Startups worth knowing, with sources

Norwegian full-stack open finance platform providing financial data, intelligence, verification, and payment infrastructure.

Grab

Singapore, SG

Grab provides ride-hailing, food delivery, and logistics services to consumers across Southeast Asia.

Financial operations platform offering expense management, payments, fraud detection, procurement, and AI-enabled products.

UK subsidiary of fintech unicorn Moniepoint Inc.

Business Development Bank of Canada

Montreal, CA

A financial institution providing loans, venture capital, and advisory services to Canadian entrepreneurs and small businesses.

Stablecoin payments infrastructure that lets businesses move dollars on and off chain 24/7/365.

Travel-booking platform for intercity buses, trains, and flights.

Egyptian fintech platform preparing for an initial public offering on the Egyptian Exchange.

Kenya's largest telecommunications provider and operator of the M-PESA mobile money platform.

Financial management platform providing AI agents to automate routine business finance workflows.

Financial services provider offering mobile wallet and payment solutions.

A fintech platform enabling freelancers and businesses to receive international payments and convert them into local currencies.

An AI-powered expense tracking platform that extracts data from receipts.

Publicly listed Egyptian fintech group

Payments and business management solutions provider for merchants in East Africa.

Interbank electronic payment system operator for the West African Economic and Monetary Union

Integrated financial services and wealth management platform.

Health benefits platform that helps employers lower healthcare costs while expanding plan choices for workers.

Cap table management platform

AI-powered platform helping small businesses manage level-funded health plans

Credit infrastructure platform providing farmer creditworthiness data to agro-retailers and financial institutions.

Kenya’s largest independent payments switch.

Fintech platform utilizing physical PoS terminal networks to distribute retail investment products.

Egyptian fintech startup