No. 024 · Mohammed Ali Yusuf
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This record has been revised 4 times. Each version is hash-chained to the one before it and anchored to Bitcoin; the values below are shown exactly as they were recorded at the time, not restated after the fact.
Version 4
2026-07-17
Bitcoin attested
- Raised: $14M seed, 2023 $26.2M total ($14M seed 2023, $12.2M Series A 2025)
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Version 3
2026-07-16
Bitcoin attested
- Founded: 2023 · Dubai 2022 · Abu Dhabi
- Moves: 4 entries 4 entriesAdded: 2022 · Founded in Abu Dhabi by Mo Ali Yusuf, Arpit Mehta and Srijan Shetty, joining the Hub71 tech ecosystem; 2023 · Raised $14M seed led by Further Ventures; received VASP licence from Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority
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Version 2
2026-07-15
Bitcoin attested
No tracked field changed in this version.
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Version 1
2026-07-10
Bitcoin attested
Minted
- Founder: Mohammed Ali Yusuf
- Company: Fuze
- Founded: 2023 · Dubai
- Raised: $14M seed, 2023
- Backers: Further Ventures, Galaxy, e& capital, Liberty City Ventures
- Strap: A former Checkout.com and Visa executive building regulated digital asset infrastructure that lets Gulf banks and fintechs offer crypto to their own customers instead of losing them to exchanges.
- Moves: 2023 · Founded by Mo Ali Yusuf, Arpit Mehta and Srijan Shetty; raised $14M seed led by Further Ventures; 2023 · Received VASP licence from Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority; 2025 · Closed $12.2M Series A led by Galaxy and e& capital, taking total funding past $26M; 2025 · Fined by VARA in August for AML shortcomings tied to historical transactions; remediation overseen by a VARA-appointed skilled person
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