Kayishha

What Kayishha does

Kayishha (كيّشها) is a private, for-profit trading platform that facilitates the buying and selling of used cars, headquartered in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The company was founded in 2020 and operates with a headcount of 101–250 employees, indicating a mid-stage operating build-out typical of a regional marketplace at the customer-acquisition phase. Its core function is to intermediate transactions between sellers and buyers of pre-owned vehicles, a segment that is structurally significant in the Gulf used-car market but where pricing models, listing mechanics, and value-added services (inspection, financing, logistics) are not disclosed in the available source material.

The company's underlying technology, platform architecture, and revenue mechanics are not documented in the input data. There is no evidence of disclosed pricing tiers, commission structures, subscription models, dealer vs. consumer mix, GMV, or transaction volume. No funding rounds, investor names, parent company, or subsidiary structure are reported, leaving capital structure and ownership opaque. The leadership is anchored by founder and CEO Saygin Yalcin.

The company operates from a single disclosed location (Sharjah, UAE) with no documented geographic footprint beyond that. No regulatory actions, certifications, patents, partnerships, awards, or product launches have been recorded in the available material, reflecting a thin public-data profile for a privately held regional marketplace.

Name

Kayishha

Website

https://kayishha.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Kayishha is a UAE-based used car trading platform founded in 2020, operating from Sharjah with 101–250 employees to facilitate buying and selling of pre-owned vehicles in the Gulf market.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Used Car Marketplace

NAICS

Used Car Dealers (44112)

akta.pro primary industry

Dealer-to-Dealer (B2B) Vehicle Remarketing Networks (TLABAKAB)

Keywords

• Used car marketplace
• Online car trading
• Vehicle buying and selling
• Pre-owned car platform
• Automotive classifieds

Headquarters

HQ city

Sharjah

HQ country

United Arab Emirates

HQ region

Middle East

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Core offering

Kayishha operates an online trading platform that facilitates the buying and selling of used (pre-owned) cars. The platform connects vehicle buyers and sellers, enabling users to list, discover, and transact in used cars through a digital marketplace headquartered in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

Product overview

No product or service information is available from the provided source content.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Kayishha Used Car Trading Platform

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• OLX: Global classifieds operator and parent of Dubizzle. Comparable as a broad incumbent with overlapping used-vehicle listing capabilities across multiple emerging markets, including the UAE.
• CarGurus: Global online used-car marketplace using pricing transparency and dealer ratings as differentiators. Comparable business model — connecting used-car buyers with dealers via a data-driven marketplace — at much larger scale.
• AutoTrader UAE: UAE online auto marketplace with new and used vehicle listings from dealers and individuals. Comparable as a broader regional incumbent in the online used-car listing space.

Direct peers

• CarSwitch: UAE-founded used-car marketplace offering inspection, valuation, and financing services. Directly competes with Kayishha in the UAE used-car trading category with a similar full-service marketplace model.
• YallaMotor: UAE/MENA online car marketplace covering new and used vehicles with dealer listings. Comparable regional peer operating a listing-driven used-car platform with similar target customer base.
• sellanycar.com: UAE-based used-car platform offering instant online quotes and inspection-led buying. Directly comparable to Kayishha in geography and used-car trading category; notably, it was founded by the same person (Saygin Yalcin).
• Dubizzle: UAE's largest classifieds platform with a strong used-cars vertical. Comparable as a peer-to-peer and dealer-to-consumer used-vehicle listing and discovery marketplace serving the same UAE buyer/seller base.

Emerging players

• Kavak: Latin American used-car marketplace that has expanded into MENA. Comparable as a vertically integrated used-car trading platform using inspection, refurbishment, and financing to differentiate.
• CarSwitch Saudi: Sibling/regional expansion of CarSwitch into Saudi Arabia. Comparable as a regional used-car marketplace with the same inspection-led model, representing the cross-border expansion path Kayishha might pursue.
• Cars24: India-headquartered used-car platform that has expanded into the UAE/MENA. Comparable as an emerging full-stack used-car marketplace combining listings, inspection, and financing.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/kayishha
• Facebookfacebook.com/kayishha
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/kayishha

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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