AI and automation for insurance work such as claims analysis, underwriting and pricing, with a focus on corporate health insurance.
MoroccoFintechChari
Moroccan app for corner shops to order stock and offer payments, with its own payment licence
BahrainFintechLocal
Local collapses paying in restaurants, hotels and hospitals into one flow on the customer's own phone: scan, see what you owe, pay in seconds, with no app, no terminal and no queue.
EgyptFintechExits MENA
Exits MENA matches startups and SMEs with investors and buyers.
EgyptFintechConnect Money
Connect Money provides embedded-finance services to other businesses.
UAEFintechOrbii
Orbii is an intelligent lending infrastructure company that helps financial institutions and merchant platforms in MENA launch and scale lending programs.
QatarFintechPayLater
PayLater is a Sharia-compliant buy now, pay later company in Qatar.
EgyptFintechFawry
Egypt's largest electronic payments network for bills, cards and shop payments
UAEFintechOptasia
AI credit scoring that lets mobile operators lend airtime and small loans to the unbanked
KuwaitFintechKrti
Krti connects payments, merchants and AI-powered rewards intelligence to transform how merchants attract customers and how consumers access rewards.
Saudi ArabiaFintechresal
resal started out as a digital gifting platform and now runs prepaid rewards software.
EgyptFintechThndr
Egyptian app for investing in stocks, bonds and funds from small amounts
Founders
UAEFintechJohn Jansen
Amsterdam options trader who co-founded the world's biggest crypto options exchange
MoroccoFintechIsmael Belkhayat
Ex-BCG consultant who co-founded Chari, turning Moroccan corner shops into payment points
EgyptFintechAshraf Sabry
Ex-IBM and Raya executive who built Egypt's biggest payments network through corner shops
UAEFintechMarius Jansen
Early Bitcoin investor who co-founded Deribit with his brother John
MoroccoFintechSophia Alj
Ex-McKinsey consultant who co-founded Chari, Morocco's first VC-backed payment institution
EgyptFintechSeif Amr
Former Uber operations manager and investment banker who co-founded Thndr
EgyptFintechMounir Nakhla
Built Egypt's first billion-dollar private tech company by lending to the underbanked
UAEFintechAbdallah Abu-Sheikh
Serial founder behind Lux, Rizek, Barq and Astra Tech, now building Islamic bank Mal
UAEFintechBassim Haidar
Nigerian-born Lebanese founder who turned airtime top-up data into credit for the unbanked
Saudi ArabiaFintechHosam Arab
Namshi co-founder who built Tabby into MENA's most valuable venture-backed startup
Saudi ArabiaFintechAbdulmajeed Alsukhan
Left the Saudi central bank for delivery, then built the first Saudi fintech unicorn
EgyptFintechAhmad Hammouda
Ex-Uber Egypt boss who built the country's largest digital brokerage for small investors
UAEFintechJunaid Wahedna
Left Wall Street banking to build a halal investing app now backed by Saudi Aramco
EgyptFintechAyman El Tanbouly
Former EBRD investment banker matching startups and SMEs with investors and buyers at Exits…
EgyptFintechAyman Essawy
Dsquares co-founder now building embedded-finance infrastructure for other businesses at…
Saudi ArabiaFintechHatem Kameli
Founded iCLICK and co-founded Lucidya before steering Resal into prepaid rewards software
KuwaitFintechAbdulrahman Al-Hammadi
Went from engineering work at Kuwait Airways to founding Kuwaiti payments startup Krti
QatarFintechKhalifa Saleh Al Haroon
Former Vodafone strategy head now building PayLater, a Sharia-compliant instalment-payment…
JordanFintechSaed Khawaldeh
Biomedical engineer with an Oxford research background applying AI to corporate health…
BahrainFintechSaad Ahmed
Building QR-based payments for restaurants, hotels and healthcare providers across the GCC
UAEFintechNauman Ali
Computer scientist building credit infrastructure that helps lenders originate and manage…
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