Top 45 Marketplace Angel Investors in Pakistan in May 2025
A list of 45 angel investors that invest in Marketplace startups based in Pakistan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Marketplace companies from Pakistan. We update this investor list every month.Top 45 Marketplace Angel Investors in Pakistan in May 2025
Investor | Marketplace Pakistan investments |
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Asif Keshodia | 5 |
Wes Schwalje | 3 |
Walid Aradi | 3 |
Saad Saeed | 2 |
Umar Saleem | 2 |
Sung Ho Choi | 2 |
Youssef Salem | 2 |
Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen | 2 |
Timur Daudpota | 2 |
Matt Brezina | 2 |
Siqi Chen | 2 |
Sajid Rahman | 2 |
Sahil Bloom | 2 |
Arash Ferdowsi | 1 |
Dylan Field | 1 |
Ziyad Alami | 1 |
Simone Mancini | 1 |
Peter Thiel | 1 |
Jon Puckhaber | 1 |
Mohamed Nanabhay | 1 |
Immad Akhund | 1 |
Umair Masoom Usmani | 1 |
Nadeem Hussain | 1 |
Khaled Alami | 1 |
Mir Aamir | 1 |
Aly Hesham | 1 |
Mahmoud Ibrahim | 1 |
Weihan Liew | 1 |
Syed Sheharyar Ali | 1 |
Christopher Rust | 1 |
Kyane Kassiri | 1 |
Austen Allred | 1 |
Babs Ogundeyi | 1 |
Umair Wazir | 1 |
Ryan Petersen | 1 |
Manu Midha | 1 |
Edvard Engesæth | 1 |
Keisuke Honda | 1 |
Chase Lochmiller | 1 |
Andy Preikschat | 1 |
Matt Caspari | 1 |
Jenny Lee | 1 |
Khurram Lalani | 1 |
Julian Shapiro | 1 |
Alexandre Lazarow | 1 |
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
- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Consumer Goods
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Australia
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.
Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
- PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
- Chhotastock — Temukan pengalaman bermain toto togel 4D dan toto slot terbaik di SAUDARATOTO. Bergabunglah dengan situs toto resmi yang terpercaya di Asia, dengan berbagai pilihan permainan dan peluang kemenangan besar. Daftar sekarang dan rasakan sensasi menang besar!
Entrepreneur, investor. Advising global tech companies navigate through MENA+ regulatory environments, market entry and scaling
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Internet, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, Nigeria, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Omnisient — Privacy-Preserving Data Collaboration platform enabling businesses to collaborate while ensuring consumer privacy and data protection.
- Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
- Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
Saad Saeed is a Pakistani serial entrepreneur based in Berlin, Germany, known for his ventures in the consumer sector. His portfolio includes a range of innovative companies, including a health tech company called Crumb, a grocery delivery unicorn called Flink, and his latest travel AI company called Layla. He is also an active business angel witha degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.
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Investment focus
- Grocery, Delivery, Consumer Goods
- Pre-Seed
- Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Krave Mart — Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes.
Umar Saleem, SWVL.
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Investment focus
- Grocery, Delivery, Consumer Goods
- Pre-Seed
- Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Krave Mart — Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes.
Sung Ho C. is the Managing Director at Fubo Gaming. He attended University of Chicago.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Glitzi — Terapeutas certificados y expertos en belleza confiables, que garantizan la mejor experiencia.
- GoSats — Earn bitcoin rewards when you shop online at your favourite brands in India.
- Estimated Inc. — A new world for artists
Youssef Salem CFO at Swvl.
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Investment focus
- Grocery, Delivery, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Krave Mart — Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes.
- PostEx — PostEx is a hybrid of receivables factoring solutions and courier services that pay invoice values upfront to e-commerce companies offering Cash on Delivery as one of their modes of payment.
- Hotdesk — Instant access to workspaces anywhere at your fingertips. Unlock your productivity and #GetThingsDone.
Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen is a Co-Founder & serves as a Partner at 2xN. Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen was General Partner at Balderton Capital in London from 2015-2021 through four funds. He joined after spending a decade in Silicon Valley where he was with Uber and Dropbox.Since 2012 his venture track record includes two IPOs (Uber, Dropbox) and 11acquisitions.Lars joined Balderton from Uber which he joined when the company was operating in less than 20 cities. His role as Vice-President resulted in strategic alliances. Lars joined Uber from Dropbox as one of the company’s first 25 employees. As Head of Mobile, his growth deals with Samsung and other mobile OEMs helped Dropbox reach its first 100 million users. Prior to that Lars held positions at Voicesignal (acq. Nuance), Skyhook Wireless (acq. TruePosition), Ness Technologies (acq. Opentable), 3Jam (acq. Skype) and T9 Tegic (acq. AOL). More than a billion people have used the software and services distributed as a result of mobile growth partnerships led by Lars.His venture investments include Voi (Raine), Labster (A16Z), Hiya (Ericsson), Cambridge Quantum Computing (HON), Hopin (A16Z), Opensea (A16Z), Yassir (YC), Beacon (Eric Schmidt), The org (Sequoia), Octant (A16Z), Zycada (Khosla), Monarch Money (Accel) and Kukua (Tencent), Dubsmash (acq. Reddit), Tempow (acq. Google), Rahko (acq. Odyssey Therapeutics), Pocket (acq. Mozilla), Blue Bottle (acq. Nestle), Marble (acq. Caterpillar).Lars, who is Danish-Portuguese, grew up across Africa and served with the Royal Danish Guards. He holds a MBA from London Business School, where he also serves on the Board of Trustees, an MSc from Oxford University Keble College and a BSc from King’s College, London. He lives in London with his wife and three children.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Denmark, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- HUBUC — A single API-platform that allows any business to embed financial services capabilities into their products. e.g Uber can issue branded credit cards for all Uber drivers and Walmart provides customers a simple way to better manage and control their everyday finances, with no regulatory burden or compliance requirements in a few weeks.
- LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
- Quantrol Ox — Building Machine Learning Based Software for Quantum Control with a goal to maximise quantum computer uptime.
Timur Daudpota is the Lifecycle & Retention Marketing Manager at Uplandme. He attended University of Houston.
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Investment focus
- 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.
Matt Brezina investor and advisor Ford Street Ventures. University of Maryland.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Transportation
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Mexico, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Aerodome — The future of air support.
- Trek Health — Maximize Practice Revenue with Smart Payment Solutions
- Enara Health — Medically guided, from lifestyle changes to GLP-1 medications, to achieve lifelong results.
Siqi Chen is the Co-Founder of Runway and a Member Board Of Directors at Sandbox VR. Siqi holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from the University of California, San Diego.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Rork — Rork is an AI-powered platform that lets you build complete, cross-platform mobile apps in minutes by simply describing what you want. It uses AI and React Native to generate fully functional apps-examples include visual novel games, Airbnb-style apps, meditation timers, and more. You can export these apps, use them on your phone, and even sharethem via QR codes or links.
- Troveo AI — AI companies are scouring the internet for high-quality video. Troveo helps you capture the value and turn your video into revenue.
- Azura — Azura is a new all-in-one crypto application aggregation layer launched with the assistance of some of the most well-known cryptocurrency pioneers. The company's application and interfacing layer provides reliable access to DeFi assets, real-time market data, and full trade lifecycle support.
Sajid currently works as Managing Partner at
MyAsiaVC He attended London Business School.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- India, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
- EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
- 10 Minute School — 10 Minute School is the largest online educational platform in Bangladesh. Through our website, app, and social media, more than 10 Million+ students are accessing quality education each day to accelerate their learning.
Sahil Bloom
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Investment focus
- Software, Cryptocurrency, Travel
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Unite — We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them.
- Grit — Grit automatically fixes technical debt by combining static analysis and machine learning to generate pull requests that clean up code and migrate to the latest frameworks.
- Forum — Forum is a marketplace for peer support groups that connects mission-driven facilitators with people seeking support for life's biggest challenges–including life transitions, career, health, relationships, and more. Peer support is a proven model for personal change, healing, and growth – and our vision is a world where everyone has easyaccess to it.
Arash Ferdowsi is the Co-Founder & CTO at Dropbox. After studying at MIT, Arash Ferdowsi founded Dropbox with Drew Houston. Dropbox was a TechCrunch50 finalist in 2008.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Onyx — The open-source AI enterprise search platform that helps teams find information across all company data.
- BenchFlow — Largest benchmark hub
- Alinea — Alinea offers a social investing platform for crypto, stocks and playlists. We offer fractional investing, $0 commission on investments, and a minimum as low as $1.
Dylan Field is the CEO and Co-founder of Figma, a design and prototyping platform for teams who build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown University to start Figma with his TA Evan Wallace (who became Figma’s CTO). They built Figma on the web in the hopes of tearing down the walls around thesiloed design process. Dylan champions open, accessible design and believes such tooling must evolve for a cloud-based, collaborative world. He tweets @zoink
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- HeyGen — HeyGen is an innovative video platform that harnesses the power of generative AI to streamline your video creation process. Unleash your creativity with HeyGen - the future of video production.
- Roam — Roam is the platform for affordable home ownership. Roam helps homebuyers purchase their next home with a low-interest rate mortgage included.
- Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
Ziyad Alami is a Business Development Director at Huda Lighting.
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Investment focus
- 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.
Simone Mancini currently works as CEO and Co-Founder of Scalapay. He previously worked at Prospa. as Product Manager of New Ventures.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Italy, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- 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.
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
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Germany, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Rescale — Rescale is a high performance computing cloud simulation platform that helps engineers and scientists build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations with high performance computing and automations.
- Mercor — Mercor is a better way to find opportunities. We're an AI-powered platform that sources, vets, and pays your next team members.
- Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.
Jon Puckhaber is a Senior Equity Analyst at Alvento Capital Partners LLP.
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Investment focus
- 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.
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
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Indonesia, France
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.
Immad Akhund is the CEO and Founder of Mercury.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Enki — Enki is the most effective way to learn Looker, Tableau, SQL, Excel, and other data skills. Training fully customized by role and team. Use data in the highest impact way for your role.
- Town — The complete tax solution for small businesses like yours
- Campfire (YC W22) — Start having fun with your remote friends with Campfire.
Umair Masoom Usmani
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce
- Angel
- Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Buypass — Buypass is a B2C eCommerce platform that aims to digitizing offline commerce in the shopping and services sector through its digital super software application & AI technology.
Nadeem Hussain
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Investment focus
- 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.
Khaled Alami is a Managing Director at Huda Lighting.
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Investment focus
- 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.
Mir Aamir
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Affiliate Marketing
- Seed
- Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Savyour — Shop smarter with Savyour. Earn upto 40% Cashback at 1500+ stores or shop the marketplace for electronics, clothing, grocery, and more'
Aly Hesham, Global Head of Expansions at Swvl.
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Investment focus
- Grocery, Delivery, Consumer Goods
- Pre-Seed
- Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Krave Mart — Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes.
Mahmoud Ibrahim is the CEO and Co-Founder at Homzmart.
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Investment focus
- Grocery, Delivery, Consumer Goods
- Pre-Seed
- Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Krave Mart — Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes.
Weihan is a serial technology entrepreneur in Southeast Asia with twenty years of experience, having founded and successfully exited companies in the media and gaming space.
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Investment focus
- B2B, Energy, Retail
- Seed, Series A
- Pakistan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Tajir — Tajir offers full transparency on the prices of various products, addressing a challenge that store owners confront offline each day, and sells and delivers inventories to the stores, said the Khan brothers, whose father ran an FMCG retail distribution business for three decades.
- Marham - Healthcare Super App — Pakistans most trusted platform to find doctors, book appointment, or consult online with the top specialist doctors across Pakistan.
- Conatural Beauty —
Syed Sheharyar Ali, Executive Director and CSO at Treet Group Of Companies.
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Investment focus
- Audio, Music, Travel
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Pakistan, United Kingdom
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.
Christopher Rust is the Co-Founder and Partner at Clear Ventures.
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Investment focus
- Software, Enterprise Software, Manufacturing
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Kaiam — Shilajit Resin UK Sourced from the Himalayas, Pure Shilajit resin boosts energy, vitality, and wellness. Free UK shipping on all orders.
- 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.
Emerging market investor. Partner @ RaliCap.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Finance, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Nigeria, Pakistan, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Kippa — ## Build Setup
- Simulon — Studio-quality VFX on a mobile. Sign up to the Simulon beta.
- Markaz Technologies — Markaz provides an online reselling platform to help anyone in Pakistan source wholesale products from across the country and sell with a profit through their own social media stores on WhatsApp and Facebook without investing any money, from the comfort of their home.Markaz is on a mission to supercharge the rails of ecommerce and make itaccessible to masses in Pakistan by enabling and empowering micro-entrepreneurs.
Austen Allred co-founded Lambda School and serves as its CEO.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- Rork — Rork is an AI-powered platform that lets you build complete, cross-platform mobile apps in minutes by simply describing what you want. It uses AI and React Native to generate fully functional apps-examples include visual novel games, Airbnb-style apps, meditation timers, and more. You can export these apps, use them on your phone, and even sharethem via QR codes or links.
- Kick — Daily bookkeeping for the modern business owner. Minimize your audit risk and only pay when you save. Join now and get your first $5,000 in Savings Credits.
- Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.
Cofounder and CEO of Kuda
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Investment focus
- 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 — 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.
As the CEO of Hills Dot Software House, I'm passionate about harnessing the power of digital marketing to help businesses thrive. With a focus on innovation and data-driven strategies, I lead our team to deliver exceptional results for our clients." (This emphasizes your forward-thinking approach and focus on client success)
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Investment focus
- SEO, Software, E-Commerce
- Series A
- Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Hills Dot — Hills Dot Software House is a comprehensive IT services provider, offering a wide range of solutions in e-commerce, digital marketing, graphic design, WordPress development, SEO optimization, content writing, app development, and web development. With a customer-centric approach and a focus on innovation, Hills Dot Software House delivers tailoredsolutions to businesses of all sizes, helping them navigate the digital landscape and achieve their goals. Our team of experts is committed to excellence, delivering high-quality services that drive results and exceed expectations. From developing custom e-commerce platforms to crafting engaging content and designing visually stunning graphics, we are dedicated to helping our clients succeed in the competitive online space. At Hills Dot Software House, we combine creativity, expertise, and cutting-edge technology to empower businesses to thrive in the digital age and beyond.
Ryan Petersen is the CEO and Founder of Flexport. Prior to starting Flexport to fix the user experience in global trade, Ryan was co-founder and CEO of ImportGenius.com, a data-as-a-service business for global shipping. He holds a degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Nuvo — Onboard customers through configurable, high-converting branded experiences that accelerate credit approvals, unlock revenue, and reduce fraud.Nuvo replaces manual credit forms with AI-powered application flows, real-time business and principal identity verification, and embedded credit insights—enabling confident decisions that protect and growyour business. Designed for complex trade partnerships, Nuvo is the B2B commerce platform trusted and preferred by 40,000 businesses.
- Teleport — Teleport is ridesharing reimagined as a protocol. By distributing ownership and governance of the network, riders get cars cheaper and faster, drivers earn more, and entrepreneurs can innovate on top.
- Little Umbrella — Future is Fun with Social & AI Games. At Little Umbrella, we create AI-powered games that deliver immersive experiences, bringing families, friends, and communities closer together. Proudly serving a growing community of over 30 million players
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
- 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.
Edvard Engesæth is the Co-Founder at Nurx and a Venture Partner at Sondo Capital.
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- SaaS, B2B, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Greece, Norway
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- Tajir — Tajir offers full transparency on the prices of various products, addressing a challenge that store owners confront offline each day, and sells and delivers inventories to the stores, said the Khan brothers, whose father ran an FMCG retail distribution business for three decades.
- Breyta — Gather all your qualitative data and our AI assistant transcribes, analyses and delivers you accurate product insights and patterns at scale in seconds.
- Journey Clinical — Journey Clinical is a platform that provides services to member psychotherapy practices that are independently owned and operated, and in no way owns, directs, or controls the mental healthcare clinicians providing care.
Keisuke Honda is the Founder & CEO of Now Do.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Japan, United Kingdom
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- Unite — We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them.
- Krave Mart — Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes.
- AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
Chase is an avid tech enthusiast that is passionate about enabling new technologies like AI and blockchain to positively impact people’s lives. Prior to founding Crusoe, Chase was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, a $1Bn fund investing in blockchain technologies, digital assets and energy-intensive computing applications. Chase was previouslya quantitative researcher and trader at Jump Trading and GETCO, where he developed and managed a portfolio of algorithmic trading strategies. Chase holds undergraduate degrees in math and physics from MIT and a masters degree in computer science from Stanford, where he specialized in artificial intelligence. As a personal interest, Chase has climbed five of the “seven summits” including Mt. Everest.
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- Internet, B2B, Retail
- Series A, Seed
- Pakistan, United States
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- Tajir — Tajir offers full transparency on the prices of various products, addressing a challenge that store owners confront offline each day, and sells and delivers inventories to the stores, said the Khan brothers, whose father ran an FMCG retail distribution business for three decades.
- Ritual — Ritual is a reaction to the aforementioned issues. Fundamentally, it is envisioned as an open, modular, and autonomous AI execution layer. Ritual connects a distributed network of nodes with access to compute and model developers.
- Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
Andy Preikschat is CEO of Don's RV, a top-20 RV dealer in California. He is CIO of Edgebrook Partners, which has 9 B2B software investments, and is an Angel Investor. He has degrees from Stanford University and Claremont McKenna College.
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- Marketplace, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Pakistan, Hong Kong
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- Dukkantek — Dukkantek aims to empower and enable traditional merchants to be able to compete in the modern world or the digital world through digital transformation. It is a technology partner that improves and provides so many solutions to your business. Dukkantek has what every store needs to manage their business easily and efficiently. With Dukkantek, you will have an end-to-end technology companion that improves all your processes.
- FreightFlows — Freightflows is a maritime company that offers predictive analytics for global trade. It specializes in the fields of analytics, big data, data science, and machine learning. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Dastgyr Technologies — Simplifying Global Trade
Managing Partner at Strawberry Creek Ventures, an Alumni Ventures fund. AngelList syndicate lead. 2x venture-backed founder/CEO. Former Innovation @ Nike
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- Software, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Pakistan
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- Clover — Clover lets you explode traditional, linear documents into an infinite "surface" for a more intuitive, visual way of note-taking, brainstorming, mind-mapping, and managing tasks.
- Cabinet Health — Cabinet is the world's leading sustainable healthcare company. We bring you sustainably packaged medicines in low or no plastic containers.
- The Better Meat Co. — The Better Meat Co. is a B2B ingredients company that offers plug-and-play plant protein formulations that quickly and cost-effectively enhance (or even replace) your meat products while improving nutrition, flavor, and yield.
Jenny Lee joined GGV Capital back in 2005 as a managing partner and was instrumental in setting up the GGV presence in China.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- China, United States, Singapore
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- Tajir — Tajir offers full transparency on the prices of various products, addressing a challenge that store owners confront offline each day, and sells and delivers inventories to the stores, said the Khan brothers, whose father ran an FMCG retail distribution business for three decades.
- Fiix — Our certified mobile mechanics will come to your office or any location to service your car.
- AGORAB2B — B2B SaaS eCommerce platform designed for digitalisation and engagement with B2B Clients. We allow create B2B Cabinet, B2B eCommerce stores, marketplaces, B2B/B2C/B2G, Sypplyers Procurements Systems(SRM).Our platform allows the launch new project in 3 times faster than traditional platforms. We use the LOW CODE approach for launch MVP.This company provides SaaS and OnPremise options. Growth opportunity: All market tired from long terms of development and quality. We suggest another approach. We make platform which can integrate without developers. It is cheeper and faster. And each business or consult partners will be able make digital transformation without long implement in future.
Khurram Lalani - Consultant @ Asian Development Bank
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- Training, Marketplace, Professional Services
- Seed
- Pakistan
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- Consuldents — Consuldents aims to create a marketplace community for leading students and organizations to list, discover, and execute short term consultancy assignments in wide array of technical fields ranging from engineering to business and public policy.Whether working on a next drone program for a startup, textile designing assignment for a smallenterprise or an R&D effort for a large multinational organization, Consuldents provide fast and secure way to collaborate on cutting edge assignments. With a commitment to world-class customer service and an ease of collaboration at a secure platform, Consuldents is the easiest way for students to gain valuable experience while working with the real pros of industry.Consuldents was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Islamabad, Punjab.
Julian Shapiro is a Partner at Hyper and a Startup Investor at Julian.capital. He previously worked as the Founder of Demand Curve, a Columnist — Growth Marketing at TechCrunch, and VP of Marketing at Webflow. Julian attended Y Combinator.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Bangladesh, Pakistan
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- DealCart — DealCart enables users to buy their favorite products in groups by allowing users to buy in groups and sharing deals on WhatsApp and other social media platforms.
- Pogo — Unlock the power of your data to earn and save on shopping, finances and more. Download the Pogo app today to start earning and saving cash. 4.9 stars in the App Store.
- Agroshift — Agroshift helps farmers sell their produce to businesses and consumers by providing a tech-enabled supply chain.
Alexandre Lazarow is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Founder and Managing Director of Fluent Ventures. Alexandre previously worked at Cathay Innovation as a Venture Partner. Alexandre Lazarow attended Harvard Business School.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, InsurTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
- United States, Chile, Brazil
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- DealCart — DealCart enables users to buy their favorite products in groups by allowing users to buy in groups and sharing deals on WhatsApp and other social media platforms.
- Boost Technology — Enabling informal small businesses to thrive in Africa's emerging digital economy
- Bamboo Debt Capital Markets Platform — Bamboo Debt Capital Markets Platform helps originators find funding and helps investors find great high yield investments
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