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Top 15 Internet Angel Investors in Pakistan (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Pakistan Internet startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Pakistan Internet startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Asif Keshodia
Angel
5 Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Australia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps $700k–$7.9M
Babs Ogundeyi
Angel
1 Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Khaled Alami
Angel
1 Pakistan Series A Grocery, Shopping, E-Commerce
Nadeem Hussain
Angel
1 Pakistan Seed Retail, Fashion, Internet
Mohamed Nanabhay
Angel
1 United States, Indonesia, Spain Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, News $850k–$19M
Jon Puckhaber
Angel
1 Pakistan Series A Grocery, Shopping, E-Commerce
Syed Sheharyar Ali
Angel
1 Pakistan, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Audio, Music, Travel
Manu Midha
Angel
1 India, Pakistan, Singapore Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Trading Platform, Apps, SaaS
Gilles Blanchard
Angel
1 Spain, Colombia, Pakistan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Real Estate, Medical, InsurTech
Reid Hoffman
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Social Media, Internet $800k–$112M
Mark Pincus
Angel
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Internet, FinTech, Software $1.1M–$40M
Alan Rutledge
Angel
1 United States, India, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Software $600k–$8M
Immad Akhund
Angel
1 United States, India, Brazil Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services $500k–$22M
Peter Thiel
Angel
1 United States, Germany, Canada Series A, Seed, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $900k–$105M
Warren Hogarth
Angel
1 United States, Australia, Pakistan Seed, Series B, Series C FinTech, Finance, Financial Services $2.5M–$55M
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Asif Keshodia
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 5 investments in Pakistan Internet startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.1M; Series A $5M–$5.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kamel Pay — Kamel Pay is a fintech and digital financial solutions provider. Kamel Pay offers end-to-end digital payment services to the 20 million underbanked expat population in GCC and to their families abroad through a fully integrated platform.
  • 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.
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Babs Ogundeyi
Angel · Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Pakistan Internet startups

Cofounder and CEO of Kuda

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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 — 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.
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Khaled Alami
Angel · 1 investments in Pakistan Internet startups

Khaled Alami is a Managing Director at Huda Lighting.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Grocery, Shopping, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Pakistan

Investor stats

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

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.
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Nadeem Hussain
Angel · 1 investments in Pakistan Internet startups

Nadeem Hussain

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Fashion, Internet
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Pakistan

Investor stats

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

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.
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Mohamed Nanabhay
Angel · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Pakistan Internet startups

Mohamed Nanabhay is the Senior Advisor and Investment Committee Member of Media Development Investment Fund. He previously worked as a Founder at Qatar Living. He attended the University of Cambridge.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, News
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Indonesia, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$6M; Series A $11M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

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.
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Jon Puckhaber
Angel · 1 investments in Pakistan Internet startups

Jon Puckhaber is a Senior Equity Analyst at Alvento Capital Partners LLP.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Grocery, Shopping, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Pakistan

Investor stats

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

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.
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Syed Sheharyar Ali
Angel · 1 investments in Pakistan Internet startups

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

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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 — The world's largest online collection of South Asian classical music, with ustads and pandits exclusively performing rare renditions in khayal, dhurpad, thumri and more.
  • 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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Manu Midha
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in Pakistan Internet startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Trading Platform, Apps, SaaS
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: India, Pakistan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OpsLyft — OpsLyft Inc. is a San-Francisco & Noida-based technology company working towards building the future of cloud infrastructure management for internet companies across the world. The company leverages artificial intelligence and analytics to deliver insights and automate routine workflows that help software teams build, test, and deploy anyworkload on any cloud with no downtimes and at the lowest possible cloud infrastructure spend. Our mission is to simplify cloud management for all internet companies across the world. We are currently working with some of the largest companies across India - Inshorts, Innovaccer, Purplle, Zenoti etc. and are rapidly expanding our presence in the US geography as well. In addition to it, we are backed by some of the top investors from Silicon Valley and India.
  • 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.
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Gilles Blanchard
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Pakistan Internet startups

Gilles Blanchard

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Real Estate, Medical, InsurTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Spain, Colombia, Pakistan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

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.
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Reid Hoffman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Pakistan Internet startups

Reid Hoffman is the Co-Founder of Manas AI and a member of the Sanmai Board of Directors. Reid previously worked at Coda as a Board Member. Reid Hoffman attended the University of Oxford, where he earned his M.St. in Philosophy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Social Media, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 159
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$26M; Series A $2.4M–$31M; Series B $8.3M–$112M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pacific Fusion — Pacific Fusion was founded in 2023 with the mission to power the world with abundant, affordable, clean energy.
  • Boom Supersonic — Making the World Dramatically More Accessible
  • Tools For Humanity — Tools for Humanity is a technology company building for humans in the age of AI.
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Mark Pincus
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Pakistan Internet startups

Mark Pincus is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Founder of Playful.AI. Mark previously worked at Tribe.net as a CEO and Co-Founder. Mark Pincus attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Series A $2.7M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ForeVR Games — Virtual Reality games you want to play forever. Bowl forever in ForeVR Bowl! Join our discord community of bowlers.Game on!
  • Stream Captain — Captain.tv makes games for streamers to play live with their viewers! Streamers are the hosts, and viewers play alongside them and each other live on sites like Twitch!
  • Moon Beast Productions — Moon Beast Productions is a company.
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Alan Rutledge
Angel · 1 investments in Pakistan Internet startups

Alan Rutledge

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8M; Pre-Seed $600k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

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.
  • Fello — Fello is a savings and investment platform that helps to save, invest and earn higher returns than a traditional savings account.
  • Double — Double is a software platform that helps users to build, automate, and analyze investment portfolio for retail investors.
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Immad Akhund
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Pakistan Internet startups

Immad Akhund is the CEO and Founder of Mercury.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 84
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$10M; Pre-Seed $500k–$5.5M; Series A $9M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jupe — Jupes are off-grid dwellings built to be mobile, from deep nature retreats to concert festivals. Each Jupe is electrified with charging outlets, climate controls, and a temperature-moderated queen mattress.
  • Natural — Payments for AI agents.
  • Craftwork — Craftwork is a modern general contracting company that uses technology to simplify repair and renovation projects for homeowners.
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Peter Thiel
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Pakistan Internet startups

Peter Thiel Is the Managing Partner of The Founders Fund. He previously worked at Stanford Law School as a Visitor. Peter Thiel attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 211
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$8.5M; Series A $3M–$32M; Series B $16M–$105M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hebbia — Hebbia's neural search lets you execute research 10X faster and 10X more accurately. Transform your productivity today.
  • Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.
  • Kriya Therapeutics — Kriya is a biopharmaceutical company developing gene therapy to address common diseases that impact millions of people worldwide. Learn more.
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Warren Hogarth
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Pakistan Internet startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Australia, Pakistan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$13M; Series B $11M–$30M; Series C $13M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

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 — Even better than plant based. Discover umami-rich protein crafted from shiitake mushrooms. Simple ingredients, created for chefs.
  • 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.
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Internet Angel investor funding in Pakistan at a glance

Stats across 6 deals from 8 investors.

8
investors
in Pakistan Internet startups
6
deals
in Pakistan Internet startups
$2.1M
median round
in Pakistan Internet startups
13%
lead investors
lead at least one round
67%
Seed
most common funding stage

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