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PAKISTAN FINTECH Safepay

Pakistan Fintech Firm Safepay Secures 7-figure Funding From Stripe, And Others SafePay, a fintech firm based in Pakistan, announced that it has raised a seven-figure investment in a new financing round.

by techinasia

2021-02-15

PAKISTAN B2B E-COMMERCE

Pakistan's B2B Marketplace Bazaar Raises $6.5M In Seed Funding Pakistan-based B2B e-commerce marketplace Bazaar has raised a $6.5 million seed round led by Global Founders Capital and Indus Valley Capital.

by DealStreetAsia

2021-01-20

EGYPT Startups Trella

Egypt’s Trella Expands Its Trucking Marketplace to Pakistan Trella’s online marketplace connects shippers with carriers to help them transport goods. The marketplace claims to have brought transparency, affordability, and reliability, for the main stakeholders of the trucking industry.

by MENAbytes

2020-12-01

PAKISTAN Startups Clicky

Pakistan’s Clicky Raises $700,000 for Its Fashion Ecommerce Platform Clicky sells fashion products with a focus on clothing and footwear. Its catalog includes a mix of local and international brands as well as white label products with the SKUs available on the platform exceeding 20,000.

by MENAbytes

2020-11-30

PAKISTAN Startups Conatural

Pakistan’s Conatural Raises $825,000 to Grow Its Natural Beauty Brand Conatural currently has over 50 SKUs – ranging from face washes and anti-aging creams to hair oils and shampoos, with its products being sold at some of the leading hypermarkets and pharmacy chains of the country.

by MENAbytes

2020-11-11

PAKISTAN Startups Tag

Pakistani Fintech Tag Gets In-Principle Approval of Country’S Central Bank, Receives Investment from Former Execs of N26 & Revolut The app will enable users to pay their utility bills, recharge mobile credit, make P2P transfers to other Tag users or any bank account in Pakistan, and keep an eye on their spending.

by MENAbytes

2020-11-03

PAKISTAN Startups MedznMore

Pakistan’s MedznMore Raises $2.6 Million Seed for Its Online Pharmacy The startup is starting with online pharmacy but has plans to exapnd into different other areas of healthtech.

by MENAbytes

2020-10-19

PAKISTAN Startups Byte

Pakistan’s Byte Receives Y Combinator’s Backing to Make Food Delivery Affordable with Its Network Of Dark Kitchens It is currently operating in limited areas of Lahore but also enables users to place takeaway orders and pick up the food from their dark kitchen themselves.

by MENAbytes

2020-08-27

PAKISTAN Startups FUNDING

Pakistan’s Airlift Raises $10 Million in Fresh Funds, Expands into Grocery Delivery Airlift enables users to book rides on premium quality buses that have fixed routes, stops, and times, in Lahore & Karachi.

by MENAbytes

2020-07-02

PAKISTAN Startups ecommerce

Pakistani B2B eCommerce Marketplace Bazaar Raises $1.3 Million in Country’s Largest Pre-Seed Round The deal that’s one of the largest pre-seed rounds of Middle East, North Africa, Turkey & Pakistan was closed entirely on Zoom in less than two weeks.

by MENAbytes

2020-06-02

PAKISTAN Startups FINTECH

Pakistani Fintech SadaPay Gets in-Principle Approval from Country’s Central Bank to Launch Mobile Wallet SadaPay’s services to freelancers could very well be the element that eventually differentiates it from the existing digital wallets in the market.

by MENAbytes

2020-04-28

PAKISTAN Healthcare Dawaai

Pakistan’s Dawaai raises seven-figure investment for its online pharmacy and healthcare platform Dawaai that allows customers to order medicines and other pharmaceutical products through its website or mobile app also allows them to order different lab tests online including Covid-19.

by MENAbytes

2020-04-01

UAE VC Khalifa Fund

UAE fund to allocate $200m to support Pakistani SMEs Abu Dhabi crown prince directs the Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development to allocate money for SMEs in Pakistan

by arabianbusiness

2020-01-03

CHINA POLICY TAX

China to reduce import levies on Pakistan’s goods from 2020 China has announced to reduce taxes on goods imported from Pakistan alongside 22 other countries, from next year, from January next year, the finance ministry announced on Monday.

by brecorder

2019-12-26

CHINA PAKISTAN TRADE

2nd phase of China-Pakistan free trade deal in effect Beijing earlier approved premature activation of the second phase of the pact with Pakistan which was signed during Prime Minister Imran Khan's visit to China in April 2019.

by aa.com

2019-12-04

MIDDLE EAST EGYPT STARTUP

Egypt’s Swvl expands to Pakistan, launches its app-based bus hailing service in Lahore Swvl, the Cairo-headquartered app-based bus booking startup has expanded to Pakistan with its Lahore launch, the startup announced on its Facebook page yesterday.

by MENAbytes

2019-07-22

PAKISTAN SOUTH ASIA Social Champ

Pakistan’s Social Champ raises $100,000 from OTF Wadi for its social media scheduling tool Karachi-based SaaS startup Social Champ has raised $100,000 from Oman Technology Fund’s Wadi Accelerator.

by Rebecca

2019-04-03

Gobi Partners CHINA PAKISTAN

China’s Gobi Partners and Pakistan’s Fatima Ventures launch fund for early-stage Pakistani startups Gobi Partners, a China-headquartered venture capital firm with big presence in Southeast Asia and over $1.1 billion of assets under its management is partnering with Pakistan-based Fatima Ventures that is investing arm of one of the largest conglomerates of the country Fatima Group to launch a $20 million fund to invest in early-stage technology startups in Pakistan, Gobi announced in a statement.

by Lily

2019-04-02

INVESTMENT PAKISTAN STARTUP

Pakistan’s FindMyAdventure raises six-figure seed funding for its online travel marketplace Karachi-based online travel marketplace FindMyAdventure has raised seed funding from a Middle East-based individual investor who has a background in private equity.

by Yan

2019-03-14

INVESTMENT PAKISTAN MOU

Saudi Crown Prince Promises $20 Billion in Investments for Pakistan Saudi Arabia’s crown prince has pledged $20 billion worth of investments in Pakistan to shore up the country’s struggling economy while strengthening bilateral ties at a time when Islamabad is trying to revive its global standing.

by Blake

2019-02-19