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Abdullah AlDayel and the business of making the books less frightening
He began with a plan to sell cloud software. Building Qoyod meant learning why Saudi businesses needed something closer to home - and why the accountants he hoped to help were not always pleased to see him.
iplicit Spent Six Years Building. Then It Doubled Seven Years in a Row.
The British finance platform found a neglected customer: too complicated for small-business software, too sensible for a year-long ERP drama. Its answer was to build slowly, launch late and make the month-end close considerably less theatrical.
Mazeed Wants to Be the Finance Department in Every Small Business Owner's Pocket
The Dubai fintech is betting that Gulf businesses do not want another blank accounting dashboard. They want software that knows the rules - and a human expert when the rules get complicated.
The Company Quietly Rewiring the Business of Accounting
CPA.com does not merely sell accountants software. It helps decide which tools, methods and business models become part of the profession's next operating system.
Michael Strickman Built the Recommendation Engine Before He Bought the Traffic
Before leading Xero's global marketing, Michael Strickman spent years teaching software to narrow choices, measuring demand at Tripadvisor and scaling performance marketing at Uber. His career is a study in how technical judgment becomes commercial judgment.
Qoyod - قيود
Qoyod is a Riyadh-based cloud accounting and e-invoicing platform built for the Saudi market. Founded in 2016 by Abdullah AlDayel, it lets small and medium businesses issue invoices, track expenses, manage inventory and stay compliant with ZATCA (Fatoora) e-invoicing rules - without needing formal accounting expertise. It bundles accounting, point-of-sale and tax compliance into one Arabic-first, locally hosted system now used by tens of thousands of Saudi businesses.
Wafeq وافِق
Wafeq is a cloud accounting and e-invoicing platform built for small and medium businesses across Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Founded in 2019 by Nadim Alameddine, it gives SMEs and accounting firms ZATCA- and FTA-compliant invoicing, VAT and corporate tax reporting, payroll, inventory, and 40+ financial reports in one Arabic-and-English interface. The platform processes roughly 2 million invoices worth about $400 million every month and serves more than 10,000 customers, with the vast majority of activity in Saudi Arabia.
Sage Group
Sage Group is a British multinational software company based in Newcastle upon Tyne that builds cloud-based accounting, payroll, HR and ERP tools for small and medium-sized businesses. Founded in 1981 and listed on the London Stock Exchange as a FTSE 100 constituent, Sage serves millions of customers across 23 countries with products spanning Sage Accounting, Sage 50, Sage Intacct and the AI assistant Sage Copilot.
Naologic
Naologic is a San Francisco-based software company building an AI-native, no-code manufacturing ERP. It replaces the patchwork of legacy ERP, MRP, CRM, and quality-control tools that mid-sized factories run on, with a single configurable platform that goes live in weeks instead of years - no consultants and no custom code required. Domain-specific AI 'experts' trained on a company's own data answer strategic questions, generate reports, and run autonomous multi-agent workflows.
Xero
Xero is a cloud-based accounting software company founded in Wellington, New Zealand in 2006. It serves more than 4.4 million subscribers - mostly small businesses and the accountants and bookkeepers who advise them - across New Zealand, Australia, the UK, the US and beyond. Xero connects bank feeds, invoicing, payroll, expense tracking and a marketplace of thousands of third-party apps into a single real-time platform, and reported NZ$2.1 billion in revenue in FY25.
Vanessa Kruze
Vanessa Kruze is the founder and CEO of Kruze Consulting, a San Francisco-based accounting and finance firm exclusively serving venture-capital-backed startups. A CPA and Deloitte Tax alum, she launched Kruze in 2012 after working as a startup controller and spotting a gap in the market for specialized, tech-forward financial services for founders. Today, the firm has served 800+ startups that have collectively raised over $15 billion in VC funding, earned seven consecutive Inc 5000 honors, and is known in Silicon Valley as the go-to accounting partner for early- and growth-stage companies.