Walid Aradi

PowerCred helps lenders and digital platforms across Southeast Asia—particularly Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Singapore—automate and simplify credit and risk operations. Our data-driven tools enable faster, smarter, and more secure lending through automated identity verification, credit assessment, fraud detection, and decisioning processes.

Creating wealth for 290 Mn underserved Indians.

We promote social mobility and financial inclusion through accessible subscription-based financing. # We Are One

Canta is the first digital platform that enables Africans to send and receive money globally from any device in real-time.

CARD91 is an Issuance Platform-as-a-Service company. CARD91 offers unparalleled technology infrastructure to banks, SMEs, corporates & fintech, helping them issue payment instruments (PPI, Debit, Credit & Multi-Currency) to their customers, vendors, partners, and employees thereby enabling faster decision making, controlling, and view on transactions. CARD91’s ability to support multiple payment instrument agnostic use cases strengthens its vision of making issuance seamless and faster for the customers. The cutting-edge technology consists of an Issuer Processor (switch), a card management system, a fully configurable program manager layer, and a host of other ancillary products accentuating issuance. The products empower banks and businesses to get simplified, scalable, secure, and faster card issuance and processing services. CARD91’s products cater to glocal requirements and the deep collaboration with card networks like RuPay, Visa, and Mastercard provides an opportunity to scale the products for customers globally.

Alvin provides embeddable money management solutions that help banks cultivate more creditworthy customers, and a consumer app to help people spend more responsibly. Our ultimate goal as a company is to cultivate more Africans who own assets that generate wealth.

Omnisient is a #PrivacyEnhancingTechnology and the leading privacy-preserving #DataCollaboration platform in emerging markets. Omnisient creates a trust-by-design environment for businesses to collaborate on their 1st party consumer data securely, quickly, and easily while remaining compliant with consumer #DataPrivacy regulations. Use cases for privacy-preserving data collaboration include leveraging new #AlternativeData sources for #FinancialInclusion, improving the customer experience, and identifying new business opportunities for growth. Founded in Cape Town, South Africa, Omnisient is used by more than 80 of Africa’s largest banks, insurers, retailers, and healthcare organizations. INDUSTRY RECOGNITION 2024 * Finovate Award for Excellence in Financial Inclusion * Microsoft Partner of the Year - Finalist * Africa Bank 4.0 Awards: Most Impactful Data Analytics Solution for Financial Inclusion * LESI Innovation Award 2023 * World Economic Forum - Technology Pioneer * Fast Companys Next Big Things in Tech * TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 * Banking Tech Awards - "Tech of the Future – AI and Data – Decision Engine" * DataIQ Awards: Finalist - Data for Society * IAPP Privacy Innovation Award - Finalist * MMA Smarties Awards: Gold for Data Insights, Silver for Social Impact Marketing 2022 * South African Loyalty Awards: Vendor of the Year

Businessonbot is India’s first one-stop solution for D2C brands to run their business on WhatsApp. We provide text based multilingual chat solutions with CRM integrations and marketing automations. We help businesses to create and engage with their loyal customer base on WhatsApp.

OlaClick is a web-based digital menu solution that helps businesses receive simplified online orders through WhatsApp. We offer a commission-free platform for small and medium businesses eager to increase their online orders and reach more customers.

Blushh is a sensual audio app for women in Asia. With a simple monthly subscription, women can listen to intimate and immersive audio stories. What Spotify and Audible did for music and audiobooks we’re going to do for women’s sexual wellness.

Corrily allows you to run price experiments internationally to determine which price points maximize specific KPIs such as new MRR or retention. Behind the scenes, we handle FX rates, local currency formatting, taxes, and many other things to allow you to focus on what matters - setting the right price.

Termii helps African businesses use messaging channels to verify and authenticate customer transactions. With Termii businesses can; 1. Verify customer identity & transactions 2. Send product notifications to customers 3. Generate personality and engagement insights from customer transactions

We are the new kids on the Blok, on our way to revolutionize how people consume groceries. Here at Blok, we believe in a world where getting everything you need, when you need it, sustainably, is the new normal. And the good news is that it takes less than 10 minutes. We are a group of innovators and dreamers who believe in achieving our mission for the good of the grocery industry and our community. We are searching for ambitious and inspiring talent to help us on this journey to redefine how people in cities get their groceries. Watch this space...

Smileneo (part of makeO) is a health tech company in the Middle East enabling othordontists to provide digitalized teeth straightening solution. We believe that high-quality orthodontics should be affordable and convenient. With fully digital processes and end-to-end 3D technology Smileneo provides a seamless experience without compromising on patient care.

TOCCA's flexible architecture helps companies design their own branded venue and then configure the various rooms anyway they like. Designed to replicate the essence of in-person events in a compelling digital rendering, Tocca allows you to easily navigate from room to room, (ex: keynote, simultaneous tracks, fully interactive round tables...), visit sponsor booths and lounges, and take a break in the networking lounge and chat with other attendees. A new experience, designed for your unique event needs. Increase engagement at your virtual professional events with your customized branded solution designed to increase the intimacy of interactions among all participants. Visit tocca.io for more information.

Red Tape Ventures is a Dubai-based seed-stage venture fund investing in MENA marketplaces and enablement technology companies where regulatory complexity creates barriers to entry that can translate into durable competitive advantage. We back MENA founders building category-defining companies where success depends not only on product and market execution, but also on the ability to navigate regulatory complexity. We focus on sectors where licensing, compliance, government engagement, and public policy shape go-to-market strategy, competitive positioning, and long-term defensibility. This segment is structurally underserved. Generalist investors often treat regulatory complexity as binary risk. We believe that, when underwritten correctly, it can function as a moat, enabling market leaders to emerge in categories that are difficult for competitors to enter or replicate.

TimelyAI is building a Marketing Saas for Time-based Businesses. “The idea is to solve the most burning need of our customers- Growing their clientele at an affordable price and being able to build lasting relationships with them for repeat business and referrals.” "Coming soon with something extremely crazy!"

PowerCred helps lenders and digital platforms across Southeast Asia—particularly Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Singapore—automate and simplify credit and risk operations. Our data-driven tools enable faster, smarter, and more secure lending through automated identity verification, credit assessment, fraud detection, and decisioning processes.

Creating wealth for 290 Mn underserved Indians.

We promote social mobility and financial inclusion through accessible subscription-based financing. # We Are One