Generation start-up: 'Black sheep' forges his own path to break down banking barriers
Raised: $13 million Backers: Berlin-based venture capital company Target Global, Kingsway, CE Ventures, Entrée Capital, Zamil Investment Group, Global Ventures, Almoayed Technologies and Mad’a Investment. Entrepreneurship “is something that I’ve been brought up with,” says Abdullah Almoayed, the chief executive of open banking platform Tarabut Gateway. “I was born and raised into a business family that's been a trading family quite known in the Middle East region for the last four generations,” he said. Yet, instead of taking what would have seemed to many as the natural route i...