# Top 50 Angel Investors in Pakistan in May 2026 ## Asif Keshodia - Type: Angel - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Consumer Goods Asif Keshodia is an Angel Investor based in Dubai, UAE and the co-founder of Storfox.com. He is most notable for his work as the Group CFO of Souq.com, which was acquired by Amazon in a milestone deal for the Middle East tech sector. He joined Souq in 2011 as an early stage investor and raised over $400m to help it become the leading onlineretailer in the region. After its acquisition by Amazon in 2017, he took the role of MENA Regional Finance Director at Amazon. Asif has over 20 years of experience with some of the world’s biggest names, such as PwC, Gillette, Procter & Gamble, and Amazon, in countries around the world, including the UK, South Africa, Russia, and Pakistan. He is now using his decades of multinational corporate experience to help usher small startups to big success. He is dedicated to aiding young entrepreneurs launch their projects, with sights currently set on bolstering the e-commerce ecosystem in the MENA region and South Asia’s burgeoning market.In the recent past Asif has served on the Boards of Souq, Payfort.com, and Instashop.com, recently acquired by the Delivery Hero. He has also invested in a number of fledgling startups including Shipox, Clicky.pk, EzHire and Cartlow.comAsif is a graduate of the University of Karachi with a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce & Economics and a Chartered Accountant (FCA). In 2016, he was named Best Retail CFO of the MENA Region by renowned Middle Eastern publication, The CFO. ## Syed Sheharyar Ali - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Audio, Music, Travel Syed Sheharyar Ali, Executive Director and CSO at Treet Group Of Companies. ## Youssef Salem - Type: Angel - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Grocery, Delivery, Payments Youssef Salem CFO at Swvl. ## Sahil Bloom - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Travel, FinTech Sahil Bloom ## Siqi Chen - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming Siqi Chen is the Co-Founder of Runway and a Member Board Of Directors at Sandbox VR. Siqi holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from the University of California, San Diego. ## Sung Ho Choi - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, Music, FinTech Sung Ho C. is the Managing Director at Fubo Gaming. He attended University of Chicago. ## Saad Saeed - Type: Angel - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Grocery, Delivery, Consumer Goods Saad Saeed is a Founder at Stealth Mode. ## George Godula - Type: Angel - Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Mobile Cross-border angel / early stage investor with portfolio of 40+ startup companies and as of currently 4 exits, 4 unicorns & counting.George invests in companies helping people lead a longer, healthier and happier life - keywords sustainability, ESG, impact investing. In addition to investing he likes to be hands-on in hisportfoliocompanies, either helping China / SEA based teams to internationalize or global teams to break into China / SEA or support them in outsourcing, sourcing and manufacturing. Typically angel, seed and occasional Series A stage investments. Industry focus and selected startups in his portfolio: - E-Commerce e.g. Web2Asia, Grana, Mercato - SaaS e.g. Jimdo, Blush, Anduin Transactions - Marketplaces / crowdfunding Republic.co - Education / Training e.g. Vantage Point, Dexter, - IoT e.g. Mila, Cafe-X, Lyte charging, The Light Phone, Density.io - Fitness e.g. FitXR, Trainersvault, Overhand Fitness, Salut, Guavapass (exit via sale to ClassPass) - Health / Nutrition e.g. NutriSense, Blue Mesa Health (exit via sale to Virgin), Compass Therapeutics (exit via IPO) - Insurtech e.g. The Care Voice - Medtech / Biotech e.g. Life Biosciences, Sequencing.com, MycoWorks - Sustainability / Infrastructure e.g. Blokable, U.S. Bitcoin Corp, Hardt Hyperloop - Deep tech / frontier tech e.g. Rain Neuromorphics, ZaiNar, Massive, Protocol Labs (Filecoin) - On-demand / sharing economy e.g. Yassir, Truck it in, misterbnb, Delivery Hero Austria & China (exit via sale / IPO) ## Walid Aradi - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Internet, Financial Services Entrepreneur, investor. Advising global tech companies navigate through MENA+ regulatory environments, market entry and scaling ## Matt Brezina - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Transportation Matt Brezina investor and advisor Ford Street Ventures. University of Maryland. ## Immad Akhund - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Immad Akhund is the CEO and Founder of Mercury. ## William Hockey - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services William Hockey is the Co-CEO of Column. He previously worked at Bain & Company as an Associate. William Hockey attended Emory University. ## Yasser Bashir - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: CAD, Hardware, Payments Yasser Bashir is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Arbisoft. He attended Stanford University. ## Timur Daudpota - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Apps Timur Daudpota is the Lifecycle & Retention Marketing Manager at Uplandme. He attended University of Houston. ## Julian Shapiro - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Julian Shapiro is a Partner at Hyper and a Startup Investor at Julian.capital. He previously worked as the Founder of Demand Curve, a Columnist — Growth Marketing at TechCrunch, and VP of Marketing at Webflow. Julian attended Y Combinator. ## Tiger Fang - Type: Angel - Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Logistics, Accounting Tiger Fang is Co-Founder and CEO at Kargo Technologies. Before Cargo, Tiger had successfully led various technology companies. He is general manager at Uber Indonesia and China, and managing director at Lazada Thailand. ## Sajid Rahman - Type: Angel - Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Banking Sajid currently works as Managing Partner at MyAsiaVC He attended London Business School. ## Umar Saleem - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Grocery, Delivery, Consumer Goods Umar Saleem, SWVL. ## Peter Findley - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Logistics, Recycling, Residential Peter Findley ## Alan Rutledge - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software Alan Rutledge ## Wes Schwalje - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt ## Dylan Field - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence Dylan Field is the CEO / Co-founder of Figma, a design and prototyping platform for teams who build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown University to start Figma with his TA Evan Wallace (who became Figma’s CTO). They built Figma on the web in the hopes of tearing down the walls around thesiloed design process. Dylan champions open, accessible design and believes such tooling must evolve for a cloud-based, collaborative world. He tweets @zoink ## Rajive Keshup - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed - Focus: FinTech, InsurTech, Insurance Successfully Exited Founder/Operator turned Venture Capitalist. I’m fortunate to partner with dent making teams to build extraordinary global companies at Cathay Innovation, an early and growth stage venture capital firm with $3B AUM across San Francisco, Paris, Shanghai and Singapore, and closely affiliated with Cathay Capital PrivateEquity, a global private equity firm with $6B in AUM.Our partnerships with the startups we back, sustain from the initial stages of refining product-market fit to IPO and beyond. Personally, fulfillment comes from helping others achieve their full potential. I’m energized by founders with authentic ideas who have the guts and determination to change the world. Hard problems (KaiOS), the transformation of industries (Igloo, Coherent, Lifepal), and enormous green field opportunities (FinAccel, LeadIQ, Reebelo) get me up in the morning! At the end of the day my goal is to be my founder’s, entrepreneur’s and management team’s first phone call in great and not-so-great times.Series A to C // USD $2-30M Southeast Asia & India Twitter - @raj1ve**Not a Corporate VC and not to be confused with the airlines or insurance company of the same name. ## Claire Diaz-Ortiz - Type: Angel - Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Finance, Banking Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an investor and bestselling author who was an early employee at Twitter. Named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and called “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter” by Wired, she is the author of nine books that have been translated into 12 languages. She holds an MBA and other degrees from Stanfordand Oxford. Currently she is a Scout for Kleiner Perkins focused on Latin America and an Advisor for Antler Global. Previously she was a partner at a fund in Latin America. ## Kyane Kassiri - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Retail, Finance, Software Emerging market investor. Partner @ RaliCap. ## Turner Novak - Type: Angel - Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile Apps Turner Novak is a Investor at Banana Capital. He attended Grand Valley State University from 2014. ## Peter Thiel - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Peter Thiel Is The Member, Board of Directors At Facebook. Founder at Breakout Labs. ## Arash Ferdowsi - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services Arash Ferdowsi is the Co-Founder & CTO at Dropbox. After studying at MIT, Arash Ferdowsi founded Dropbox with Drew Houston. Dropbox was a TechCrunch50 finalist in 2008. ## Khurram Lalani - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Training, Marketplace, Professional Services Khurram Lalani - Consultant @ Asian Development Bank ## Austen Allred - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce Austen Allred co-founded Lambda School and serves as its CEO. ## Ryan Petersen - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services Ryan Petersen is the CEO and Founder of Flexport. Prior to starting Flexport to fix the user experience in global trade, Ryan was co-founder and CEO of ImportGenius.com, a data-as-a-service business for global shipping. He holds a degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia University. ## Omar Darwazah - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Omar is a Managing Director, General Partner, and CFO at AAF Management Ltd. (AAF), an early-stage venture capital firm he co-founded in 2016. Over the past 5 years, Omar has invested in over 120 venture-backed startups in the US, Europe, and MENA region across a multitude of different sectors alongside over 800 blue-chip venture capital firms,corporate venture arms as well as notable incubators and accelerators. Omar has also deployed capital to 18 emerging managers globally. His fund performance is consistently ranked in the top decile in terms of DPI and TVPI respectively benchmarked on Cambridge Associates’ data on over 1500 US VC Funds. Previously, Omar spent 10 years of his career with OCI N.V. in Cairo and New York focusing on investor relations, strategy, and corporate finance where he worked on over $35 billion worth of corporate transactions. Prior to that, Omar was with Deloitte Tax LLP in Chicago and Deutsche Bank’s Leveraged Finance team in London.Omar also founded and successfully exited his own startup, Premier Foods SAE, which managed two gourmet fast food brands in Egypt. Omar previously advised Hikma Pharmaceuticals’ corporate venture arm Hikma Ventures on its digital healthcare investments Omar is also an angel investor in over 20 tech companies including Andela, Blockstack, BitOasis, Dayra, Freterium, Halan, FiscalNote, Thndr, and Ziina. Omar sits on the Board of the Middle East Investor Relations Association (MEIRA) and the Middle East Venture Capital Association (MEVCA). He is also a mentor to the NYU Steinhardt EdTech Accelerator, an advisor to Yale University’s Center for Digital Health and Innovation, and a judge at the Wharton School’s Venture Lab. In aggregate, Omar has over 16 years of international experience in corporate finance, corporate communications, management consulting, strategy, investor relations, and venture capital.Omar is an avid traveler and has visited 87 countries around the world. He also has an interest in film production and has been an Executive Producer on several short feature films including Baby Mine (2017) and Lab Rat (2018).Omar holds a BA in Economics and Political Science with Honors from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He was named as one of Wharton’s 40 under 40 in 2017 and one of the Top 100 the University of Chicago Alumni in Tech in 2021. ## Umair Khan - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Shipping, Logistics, Real Time Specialties: Seed Stage Investing, Tech Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship, Digital Transformation, Gamification, Education TechUmair is a tech entrepreneur and seed stage venture investor and Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science. He is founder/co-founder of Folio3, SecretBuilders, Zareen's,Clickmarks (acquired by Semotus), Wordwalla (acquired by Morisawa). He is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. He started his career at Intel Corporation.His investments include: Realwear, Alyce, RedeApp, Groguru, Arrivy, CargoSense, Pyze, Irisvision, Akido, Medaptive, Viral Launch, Margin, He serves as advisor to Petzam, Throwmotion, Pyze, RedeApp, and GroGuru.Umair has over 20 industry patents applied for or pending in computer design and architecture, including four from his work at Intel and one from his graduate research at MIT.Umair received an SB in Mathematics with Computer Science (1992) and an MS in Computer Engineering (1995) from MIT. ## Mudassir Sheikha - Type: Angel - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Corporate Round - Focus: Mobile, Software, CleanTech Mudassir Sheikha is the co-founder and CEO of Careem, MENA’s leading car booking service that is based out of Dubai and operates from Morocco to Pakistan.Prior to Careem, Mudassir was an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he advised clients on strategy and business building. Before McKinsey, Mudassir spent a decade in the SiliconValley building technology startups, where he was most recently the co-founder of DeviceAnywhere, which was eventually acquired by Keynote Systems. He has an academic background in Computer Science and Economics from Stanford and USC. ## Giacomo Ficari - Type: Angel - Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed Giacomo is the co-founder of Lifepal (Insurance marketplace in Indoneisa) and previously of Aspire (neo bank in SEAsia). He is an alumnus of Y Combinator and Rocket Internet. Early-stage employee of Lazada and Managing Director of Lazada Malaysia. CEO of Groupon Japan and Malaysia. ## Mohamed Nanabhay - Type: Angel - Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Apps, News, Mobile Mohamed Nanabhay is Deputy CEO at Media Development Investment Fund.Mohamed Nanabhay, a leading innovator in online news, co-founder of Signalnoi.se and former Head of Online at Al Jazeera English, has been working at the intersection of media, technology and entrepreneurship for many years.Since 1995, he has been involved in the developmentof online properties and is an angel investor in early-stage internet companies. In 2006, he joined Al Jazeera, where he founded the New Media division and Al Jazeera Creative Commons Repository, before becoming Head of Online at Al Jazeera English.Mohamed was named a Creative Commons Pioneer by Business Week, serves on the Board of Advisors of Qatar University’s Mass Communication Programme and is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Informed Societies. ## Warren Hogarth - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B, Series C - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services Warren Hogarth is a venture capitalist at Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2008, Warren completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering, where he developed fuel cell technology. During this time, he was a visiting Fulbright Scholar toPrinceton University and a Guest Scientist at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. Warren has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Queensland. ## Curtis Lee - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Food and Beverage Curtis Lee is a co-founder and CEO of Luxe, Founder of Pinwheel, Angel Investor, and Partner at Primary Venture Partners. ## Nadeem Hussain - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Retail, Fashion, Internet Nadeem Hussain ## Ali Aziz - Type: Angel - Location: Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: B2B, EdTech, Retail Ali Aziz is a Founder and CEO at XStak Inc. He attended Free University of Brussels. ## Mahmoud Ibrahim - Type: Angel - Location: Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Grocery, Delivery, Consumer Goods Mahmoud Ibrahim is the CEO and Co-Founder at Homzmart. ## Andrew Wang - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Banking, FinTech, Financial Services https://www.valon.com/static/media/andrew.06dd621a.jpg ## Faridul Haque - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed Faridul Haque Deep Tech VC. ## Babs Ogundeyi - Type: Angel - Location: Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Cofounder and CEO of Kuda ## Siddhartha Kongara - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Shipping, Logistics, Real Time Hyderabad, IIM-A, TransIndus, TailorMyHoliday, Riktam, Travel, Read, Hyderabad, CaptivaTour, GrowSari, Manila, Singapore ## Andy Preikschat - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Marketplace, Information Technology, E-Commerce Andy Preikschat is CEO of Don's RV, a top-20 RV dealer in California. He is CIO of Edgebrook Partners, which has 9 B2B software investments, and is an Angel Investor. He has degrees from Stanford University and Claremont McKenna College. ## Alam Zafar - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed Alam Zafar, Chairperson of Arif Habib Ltd. ## Mir Aamir - Type: Angel - Location: Mountain View, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Affiliate Marketing Mir Aamir ## Nitesh Banta - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech Nitesh Banta is the Co-Founder & CEO at B12. ## Rameez Zafar - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed Rameez Zafar is the CEO & Co-Founder at Eligible.ai. Rameez attended The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University in 2003. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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