Top 20 SaaS Angel Investors in Pakistan in October 2023
Top 20 SaaS Angel Investors in Pakistan in October 2023
| Investor | SaaS Pakistan investments |
|---|---|
| Asif Keshodia | 5 |
| Timur Daudpota | 2 |
| Immad Akhund | 1 |
| Ali Aziz | 1 |
| Jon Puckhaber | 1 |
| Nitesh Banta | 1 |
| Peter Thiel | 1 |
| Nadeem Hussain | 1 |
| Warren Hogarth | 1 |
| Mohamed Nanabhay | 1 |
| Christopher Rust | 1 |
| Manu Midha | 1 |
| Mark Pincus | 1 |
| Reid Hoffman | 1 |
| Babs Ogundeyi | 1 |
| Edith Yeung | 1 |
| Gilles Blanchard | 1 |
| Ziyad Alami | 1 |
| Alan Rutledge | 1 |
| Syed Sheharyar Ali | 1 |
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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.
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- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Consumer Goods
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Kamel Pay — Looking for best payment method and safe corporate payment solutions in Dubai? Kamelpay provide leading business payment services in UAE
- CLICKY.PK — Clicky.pk offers the largest collection of trendy and affordable fashion and lifestyle products online. Clicky has the best online brand stores in Pakistan. Huge Collection of Jewellery, Handbags, Clutches, Sunglasses, Clothing, Nightwear & More!
- PriceOye — Priceoye is Pakistan's No.1 marketplace for buying original mobile phones and electronics. Priceoye is Pakistan's most trusted online store and offers the lowest prices every day.
Timur Daudpota is the Lifecycle & Retention Marketing Manager at Uplandme. He attended University of Houston.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Apps
- Seed, Funding Round
- United States, India, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- QisstPay — QisstPay makes eCommerce easier by allowing you to better convert customers with a seamless checkout experience. You can add and test any payment method; payment processors, BNPL, Crypto, Financing, and more.
- Nino Foods — Nino Foods creates and operates cloud kitchen brands for the premium markets. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
- Reel — We are building a new kind of paper company. One that cares about helping the planet and our fellow humans while providing a fantastic, eco-friendly alternative to consumers.Reel paper is made from 100% sustainable bamboo. Our subscription box is conveniently delivered directly to your door, so you’ll never run out of toilet paper again. Plus,for each box of Reel toilet paper sold, we donate a biodegradable toilet bag to one of the 2.4 billion people globally that don’t have access to one.
Immad Akhund is the CEO and Founder of Mercury.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Lantern — Lantern is a customer engagement automation platform to optimize upsell opportunities.
- Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
- Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.
Ali Aziz is a Founder and CEO at XStak Inc. He attended Free University of Brussels.
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- B2B, EdTech, Retail
- Pre-Seed, Angel
- Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Nearpeer.org — Nearpeer is Pakistan's first largest online learning platform providing students with ease of learning at very reasonable prices. Register today.
- 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.
- Grandeur — One platform to rule all of IoT. Grandeur is message broker, auth, storage and app builder in a single package.
Jon Puckhaber is a Senior Equity Analyst at Alvento Capital Partners LLP.
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- Grocery, Shopping, E-Commerce
- Series A
- Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Nitesh Banta is the Co-Founder & CEO at B12.
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- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, India
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- Yumari — Wholesale Buying from Latin America Made Easy
- Beam — Take control of your finances, all in one place. Say goodbye to paperwork, spreadsheets, and hours of manual data entry.
- Offline — Offline is a private members' community for the top 10% tech founders and CEOs in India. Apply online to become a member.
Peter Thiel Is The Member, Board of Directors At Facebook. Founder at Breakout Labs.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Germany, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Lindus Health — Lindus Health. From recruitment to delivery, we accelerate clinical trials. Our mission is to make health research accessible for everyone, everywhere.
- Alias Technologies — Here at Alias Technologies our goal is to help organizations tackle complex IT goals and initiatives in an ever-changing landscape. Leveraging our Partner relationships and extensive experience we are able to help position our customers for the future.
- Treasure Financial — An automated cash flow tool for businesses and startups. Get started today, all you need is 15 minutes to maximize your existing cash.
Nadeem Hussain
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- Retail, Fashion, Internet
- Seed
- Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Well.pk — Dawaai is Pakistan's most trusted online medical store. Order medicines, consult doctors online, get your lab tests done at home.
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.
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- FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Seed, Series B, Series C
- United States, Australia, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- NayaPay — One wallet for all your everyday payments. Send money, pay bills, chat with friends and shop worldwide with a free Visa debit card.
- Fable Food — Noun - A tasty story with animals as characters, not dishes . Open your eyes to the incredible taste, texture and goodness of Fable.
- Great Question — The only all-in-one customer research platform loved by people who do research and endorsed by researchers. Great Question automates research tasks, making it easy to spend more time speaking to customers.
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.
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- Apps, News, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- United States, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Circa — More and more people are relying on mobile as their primary source of news yet the content itself continues to be produced in a format that translates very poorly to mobile devices. Rather than trying to shoehorn existing content into a new environment, Circa is creating the first born-on-mobile news experience. It will deliver news in a uniqueformat – native to mobile devices with an experience intuitive to mobile users. Through comprehensive yet to-the-point news updates paired with an engrossing mobile experience, Circa redefines how news is produced, delivered and consumed. Circa is news reimagined.Circa was founded by
- Dawaai — Dawaai is Pakistan's most trusted online medical store. Order medicines, consult doctors online, get your lab tests done at home.
- littleBits Electronics — LittleBits is an open source library of over 60 electronic modules that snap together with magnets allows users to view, download, and share designs and make their own Bits through the use of prototypes. Deluxe kit, Smart home kit, Arduino coding kit, Synth kit, hardware development kit, and workshop set are some of the electronics learning modulesprovided by littleBits.LittleBits was launched by Ayah Bdeir in 2011 and is operated from New York, United States.
Christopher Rust is the Co-Founder and Partner at Clear Ventures.
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- Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Pakistan
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- Kaiam — Kaiam A deal website that offers discounts, coupons, and other deals in order to attract customers. The deals are usually organized by categories such as Organic & Fashion.
- Tignis — Tignis is an information technology company that enables hardware and software vendors to continually monitor performance data while their products are in use. Using real-time edge computing, machine learning, and customer-specific controls, vendors can quickly identify and proactively remedy performance issues and predict problems before theyoccur.The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Washington, United States.
- Robin.io — Automate deployment of complex 5G & enterprise apps to improve productivity and reduce cost with cloud native Kubernetes storage on the Robin platform.
Manu invests in early stage companies through Whitehill Ventures. As part of this executive role he heads Middle East Region for OYO Hotels. He started OYO business in 2018 and scaled it to more than 200 hotels across KSA, UAE, Oman and Bahrain markets. He has travelled extensively across ME and developed strong relationships. He is credited withtwo successful exits in e-commerce, Infibeam through IPO and Souq through acquisition by Amazon. He headed Electronics business for Souq.com in UAE. Prior to Souq, Manu was Vice President, Planning and Strategy at Infibeam. He was responsible for launching and growing BuildaBazaar in India and Middle East.
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- Trading Platform, Apps, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- India, Pakistan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- OpsLyft — The only cloud management platform that focuses on providing actionable insights for technology and financial leaders.
- Kissan Pro — Kissan Pro provides an all-in-one platform to empower farmers through technology, design, and data science. While it develops and promotes the effective use of the most advanced technology, it has also help centers in every cluster where farmers can visit and get all necessary support.
- Tournafest — Tournafest™️ is the one-stop destination created by the gamers for the gamers. Tournafest is reinventing the Esports ecosystem with a seamless and motivating platform where gamers can enhance their skills with a network alike.
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.
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- Internet, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- 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
Reid Hoffman is a Partner at Greylock and a Co-founder and Board Member at Inflection.AI. He was a Chairman and CEO at Linkedin. Reid attended the University of Oxford and Stanford University.
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- Software, Social Media, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- JusticeText — JusticeText is a software platform that makes it easier for public defenders to process and incorporate crucial audio and video evidence in defense of their clients.
- Inflection AI — We are an AI studio creating a personal AI for everyone.
- 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.
Cofounder and CEO of Kuda
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- 24seven.pk — 24seven.pk is using tech and data to digitize and disrupt the fresh food and FMCG verticals in one of the fastest-growing and rapidly evolving consumer markets in the world.
Edith is a venture capitalist, technology executive, and creator of the China Internet Report, and Silicon News.Edith is a General Partner at Race Capital - an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund. A few sectors we are particularly interested in are infrastructure, fintech, and deep tech verticals. She has invested in over 50 startupsincluding Agora.io (Nasdaq: API), Lightyear/Stellar (valued at $1.2B), Silk Labs (acquired by Apple), Chirp (acquired by Apple), Fleksy (acquired by Pinterest), Human (acquired by Mapbox), Solana, Oasis Labs, Hooked, DayDayCook, AISense, and many more.Prior to Race Capital, Edith was a partner at 500 Startups, the world's most active early-stage fund and incubator invested in Twilio, Credit Karma, Grab, and 2000 more companies. Before 500, Edith was the general manager at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia-backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Edith also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless, and Autodesk.She frequently speaks on China and Silicon Valley technology and the investment landscape. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at Berkeley and Stanford and a commentator on BBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, SCMP, Techcrunch, etc.Edith attended Harvard Business School, Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Purdue University.
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- Mobile, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Malaysia, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Serum — Serum is the world's first completely on-chain cryptocurrency ecosystem with trustless trading brought to you by Project Serum, in collaboration with a consortium of crypto trading and DeFi experts. Built on Solana, Serum is fast and efficient. While we built the Serum protocol, it is permission less – we do not hold special power anymore. Itis up to you, the crypto community, to use it as you will.
- Telepathic — Telepathic is redefining storytelling for the Snapchat generation. They believe there is a billion-dollar opportunity in bringing "lean" principles to the development and distribution of mass-market fiction, and in presenting stories as a mobile-first experience. Their first product is HOOKED, a “twitter for fiction” mobile app thatmakes reading addictive for teens. Their longterm vision is to release stories across multiple channels, including apps, video and virtual reality.The founders are Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia, veterans from the mobile app world. They previously built music apps, like AutoRap, that have helped over 150MM people experience the joy of music creation. They've also produced several viral videos totaling over 300MM views. You can read more about the journey that led us to founding a storytelling startup in this piece they wrote for Vogue.
- AppOnboard — The fastest and most powerful No Code mobile development software suite in the world.
Gilles Blanchard
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- Real Estate, Medical, InsurTech
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Spain, Colombia, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- doc-doc — Accede a los mejores especialistas en medicina, cuando y donde quieras.
- FLOORFY — Real estate software to create virtual tours. The new way to show your portfolio of properties from anywhere and at any time. Know it!
- Zameen.com — Zameen, the leading property portal based in Pakistan - offering the highest levels of service to property buyers sellers landlords tenants alike and to real estate agents in Karachi Lahore Islamabad and all over Pakistan. We are providing quality property - commercial plots, lands and markets - villas - apartments - bungalows - home buying and villa rentals.
Ziyad Alami is a Business Development Director at Huda Lighting.
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- Grocery, Shopping, E-Commerce
- Series A
- Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Alan Rutledge
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, India, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- FlexDesk — FlexDesk is creating a new evolution of the flexible workspace model. Remote workers use the platform to discover and book a dedicated desk or private office by the day. FlexDesk unlocks this inventory by partnering with office landlords and coworking operators that have furnished, underutilized space.
- SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.
- Volition — Volition is the largest marketplace of industrial components, built just for hardware teams. We make it easy to find and purchase off-the-shelf parts.
Syed Sheharyar Ali, Executive Director and CSO at Treet Group Of Companies.
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- Audio, Music, Travel
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Pakistan, United Kingdom
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- 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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