Bykea is Pakistan’s largest network of motorbikes that can provide on-demand taxi, logistics and payments services to over 20 million consumers and businesses in Pakistan’s three largest cities (Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad).

Bykea services a large, underserved market of affordable rides and deliveries by leveraging existing but underutilized assets: motorbikes and cell phones. Each driver partner is scored to graduate from basic taxi services to SME deliveries to money transfer services. Bykea’s platform is playing a key role in increasing the financial earnings of its partners (drivers) and creating franchisee micro entrepreneurs.

The company was founded by Muneeb Maayr, former CEO of Daraz (which was acquired by Ali Baba for ~$150 million) and SNL Financial Pakistan (which was acquired by S&P Global).

SimPaisa is a digital payment solution provider that onboards app developers/merchants by being the one-stop shop solution for their monetization needs. Apps can monetize from their user base as Simpaisa enables its users to pay for digital services using a variety of options such as the balance on their mobile phone sim, existing e-wallets and credit cards.

Simpaisa processes millions of payments each day and has extensive data about user profiles and payment preferences around Pakistan.

With less than 20% of the population being banked, SimPaisa’s offering is unique; it is the only payment platform integrated with three of the four telecom operators and with two of the largest wallet providers in the country that can enable over a 100 million Pakistanis to pay and consume services digitally.

Abhi is a financial wellness platform allowing users to withdraw their accrued salary as it is earned for a small fee. Abhi’s vision is to transform the way Pakistanis access credit and address the absence of formal nano lending options for employees.

Abhi was founded by Omair Ansari and Ali Ladhubhai. Omair previously held roles at Morgan Stanely and Vostok Emerging Finance. Ali previously worked at HSBC in Dubai and then moved back to work at Foree Pay. In  2021, they launched Abhi Finance.

Revolving Games (RG) is a mobile game studio based out of Lahore and San Francisco that develops scalable massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) with Deep Strategy.

Gaming globally is a large and growing market, but it is challenging to develop the technology needed to run a successful MMO with millions of players. RG’s proven game developers are uniquely positioned to capitalise on this opportunity by leveraging their experience of making games targeted at a global audience (out of the SF studio) while benefiting from cost advantages of running LiveOps out of Pakistan, thereby increasing the profit potential of each game by a considerable margin.

The company is founded by Ammar Zaeem, former CEO of Caramel Tech Studios (merged with SF-based Cloudcade Studio) who leads a team of game development veterans with experience of working on games that have generated over $500m in revenue. 

Dawaai is an online pharmacy that has warehouses in several cities across the country. Through its B2B and B2C offering, Dawaai is looking to dominate the $3 billion industry in Pakistan and become the largest pharmaceutical aggregator in the country. It also provides qualitative information addressing the problem of bad advice at retail pharmacies and ensures authenticity of drugs to customers.

Pakistan’s pharmaceutical industry continues to grow at a double digit rate and the existing retail market remains fragmented.  We believe the size of the market and the fragmented nature of retail operations provides an opportunity for Dawaai to disrupt the pharmacy space right now and over time lead the digitization of the healthcare industry in Pakistan.

Dawaai was founded by Furquan, a Cambridge University graduate who relocated to Pakistan from London after fulfilling roles at Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and RBS.

TruKKer (formerly TruckSher) is a trucking marketplace that connects shippers with truck owners and drivers to help them book their cargo loads for transportation in Pakistan and Afghanistan. TruKKer has invested heavily into an advanced technology platform that integrates with a digital customer interface for shippers i.e. manufacturers or traders along with an app for thousand of truck owners and drivers in Pakistan.

Abid Butt, who serves as Managing Director, completed his MBA from INSEAD and entered the logistics space in Pakistan through e2e Logistics. He now runs day to day operations at TruKKer.

ProCheck started as a track and trace solution provider helping manufacturers protect their products against counterfeits by using 2D barcoding technology.

Since then, the company has broadened its offering to provide an end-to-end ‘Digital Factory’ solution for manufacturers which improves efficiency across the value chain through improved visibility, transparency, and traceability. The company is led by Saim Siddiqui who studied and worked in Canada prior to his relocation back to Pakistan. 

Patari is a streaming and content generation platform focused on Pakistani music. It has a catalogue of over 50,000 songs from more than 3,000 artists, the largest collection of Pakistani audio content globally.

A large segment of Pakistan’s 210 million population consumes music and audio content in one form or the other, and there is high demand for local content from the SEC B and below demographic. Given the fast pace of smartphone penetration and internet connectivity growth in the country, an increasingly large number of consumers are expected to move their music and audio consumption to digital sources. Patari is ideally placed to benefit from that trend if it manages to become the platform of choice for consumption of Pakistani music.

Roomy PK is a chain of hotels, yurts, and guest houses with the aim to revolutionise the budget accommodation industry in Pakistan by standardizing the quality of service and improving customer experience.

Tapmad operates primarily in the broadcasting, radio, and television industry. It is known as Pakistan's top streaming platform, offering a variety of content including ad-free sports, live cricket matches, Pakistani dramas, and dubbed movies and dramas, all available in high definition.

In Pakistan, small and medium businesses create an estimated 60% of employment opportunities. With more than 2 million small scale retailers lacking ease of inventory procurement, their earning potential is retained. This impacts the livelihoods of small owners, their employees and families. Jugnu aims to service these small and medium retailers (kiryanas), allowing them to place orders for their inventory through its application

Jugnu’s founding team are second-time founders that have previously built a cloud-based SaaS business (Salesflo) that is the leading B2B sales and distribution platform in Pakistan’s FMCG market. Jugnu’s founders’ experience from having scaled Salesflo equips them with unparalleled information that has helped them develop deep insights into the complex problems within the distribution supply chain in Pakistan. The team can now leverage its knowledge and relationships with manufacturers to build an edge over competition.

Jiye Kissan was founded in 2021 and operates as a three-way B2B marketplace. It connects farmers to retailers of fresh agricultural products through its own warehousing and fulfillment, as well as working with larger-scale partners. Jiye Kissan cuts the numerous links between production and the ultimate seller, optimizes the time, and utilizes economies of scale to provide higher quality goods at the doorstep of retailers. Sarmayacar joined hands with them in December 2021, to take this mission further.

The founding team demonstrates excellence in their prior endeavors. Ali holds a Business Management degree from BNU and subsequently joined Careem as the 5th employee, where the ride-hailing service grew from 100 to 170,000 rides per day. He is also the third generation of a family established in Agri Marketplace. Ahmed brings with him over 10 years of experience in cross-functional supply chains and holds an MBA from Drexel University. Osama holds a BBA from IBA, after which he has worked for over 5 years in B2B and B2C sales for FMCGs. He later led national operations for SWVL Pakistan and Global Category for SWVL Global.

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Pakistan’s digital healthcare industry has seen rampant growth during the pandemic. Previously Pakistan had approximately one doctor catering to every 1300 people. The pandemic further restricted access to quality healthcare services because of government-imposed lockdowns. Oladoc is one of the players which aims to provide Pakistan’s growing population of 220 million access to qualified doctors from the comfort of their homes. Apart from being a doctor booking platform, Oladoc has also introduced lab test bookings. It has served over 15 million patients through its network of 25000+ PMC verified doctors, across 100+ specialties. It aims to make healthcare in Pakistan accessible, affordable, and transparent for all.

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Founded in 2016 by brothers Abid Zuberi (CEO) and Arif Zuberi (CTO), Oladoc’s doctor booking platform was developed in 2018. The founders have held noteworthy prior endeavors. Abid studied at LUMS and did his MBA from Concordia (Canada); he has previously worked at Nestle and Coca-Cola. Arif studied at Tampere University (Finland) before working at Nokia and Symphony Teleca.

Dot & Line (D&L) is an after-school education platform that helps educated stay-at-home women set up technology enabled tuition centres online for school-going children.

The company has developed a curriculum in-house which is provided to teacher-partners together with training, student materials and centralised parent acquisition in exchange for commission from student fees. Founded by two female graduates of the London School of Economics, Maheen Adamjee and Lina Ahmed, D&L’s business works exclusively with female teachers and is seeking to bring educated women who cannot work outside of their homes due to cultural barriers into the workforce. 

E-Processing Systems Pvt. Ltd. is a subsidiary of Systems Limited which is accoladed as the pioneer of Pakistan’s IT industry since its inception in 1977. Systems Limited has progressed exponentially in bringing upfront technological solutions in almost every domain and given the elaborate experience it has, the evolving financial landscape in Pakistan encouraged the company to identify fintech domain as a grave opportunity for which they made a separate subsidiary by the name of EP Systems Pvt. Ltd.

It’s flagship fintech platform OneLoad is one of the largest mass market financial access platforms in Pakistan, enabling its retailers to deliver telecom, digital payments and banking services to several million unbanked customers each month. OneLoad’s vision is to fully digitize supplier payment settlements and digital payment acceptance for micro-retailers. As of today, OneLoad has expanded its network to 50,000+ retailers whilst the company has also received in-principle approval from the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to operate as an Electronic Money Institution (EMI).