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No. 017Fintech BitOasis Ola Doudin A decade building the infrastructure for digital assets. Anchored · Bitcoin 6cbcda18 Editorial illustration No. 046Fintech Tabby Hosam Arab A different way to pay for a brighter tomorrow. On record Editorial illustration No. 008Mobility Careem Mudassir Sheikha Movement for a more connected region. Anchored · Bitcoin 2d3334c2 No. 001Fintech Lean Technologies Hisham Al-Falih Open banking APIs connecting fintech to bank accounts across MENA. Anchored · Bitcoin d6694773 No. 004Proptech Stake Rami Tabbara Fractional real estate ownership from AED 500. Anchored · Bitcoin 39745d39 No. 005Finance Sarwa Mark Chahwan Robo-advisor opening retail investing with low-fee ETF portfolios. Anchored · Bitcoin e7d58b0c No. 006Healthtech TruDoc Raouf Khalil Acute care and chronic disease management delivered at home. Anchored · Bitcoin 2bd65324 No. 007Logistics Fetchr Idriss Al Rifai, Joy Ajlouny GPS-first delivery that replaced street addresses with phone pins. Anchored · Bitcoin 157fddd2 No. 009AI Qureos Alexander Epure AI hiring that compresses enterprise recruiting to as little as six days. Anchored · Bitcoin 04c92556 No. 010E-Commerce Revibe Hamza Iraqui Refurbished electronics with certified trust: inspection and warranty. Anchored · Bitcoin 142a0275
Chronicled · No. 017

The Jordanian Engineer Who Built MENA's Compliance Layer Before Anyone Asked For It

Built MENA's crypto compliance layer before any regulator asked for it.

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No. 011Fintech Utexo Chris Hutchinson USDT on Bitcoin rails, instant and near-zero cost. Anchored · Bitcoin 47abba3c No. 012Proptech Huspy Jad Antoun Mortgage infrastructure Huspy says processes a quarter of Dubai's residential mortgages. Anchored · Bitcoin f87de412 No. 013Proptech Property Finder Michael Lahyani The operating system of Gulf real estate. Anchored · Bitcoin cc8ec721 No. 015Fintech Comfi Sanjar Samiev Suppliers paid in 24 hours; Comfi absorbs the credit risk. Anchored · Bitcoin f2a292b5 No. 016Proptech estaie Osama Shawky The 30-to-365 night segment, finally with infrastructure. Anchored · Bitcoin 6c6d5212 No. 018Fintech Alaan Parthi Duraisamy Built the Gulf corporate card the global fintechs decided was too complex. Anchored · Bitcoin e009e47c No. 020Logistics Kitopi Mohamad Ballout He runs kitchens as outsourced infrastructure, cooking and delivering for restaurant brands that want to expand without building their own sites. Anchored · Bitcoin ec43041c No. 021Mobility Swvl Mostafa Kandil He listed a Cairo-born bus-booking platform on Nasdaq at a $1.5B valuation, then rebuilt it around B2B and government transport contracts to reach its first annual profit in 2025. Anchored · Bitcoin 04dd8595 No. 022Logistics iMile Rita Huang She applied Chinese logistics methods to the Gulf's no-address problem, building a delivery network that carries Chinese e-commerce parcels into 30 countries. Anchored · Bitcoin fb891420 No. 023Fintech Ziina Faisal Toukan He built consumer and small-business payments on one of the UAE central bank's first stored value licences, replacing IBAN transfers with phone-number payments. Anchored · Bitcoin ef6b3791
Chronicled · No. 046

The Merchant Who Bet the Arab World Would Stop Paying in Cash

He co-founded Namshi and was its chief executive at the Emaar buyout, then co-founded Tabby, which he positioned as a replacement for cash on delivery rather than a new way to pay.

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No. 024Fintech Fuze Mohammed Ali Yusuf 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. Anchored · Bitcoin a2096c00 No. 025Fintech Qashio Armin Moradi He is betting Gulf companies will drop petty cash and shared cards for programmatically issued corporate cards, layered with a B2B loyalty programme that rewards business spending. Anchored · Bitcoin 94960b0b No. 026Finance baraka Feras Jalbout A former Barclays and Standard Chartered banker betting first-time Gulf investors will start with commission-free fractional US stocks, a thesis that drew Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures into its first Middle East deal. Anchored · Bitcoin 80933ce9 No. 027Proptech Holo Michael Hunter With co-founder Arran Summerhill, he is turning the UAE mortgage, a bank-by-bank paper process, into a single digital comparison and application platform now heading into Saudi Arabia. Anchored · Bitcoin d6595966 No. 028Proptech Keyper Omar Abu Innab He pays UAE landlords a year of rent upfront while tenants pay monthly, replacing the country's post-dated cheque habit with an underwritten rent now pay later product. Anchored · Bitcoin 18d329b0 No. 029Proptech Silkhaus Aahan Bhojani He runs an asset-light operating platform for short-term rentals in emerging markets, managing landlord units across the UAE and Saudi Arabia instead of owning inventory. Anchored · Bitcoin 70b98b27 No. 030Fintech Lune Helal Tariq Lootah With co-founder Alexandre Soued, he sells transaction data enrichment APIs that turn raw bank payment strings into categorized customer insights for MENA banks and fintechs. Anchored · Bitcoin 3c741bd2 No. 031Fintech Souqalmal Ambareen Musa She built one of the Gulf's earliest financial comparison platforms, sold a majority stake to SHUAA Capital in 2022, and now leads Revolut's GCC market entry. Anchored · Bitcoin 1caa7547 No. 032Fintech Tarabut Abdulla Almoayed He built MENA's first regulated open banking platform, licensed in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and headquartered in Dubai, then bought London payments firm Vyne to add account-to-account payments ahead of new UAE and Saudi rules. Anchored · Bitcoin a8feef94 No. 033Mobility Careem Magnus Olsson A Swedish ex-McKinsey consultant, he co-founded Careem with Mudassir Sheikha, stayed through the Uber acquisition and the e& super app carve-out, and now leads the company's AI work. Anchored · Bitcoin 15f1d70e
Chronicled · No. 008

Mudassir Sheikha Sold Careem to Uber for $3.1 Billion in a Region the World Forgot to Map

The super-app that mapped a region the world had not.

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No. 034Mobility ekar Vilhelm Hedberg He co-founded the Middle East's first carshare operator, which grew from pay-per-minute rentals in Dubai into subscription leasing and peer-to-peer sharing across the Gulf. Anchored · Bitcoin 1bff3f8d No. 035Logistics Washmen Rami Shaar A former Uber manager, he took Washmen from an asset-light laundry app to owning the full supply chain, including a 30,000 sq ft Jebel Ali facility, and reached profitability on only $11M raised. Anchored · Bitcoin 5810903a No. 036Logistics Quiqup Bassel El Koussa He shifted Quiqup's centre of gravity from London to Dubai and rebuilt it as an e-commerce fulfilment and same-day delivery network for GCC retailers. Anchored · Bitcoin 2d3738a4 No. 037AI Camb.ai Akshat Prakash A former Apple Siri engineer, he builds voice-preserving AI dubbing that sports leagues and studios use to broadcast in more than 140 languages. Anchored · Bitcoin d0c852f3 No. 038Healthtech Okadoc Fodhil Benturquia Previously CEO of Noon, he wired doctor booking and telemedicine directly into hospital EHR systems rather than call centres. Anchored · Bitcoin 0f58265c No. 039Proptech PRYPCO Amira Sajwani She is betting Dubai property can trade like a liquid asset, from fractional blocks to government-registered tokenized title deeds. Anchored · Bitcoin b191039f No. 040Finance MAGNiTT Philip Bahoshy He turned a startup directory into the subscription data platform of record for venture capital across emerging markets. Anchored · Bitcoin be3b39cf No. 041Fintech Postpay Tariq Sheikh He built Postpay on interest-free instalments funded through bank debt from Commercial Bank of Dubai rather than repeated equity rounds. Anchored · Bitcoin 1ad3a7c5 No. 042Fintech YAP Marwan Hachem He co-founded YAP with Anas Zaidan as an independent neobank built on partner bank licences, starting with RAKBank in the UAE and extending the model toward Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Ghana. Anchored · Bitcoin 765978e3 No. 043Mobility Udrive Hasib Khan He introduced pay-per-minute car rental to the region with Udrive, betting that Gulf city residents will pay for cars by the trip instead of owning them. Anchored · Bitcoin ab30c777
Chronicled · No. 001

Hisham Al-Falih Turned Open Banking From a Regulation Into Core Fintech Infrastructure in MENA

Open banking APIs connecting fintech to bank accounts across MENA.

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No. 044Fintech Zest Equity Zuhair Shamma He co-founded Zest Equity to digitize private market transactions in MENA, building execution rails for secondaries and SPVs on deals under $100 million. Anchored · Bitcoin ffa9f667 No. 045Fintech Verity Dina Shoman An international banking veteran, she co-founded Verity as a DIFC-based family banking app that gives children aged 8 to 18 prepaid cards and chore-based allowances to build money skills. Anchored · Bitcoin 1d9e6e6f
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