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HALA
HALA is a Riyadh-based fintech building the 'bank of the future' for small and medium enterprises across Saudi Arabia and the wider MENA region. Founded in 2018 by Esam AlNahdi and Maher Loubieh, it combines business IBAN accounts, card issuance, POS and soft-POS payment acceptance, expense management and SME financing into a single platform regulated by the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA). HALA serves more than 140,000 businesses, processes over $8 billion in annual transactions, and in September 2025 raised a $157 million Series B - one of the largest fintech Series B rounds in the Middle East - at a reported valuation near $900 million.
Fintiv
Fintiv is an Austin-based fintech infrastructure company that builds patented, white-label digital wallet ecosystems for telcos, banks and brands. Formerly known as Mozido, it pioneered the Trusted Services Manager (TSM) system for NFC tap-and-pay and says it has deployed wallet ecosystems across more than 35 countries. Today it positions its stack as a bridge from Web2 payments to Web3, adding digital-asset tokenization, real-time clearing and cross-border rails alongside its long-held mobile-wallet patent portfolio.
Prajit Nanu
Prajit Nanu is the co-founder and CEO of Nium, the Singapore-born fintech unicorn that has quietly become the plumbing behind global money movement for banks, airlines, and digital platforms. Starting with a frustrating attempt to wire INR 40,000 for a friend's bachelor party in Phuket, he built what is now a $1.4 billion payments infrastructure company processing over $8 billion annually across 190+ countries in 100 currencies. A commerce graduate from Mumbai with a sales background rather than a fintech pedigree, Nanu turned that outsider status into competitive advantage - building what incumbents told him was impossible.
Interlace
Interlace is a Singapore-based fintech that lets companies issue branded physical and virtual cards through a single API, connecting to 30+ card BINs and bridging stablecoins with traditional banking rails. As a Visa Hong Kong Principal Member, it offers card-as-a-service, multi-currency business accounts, banking-as-a-service and crypto on/off ramps to over 12,000 enterprise clients across 180+ countries, having issued more than 6 million cards.
Michael Wu
Michael Wu is the founder and CEO of Interlace (interlace.money), a Singapore-based card issuance and digital-asset payments platform that has issued more than 6 million cards across 180+ countries for over 12,000 enterprise clients. A Stanford-trained engineer who built software at Google, Dropcam, and PalmDrive before turning founder, Wu set out to collapse the months-long process of issuing branded payment cards into an API call, positioning stablecoins as the bridge between Web3 and traditional finance. In December 2024 Interlace raised $10 million in Series B1 funding led by Bitrock Capital.
Nium
Nium is a San Francisco- and Singapore-headquartered cross-border payments company that lets banks, fintechs, and businesses move money across more than 220 markets via a single API. It runs one of the largest real-time payout networks in the world, supporting payouts in 100+ currencies and instant settlement in 100+ markets.