Saudi Expansion in Focus for Paymob After Record Egypt Fundraise - Bloomberg
Egyptian digital payments provider Paymob will use fresh funding to enter Saudi Arabia and expand at home, as the pandemic spurs a surge in cashless transactions.
The Cairo-based firm, which provides mobile wallet products for companies including banks and phone operators and also helps process retail payments, sees “huge potential” in the two Arab nations, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Alain El Hajj said in an interview.
Fueled by what it says is the biggest-ever Series A fund-raising by an Egyptian company, led by United Arab Emirates-based Global Ventures, Paymob is seeking to build on the 500% jump in monthly revenue it saw in Egypt in 2020.
The “pandemic accelerated digital transformation,” El Hajj said, as consumers in Egypt, the Middle East’s most populous nation, as well as Paymob’s Kenyan, Pakistani and Palestinian markets increasingly moved online. Dutch development bank FMO and tech investment fund A15 also contributed to the fund-raising of a total $15 million.
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