PayTabs

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A payment orchestration and gateway platform that lets merchants across the GCC and MENA accept and process online, in-store, and mobile card and digital payments.

Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaFounded 2014

FintechE-Commerce

Growth

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PayTabs is a Riyadh-based payment technology company founded in January 2014 by Abdulaziz Fahad Al-Jouf, providing payment gateway, orchestration, invoicing and merchant services to SMEs and enterprises across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and other MENA/GCC markets. Now a multi-country group, it continues to expand through acquisitions, including UAE-based contactless-payments platform TAPn'GO in April 2026.

Founders

Abdulaziz Fahad Al-Jouf

Founder & CEO

Funding Rounds

Undisclosed

$20M

Undisclosed

Lead: Wa'ed Ventures

Investors: Wa'ed Ventures (Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Center)

Year 2014 (company post dated 9 Nov 2014; MENAbytes: 'undisclosed amount from Aramco Entrepreneurship Ventures (Wa'ed) in 2014'). Wa'ed calls itself 'the sole early investor'. Amount, instrument (Wa'ed does both loans and equity) and round label never disclosed, hence 'undisclosed' rather than a guessed 'seed'. Also: https://www.menabytes.com/paytabs-saudi-20-million/ https://waed.net/en/news/paytabs.html Confidence: confirmed (round 13, PayTabs).

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