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MoneyHash provides a payment orchestration platform, unifying diverse APIs and technical capabilities into a single, cloud-based infrastructure. Targeting businesses primarily in the Middle East and Africa, it optimizes transaction performance, manages costs, and mitigates fraud. The platform leverages local processing, intelligent routing, and centralized analytics, enhancing efficiency and scalability.
Nader Abdelrazik, Mustafa Eid, and Anisha Sekar co-founded MoneyHash in late 2020. These experienced fintech veterans in the MEA region recognized profound challenges businesses faced integrating fragmented payment functionalities. This insight propelled their development of an agnostic platform to centralize and streamline payment operations.
The platform assists businesses across emerging markets in optimizing their payment ecosystems. MoneyHash's vision is to build highly efficient, scalable financial infrastructure globally, enabling companies to prioritize core development. Its mission fosters sustained growth through intelligently managed payment solutions.
MoneyHash has raised $21.0M across 6 funding rounds.
MoneyHash has raised $21.0M in total across 6 funding rounds.
MoneyHash has raised $21.0M across 6 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $5.2M Pre-Series A in January 2025.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 2025 | $5.2M Seed Plus | Flourish Ventures | — | Announced |
| Feb 27, 2024 | $4.5M Seed | COTU Ventures, Sukna Ventures | — | Announced |
| Dec 1, 2023 | $5M Seed | — | AAF Management Ltd., Curious Capital, Further Ventures, Learn Capital, LearnStart, Next Play Ventures, Preston Werner Ventures, Eoghan Mccabe, Grant Miller, Preetha Parthasarathy, Scott Belsky, Amir Farha, Angelic Ventures, Asher Siddiqui, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Flourish Ventures, Gokul Rajaram, Jason Gardner, Mark Britto, SciFi VC | Announced |
| Feb 14, 2022 | $3M Seed Plus | COTU Ventures | — | Announced |
| Dec 1, 2021 | $3M Seed | — | AV8 Ventures, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Learn Capital, LearnStart, Markd VC, Operator Stack, South Park Commons | Announced |
| Jun 1, 2021 | $300K Seed | — | Learn Capital, LearnStart | Announced |
MoneyHash has raised $21.0M in total across 6 funding rounds.
MoneyHash's investors include Flourish Ventures, COTU Ventures, Sukna Ventures, AAF Management Ltd., Curious Capital, Further Ventures, Learn Capital, LearnStart, Next Play Ventures, Preston-Werner Ventures, Eoghan McCabe, Grant Miller.
MoneyHash is a fintech company providing the first payment orchestration platform in the Middle East and Africa (MEA), enabling merchants to integrate multiple payment providers through a single API for simplified pay-in, pay-out, and revenue operations.[1][2][3] It serves businesses from small merchants to enterprises in sectors like consumer fintech, hospitality, e-commerce, and gaming, solving complex payment stack challenges such as high costs, revenue leakage, fraud, and scalability issues across regions with fragmented digital payments.[1][3] Key features include unified APIs, customizable checkouts, transaction routing, fraud prevention, failure optimization, recurring payments, virtual wallets, subscription management, and centralized reporting, helping merchants boost authorization rates, conversions, and efficiency.[1][3] The company has shown strong growth, raising $5.2 million in a 2025 Pre-Series A led by Flourish Ventures, expanding from small merchants to enterprises (now 35% of clientele, up threefold in 2024), with clients like BNPL unicorn Tamara, Kitopi, and Brands For Less.[1][2]
MoneyHash was founded in 2021 by Nader Abdelrazik (CEO), Mustafa Eid (CTO), with Maram Alikaj (COO) and Elena Pachenko (Chief Product Officer) on the core team.[2] Emerging from Egypt, the idea addressed the operational headaches of managing diverse payment providers in emerging markets like MEA, where digital payments are underdeveloped but poised for massive growth.[1] Early focus was on small merchants, but a pivotal shift in early 2024 launched an enterprise suite, driving scale and attracting larger clients across industries.[1] Key milestones include a 2024 Seed round and the 2025 Pre-Series A, positioning it as MEA's leading orchestration platform.[2]
MoneyHash rides the digital payments boom in emerging MEA markets, where transactions are mostly cash-based but digital volumes promise explosive growth over the decade amid rising e-commerce, fintech, and cross-border trade.[1] Timing aligns with regional fragmentation—diverse providers, regulations, and currencies—making orchestration essential for merchants scaling internationally without years of custom engineering.[1][3] Favorable forces include low digital penetration (offering first-mover scale) and investor interest, as seen in Flourish Ventures' lead.[2] It influences the ecosystem by enabling startups like Tamara and Kitopi to optimize revenue ops, reduce liabilities, and focus on core growth, accelerating MEA's shift to efficient, global-standard payments.[1]
MoneyHash is primed to dominate MEA payments as digital adoption surges, potentially expanding to more African markets and adding AI-driven optimizations or crypto integrations amid rising demand.[1][2][3] Trends like BNPL proliferation, regulatory easing, and enterprise digitization will fuel its trajectory, evolving it from regional pioneer to global orchestration contender. With recent funding and client momentum, expect aggressive enterprise wins and further rounds, turning payments into a revenue engine for MEA's tech ecosystem—echoing its origins as the simple fix for complex stacks.
