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Zyp raises $1.2m in seed funding, launches made-in-Pakistan electric bikes with battery swapping

Zyp Technologies, a Pakistani electric vehicles startup, announced on Tuesday that it had raised $1.2 million in seed funding led by Indus Valley...

12.09.2023 5

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Microfinance’s downward spiral

Ever since venture capital (VC) started flowing into Pakistan, the local ecosystem has seen polarising debates on whether the companies being built...

31.07.2023 9

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When tourist investors leave

Imagine it’s early 2022. You are scrolling through LinkedIn and looking at all the gurus talking about the unstoppable rise of Pakistan’s startup...

10.07.2023 10

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Paper exercises of development expenditure

Over the past few years, almost everyone in Pakistan has personally experienced their incomes go down with the erosion of the rupee. It’s a tale all...

19.06.2023 30

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Measures announced for IT ignore the root causes of its challenges

Every year, the federal budget is a cruel reminder of the Pakistani economy’s descent into chaos and the meaninglessness of numbers. The mediocrity...

12.06.2023 10

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How can social engineering scams be controlled?

Almost everyone in Pakistan at one in their life has received scam calls and messages — from those becoming a Benazir Income Support Programme...

22.05.2023 10

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Why should the govt or Federal Shariah Court decide people’s banking preferences?

With an overwhelmingly Muslim majority, there’s largely a distaste towards interest which is usually equated with exploitation, and often for good...

15.05.2023 10

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The super app challenge

For all the cliched takes of finance bros on markets as the best selector of outcomes, the reality is usually different. In fact, they are kind of...

08.05.2023 50

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To mask underlying rot in Pakistani financial services space, banks turn to window dressing

The Pakistani government and banks are in a toxic relationship: the former has sort of an addiction to spending way more than it earns, which the...

17.04.2023 10

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With a spate of layoffs, Pakistan’s nascent startup ecosystem is in a pit of uncertainty

Barely a year ago, there was optimism all around whenever you talked to people from the startup ecosystem. Coming on the back of a stellar 2021 —...

10.04.2023 30

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Looking to grow inorganically

Asif Peer, CEO of Systems Ltd Back in early 2020, the share of the technology and communication index in the KSE-100 market capitalisation used to...

03.04.2023 10

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Startup AdalFi raises $7.5 million in seed funding

AdalFi, a digital lending infrastructure provider, announced on Thursday that it has raised $7.5 million in seed funding — the first major corporate...

16.02.2023 10

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Making the cut for digital banking licenses

The State Bank of Pakistan has finally picked its winners of the five digital banking licenses from the 20 contenders that had tossed their hats in...

23.01.2023 10

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Pakistan’s tech investment activity plunges to 10-quarter low in 2022

Good things come to those who wait and for Pakistan’s tech ecosystem, the wait finally seemed to be over in 2021. Funding surged over 5x to $366...

02.01.2023 50

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