Fintech payments

OWNY

Website
Founded 2019Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

OWNY gives emerging-market banks a more efficient access to global payment rails.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Fintech paymentsIndustry softwareBusinessesMid marketSubscription

Founders & team

Previously RealtyBits

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Umed Latifov

Founder

Umed has 18+ year experience in finance, private equity, banking regulation and infrastructure investments. He has a comprehensive background ranging from a startup CEO to managing multi-billion dollar energy generation, transmission and distribution projects. Most recently he was Vice Chair of Central Bank and then Vice Minister of Finance of Tajikistan where he was in charge of overhauling the countries payments infrastructure. Umed holds and MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Ola Wiberg

Founder/CTO

Entrepreneurial product focused engineer with more than twenty years of experience leading the product development lifecycle from ideation to full production releases of a number of products ranging from hardware products, embedded software solutions, web/mobile applications, distributed systems, and cloud applications.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
10team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2019 · Source

News & product activity

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Y Combinator

Profile depthverified profile
Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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