Pakistani startups raised: $20.3M in Q1 2021 (15 Deals) $85.2M in Q2 2021 (18 Deals) $172.6M in Q3 2021 (17 deals) = $278M raised in total in 2021 YTD (51 Deals) Here are our key takeaways: – The total amount raised from 2015 to present has reached $490M across 224 deals. – Amounts raised in …
Three months into 2021, we review the health of startup deal flow for Q1 in Pakistan’s entrepreneurship ecosystem. So far, it looks like a promising year for startup investment and here is a few reasons why: 1. Fintech is going strong as of last year – with a spike in number of deals in the …
Pakistani startups raised: $19.39M in 2021 Q1 (15 Deals) $81.73M in 2021 Q2 (18 Deals) = $101.12M raised in total in 2021 YTD (33 Deals) Here are our key takeaways: – Q2 recorded 322% increase in amount in comparison with Q1 – The 2021 (YTD) amount ($101.12M) is a 536% increase on the $15.90M that …
Part II: The B2C Online Grocery Segment Over the last decade, E-commerce has been a fast-growing sector across Asia, including in Pakistan. This growth is the result of a number of factors: technological transformation, e-commerce infrastructure, logistical improvements, and socio-cultural demands, which has led to a spike in e-commerce activity and more specifically in online …
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Part I: The B2B Online Grocery Segment The momentum in the grocery e-commerce segment in Pakistan as a whole has been underway for roughly five years (with players such as MandiExpress, Sabzi.pk, QnE, etc. operating since 2015), but the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns helped startups see quick and significant growth. (Read MIT Technology Review’s 2016 piece here) The …
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Why a Deal Flow Tracker? Why Now? At Invest2Innovate, our research arm Insights is dedicated to closing the information gap when it comes to the Pakistan startup landscape. In November 2019, our team released the Pakistan Startup Ecosystem Report, in partnership with the World Bank (with the support of the Women’s Entrepreneurial Finance Initiative, We-Fi). That comprehensive study …
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E-Learning & its Future in Light of COVID-19 Since the outbreak of COVID-19 this year, students of all ages have been confined to their homes for months on end.Lower income schools, in particular, are having a difficult time keeping their students engaged, and most if not all, do not even have a Learning Management System …
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The Age of COVID In February 2020, i2i’s Insights newsletter covered the growth of Pakistan’s travel industry, and its place on various global lists as the next place to visit. In April, just two months later, that same industry was one of the hardest hit due to the global coronavirus outbreak. In addition to travel & …
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KARACHI: Pakistan needs a lax regulatory environment for startups and investors alike, in the form of simpler business structures and tax breaks for the former and incentives for the latter, said Invest2Innovate Ventures Managing Partner Misbah Naqvi. She was addressing the panel discussion ‘Fund raising – the Venture Capital Lens’ at the two-day Momentum Tech …
Invest2Innovate in collaboration with The World Bank launched the 2019 Startup Ecosystem Report at Nest I/O’s 021 Disrupt Conference in Karachi Sunday, November 3rd. The report, which was done via the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi of World Bank), provides a comprehensive analysis of the startup landscape with a finance, regulatory, and gender lens, looking …
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