THE MIDDLE EAST’S

17. Lean Technologies

Description: Financial Infrastructure
Headquarters: Saudi Arabia
Date of Establishment: 2019
Founders : Hisham Al-Falih, Aditya Sarkar, Mehdi Tazi

Lean Technologies builds solutions to help businesses connect to consumers’ bank accounts, retrieve financial data, and make instant account-to-account payments. Since launching, Lean has served more than 400 companies, processed over $5 billion in transactions, connected more than two million accounts, and verified over four million accounts in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. To date, Lean has secured $120 million in funding. In March 2026, it received the Major Payment Institution license from the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) to provide open banking services.