About Safi
Real numbers, not screenshots
Safi is the database of startup revenue in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, verified directly from payment gateways. We want conversations about startup growth to rest on numbers people can trust.
Why Safi
Revenue posted on social media usually cannot be checked. Safi reads revenue at the source, the payment gateway itself, so everyone sees the same number: the founder, investors, and potential buyers.
We start with the market we know: Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, and the gateways their startups use.
How we verify revenue
- The founder connects a payment gateway with a read-only API key. Supported today: Moyasar, Tap Payments, StreamPay, HyperPay, Geidea, Tabby, Stripe, Lemon Squeezy, Polar, Paddle, Dodo Payments, Creem, Whop, Shopify, Gumroad, Chargebee, Razorpay, Paystack, PayPal, RevenueCat, App Store, Superwall.
- We read successful payments and compute 30-day revenue, MRR and customer counts from them.
- Numbers refresh automatically on a schedule, and every startup page shows when it was last verified.
- Startups whose data comes from somewhere other than a gateway are labelled “Self-reported”, not “Verified”.
The read-only promise
We only use your key to read your revenue so we can verify it. We never create charges, issue refunds or change anything in your account, and we never use the key for anything else.
Keys are stored encrypted (AES-256-GCM) and are never shown again after you save them. You can disconnect a gateway at any time from your dashboard, and we recommend also revoking the key in the gateway itself.
You control what shows
Every number has three options: exact, an approximate range, or hidden. You can also list your startup for sale under its name or anonymously.
The marketplace
On “Acquire”, founders list startups for sale with verified numbers and buyers message them directly inside Safi. For now our role is the introduction only: we do not hold funds, offer escrow or act as a broker, and nothing on Safi is investment advice.
Contact
For questions, partnerships, or to report a mistake in a startup’s data, email hello@trysafi.bid or follow us on X.
Credits
Safi started from OpenRevenue, an open-source project released under the MIT License. Thank you to everyone who contributed to it. github.com/openrevenueorg