# Top 25 Payments Startup Investors in Pakistan in May 2026

## VEF
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Mobile Payments

The emerging market fintech investor

## Quona Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing inclusion in emerging markets. Through our investments, Quona aims to deliver outstanding financial returns while making a lasting and positive impact on the world.

## ICU Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kyiv, Kyyiv, Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Computer Vision, Information Technology

ICU Ventures is a venture investment branch of ICU, an independent asset management, private equity and investment advisory firm specialising in the emerging markets of CEE. Our main focus are early stage technology companies with Eastern European roots. This means it's preferable for us that either Founders or Engineering & Softwaredevelopment are from/located in Eastern Europe. We provide companies not only with a necessary capital but also with strategic support and a network of contacts in order to expand them internationally. Apart from gaming and gambling ICU is interested in investing across all the sectors.

## Habib Bank Limited
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Debt Financing
- Focus: Telecommunications, Mobile, FinTech

Habib Bank Limited is a financial institution of Pakistan.

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

## MSA Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Biotechnology

MSA Capital is a global venture capital and private equity firm that invests in technology-enabled companies from seed to growth stage. The firm manages capital from the world's top sovereign wealth funds, international asset managers, pension funds, university endowments, fund of funds, and family offices, as well as China's leading neweconomy entrepreneurs.

## Shorooq Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech

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

## Zayn Venture Capital (Formally Zayn Capital)
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech

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## BEENEXT
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech

BEENEXT is a Venture Capital fund managed by serial entrepreneurs that focuses on assisting founders with its operational experience, network, trust, unique perspectives, and the capital. The team invests in early-stage tech start-ups that are focused on building the new digital platforms driven by the data network. BEENEXT aims to establish aplatform of founders, by the founders and for the founders across the globe, primarily in South East Asia, India and Japan. Since its establishment in 2015, the team has
invested in over 180 companies globally.

## FJ Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

## Stripe
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Stripe is a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the Internet.Businesses of every size, from new startups to public companies like Salesforce and Facebook, use the company’s software to accept online payments and run complex global operations. The company combines economic infrastructure with a set of applications fornew business models like crowdfunding and marketplaces, fraud prevention, analytics, and more. Stripe navigates global regulatory uncertainty and partners closely with internet leaders like Apple, Google, Alipay, Tencent, Facebook, and Twitter to launch new capabilities.It was founded in 2010 by John and Patrick Collison and has its headquarters in San Francisco, California.

## Soma Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Soma Capital is venture capital fund that focuses on investing in software to automate the world across all sectors and geographies.

## The Fintech Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

We support the best teams in fintech and defi today.

## MANTIS Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, FinTech

MANTIS is an early stage technology investment firm supporting the most innovative companies across consumer tech, media & entertainment, distributed ledger and other emerging technologies.

## Dotzero Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Payments, E-Commerce, Home Renovation

Dotzero Ventures primarily invests in early-stage companies that have successfully demonstrated through pilots that their service, product, or idea has mass appeal. It enables networking, collaboration, leads, and employment opportunities and provides proximity to smart and intellectually curious people. The company works with entrepreneurs acrosssectors that see a compelling opportunity to build businesses to serve the rapidly growing consumer and services markets of the country. Its key focus areas are fashion/retail, e-Commerce/internet, and technology.

## Gray Mackenzie Engineering Services
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: FinTech, Lending, Payments

Gray Mackenzie Engineering Services

## VentureSouq
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

VentureSouq operates a large co-investment platform with a global investment portfolio.

## Fatima Gobi Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce

We focus on technology-enabled businesses that address current pain points in Pakistan’s booming market. From travel and logistics to FinTech and TaqwaTech, our startups are disrupting the industry and changing the way Pakistanis live.

## Alma Capital Finance
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Payments, Financial Services

Founded in 2006, Alma Capital is an independent asset management company with offices in Luxembourg, Paris and London.

## HOF Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

HOF Capital is a global technology investment firm that leverages its global limited partner network to help founders build massive businesses.

## Youssef Salem
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Grocery, Delivery, Payments

Youssef Salem CFO at Swvl.

## Crescent Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Banking, FinTech, Payments

Crescent Ventures

## RTP Global
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

A global, early-stage venture capital firm, backing founders who use technology to reimagine how the world works like Datadog, DeliveryHero and Cred.

## Yasser Bashir
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Planet N Group of Companies
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Financial Services

Planet N Group is a growth markets oriented high-tech investment firm focused on the Greater Middle East and Asia.
Planet N’s portfolio spans financial inclusion, fintech, data science & AI, e-media, e-health, blockchain, edutech and e-commerce across Egypt, Pakistan, the UAE, Singapore and the UK

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