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Founded 2019Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

NowPay, a FinTech startup founded by ex-employees of IBM, Microsoft, Orange and Amazon, is building a financial-wellness platform for employees in emerging markets. Saving, spending, budgeting and borrowing. Those are the 4 pillars of financial-wellness. NowPay aims to improve every aspect of those for employees by building products that tackle every vertical.

NowPay enables employees to get their salaries in advance at any point in time during the month and also pay their bills instantly. NowPay is backed by 500 Startups, Beco Capital, Endure, Plug and Play, MSA Capital, 4dx, Foundation Ventures, EFG and Beltone and has raised 3.7m USD so far.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Founders & team

Previously NowPay

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Mostafa Ashour

Founder

Ex-MSFT, Ex-IBM, Startups. Founder and CEO of NowPay.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
85team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2019 · Source

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Y Combinator

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedCairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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