Pemo

Pemo gives small and mid-sized businesses in the UAE and Saudi Arabia physical and virtual corporate cards with spending controls, receipt capture, AI-assisted bookkeeping, invoice management and a business account, so finance teams can track spend in real time. Founded in Dubai in 2022 by Ayham Gorani, Valerie Konde, Alessandro Duri and Saed Ghorani, it launched after a $12 million seed round backed by Cherry Ventures, Shorooq Partners and FinTech Collective and later added a $7 million pre-Series A. Pemo says it serves more than 10,000 companies.