Payments finally clear
Payoneer, Wise and merchant-of-record rails let a Lahore team bill Denver in dollars. No US entity required.
Pre-seed & seed · Pakistan
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Capital for the founders building here.
The first institutional cheque into software built from Pakistan. One user who already cares, a wedge narrow enough to win, and revenue that never touches the rupee.
Pre-seed
Entry stage
$50–250K
Target first cheque
5–10%
Target ownership
First
Institutional money in
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Why now
Six things changed at once.
Twenty years of exporting billable hours. The conditions for exporting products arrived all at once.
The services bench is deep
Two decades of outsourcing built engineers who ship to Western buyers. Nobody has funded them as a product bench.
Distribution went self-serve
Search, community and API marketplaces reach any category from anywhere. The buyer's postcode stopped being the gate.
Cost base is a real edge
A team here goes default-alive on less than one Bay Area salary. Runway is the cheapest moat there is.
Returning operators
Senior people who scaled companies abroad are back, and want to build rather than advise.
The first cheque is missing
Regional funds arrive at Series A with a metrics bar set elsewhere. Nobody writes the cheque before that.
Wedge
Built in Pakistan, sold abroad.
Engineering centre of gravity here. A customer paying hard currency there. The clearest advantage a company can start with.
Not a generalist fund. If you are out of scope, you hear it in the first conversation.
- Developer and technical tools In scope
- Vertical SaaS for export buyers In scope
- AI applied to a named workflow In scope
- B2B fintech infrastructure In scope
- Marketplaces with one dense side In scope
- Consumer apps monetised by ads Out of scope
- Capital-heavy commerce and logistics Out of scope
- Licensed lending or deposit-taking Out of scope
What we do
A first cheque, and the work around it.
Capital is the easy half. The scarce half is the operating detail that makes a strong team here legible to a foreign investor.
Get incorporated correctly
Delaware or ADGM topco, Pakistan subsidiary, clean cap table, IP assigned. Wrong here is expensive at Series A.
First ten customers abroad
We work the outbound list with you. Introductions we can actually make, not a logo wall.
The next round
What a Gulf, London or US seed investor will ask — and the twelve months of evidence that answers it.
On the ground
Where the work actually happens.
Desks in Lahore and Karachi. A port that clears the freight. A buyer on the other side of a time zone.
Tell us what you have shipped.
Not the deck. What it does, who pays, and what the next twelve months would prove.