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Osama AlRaee
Osama AlRaee is a Saudi entrepreneur who co-founded Lendo in 2019 and leads it as CEO; its Riyadh platform became the first SAMA-licensed Sharia-compliant debt crowdfunder in 2022.
Phil Reynolds
Phil Reynolds is an Australian technology finance executive who co-founded Pyypl, a UAE-based financial services platform for the unbanked, in 2017 with Antti Arponen, whom he met at Virgin Mobile Middle East and Africa.
Postpay
Postpay is a buy now, pay later fintech founded in Dubai in 2019 by Tariq Sheikh and Dani Molina Carmona, offering interest-free installments in the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
Pure Harvest Smart Farms
Pure Harvest Smart Farms is an Abu Dhabi agritech company founded in 2016 by Sky Kurtz and Robert Kupstas, growing vegetables in climate-controlled desert greenhouses.
Pyypl
Pyypl, pronounced "people," is a fintech company founded in 2017 by Antti Arponen and Phil Reynolds, offering prepaid cards and remittances without a bank account.
Retailo
Retailo is a B2B e-commerce and digital distribution marketplace headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, founded in July 2020 by three former Careem executives to supply small grocery shops and restaurants.
Rita Huang Zhen
Rita Huang Zhen (黄珍) is a Chinese entrepreneur and former Huawei and Alibaba executive who founded iMile Delivery in Dubai in 2017, a logistics company covering 30 countries.
Robert Kupstas
Robert Kupstas is an American-trained energy-policy specialist and entrepreneur who co-founded Pure Harvest Smart Farms, a high-tech greenhouse farming company in Abu Dhabi, in 2016.
Ronaldo Mouchawar
Ronaldo Mouchawar (رونالدو مشحور) is a Syrian entrepreneur who co-founded Souq.com, the Arab world's largest e-commerce platform, in Dubai in 2005 and led it until Amazon acquired it in 2017.
Saman Darkan
Saman Darkan is a Dubai-based technology executive who co-founded Kitopi, a managed cloud kitchen platform, in 2018, and serves as its Chief Technology and Product Officer.
Sami Alhelwah
Sami Alhelwah, also printed Al-Helwah or Alhulwah, is a Saudi entrepreneur and founder of Nana, an online grocery delivery service, which he has led as CEO since August 2016.
Sarwa
Sarwa is a UAE fintech and investment platform founded in 2017 and headquartered in Abu Dhabi, combining managed ETF portfolios with self-directed trading in US stocks, options, and crypto.
Sary
Sary is a Saudi B2B e-commerce marketplace founded in Riyadh in 2018 by Mohammed Aldossary and Khaled Alsiari, connecting small businesses with wholesalers; it merged with Bangladesh's ShopUp in 2025 to form SILQ Group.
Sky Kurtz
Sky Kurtz is the co-founder and CEO of Pure Harvest Smart Farms, an Abu Dhabi agribusiness growing produce in climate-controlled desert greenhouses, founded in 2016.
Sultan AlAsmi
Sultan AlAsmi is a Saudi entrepreneur who co-founded Zid, a Riyadh-based e-commerce enablement platform for retailers, in 2017, and led it as chief executive from December 2017 to June 2025.
Tabby
Tabby (تابي) is a financial services app built around buy now, pay later installments, founded in Dubai in 2019 by Hosam Arab and Daniil Barkalov.
Tamara
Tamara is a Saudi Arabian financial technology company headquartered in Riyadh that provides Sharia-compliant buy-now-pay-later installment payments; founded in 2020, it became Saudi Arabia's first homegrown fintech unicorn in 2023.
TruKKer
TruKKer is a digital freight platform, founded in 2016 by Gaurav Biswas, connecting businesses with independent truck owners across the Middle East and Central Asia.
Turki Bin Zarah
Turki Bin Zarah is a Saudi fintech executive who co-founded the Riyadh-based buy-now-pay-later company Tamara in 2020 with Abdulmajeed Alsukhan and Abdulmohsen Albabtain, serving as its chief operating officer.
Unifonic
Unifonic is a Saudi Arabian customer engagement and CPaaS company founded in 2006 and headquartered in Riyadh, letting enterprises reach customers over SMS, WhatsApp, and voice.
Wynn Al Marjan Island (مرجان)
Wynn Al Marjan Island (مرجان) is a US$5.1 billion integrated resort under construction on Al Marjan Island, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, by Wynn Resorts and Marjan. It holds the UAE's only land-based casino licence, topped out at 352 meters, and opens in 2027.
Yazeed Al-Shamsi
Yazeed Al-Shamsi is a Saudi entrepreneur who co-founded Ejari in 2022 with three schoolmates, a Riyadh proptech whose rent-now-pay-later service converts annual rents into monthly payments.
Zid (e-commerce company)
Zid (زد) is a Saudi e-commerce enablement platform founded in 2017 in Riyadh by Mazen AlDarrab and Sultan AlAsmi, serving more than 12,000 active merchants in 2024.