Hussain M Elius is a serial entrepreneur, and the founder of Pathao and Fin.com.
Pathao is a super-app, based out of Dhaka, with a vision of Moving Bangladesh forward. The 10+ different services in Pathao include ride-sharing, logistics, e-commerce, food delivery, payments, BNPL, and more. Started the company in 2015 from a garage in Dhaka and scaled it to 2,000+ people. By 2021, the company has raised $50m+, scaled to reach over 5mil+ users, 50,000+ drivers, over 30,000+ merchants and 10,000+ restaurants.
In 2022, Elius founded Wind. Wind was a decentralized banking replacement built on self-custodial on-chain wallets that facilitate instant, almost free, global payments. Wind raised $3.8m, acquired payments licenses in UAE and EU, and was moving $100m+/month. Wind was acquired by Fin.com (formerly River) in 2025, where he is now rebuilding how money moves globally using stablecoins on programmable blockchain rails.
Elius was born and raised in Dhaka, and completed his postgraduate degree from North South University, Bangladesh. He became a Forbes 30U30 Consumer Tech honoree in 2019.
Press:
Forbes 30 Under 30 (2019), Tatler Gen.T (2024)
Pathao: NASDAQ, Prothom Alo, TechInAsia, TechCrunch, Nikkei
Fin.com (formerly River): Yahoo Finance
IsTomorrowHartal: The Business Standard, The Daily Star
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