4. BEEHIVE

SME focused peer2peer lending platform Founder: Craig Moore Funding: $15.5 million

Investors: Riyad TAQNIA And Mohammed Bin Rashid Funds, Angel investors

Country: U.A.E. Date of establishment: 2014

Beehive provides an alternative finance solution for SMEs by connecting businesses looking for finance with investors. The platform has registered over 10,800 investors and facilitated around 470 funding requests. Before founding Beehive in 2014, Craig Moore was a founder and COO of Butterfly Software, a UK-based data-analytics and migration software company, acquired by IBM in September 2012.