Ziina
ziina.com
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Money Transfer & Remittances
Payment Processing & Gateways
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$29.5M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$22M
Series A · Sep 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
12
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
5
Y Combinator, Activant Capital
The money's age
Long since its last round
25 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
18/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jan 9
Launched Ziina Launches 'Violet' Lifestyle Membership to Cut Currency Fees and Boost Loyalty · The Fintech Times
Oct 31, 2025
Launched Ziina debuts digital card with Visa to turn payments into instant spending power · khaleejtimes
Apr 29, 2025
Launched Ziina launches Tap to Pay in UAE, letting businesses accept in-person payments on iPhone · MENAbytes
Sep 3, 2024
Raised a round Series A $22M · led by Altos · Forbes ME
Jun 7, 2021
Raised a round Seed $7.5M · led by Avenir Growth Capital · YahooFinance
Jan 2021
Went through Y Combinator
May 22, 2020
Launched Ziina launches UAE · khaleejtimes
2020
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.05%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | Sep 2024 | $22M | Altos lead, FinTech Collective, FJ Labs, Avenir Management, Y Combinator, Activant Capital, MEVP, Jab | Forbes ME |
| Seed | Jun 2021 | $7.5M | Avenir Growth Capital lead, Class 5 Global lead | YahooFinance |
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How Ziina hires
Truth index
B 70/100
Ghost roles
50%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Ziina scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 12 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 50% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Ziina is a Dubai fintech founded in 2020 that started as a peer to peer money transfer app and grew into a payments provider for small businesses. Its licensed platform offers payment links, invoicing, point of sale acceptance and business accounts without traditional bank onboarding. Backed by Y Combinator and regional investors, it is one of the most widely used homegrown payment apps in the country.
News
How Ziina Turned One Tap Into the Future of Payments in the UAE
Faisal Toukan, Co-founder and CEO of Ziina, joins Wall Street to MENA with Raghda Ibraheem, as the company delivers a landmark milestone, the UAE's first customer-initiated open finance payment. What…
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Lean and Ziina launch UAE
Lean Technologies and UAE fintech Ziina have launched the UAE's first One-Tap Pay by Bank experience under the country's Open...
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Sharjah Media City Taps Fintech Ziina to Accelerate Digital Payments for SMEs
Sharjah Media City (Shams) partners with Ziina to boost SME digital payments, offering Shams clients AED 10,000 in fee-free transactions.
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Ziina Launches 'Violet' Lifestyle Membership to Cut Currency Fees and Boost Loyalty
Ziina evolves into a lifestyle companion with Violet, a AED 100/month membership offering zero FX fees and AED 850+ in value from brands like Deliveroo, SALT, and ClassPass.
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Ziina debuts digital card with Visa to turn payments into instant spending power
Ziina Visa Card: Experience seamless, instant spending in the UAE with Ziina's new digital card, offering the global acceptance and exclusive rewards.
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Ziina launches Tap to Pay in UAE, letting businesses accept in-person payments on iPhone
ShareTweetShareWhatsAppEmail0 Shares Dubai-based fintech Ziina has announced the launch of Tap to Pay on iPhone in the UAE, enabling businesses to accept contactless (in-person) payments directly on their iPhones without additional hardware, the company a
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Ziina banks $22M as growth explodes for the UAE-based fintech for small businesses
In June 2021, Ziina, fresh from completing YC's first cohort that year and securing a $7.5 million seed, launched its fintech app to 20,000 retail customers, allowing them to send and receive money. Three years later, the Dubai-based startup, which now co
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Ziina banks $22M as growth explodes for the UAE-based fintech for small businesses
In June 2021, Ziina, fresh from completing YC's first cohort that year and securing a $7.5 million seed, launched its fintech app to 20,000 retail customers, allowing them to send and receive money. Three years later, the Dubai-based startup, which now co
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UAE-based fintech startup Ziina raises $22 million in Series A funding round
Faisal Toukan, CEO and co-founder of UAE-based payments fintech Ziina, discusses the company's plan to "evolve" from being a payments platform to an "end-to-end financial ecosystem."
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Dubai's Ziina Raises $22 Million as UAE's Small Business Sector Grows
Ziina has raised $22 million to provide FinTech services for UAE-based small businesses amid the country's growing SME segment.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Ziina over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
44
Postings analysed
13
Stack modernity
93/100AI adopter
Languages
Node JS54%
TypeScript54%
JavaScript54%
Kotlin46%
Frameworks & libraries
Nest.JS54%
Next.js54%
React.js54%
SwiftUI46%
Databases
ElasticSearch54%
Redis54%
PostgreSQL38%
Snowflake8%
Cloud & platforms
AWS46%
GitHub Actions46%
Kubernetes46%
Apache Kafka46%
AI & ML
LLM15%
Claude8%
Core ML8%
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Full Ziina tech stack
44 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Growth
Hiring Momentum
62/100
Growing
Open positions
12
2 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
53 days
faster than 26% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
33% ▼
Finance
22% ▲
Leadership
11% ▲
HR
11% ▼
Marketing
11% ▼
Operations
11% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Tool Use to stack
Sep 2026
Added Snowflake to stack
Sep 2026
Added Model Context Protocol to stack
Sep 2026
Added LLM Guardrails to stack
Sep 2026
Added Feature Store to stack
Sep 2026
Added dbt to stack
Sep 2026
Added Core ML to stack
Sep 2026
Added Looker to stack
Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack
Sep 2026
Added Metabase to stack
Sep 2026
Added Stripe to stack
Sep 2026
Added SQL to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Dubai
Dubai
United Arab Emirates
HQ
12 open roles 9 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend, DevOps, Design
Office 218, Publishing Pavilion, Dubai Production City, Dubai, UAE, AE
Jobs
≈ $64k – $144k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Dubai
Python
JavaScript
Kotlin
TypeScript
SQL
Node JS
Swift
Nest.JS
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
Snowflake
ElasticSearch
AI/ML
Model Context Protocol
dbt
AI Agents
LLM
Feature Store
LLM Guardrails
Tool Use
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
Mobile
SwiftUI
Core ML
Analytics
A/B Testing
Metabase
Management
Agile
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In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Dubai
JavaScript
Kotlin
TypeScript
Node JS
Swift
Nest.JS
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
ElasticSearch
Apache Kafka
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
Mobile
SwiftUI
DevOps
Terraform
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
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≈ $35k – $102k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Dubai
JavaScript
Kotlin
TypeScript
Node JS
Swift
Nest.JS
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
ElasticSearch
Apache Kafka
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
Mobile
SwiftUI
DevOps
Terraform
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
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In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Dubai
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
Nest.JS
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
ElasticSearch
Apache Kafka
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
Terraform
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
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≈ $37k – $92k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Dubai
A/B Testing
Design
Figma
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In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Dubai
JavaScript
Kotlin
TypeScript
Node JS
Swift
Nest.JS
Databases
Redis
ElasticSearch
Apache Kafka
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
Mobile
SwiftUI
DevOps
Terraform
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Management
Agile
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≈ $34k – $95k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Dubai
JavaScript
Kotlin
TypeScript
Node JS
Swift
Nest.JS
Databases
Redis
ElasticSearch
Apache Kafka
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
Mobile
SwiftUI
DevOps
Terraform
GitHub Actions
CloudFormation
Datadog
Prometheus
Pulumi
CI/CD
Jenkins
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
Platform Engineering
Management
Agile
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≈ $34k – $101k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Dubai
JavaScript
Kotlin
TypeScript
Node JS
Swift
Nest.JS
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
ElasticSearch
Apache Kafka
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
Mobile
SwiftUI
DevOps
Terraform
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
Git
AWS
Kubernetes
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