9. NYMCARD

Payment solutions

Founders: Omar Onsi; Ayman Chalhoub

Funding: $4 million

Investors: B&Y, Phoenician Fund, M1 Group

Country: Lebanon Date of establishment: 2016

NymCard helps customers make online payments and transactions through virtual internet payment cards. It has partnerships with Visa and Mastercard to enable banks and financial institutions to deliver mobile payment solutions. Onsi attended Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and Harvard Business School. Chalhoub is a graduate of the American University of Beirut.