Top 10 Hospitality Startup Investors in Pakistan (May 2026)

William Hockey is the Co-CEO of Column. He previously worked at Bain & Company as an Associate. William Hockey attended Emory University.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, Singapore, Pakistan

Investor stats

Total investments: 49
Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6.3M; Series A $12M–$30M; Series B $14M–$20M
Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

Boom — Boom is the easiest way to build credit credit with your rent. With Boom, report your rent payments to all three credit bureaus for as little as $2 per month. Enroll in minutes.
Maza — Maza is a mobile app that offers financial products and digital banking services.
Slash — Tens of thousands of online businesses use Slash to track their profits, earn cash back, and get faster payouts from platforms like GOAT and Amazon. No LLC required, no account fees, no minimum balance, and no credit checks.

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Sai Ventures is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Industry: Coworking, Hospitality, Real Estate
Stage:Seed
Geography: Pakistan

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: no public data

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.
Colabs — Colabs is Pakistan’s fastest growing flexible workspace. Our community today has 1000 seats and over 100 companies across multiple facilities in Lahore. COLABS has a network of 100+ ecosystem partners across universities, VC funds, corporates, government and industry leaders. COLABS is constantly innovating, creating new work experiences, andredefining the future of work in Pakistan. Our mission is to knit together a community of 100,000 entrepreneurs across Pakistan.

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Turner Novak is a Investor at Banana Capital. He attended Grand Valley State University from 2014.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile Apps
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, Canada, Pakistan

Investor stats

Total investments: 58
Round size: Seed $750k–$11M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.1M; Series A $10M–$15M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Epoch — Bring all of your employee engagement initiatives together with Epoch. Our employee experience platform lets you create and track engagement for company programs.
Millie — Millie is a new kind of maternity clinic. Built by moms and providers who’ve been there.
Colabs — Colabs is Pakistan’s fastest growing flexible workspace. Our community today has 1000 seats and over 100 companies across multiple facilities in Lahore. COLABS has a network of 100+ ecosystem partners across universities, VC funds, corporates, government and industry leaders. COLABS is constantly innovating, creating new work experiences, andredefining the future of work in Pakistan. Our mission is to knit together a community of 100,000 entrepreneurs across Pakistan.

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Teddy is a Vice President at SoftBank Group International, where he works on direct investing, M&A, and funds based out of New York City. He previously worked at SoftBank Capital in Silicon Valley and Jakarta, Indonesia where he co-founded and oversaw a set of SoftBank venture funds dedicated to early-stage Internet leaders throughoutSoutheast Asia. Teddy previously worked at Comcast Ventures in New York City, where he led investments in eCommerce and Media.He also worked as an analyst for Goldman Sachs’ Technology, Media and Telecom Investment Banking group in San Francisco advising on M&A and financing transactions across the technology landscape. He graduated with a B.A. in government and economics from Harvard.SoftBank Investments include: Tokopedia: Indonesian eCommerce leader Dialpad: Unified communications suite Qerja: Indonesian jobs portal Cybereason: Endpoint Security, board observer Berkshire Grey: warehouse automation leader Housing.com, board member Airspan, board member CaliBurger, board observerComcast Investments include: Zola: online wedding registry and services Cheddar: Post-cable network, sold to Altice USA PetCoach: Omni-channel vet service, sold to Petco Retina.ai: Data science-as-a-service, board observer Earny: Price protection service Madison Reed: Subscription D2C hair-color service YouNow: Decentralized live-streaming Nextdoor: Local social network Basis: Stable CryptocurrencyPersonal investments include: Bureau: B2B Furniture ABL Space: Space launch vehicles KindBody: Women's health

Investment focus

Industry: News, Social Media, Facility Management
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Pakistan, Indonesia, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 6
Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

Greenwork — Join the green workforce America needs now
Colabs — Colabs is Pakistan’s fastest growing flexible workspace. Our community today has 1000 seats and over 100 companies across multiple facilities in Lahore. COLABS has a network of 100+ ecosystem partners across universities, VC funds, corporates, government and industry leaders. COLABS is constantly innovating, creating new work experiences, andredefining the future of work in Pakistan. Our mission is to knit together a community of 100,000 entrepreneurs across Pakistan.
Wholesum Brands — Our mission is to transform the ecommerce entrepreneur journey by discovering their brands and inspiring innovative teams who re-think brand expansion and scaling strategies to elevate independent local products into global brands.

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Shorooq Partnersis the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

Total investments: 112
Round size: Seed $200k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $3M–$4.5M; Series A $2M–$23M
Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

Dtonic — Efficient Spatio-Temporal Big Data Processing across Smart-X Industries
The Food Lab — The Food Lab is a cloud kitchen platform but describes itself as an infrastructure company for restaurants in Egypt — about 400,000 in number — in the food & beverage (F&B) space. The company provides a full suite of end-to-end services, including cloud kitchen (kitchen as a service) and procurement.
Retailo Technologies — Retailo is an online regional B2B marketplace platform that serves small and medium-sized retail businesses, including kiryana and baqala stores, in the MENAP region. We are using technology to digitize and streamline the retail sector to make it more efficient.

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Indus Valley Capital is an early stage venture capital fund investing in Pakistani startups. We help founders build Pakistan's future.

Investment focus

Industry: Retail, Fitness, Marketplace
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: Pakistan

Investor stats

Total investments: 19
Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$2.1M
Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

Paismo Inc — Paismo HR & Payroll is the Next-Gen Human Capital Management software giving you access to Schedule Management, Time Off, Timesheets, Payroll, etc.
Remotebase — Remotebase | Hire silicon valley caliber developers remotely | Remote software engineers jobs
Zyp Technologies — Zyp Technologies produces electric motorcycles intended to accelerate a net-zero carbon emission world. The business provides consumers with electric vehicle models and a broadened battery swap network that makes the switch to electric motorcycles simple.

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Muir Capital operates as a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, FinTech, Coworking
Stage:Seed
Geography: Pakistan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

Udhaar Book — Trusted by 5.1 million merchants, Udhaar Book is Pakistan's best credit book service that helps you manage cash flows. Install now
Colabs — Colabs is Pakistan’s fastest growing flexible workspace. Our community today has 1000 seats and over 100 companies across multiple facilities in Lahore. COLABS has a network of 100+ ecosystem partners across universities, VC funds, corporates, government and industry leaders. COLABS is constantly innovating, creating new work experiences, andredefining the future of work in Pakistan. Our mission is to knit together a community of 100,000 entrepreneurs across Pakistan.

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We are an early stage fund for startups in Pakistan. We are a team of builders ourselves, and looking to partner with passionate, authentic people, and help them build the next generation-defining companies in the region.

Investment focus

Industry: Farming, Coworking, Logistics
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Pakistan

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Round size: Seed $600k–$4.5M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Metric — All your business accounting needs in one place. It's like having an accountant in your pocket!
Colabs — Colabs is Pakistan’s fastest growing flexible workspace. Our community today has 1000 seats and over 100 companies across multiple facilities in Lahore. COLABS has a network of 100+ ecosystem partners across universities, VC funds, corporates, government and industry leaders. COLABS is constantly innovating, creating new work experiences, andredefining the future of work in Pakistan. Our mission is to knit together a community of 100,000 entrepreneurs across Pakistan.
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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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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