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Today’s retail Teardown is special. It’s our first on a company in 🇵🇰 and it’s a company HQ-ed in my hometown. Diving into Airlift – Pakistan’s highest funded startup 👇

Tazah (Tazah) launched in Pakistan in August and has been growing like crazy since. I got into the weeds with founder @abinthemix on: - Building a B2B marketplace - Scaling lessons learned from Careem - When to layer on fintech - The future open.spotify.com/episode/4AcZNz…

‘Tis the season 🧡 instagram.com/p/CatwQK4vSyR/

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We’re excited to announce that Zayn Capital's BitRate Fund has co-led COLABS' $3M seed round with our friends at Indus Valley Capital & Fatima Gobi Ventures. This is the first time the top three Pakistan-focused VCs have teamed up to invest in a startup. techcrunch.com/2022/03/24/col…

Colabs, a Lahore-based co-working space has raised $3 million in a seed round. It is using a beyond real estate approach in order to establish itself as an ecosystem enabler/ supporter. Omar S. Shah @colabspk Indus Valley Capital @ZaynCapitalVC Fatima Gobi Ventures dealstreetasia.com/stories/pakist…

We are proud to announce backing Pakistan’s leading and the fastest growing flexible workspace operator - @colabspk #ShorooqPortfolio #BedayaFund #Pakistan

Colabs has become a key player in Pakistan's startup ecosystem. Excited to personally support their mission!

Let’s go! @colabspk already provides a physical home to some of the fastest-growing startups in Pakistan. Excited to partner with the team as they launch SaaS offerings that will also make operating your business a breeze.

1/This is *not* an April Fools Day joke - our latest Invest2Innovate Insights graphic is out. In Q1 2022, Pakistani 🇵🇰 startups raised $163M in funding via 15 deals -- more than 50% of what was raised in all of 2021 ($350M) & > 7x of what was done in Q1 2021 ($22.2M)/

1/ This is the first time McKinsey & Company podcast featured a discussion on Pakistani startup ecosystem. We are growing and drawing interest from new audiences podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wha…

6 things you should know if you're raising a pre, seed, or Series A round in today's market:

Told people at +92Disrupt that @metric_app was being used by businesses in 48 countries. Found out on Monday that the number has grown to 61, without any paid marketing in any country other than Pk+1. That's 30% of the countries of the world. I am so, so grateful. 🙏🥹 #startup

1/ As of today, Pakistani startups have raised $322M in 2022 (YTD) via 48 deals. Just to give perspective, in 2021, we ended the year w/ startups raising $350M via 83 deals. Not bad considering (a) we still have Q+1 mo left in 2022 & (b) the global slowdown & PK's macro./

The past year has been full of new beginnings, big wins, and lots of strong #relationships we've built along the way! 🌟 🎉 We're most thankful to our amazing community, who we consider #family at COLABS ❤ #coworking #colabspk #work #pakistan #lahore #karachi #islamabad