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Dubai P2P and business payments fintech for MENA at $300M annualized payment volume; YC W21 $22M Altos Ventures Series A with 10x revenue growth competing with PayTabs for UAE and Saudi digital payment adoption.
Ziina is a Dubai, United Arab Emirates-based fintech company providing instant peer-to-peer payments, business payment links, and embedded payment infrastructure for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region — enabling consumers and businesses to send and receive money using only a phone number, email, or payment link without requiring bank account details. Founded in 2020 by Faisal Toukan, Andrew Gold, and Sarah Toukan and backed by Y Combinator (W21) with $30.85 million raised including a $22 million Series A in September 2024 led by Altos Ventures with participation from Avenir Growth, COTU Ventures, and others, Ziina achieved $300 million in annualized payment volume in 2024 with 10x revenue growth and 5 million+ transactions processed serving 50,000+ active users.
Richmond VA tobacco and nicotine (NYSE: MO) ~$9.7B net revenue FY2024; Marlboro 40%+ US cigarette share, on! oral pouch competing with Zyn, 50%+ operating margins, ABI stake, competing with Reynolds/BAT.
Altria Group, Inc. is a Richmond, Virginia-based tobacco and nicotine company — publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: MO) as an S&P 500 Consumer Staples component — manufacturing and selling cigarettes (Marlboro — the best-selling cigarette brand in the United States), smokeless tobacco (Copenhagen, Skoal, Red Seal, Husky chewing tobacco/moist snuff brands), oral nicotine pouches (on! brand), and maintaining a 10.7% ownership stake in Anheuser-Busch InBev (SABMiller acquisition consideration shares) and a 35% stake in JUUL Labs (vaping — original $12.8B investment written down to minimal value following JUUL's regulatory and litigation difficulties) through approximately 5,500 employees. In fiscal year 2024, Altria reported revenues of approximately $20.6 billion (net revenues after excise taxes approximately $9.7 billion), with the cigarette segment (Marlboro generating 40%+ US cigarette market share) contributing the majority of operating income at 50%+ adjusted operating margins — the highest margins in the consumer staples sector reflecting cigarettes' inelastic demand and regulated market structure. CEO Billy Gifford has pivoted Altria's strategy from cigarettes toward smoke-free nicotine products: the on! oral nicotine pouch (acquired full ownership of Helix Innovations in 2023, rebranding as on! to compete with Swedish Match Zyn, the dominant US oral nicotine pouch brand) represents Altria's primary nicotine product diversification vehicle as cigarette volume declines 7-8% annually through consumer quit rates and secular health awareness trends.
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