Best FinTech Companies in Bahrain
The 53 best FinTech companies in Bahrain in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: AFS.
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Our analysis of 1,006 FinTech companies
$195.5b in tracked funding; 96% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best FinTech companies in Bahrain
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AFS Provider of electronic payments outsourcing services | $50M | 20 mo ago | Series C | Samer Soliman CEO | 1984 | Node.jsTailwind CSSReact+13 | — |
| 2 | Tarabut Provider of open banking infrastructure and embedded finance solutions. | $32M | 38 mo ago | Series A | Abdulla Almoayed Founder & CEO | 2017 | HubSpot CMS Hubcore-jsPreact+19 | — |
| 3 | PayTabs Provider of payment solutions for businesses | $25M | 106 mo ago | Series A | Abdulaziz Jouf Founder & CEO | 2013 | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | 2 partnerships · 1 expansion |
| 4 | CoinMENA Fintech company offering crypto assets trading platform | $10M | 56 mo ago | Acquired | Yazan Barghuthi Co-Founder | 2019 | SentryNode.jsECharts+19 | 1 launch · 2 partnerships · 1 award |
| 5 | Aion Digital Provider of AI-based digital bank development platform | $5M | 41 mo ago | Series A | Ashar Nazim Founder / Group CEO | 2017 | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | 1 partnership |
| 6 | Qume Cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform | $1M | 99 mo ago | Deadpooled | Ramani Ramachandran Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | — | — |
| 7 | Fintologya Provider of cloud-native financial platforms enabling secure payments and digital finance | $1M | 10 mo ago | Seed | Omar Dahhane Co-Founder & CTO | 2024 | — | — |
| 8 | Amal Invest App-based platform for investments in multiple assets | $125K | 49 mo ago | Seed | Yazin Alirhayim Founder & CEO | 2021 | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+20 | — |
| 9 | Symbaiosys Provider of AI-enabled climatic risk mitigation solutions | $100K | 61 mo ago | Funding Raised | Leena Olaimy Founder & CEO | 2021 | — | — |
Top 11 FinTech companies in Bahrain
#1
Series C · Manama, Capital Governorate · founded 1984$50Mraised▾
Provider of electronic payments outsourcing services
#2
Seed · Manama, Capital Governorate · founded 2024$1Mraised▾
Provider of cloud-native financial platforms enabling secure payments and digital finance. The company develops technology for secure payments and digital financial experiences. Its platform is designed for scale and regulatory trust. It provides institutions with tools to create financial products and services. The company offers cloud expertise, high-performance cloud environments, and low-risk migrations. It also provides application design and development, architecture, and data management.
- Sep 2025Seed$1M
#3
Series A · Manama, Capital Governorate · founded 2017 · 119 employees$32Mraised▾
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- May 2023Series A$32M
- Nov 2021Seed$12M
- Feb 2021Seed$13M
- 2020Seed—
#4
Series A · Manama, Capital Governorate · founded 2017 · 122 employees$5Mraised▾
Provider of AI-based digital bank development platform. Its features include mobile onboarding of customers, corporate onboarding, financial management tools, community campaign management, customer engagement, and a loyalty program.
- Feb 2023Series A$5M
#5
Acquired · Manama, Capital Governorate · founded 2019 · 52 employees$9.5Mraised▾
Fintech company offering crypto assets trading platform. The website enables users to purchase, sell, send, receive, acquire, and store digital goods. It supports a variety of cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, ethereum, ripple, litecoin, and bitcoin cash. It also delivers cryptocurrency related news and updates. It also offers a digital wallet that allows users to store, transfer, and manage balances.
#6
Series A · Manama, Capital Governorate · founded 2013 · 197 employees$25.3Mraised▾
Provider of payment solutions for businesses. The platform provides solutions such as payment gateway, QR payments, invoice, payment links, integrations, international credit cards and debit cards to digital wallets, and more.
#7
Deadpooled · Manama, Capital Governorate · founded 2018 · 5 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Developer of a crypto derivatives platform designed to facilitate high-frequency trading. The company's platform acts as regulated, institutional-grade crypto and digital asset exchange software that facilitates the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies, enabling customers to gain access to a regulated platform for trading in crypto products.
#8
Seed · Manama, Capital Governorate · founded 2021 · 2 employees$125Kraised▾
App-based platform for investments in multiple assets. The company offers a platform for investments in multiple assets. It also provides a screener for trading and more.
- 2022Seed$500K
#9
Funding Raised · Manama, Capital Governorate · founded 2021$100Kraised▾
Provider of AI-enabled climatic risk mitigation solutions. It enables professional investors to view a list of investable forest and land restoration projects through an AI-powered platform enabling donors to manage portfolio and supply chain climate risks and ecological dependencies. It allocates its capital to optimize financial returns and capture direct value from conservation co-benefits.
- 2021Grant (prize money)$100K
#10
Seed · Manama, Capital Governorate · founded 2022—raised▾
Provider of digital receipt platform for financial institutions and retail merchants. The platform delivers receipts in real-time to consumer applications and wallets. It helps institutions better understand their customers and deliver personalized experiences. The platform also drives incremental revenue and streamlines the receipt process for merchants.
- Jan 2026Seed—
- Mar 2024Seed—
#11
Seed · Manama, Capital Governorate · founded 2020 · 18 employees—raised▾
Provider of AI and computer vision-based facial recognition solutions. It utilizes AI and machine learning for facial recognition-based biometric authentication, digital KYC, liveliness detection, anti-fraud protection, and identity verification. It has applications in financial service, airport, gaming, telecom, education, and governmental sectors.
- Aug 2022Seed—
- Oct 2021Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of FinTech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Fintech is moving in Bahrain
A read on the academic research around Fintech — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 35 Bahrain-affiliated papers.
- Ahlia University10
- University of Bahrain7
- Kingdom University7
- University College of Bahrain6
- Arab Open University6
- Payment1
- Database transaction1
- False positive paradox1
- Analytics1
- Financial transaction1
- Financial services6
- Technology acceptance model4
- Structural equation modeling4
- Quality (philosophy)4
- Financial inclusion3
- Financial services12
- Financial inclusion4
- Islam4
- Blockchain2
- Marketing2
Where fintech is researched across Bahrain
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
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