Top 20 Community Startup Investors in Pakistan (October 2023)

Lakson Investments Venture Capital (LIVC) invests in Pakistan based opportunities. The firm concentrates on investments where technology can be leveraged to enable, enhance and disrupt existing business models or create new ones.LIVC's investment focus is at the stage in the start-up lifecycle where the company is less than 36-48 months awayfrom a successful Series A round or potential exit. The firm also invests in select Seed rounds through its Incubation and Accelerator ecosystem relationships as well as overseas partners in Silicon Valley and Europe where it seeks to bring proven foreign technology to Pakistan.The firm's team comprises of a diverse set of investors, domain experts, operators, and entrepreneurs with a successful track record of bringing big ideas to fruition.LIVC invests alongside entrepreneurs and local businesses to build new enterprises and through investing seed capital, take ideas to the next stage. It works with Lakson Investments’ (“LI”) team of over 50 experienced professionals while at the same time, leverage the operational experience of the Lakson Group. Over 14,000 people are employed by Lakson in Pakistan in businesses across sectors such as: Technology (CyberNet & Sybrid), Broadcast and Print Media (Express Media Group), FMCG (Colgate-Palmolive Pakistan), Insurance, and QSR (McDonald’s Pakistan).LI is one of the largest private sector asset managers in Pakistan with over US$300mn under management with a rating of AM2+.

Investment focus

Industry: Grocery, Travel, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: Pakistan, Canada, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 12
Round size: Seed $425k–$1M; Pre-Seed $450k–$6M; Series A $2M–$4.5M
Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

Bagallery — Bagallery has 100% authentic and lowest price in Pakistan of top beauty, cosmetics, skincare, fashion and lifestyle brands.
Bookme.pk — Pakistan's leading online ticket booking platform. Buy E-tickets for bus, flight, movie, hotel & cricket with discounts and deals.
Krave Mart — Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes.

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Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Pakistan, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 27
Round size: Seed $2M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $320k–$6M; Series A $4.5M–$5.2M
Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

AdalFi — AdalFi provides digital lending infrastructure services.It identifies, qualifies, engages, activates, and delights lending prospects for our partner banks.
Haball — Reimagining the way money flows through the supplychain Haball provides a fully automated alternative to manual order processing, invoicing, reconciliation and paper-based payment methods. An omni channel platform for digitizing payments across the entire supply chain. Fueling supplychain efficiency by providing: Supply Chain Entrenchment Supply Chain Entrenchment Platform for all value-chain partners from large corporates, distributors and retailers. Multiple Industry Verticals Multiple Industry Verticals A single platform customized for industry
Zaraye — Zaraye is a secure, user-friendly B2B platform that facilitates the free exchange of raw materials through a reverse-bidding model. It help the customers get the best prices at the fastest rate while preserving their autonomy to choose suppliers effortlessly. Conversely, It suppliers are guaranteed detailed insights about buyer behaviour, whichaids them in providing tailor-made orders to increase conversions and client satisfaction.

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Mentors Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in capital-efficient startups that aim to digitally disrupt traditional businesses.

Investment focus

Industry: Health Care, Software, Internet
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, Pakistan, Egypt

Investor stats

Total investments: 26
Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $5M–$7.3M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Truckistan — Truckistan is developing a logistics platform to make shipping faster and cheaper. The company provides real-time tracking, a customer dashboard, account management, and guaranteed transit time, as well as SaaS tools for routing, vehicle loading, and RFID implementation throughout the supply chain.
PartnerSlate — PartnerSlate is an online platform that helps food and beverage brands make the right strategic partnerships to get their next product to market. Brands can discover, connect and build relationships with contract manufacturers and other food industry partners across North America.
PartnerSlate — PartnerSlate is an online platform that helps food and beverage brands make the right strategic partnerships to get their next product to market. Brands can discover, connect, and build relationships with contract manufacturers and other food industry partners across North America.

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Elahi Group of Companies has been involved in supply chain business segment involved in procurement of raw materials for different manufacturing concerns including transformer industry, inventory management, storage and logistics of huge volumes.

Investment focus

Industry: Medical, Women's, Health Care
Stage:Seed
Geography: Pakistan

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

Sehat Kahani — Book online video appointments with the best Doctors and Specialists, such as Skin Specialists, General Physician, Child Specialists, etc in Pakistan.

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Our mission is to build synergies between start-ups and mobile operators, with the aim to scale innovative and sustainable mobile services in emerging markets.

Investment focus

Industry: Information Technology, Software, Mobile
Stage:Grant, Seed
Geography: Kenya, Indonesia, Senegal

Investor stats

Total investments: 40
Round size: Seed $500k–$650k; Grant $150k–$350k
Lead/follow: 93% lead, 7% follow

Portfolio highlights

Koolboks — Koolboks provides a reliable and alternative storage technique due to the superior insulation and ice battery technology employed in the design.
Taskmoby — Taskmoby is a digital marketplace that connects people with home service professionals like cleaners, plumbers, and electricians in Ethiopia
AgroCenta — AgroCenta is an online platform that connects the smallholder farmer in the staple food (rice, maize, millet and soybean) value chain to a wider online market to trade

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Walled City Co. – investment syndicates for seed and early-stage start-ups & entrepreneurs. We focus on long-term value by partnering with knowledgeable, innovative & passionate founding teams leveraging technology for Pakistan-centric market opportunities. We believe raising capital is the easiest part and that’s why we don’t just investcapital in start-ups; we provide them the resources to dream big . . . from a peer-network of fellow founders in the community to connections with the best in the world of data & technology, business management, human capital, allied services, and of course our strong network of angels, advisors, board members, champions, investors & partners, who help steer them to the next steps of progress, adding value to the economy and building large valuable enterprises in the process. At the core of Walled City Co.’s investment ideology is our strong belief in coopetition – competition & cooperation put together & therefore we primarily invest in seed and early-stage start-ups & entrepreneurs . . . those who are ready to build their start-up spaceship! In short, we are the foundation of the strong walls to build the launch site of the start-up spaceship. If you are actively pursuing a start-up in these verticals or you know a stellar founding team in any of these verticals, let's talk! Agriculture, Consumer, Education, Engineering, Fashion & Design, Financial Services, Last-Mile, Shared Economy, Supply-Chain Leap of faith: Pakistan is at the cusp of a technology revolution and angel investments get you a front-row seat on this amazing ride. You can go at it all by yourself or get ahead of the curve and co-invest with our Sultans. Confidentiality, Trust & Respect are the cornerstones of our investment ideology. Join Walled City Co., Pakistan’s premier angel investment syndicates, to be amongst like-minded angels and be the first to learn about investment opportunities in emerging companies.

Investment focus

Industry: Supply Chain Management, Developer Tools, Logistics
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Geography: Pakistan, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 15
Round size: Seed $1M–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $320k–$2M
Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

Oware — Move your supply chain to the cloud Empower your business operations with efficiency, transparency & collaboration With our intuitive tools
ezBike — ezBike is Pakistan's first bike sharing service with a clear mission: To revolutionize the mobility sector which is plagued with pollution, traffic congestion and rising fuel prices.
Tazah Technologies — Tazah Technologies is building products to digitize the agriculture value chain, empowering farmers, suppliers, and retailers to grow their businesses.

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Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.

Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

Total investments: 131
Round size: Seed $300k–$2.3M; Series A $1M–$13M
Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

GramVaani — Gram Vaani [meaning 'voice of the village'] is a social tech company based at IIT-Delhi. Their objective is to reverse the flow of information, that is, to make it bottom-up instead of top-down, by helping connect communities with companies/governments/dev agencies. Using simple technologies and social context to design tools,Gram Vaani has been able to impact communities- more than 2 million users in over 15 Indian States, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Namibia and South Africa.
Haqdarshak — Haqdarshak is a technology-enabled platform working to transform how Indian citizens learn about, apply for, and benefit from, government schemes. The company is composed of a group of passionate social entrepreneurs using technology to impact the next billion. The team comprises of individuals from diverse background who have come together out ofcommon interest and passion. The investor community represents individuals holding prestigious positions in different companies across various sectors.
ReCircle — They are a Waste Management service that provides a free doorstep pick-up service for offices, institutions, households and schools to dispose their recyclable waste (Raddi). They further supply this recycled waste to authorized recycling centres, ensuring safety and sustainability.

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B&Y Venture Partners is a MENA based Venture Capital firm that invests globally at both seed and growth stage. We invest in visionary and high-impact founders aiming to create new markets or transform existing ones.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 40
Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $2.5M–$13M; Series B $5M–$6.2M
Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

Bridged Media — Bridge the gap between empathy to action to boost your engagement and retention on text, audio, and video. The easiest way to help your audience create an impact.
Laced — Discover the latest sneaker releases with Laced. The UK and Europe's authentic sneaker marketplace, discover coveted styles from Nike, Air Jordan, Yeezy, New Balance and more. Buy and sell now with Laced.
Finverity — Finverity provides technology, working capital and expertise to give banks, NBFIs, financiers and companies a strategic advantage in supply chain finance.

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Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, SaaS, Retail
Stage:Series A, Seed
Geography: Pakistan, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

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Bookme.pk — Pakistan's leading online ticket booking platform. Buy E-tickets for bus, flight, movie, hotel & cricket with discounts and deals.
GrocerApp — GrocerApp is a low-price online supermarket that allows users to order products across categories like grocery, vegetables, beauty & wellness, household care, baby care, pet care, and meats & seafood and gets it delivered to their doorstep.

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Syed Sheharyar Ali, Executive Director and CSO at Treet Group Of Companies.

Investment focus

Industry: Audio, Music, Travel
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Pakistan, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.
YUGO.pk — Best travel company in Pakistan. Access guaranteed lowest prices on domestic and international flights, visa assistance, hotel booking, and 24x7 customer support.
Truckistan — Truckistan is developing a logistics platform to make shipping faster and cheaper. The company provides real-time tracking, a customer dashboard, account management, and guaranteed transit time, as well as SaaS tools for routing, vehicle loading, and RFID implementation throughout the supply chain.

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Islamic Development Bank is an international financial institution fostering the economic and social progress of Muslim communities.

Investment focus

Industry: Health Care, AgTech, Medical
Stage:Seed, Grant
Geography: United States, Pakistan

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

OmniVis — OmniVis is a technology company creating handheld devices to rapidly detect dangerous pathogens - saving food and saving lives.
Mango-Mate — Mango-Mate formerly MATE, is a global leader of Intelligent Video Solutions providing video encoding appliances and intelligent video analytics.Mango DSP products lead the Intelligent video encoding server market with Multi-channel (1, 2, 4, 8, 16 and 60),Rugged, Embedded, DSP-based, Video Analytic powered appliances as well as Mango’s VideoStabilization & All-in-One License Plate Recognition (LPR) solutions. Mango products are specifically designed for the Homeland Security, Utility, Transportation, Gaming, Retail and other Critical Infrastructure segments of the video surveillance market as well as an OEM provider to top-tier manufacturers and defense contractors. Mango's intelligent video server appliances are powered by our advanced patent IVS software. This utilizes complex video algorithms enabling a standard plug in to 3rd party systems (i.e. video stabilization, license plate recognition, video content analysis, video encoding and filters).
Sehat Kahani — Book online video appointments with the best Doctors and Specialists, such as Skin Specialists, General Physician, Child Specialists, etc in Pakistan.

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Mark Pincus is the founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of Zynga. He has served as our Chairman from April 2007 to March 2016 and the company's Executive Chairman since March 2016. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer from April 2007 to July 2013 and from April 2015 to March 2016, and as Chief Product Officer from April2007 to April 2014. In 2014, he founded superlabs, a San Francisco-based product lab focused on developing products that connect and empower people, which was acquired by Zynga in 2015. Pincus also founded Zynga.org in 2009, a non-profit organization dedicated to using social games for social good.From 2003 to 2007, Pincus served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Tribe.net, a company he launched and one of the first social networks in the industry. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Chairman of Support.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRT), a help desk automation software company he founded, and he served as Chief Executive Officer and President from December 1997 to July 1999. From 1996 to 1997, he served as Chief Executive Officer of FreeLoader, Inc., a web-based news company he founded.Pincus also made founding investments in Napster, Twitter, and Facebook.Pincus graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is an angel investor in multiple Silicon Valley startups and regularly gives lectures to aspiring entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Industry: Internet, Software, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 87
Round size: Seed $750k–$5M; Series A $1M–$40M
Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

Tract — Tract is the first for kids, by kids online community for student-directed learning. We are reimagining education by giving kids full control and making learning fun. We offer members (kids age 8+) unlimited on-demand courses (learning paths) and vibrant weekly live events, taught by our inspiring community of accomplished creators. Together, theyenable kids to develop passions through meaningful, real-world lessons giving them the skills and mindset to address 21st-century challenges and opportunities.Tract is based on TRICK, the philosophy pioneered by our co-founder Esther Wojcicki. Esther has positively impacted the lives of thousands of children from her award-winning student-run journalism program and is a mother of three successful women (CEO of YouTube, CEO, and founder of 23andMe, and top UCSF medical researcher) all by applying TRICK.TRICK stands for Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness. These five pillars are at the core of Tract and our mission to empower all kids to become tomorrow's innovators, leaders, and global citizens.Our team is unified by Esther’s lifelong work to evolve education for the 21st century and comes from top Consumer and Education Technology companies (Uber, Microsoft, and Instracture).What We Believe:- The secret to getting kids interested in learning is giving them control - Kids are much smarter and capable than most people think - Successful people believe in themselves and aren’t afraid to take risks - Creative people with great passions don’t follow the rules - Current rates of depression and lack of career-readiness is a global epidemic - Our education system of standardization and obedience limits creativity and a growth mindset - Education is not equitable and the achievement gap is widening - We need a generation of community-minded global citizens to make the world a better place - Education that works for kids, not against them is the silver bullet for the world’s problems
Spring Free EV — Fleet managers, high mileage, and gig drivers. No Personal Credit Required. Learn More About Spring Free EV Today! A Stress-Free, Quick, and Unbiased Process to Get You Into an Electric Vehicle. Pay As You Go.
Bravado — An exclusive Sales Community for the Best Sales Professionals

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Insitor Partners pioneered impact investing as the first impact fund manager to set up operations in Southeast Asia, and a pioneer investor in India and Pakistan. We back entrepreneurs building life-changing solutions for low-income consumers.

Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: India, Cambodia, Pakistan

Investor stats

Total investments: 29
Round size: Seed $742k–$2M; Series A $1.8M–$5.4M
Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $42M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

WorkIndia — With WorkIndia.in a Job seeker can search the best jobs throughout India and schedule the Interview at their convenience. And an employer can post the vacancy and get calls directly from the prospective candidate.
HROne — HROne helps companies to automate the employee lifecycle. Awarded best cloud-based software in India & trusted by 4+ lacs users across 18+ industries.
Boost Capital — Boost Capital is a fintech company that offers online microfinance services at lower rates. It uses innovative technology to pre-qualify customers within minutes of applying for a loan based on ability and probability to repay. Boost Capital enables both collateralized and uncollateralized loans, with loan size across the small business spectrum(from $100 to $10,000). Its platform automates the loan application for MFI partners and allows customers to hear back on their loan applications 100x faster than through traditional paper-based loan applications.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Singapore.

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Din Group

Investment focus

Industry: Medical, Women's, Health Care
Stage:Seed
Geography: Pakistan

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

Sehat Kahani — Book online video appointments with the best Doctors and Specialists, such as Skin Specialists, General Physician, Child Specialists, etc in Pakistan.

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The exit of Souq to Amazon is the largest tech transaction of the region, and Souq continues to pave the way in e-commerce in the region. Souq was built from the ground up by the same team at Jabbar, who built the Maktoob portal before that. Maktoob was born out of a simple idea but with a vision that the Arabic Internet will grow and become anintegral part of everybody's life, and grew to become the largest Arabic Internet property before Yahoo acquired it.Both the Souq and Maktoob stories have become inspiring success stories in the region, where budding entrepreneurs and VC's alike, look to our team for inspiration and new ideas.Today Jabbar continues to grow and pave the way for tech in the region. It is in this spirit that we embrace any entrepreneur who is willing to innovate and take risks in order to create something great. Jabbar nurtures such individuals and supports nascent ideas that are in line with its mission. So join our journey :-)

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan

Investor stats

Total investments: 35
Round size: Seed $284k–$1M; Series A $800k–$25M
Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

Repzo — Repzo is a mobile sales CRM (customer relationship management) app . Simply put, this application turns your smartphone or tablet into the ultimate standalone field force management tool.
Bookme.pk — Pakistan's leading online ticket booking platform. Buy E-tickets for bus, flight, movie, hotel & cricket with discounts and deals.
Jiye Technologies — Jiye Technologies is revolutionizing Agri Marketplaces of Pakistan

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Millville Opportunities Management offers investment management and consulting services.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, iOS, Mobile
Stage:Series A
Geography: Pakistan, Bangladesh

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

iFarmer — iFarmer is a technology company that enables small-scale farmers and Agri Businesses to maximize their profit.
Bookme.pk — Pakistan's leading online ticket booking platform. Buy E-tickets for bus, flight, movie, hotel & cricket with discounts and deals.
Truck Lagbe — Truck Lagbe network is the first and the largest online platform in Bangladesh. In this app based truck rental service you can hire trucks & pickups in a minutes.

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Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) prepare Social Enterprises (SEs) in Asia-Pacific to have the organizational and fiscal accountability.

Investment focus

Industry: Banking, Medical, Women's
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Pakistan, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

salutat — intelligent communications for financial institutions
Sehat Kahani — Book online video appointments with the best Doctors and Specialists, such as Skin Specialists, General Physician, Child Specialists, etc in Pakistan.

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Korean Impact Collective Funds

Investment focus

Industry: Medical, Women's, Health Care
Stage:Seed
Geography: Pakistan

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

Sehat Kahani — Book online video appointments with the best Doctors and Specialists, such as Skin Specialists, General Physician, Child Specialists, etc in Pakistan.

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KTrade makes your investment hassle-free. It is easy and convenient for anyone and everyone

Investment focus

Industry: Medical, Women's, Health Care
Stage:Seed
Geography: Pakistan

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Sehat Kahani — Book online video appointments with the best Doctors and Specialists, such as Skin Specialists, General Physician, Child Specialists, etc in Pakistan.

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