Security of data
Customer data is encrypted, and signing keys live in the device’s own secure hardware — not on a server we control.
Access is enforced at the row level in the database, so each person can only ever read their own records.
Holding company · Mogadishu
Digital infrastructure East Africa owns for itself.
Maysara Group is the holding company that builds and runs six operating businesses — payments, identity, commerce, property, mobility and the land record — on one shared backbone.
Group at a glance
FY2026- Founded
- 2024
- Headquarters
- Mogadishu, Somalia
- Operating companies
- 9
- Markets
- 5
2.0469° N · 45.3182° E
The portfolio
Six companies. One backbone.
Each company stands on its own, but all six share one security model, one identity layer and one ledger.
By the numbers
What runs today, and what is planned.
We keep the two apart: what is working today, and what we are still building. We do not present one as the other.
Live today
9
Operating platforms
Six core companies and three newer platforms
3
Client platforms
Android, iPhone and web
L0–L6
Identity assurance tiers
Each unlocks a different transaction limit
2
Languages
Somali first, then English
Roadmap to 2027
11
Payment networks
Mobile money, cards and USSD
5
Countries
East Africa, through 2027
SIPS
Central bank rail
SIPS and SOMQR integration
$2B
Diaspora corridor
Annual flow, addressable
Maysara Group internal figures, FY2026. Roadmap figures are targets, not results achieved.
From the founder
East Africa cannot be built from a blueprint imported from somewhere else.
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Abdirauf Omar
Founder & Chief Executive, Maysara Group
When you look at East Africa as it is today — 300 million people, broken infrastructure, an economy missing most of its parts — you cannot understand it with tools designed for somewhere else.
For a long time the answer was: wait. Wait for the international bank, the foreign company, the plan sent from abroad. We waited. Not much came.
Maysara Group is built on a different premise: every Somali is owed modern tools, systems that can be relied on, and a digital economy not fenced in by borders. That is not something to wait for. It has to be built.
Where we operate
We started in Mogadishu. Today we reach five countries.
Five East African countries, together home to more than 300 million people.
- SO
Somalia
OperatingMogadishu · Since 2024
17M
Population
- KE
Kenya
In buildNairobi
55M
Population
- ET
Ethiopia
PlannedAddis Ababa
126M
Population
- DJ
Djibouti
PlannedDjibouti City
1.1M
Population
- TZ
Tanzania
PlannedDar es Salaam
67M
Population
Governance
Governments, institutions and citizens rely on us.
We build to global standards — because we serve people for whom this money is everything they have.
Regulation
Financial operations follow the law of the country they run in. We do not offer a money service in a country where we are not permitted to.
We are working towards connecting to Somalia’s national instant payment system (SIPS) with the Central Bank.
An auditable ledger
Every movement of money is written to a record that cannot be deleted. Nothing is edited — entries are only ever added.
Every transfer is a two-phase commit, so if it fails part-way the money is never stranded — it can always be reversed.
People come first
We design for the person with a basic phone as much as the person with a new one — in clear Somali, not translated English.
Somali is the first language of every product in the group, not an afterthought bolted on later.
Partnership & investment
One group. One backbone. The door is open.
Government, bank, international institution or investor — we work with people who believe East Africa is being built now.