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IslamicFinanceGuru

Helping Muslims make smart financial decisions

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21-100 employees
  • B2C
  • Personal finance
  • Investing
  • Financial Services
  • Venture Capital
City of London, London, UK

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Company mission

To bridge the gap between classical Islamic scholarship and modern-day commercial awareness when tackling all the knotty Islamic finance problems of today.

Our take

Islamic Finance Guru was founded to help Muslims make better financial decisions, helping solve a global problem as Muslims are on average 20% poorer than the rest of the world. It's doing this through popular and engaging education and content, believing that education is the best way to deal with poverty, discrimination, and under-representation.

Islamic Finance Guru focuses on building trust amongst users with great content first and foremost, helping Muslims navigate the complicated world of Islamic personal finance. It offers as a primary product an investment comparison engine, alongside online courses and an Islamic wills service.

Its articles aim to simplify the relationship between modern commercial awareness and classical Islamic scholarship, written by balanced financial experts. Its online courses take this information further by empowering and teaching so that Muslims and non-Muslims alike can make more informed financial decisions.

Islamic Finance Guru now has 100,000+ users every month accessing its analysis, tools, and sharia commentary, and is partnered with Wahed, Gatehouse Bank, and National Zakat Foundation. With this platform, it's well placed to further its mission of making its community better-off.

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Funding (1 round)

Jul 2021

$3.9m

SEED

Total funding: $3.9m

Leadership

Mohsin Patel

(Co-Founder)

They studied at Oxford before training as a solicitor at Squire Patton Boggs. Having co-founded Islamic Finance Guru in 2015, they left their role as Corporate Associate in November 2019 to focus on the startup full-time.

Ibrahim Khan

(Co-Founder)

Previously worked as a private equity/venture funds lawyer in the City at a white shoe US firm before going full time on the startup in February 2020.