{"id":244971,"date":"2026-09-20T08:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T06:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-zeal-raises-10m-to-expand-payment-terminal-network\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T08:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T06:30:10","slug":"egypt-zeal-raises-10m-to-expand-payment-terminal-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-zeal-raises-10m-to-expand-payment-terminal-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Zeal Raises $10m to Expand Payment-Terminal Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">Egypt-founded payments company Zeal has raised $10 million to expand its software across payment terminals in several markets, taking total funding to $14 million. The company did not disclose investors in the round. Zeal plans to use the money to activate contracts covering more than 4 million card machines over the next 24 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Founded in 2019 by Omar Ebeid and Belal Mohamed, Zeal builds software that connects payment terminals with loyalty programs and customer data. Its technology allows&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609150014.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt-founded payments company Zeal has raised $10 million to expand its software across payment terminals in several markets, taking total funding to $14 million. The company did not disclose investors in the round. Zeal plans to use the money to activate contracts covering more than 4 million card machines over the next 24 months. Founded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":244972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[22866,258,256,4697,415,9873,8265,257,55486,5234,254,55485],"class_list":["post-244971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-10m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-expand","tag-network","tag-news","tag-paymentterminal","tag-raises","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zeal"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}