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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.
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.