Investors Panel

Faisal Aftab

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Zayn Capital

Faisal is a Co-Founder of Zayn Capital; He is the Managing Partner of Zayn Capital Frontier GP, a venture capital fund with a primary focus on seed and growth stage ventures in Pakistan and MENA.

His notable investment calls include some of the top names in the regional startup ecosystem: GrocerApp, KTrade, Truck It In, Bookme.pk, Roomy.pk, Bagallery.com, MandiExpress.pk and KnowledgePlatform.com.

Aatif Awan

Founder & Managing Partner, Indus Valley Capital

Aatif Awan is Founder and Managing Partner of Indus Valley Capital, a Pakistan-focused early stage VC fund. He led the first investment round for Atoms, Airlift, AimFit and Bazaar and is a Board Director for all of them. Aatif is also a member of First Round Capital’s Angel Track and OnDeck’s Angel Fellowship.

Salman Gaba

Investment Associate, 47 Ventures

Hamza Iqbal

Founder & CEO, Healthwire

Hamza Iqbal is the Founder & CEO of Healthwire, a health-tech startup focused on aggregating all stakeholders of the healthcare ecosystem on its platform and providing a seamless digital healthcare experience to patients.

Healthwire is a graduate of NIC LUMS (formerly LCE) and has raised $700,000 from 47 Ventures, a Pakistan focused venture capital fund.

Junaid Iqbal

Former Managing Director, Careem Pakistan & Careem Pay

Junaid Iqbal is former Managing Director of Careem Pakistan and Careem Pay. He’s an investor and partner at Mentors Fund, and Chairman of Salt Arts, a music, art and entertainment agency. Previously, her served as CEO of Elixir Securities.

With a background in economics and financial leadership, Junaid is a results-oriented, entrepreneurial and people-focused senior management professional with a consistently strong record of accomplishment in leading turnaround and growth strategies.

Usman Javaid

CEO, Ricult Inc.

Usman Javaid is Co-Founder and CEO of Ricult Inc, a US based, award winning, fintech and agtech company that uses data analytics to help smallholder farmers work their way out of poverty in developing countries. Currently, Ricult operates in Thailand and Pakistan.

Usman has extensive corporate experience in Pakistan with Engro, Nestle and Telenor, where he was part of the team that launched EasyPaisa.

Ali Farid Khawaja

Chairman, KASB Securities

Ali Farid Khwaja is Chairman of KASB Securities, and CEO of Oxford Frontier Capital based in London.

Previously, Ali was CFO and Board Director of SafeCharge Group, a global FinTech company listed on London Stock Exchange (acquired by Nuvei from Canada). He brings more than 17 years of experience in equity research and investment, starting his career as a top-ranked technology sector analyst in Europe at Berenberg and UBS. He was also a Partner at Autonomous Research (now a part of Alliance Bernstein).

As a Rhodes Scholar, Ali graduated with a degree in Financial Economics from the University of Oxford-Said Business School, and an undergraduate degree in Economics and Computer Science from LUMS.

Ali is patron of the British Pakistan Foundation.

Shoaib Zahid Malik

Partner, Walled City Co.

Ali Mukhtar

Founder & General Partner, Fatima Gobi Ventures

Ali Mukhtar is the founder and CEO of Fatima ventures and General Partner at Fatima Gobi Ventures (FGV), a technology venture fund co-managed by Fatima Ventures and China head quartered Gobi Partners.

Under Ali’s leadership FGV has already invested in high growth companies including Airlift, Tajir and Sasta Ticket and will continue to support the most promising tech entrepreneurs in the country.

Hussain Nasir

CEO, Rolustech