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Dhow's BDS Portfolio Checker reveals what's hidden inside your stocks, ETFs, and funds, the first step toward what its founders call a circular Muslim economy.
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Cohort 004's Demo Day in Bandung marks the end of HASAN.VC's accelerator under Fund I, with a new fundraising round already underway.
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Shoaib Ahmed, the former president of Tally Solutions who spent over three decades shaping India's software products industry, died on June 28, 2026, in Bengaluru. He was 62. Ahmed had served as President of Tally Solutions, the country's dominant financial ERP platform, and was widely remembered
Years before "halal tech" became a buzzword, a small website called Nikah.com quietly became the first dedicated matchmaking platform for Muslims anywhere on the internet.
Meet Azhar Mohiuddin, the Hyderabad founder who built BioReform to fight plastic pollution, and has already replaced 15 million plastic bags across 4 countries.
AI is everywhere, thanks largely to Big Tech. But when two self-taught Syrian brothers left their corporate tech roles in Germany, they weren’t trying to add yet another model to the pile. They were focused on a more urgent question: Why is there still no ethical alternative to
Ilmuna, the World Islamic Board of Education, was officially launched on October 9, 2025, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The initiative marks a milestone in the global effort to revitalise Islamic education, aiming to transform educational systems from an Islamic worldview and address the unique challenges facing Muslim learners and educators
At a time when users and activists feel increasingly surveilled, silenced, and sidelined on major social platforms, particularly when expressing criticism of Israel, a new platform has been launched, which promises to be "actually on your side". Meet UpScrolled, the just-launched Instagram alternative that promises no shadowbanning,
The Ummah Is Building. We're Telling Its Story.
A 14-year tech veteran who worked at Microsoft, Google, and YouTube left a $450,000 salary to open a halal barbecue restaurant in Texas. It made nearly $2.3 million in its first year.
The Islamic Development Bank Institute (IsDBI) named three winners of its Applied AI in Islamic Finance Competency Challenge on June 17 in Baku, Azerbaijan, awarding first place to a proposal for AI-driven supply chain management across government, business, and consumer channels. The challenge ran as part of the 5th
Years before "halal tech" became a buzzword, a small website called Nikah.com quietly became the first dedicated matchmaking platform for Muslims anywhere on the internet.
Legal scholars from across the world converged on Istanbul last week to debate a question with consequences far beyond academia: can international law still deliver justice in a world defined by trade wars, sanctions and geopolitical rivalry? The third Boğaziçi International Law Conference (BILC 2026), held on 13–14 June
Two Saudi Arabia-based AI startups, Intella and Nommas.ai, have been named to the World Economic Forum's 2026 Technology Pioneers list, which selects 100 early-stage companies from around the world for their potential to reshape industry and society. The recognition places both companies in a cohort
Islamic digital bank Fasset has been named one of the World Economic Forum's 100 Technology Pioneers for 2026, placing the UAE-based startup among a globally selected group of early-stage companies recognised for developing technologies with the potential to reshape business and society. Through the two-year
Abu Dhabi-based Mal has received in-principle approval from the Central Bank of the UAE to establish a licensed bank, moving the Islamic fintech one step closer to launching what it describes as a global Shariah-compliant financial services platform. The approval was granted following what the central bank
Muslim Pro, the world's most-downloaded Islamic lifestyle app, has launched its first financial product, a Shariah-compliant pilgrimage savings platform built in partnership with Maybank Indonesia. The product, called Amanah Pro, went live on 6 May 2026 in Jakarta and is described as the first Islamic Banking-
Islamic digital bank Fasset has raised $51 million in a Series B round to expand its stablecoin-based banking platform across emerging markets, with backing from Japan's SBI Group, Bahrain-headquartered Investcorp, and Turkish asset manager Arz Portföy. Founded in 2019 and based in Los Angeles, Fasset is
A new UK charity, Shared Futures Foundation, has launched with a straightforward argument: the reason most people don't participate more ethically in the economy isn't apathy, it's that the systems around them were never designed to make it easy. Founded by Adil Abbuthalha, an
A father-and-son team behind Australia's largest Sharia-compliant financial group is now taking aim at a different kind of gap in the market: a unified digital platform for the global Muslim community. Hakan Ozyon, who built Melbourne-based Hejaz Financial Services, has launched Wahda alongside his
Wahed, the global Islamic fintech company, has launched the first Shariah-compliant real estate fund in the United States, open to non-accredited investors.
