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Top 23 African fintech companies based in the United Arab Emirates
RevenueBase identified 57 african fintech companies headquartered in the United Arab Emirates as of September 2026 and tracks 2,199 professional contacts across them, including 676 with verified work emails. Dubai is the largest hub.
This list covers african fintech companies headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 27, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 23 largest african fintech companies based in the United Arab Emirates
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 627 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wio Bank is the UAE’s leading digital bank, launched in 2022 to reimagine what banking looks like for individuals and businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 301 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A leading UAE-based consumer technology company, building the digital infrastructure of everyday life with a focus on AI-powered fintech, communication, and digital services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 259 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About PaySky Empowering Digital Economies Across Emerging Markets PaySky is a UAE-headquartered financial technology company that designs, builds, and operates comprehensive…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 158 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pyypl exists because everyone in the digitalizing world should have a chance to use their money safer, faster and smarter than cash.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 150 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Whizmo is your all-in-one mobile money solution symbolizing the essence of financial democracy in the United Arab Emirates.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 138 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2021 with the vision of making financial access a right, ABHI is a neobank of the future that promotes financial inclusivity across emerging markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “myZoi's vision is to enable the financial inclusion of every underbanked individual globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2016, with a humble beginning from Industry experts in diverse fields, Axieva is also ‘one of the fastest growing Fintechs’.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Unipesa is a digital financial services ecosystem that combines payment solutions dedicated to payment providers, banks, government institutions, and e-commerce companies across…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Foloosi is a UAE Fintech startup facilitating consumer-to-business digital marketplace.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Yalla, THE digital financial services ecosystem- Yalla Card & Super App, all what you need to send, receive, spend, save, invest, track your money and order anything you want-…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Tayseer Innovations delivers AI-powered fintech software, digital banking solutions, and self-service banking hardware technologies that enable financial institutions to innovate…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our mission is to democratize banking and payments by delivering affordable and inclusive financial services to our customers in a tailored digital experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are an all in one payments platform combining all functionality needed by merchants, agents and unbanked consumers bringing this market together into one seamless ecosystem.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AvadaPay is a distinguished fintech company providing a new generation of payment infrastructure.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CLIKPAY Technologies Limited is a financial technology (fintech) company that builds and deploys mobile banking and mobile payment solutions in Sub-Saharan Africa” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ritmanpay’s story goes back to the early when the word startup was just gaining popularity and the word FinTech almost never existed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We accelerate digital penetration to the unbanked population.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “INTERMO is your trusted partner in payment solutions, dedicated to making online transactions easier, safer, and more accessible for businesses across Africa and the Middle East.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Zappit leverages the existing payment rails the Bank has in place.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Today, Payoll’s is well on its way to deliver its mission of creating a frictionless digital ecosystem which allows businesses (large or small) to digitally - present their bills…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rails Company is committed to revolutionizing payment solutions on a global scale, with a strategic focus on diverse regions such as Asia, Africa, the Middle East, LATAM, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BKS is a Business Development & Technology Provider company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: african fintech companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names african fintech companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of african fintech companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name african fintech companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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African fintech companies based in the United Arab Emirates at a glance
As of Sep 27, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Arab Emirates, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Arab Emirates, over 57 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among african fintech companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Arab Emirates whose own description of what they do matches “african fintech companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names african fintech companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among african fintech companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Arab Emirates are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 676 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 27, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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African fintech companies by metro
- African fintech companies in Dubai38
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names african fintech companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many african fintech companies are there based in the United Arab Emirates?
RevenueBase identified 57 african fintech companies headquartered in the United Arab Emirates as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
WIO Bank, headquartered in Dhabi, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most african fintech companies?
Dubai leads with 38 headquartered companies, followed by Abu Dhabi (6) and Uae (3).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 676 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 57 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 27, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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