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Freedom Pizza

“Can a UAE-native, tech-forward healthy pizza chain scale by owning its own digital ordering stack?”

HQUnited Arab Emirates
FoundersIan Ohan
IndustryHospitality / Restaurant Chain
The story

Freedom Pizza is a UAE-based healthy fast-delivery pizza chain founded by Ian Ohan, drawing on his decades in UAE hospitality, real estate, and investment. Frustrated by off-the-shelf tooling, the team co-founded Big Dwarf to build the proprietary Freedom Connect platform, effectively turning the operator into a vertically-integrated digital ordering/delivery operation. Embedded finance exposure is limited to its payment-acceptance partnership with Checkout.com.

Last 12 months
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The stack
1 layer disclosed in Freedom Pizza’s embedded-finance stack
Payments / PSP
Checkout.com
Accounting gap: none

Freedom Pizza — frequently asked

Who is Freedom Pizza's payment processor?

Freedom Pizza processes payments through Checkout.com.

Who founded Freedom Pizza?

Freedom Pizza was founded by Ian Ohan and is headquartered in United Arab Emirates.

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