At Invest2Innovate, we have built an amazing community of mentors, investors, partners, and friends who make what we do in Pakistan possible. As Brad Feld, the co-founder of Techstars, wrote in Startup Communities, “Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers; if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners.”

We are passionate about developing the life cycle for entrepreneurs – from partnering with incubators and startups competitions that produce ideas that can be fed into the Invest2Innovate pipeline, to working with local and international investors who our entrepreneurs can access for future funding. We want to see success stories emerge from growth markets like Pakistan, which means collaborating with all stakeholders in the startup ecosystem to better support the growth of these companies. It also speaks to the growth of our own work since 2011, and how we take an ecosystem-based approach in how we operate.