Ziina
A digital wallet for the Middle East & North Africa
About the Company
We're bringing money online for the Middle East and North Africa. We’re building a digital wallet for fast, easy, and secure peer-to-peer payments.
Tech Stack
At Ziina we are building an event-driven microservices architecture on Node.js written in TypeScript. Our GraphQL API is powered by Apollo Federation. Our mobile clients are written in native iOS (with SwiftUI) and Android.
Founders
Andrew began his career as an engineer on the iOS Safari team at Apple. He left Apple to join an early stage startup, Distributed Systems, which was later acquired by Coinbase. At Coinbase, Andrew helped build the Coinbase Wallet app, a product which enables users all over the world to store their own crypto and access the decentralized web. Inspired by the mission of expanding economic freedom, Andrew relocated from San Francisco to Dubai to found Ziina.
Faisal Toukan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ziina. He has experience across consumer fintech, enterprise sales, blockchain, start-ups, and venture capital with a passion for bringing new technologies to market.
Sarah Toukan is the Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Ziina. She has product and startup experience across several diverse and exciting spaces, including the fintech space in the UAE, the proptech space in London, and the autonomous vehicle space in Silicon Valley. Sarah graduated from Stanford with a Bachelor’s and Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, with a Product Development concentration.
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