Friday, 25 October 2019

Simple and Powerful UAE Online Marketplace & Solution


Foloosi is a UAE Fin-Tech startup facilitating consumer-to-business card payments by enabling businesses to display QR code, share Payment Links and API integrations for their customers to pay conveniently.

United Arab Emirates has the highest banking penetration rate in the middle east region. Though in contrary, according to UAE central bank figures (in 2017): 75% of the whole UAE economy is based on cash transactions. Furthermore, compareit4me.com survey (2018) show that 85% of online orders are processed through cash-on-delivery option as a method of payment. Residents need more advanced and modern options in line with the UAE's 2021 vision.

Foloosi will enable a digital economy empowerment for local businesses, operating merchants and most importantly the e-commerce sector. Foloosi will feature a wide range of advanced technological products on its modern platform – including the core function of ‘Scan to Pay’ feature, which allows a business to accept card payment by displaying QR code technology.

Foloosi was founded in 2018 and launched its product in the year 2019 that enables simple and easy way to accept, process, disburses payment solution for businesses. It helps businesses by providing payment link, subscriptions and POS software. Foloosi’s payment solutions can be integrated by both web and mobile applications.

We are the only startup in UAE providing many billing solutions facilities and few of them are du topup and bills, Etisalat topup & bill, FEWA, Mawaqif topup, Mawaqif fine, National bond, NOL card, Ajman direct etc.

From ordering food, buying clothes, planning trips, booking movie tickets to finding supply chain partners, e-commerce has become an important part of everyone’s life.

Arrival and integration of chatbots- Artificial Intelligence based has made it possible to facilitate a highly preemptive response to what a customer is trying to find or purchase. No wonder many discussions involving e-commerce site or store development, digital business transformation and mobile application development invariably lay significant emphasis on integrating chatbots to drive customer engagement and deliver enhanced customer experiences.

With the rise of mobile, social and cloud technologies, customer expectations continue to increase. More than ever, they demand seamless and hyper-personalized experiences. For many businesses, customer experience is the new battlefield - a competitive advantage that attracts and retains loyal customers.

With this shift of consumer behavior in mind, we are on a mission to equip online sellers of all sizes with a powerful platform to sell their products in an innovative, frictionless way on social media, messaging apps and the web.

Our conversational commerce solution creates engaging customer experiences and turns digital marketing efforts into direct points of sales.

Our Platform provides
ü  Create personal experiences and quickly answer queries through a unified team-inbox that works across all your channels
ü  Sell products, send abandonment reminders, update users on orders and more through chat
ü  Track your team's success in both customer satisfaction and revenue generated

Thus we aim to help Saudi economy and provide jobs to local Saudi people- marketing, operations, techies and programmers.

Foloosi create values and hence lots of home and social media based businesses need products listing platform with easy integration.

We believe that chatbots will be the next battleground where conversational solutions allow customers to interact with sophisticated responses through popular messaging channels, such as a social media messenger or an IM app, as a new way of communicating with e-commerce platforms and online marketplaces.

We conclude that Foloosi’s main target is to provide payment solution for all financial sectors including small, medium and large Enterprises of kingdom of Saudi Arabia.


Tuesday, 24 September 2019

Foloosi is on the Top 20 Middle East Fintech



The past year has been eventful in the Middle East’s financial services sector. Last year, we saw the Saudi British Bank merge with Al Awwal Bank to create Saudi Arabia’s third largest lender. This came after Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank’s tie-up with Union National Bank and the subsequent takeover of Al Hilal bank as its Sharia-compliant arm in the U.A.E. The Islamic banking sector has also seen the merger of the region’s largest Islamic bank, Dubai Islamic Bank, with Noor Bank, a U.A.E.-based Sharia-compliant lender.

These mergers have reduced competition in an oversaturated banking market and in the long run will improve the profitability of the banking system. Dubai-based investment bank, Shuaa Capital, has also agreed to merge with its largest shareholder, Abu Dhabi Financial Group, to create a $12 billion asset under management firm.

And the region’s payment’s sector saw two large IPOs: one from Finablr, which owns the U.A.E Exchange brand, and one by payments solution giant, Network International. Both are listed on the London Stock Exchange.

This year we have collated two lists to mark this changing landscape: the Fintech 20 which is a collection of the most promising financial technology startups in the region.

Only fintech startups that were founded during or after 2012 were included, and we ranked them according to:

·         Funds raised from external investors
·         Scalability of the business

Name
Description
Founder
Funding
Country
PayTabs
Online Payment Processing Solutions
Abdulaziz Al Jouf
$26 M
Saudi Arabia
Bayzat
Online Health Insurance And HR Solutions Provider
Talal Bayaa And Brian Habibi
$25 M
UAE
Aqeed
Insurance Solutions Platform
Hadi Radwan
$18 M
UAE
Beehive
SME Focused Peer2peer Lending Platform
Craig Moore
$15.5 M
UAE
Souqalmal.Com
Financial Products Comparison Site
Ambareen Musa
$15 M
UAE
Eureeca
Crowdfunding Platform
Sam Quawasmi And Chris Thomas
$12.3 M
UAE
Liwwa
Peer-To-Peer Lending Platform
Ahmed Moor And Samer Atiani
$8.55 M
Jordan
Expensya
Cloud Based Multi-Platform Expense Management Software
Ahmed Moor And Samer Atiani
$5.7 M
Tunisia/ France
NymCard
Payment Solutions
Omar Onsi And Ayman Chalhoub
$4 M
Lebanon
POSRocket
IPad-Based Point-Of-Sale Solutions
Zeid Husban
$2.36 M
Jordan
Sarwa
Robo Wealth Advisor
Mark Chahwan- Jad Sayegh And Nadine Mezher
$1.5 M
UAE
Risk+ Solutions
Financial Intelligence And Risk Management Solutions
Jad G. Doumith And Chadi El Nawar
$1.45 M
Lebanon
Zbooni
Connected Chat Commerce App
Ramy Assaf- Mohamed Hamedi- Ashraf Atia
$1.4 M
UAE
Democrance
Insurance Marketplace For The Underserved
Michele Grosso Alberto Perez And Damian Dimmich
$1.3 M
UAE
Vapulus
E-Payment Gateway
Abdelrahman El Shaarawy- Islam Mousa- Khalid Gabr
$1.065 M
Egypt
Monami Tech
Financial Services
Ammar Afif
$1 M
UAE
Moneyfellows
Crowd Funding From Social Networks
Ahmed Wadi
$980 K
Egypt
PointCheckout
Payment Gateway For Loyalty Points
Bashar Saleh And Tarek Ghobar
$600 K
UAE
Payment Solutions Platform
Omar Bin Brek- Mohan Karuppiah
$500 K
UAE
Paymob
Digital Financial Enabler
Islam Shawky- Alain El-Hajj- Mostafa Menessy
Confidential
Egypt