Thndr, Egypt’s leading retail investment platform, has ranked #1 on the Financial Times Africa’s Fastest-Growing Companies 2026, becoming the first Egyptian company in the ranking’s five-year history to claim the top spot.
Compiled by the Financial Times in partnership with Statista, the ranking identifies Africa’s fastest-growing businesses, evaluated across three metrics: absolute revenue growth, compound annual growth rate (CAGR), and employee growth between 2021 and 2024. Thndr ranked the first, ahead of companies from South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, and across the continent.
Since launch, Thndr has now grown to over 5.5 million downloads, with over 75-80% of users investing for the first time. The company has also maintained its position as Egypt’s #1 retail investing platform for three consecutive years.
As one of the first fully digital onboarded investment platforms in Egypt, Thndr is now becoming the primary investment account for everyday individuals, offering stocks, gold, savings products, fixed income, and investment funds directly from their phones through a simplified, education-driven experience.
Thndr now accounts for around 18% of EGX equity trading value and 40% of EGX total order volume, processing more than 200,000 trades per day, up from 50,000 a year ago. The platform’s reach extends well beyond Egypt’s major cities, with more than 40% of users based outside Cairo and Alexandria. The average user is around 30 years old, and 12% of users are female.
The recognition comes as Thndr continues its regional expansion, following its launch in Abu Dhabi in 2025 as the first remote broker on ADX and its recent plan to expand to Saudi Arabia.
At a time when only around 0.5% of Egyptians invest, Thndr’s long-term mission remains focused on making investing more accessible and helping build a more financially empowered generation across the Arab world.
