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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.
Swvl
Swvl is a technology-enabled mass transit company founded in Cairo, Egypt in 2017 by Mostafa Kandil, Mahmoud Nouh, and Ahmed Sabbah, now headquartered in Dubai.
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.
Tal Feld
Tal Feld is an Israeli technology founder who co-founded Echo, a Y Combinator Winter 2023 company in Haifa that built an AI sales co-pilot for B2B founders.
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.
Tamir Pardo
Tamir Pardo is an Israeli former Mossad director, leading the intelligence agency from 2011 to 2016, who co-founded cybersecurity firm XM Cyber, majority-sold to Germany's Schwarz Group in 2021 at a reported $700 million.
ThetaRay
ThetaRay is a software company selling AI-based anti-money-laundering tools to banks and payment companies. Founded in 2013 by mathematicians Amir Averbuch and Ronald Coifman, it operates in over 40 countries.
Trella
Trella is a Cairo-based digital trucking marketplace founded in 2019 by Omar Hagrass and three others, connecting shippers with carriers, operating in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.
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.
Uri Levine
Uri Levine (אורי לוין) is an Israeli serial entrepreneur who co-founded Waze, sold to Google in 2013 for about $1.1 billion, and later backed Moovit, acquired by Intel in 2020.
Watergen
Watergen is an Israeli company founded in 2009 by former IDF officer Arye Kohavi that makes drinking water from air, with deployments in more than 90 countries as of 2025.
Wix
Wix is an Israeli software company whose cloud platform lets users build websites through free and paid subscriptions. It was founded in 2006 and listed on Nasdaq in 2013.
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.
XM Cyber
XM Cyber is an Israeli cybersecurity company, founded in 2016 in Herzliya by former Mossad director Tamir Pardo, that simulates cyberattacks to find network weaknesses.
Yair Goldfinger
Yair Goldfinger (יאיר גולדפינגר) is an Israeli internet entrepreneur who co-founded Mirabilis, creator of ICQ, sold to AOL in 1998 for up to $407 million.
Yaron Inger
Yaron Inger is an Israeli software engineer who co-founded Lightricks in Jerusalem in 2013 and serves as its chief technology officer, leading more than 150 developers and researchers.
Yassir
Yassir is an Algerian super app founded in 2017, conceived in Palo Alto, that bundles ride-hailing, delivery, and financial services and had raised $193.25 million by November 2022.
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.
Yigal Kaminka
Yigal Kaminka is an Israeli oboist who co-founded Simply (formerly JoyTunes) in Tel Aviv with his brother Yuval, and served as its principal oboist-trained Content Director.
Yonatan Wexler
Yonatan Wexler is an Israeli computer vision researcher and technology executive who co-founded Q.ai, an AI speech startup Apple acquired in January 2026 for about $1.6 billion.
Yossi Vardi
Yossi Vardi (יוסי ורדי), born Joseph Vardi, is an Israeli entrepreneur and angel investor whose founding investment in Mirabilis created the ICQ instant messaging program.
Yuval Kaminka
Yuval Kaminka is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded Simply (formerly JoyTunes), a Tel Aviv-based music education company that reached a $1 billion valuation in 2021.
Zeev Farbman
Zeev Farbman (born 1979) is an Israeli computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Lightricks in 2013, the Jerusalem company behind Facetune, and now leads its generative-AI video unit, LTX.
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.