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Tamara

Sharia-compliant Buy-Now-Pay-Later platform letting shoppers split purchases into flexible interest-free instalments across thousands of merchants in KSA, UAE and Kuwait.

Updated June 10, 2026 ยท Jeddah Startups index

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Tamara is one of Jeddah's flagship fintech scale-ups and a Saudi unicorn after raising a $340M Series C led by SNB Capital. It anchors the city's regulated payments talent pool โ€” risk, credit, compliance, mobile and merchant engineering โ€” and is the reference point for Sharia-aligned consumer finance built natively in the Kingdom.

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Headquartered in Jeddah with offices in Riyadh, Dubai and Berlin โ€” the city's most prominent fintech anchor.

Sectorfintech
Stagegrowth
Funding$500M+ debt & equity (SNB Capital, Sanabil, Endeavor Catalyst)
Employees500+
Founded2020