“Can Paysky become the default white-label digital payments infrastructure layer for financial institutions and telecoms across Africa and the Middle East?”
Founded in 2017 in Dubai, Paysky started as a digital payments infrastructure provider targeting financial institutions, banks, and telecoms in Egypt and the broader MENA/Africa region. It evolved from a pure payment gateway into a comprehensive ecosystem offering issuing, acquiring, SoftPOS, VPOS, e-commerce store builder, and a consumer super-app (Yalla) with a prepaid card. The company has positioned itself as a payment-as-a-service platform for banks and fintechs seeking white-label digital finance stacks rather than building the infrastructure themselves.
Paysky processes payments through Paysky OMNI Gateway (self-operated), Paysky PayForm (self-operated), Paysky VPOS (self-operated) and AFS Pay (partnership).
Paysky was founded by Waleed Sadek and is founded in 2017, headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Paysky has raised $7.4M in total.
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