Fatima Gobi Ventures
Overview
About Fatima Gobi Ventures
The most active venture capital in Pakistan, Fatima Gobi Ventures combines Fatima Group’s 90 years of on-the-ground knowledge of Pakistan’s entrepreneurial ecosystem and Gobi Partners’ 20 years of success building sustainable, community-uplifting unicorns across Asia.
We Believe
- In connecting entrepreneurial ecosystems, one emerging market at a time.
- In entrepreneurs in Pakistan and their ability to empower communities and address socio-economic issues, given the opportunity and capital to do so.
We Invest
- In diverse sectors and founders, supporting female leaders, promoting gender equality and the Muslim economy.
- Intelligently, using data collated from the flourishing entrepreneurial ecosystems of Northeast and Southeast Asia to find companies locally that have the edge and drive to go beyond Pakistan’s borders.
Our Entrepreneurs
- Are often pioneers or first movers in new markets and technologies, carving their own niches to solve Pakistan’s greatest challenges.
- Constantly thread new paths and break new ground, backed by Pakistan’s business nuances.
Envisioning Pakistan’s Tomorrow, Today
FGV believes a digital, sustainable Pakistan starts with investing in its brightest minds and best tech founders. The fund focuses on digitizing traditional industries such as logistics, mobility, consumer, retail, travel, or promoting inclusion via the fintech, education, and healthcare sectors. In less than four years, FGV has unearthed Pakistani gems with solutions that are highly scalable to the regional Middle East and North African (MENA) region and globally.
+600K
msme served in 2021
+2.1 M
consumer served in 2021
$11 M
consumer and business loans disbursed in 2021
+2,000
Direct jobs generated in 2021
17%
avg. female employment among portfolio companies
+20,203
Indirect jobs generated in 2021
Our Portfolio

ABHI
Fintech
Abhi is a MENAP neobank driving inclusive finance through earned wage access and SME funding, empowering over a million users.

Qist Bazaar
Fintech
Qist Bazaar is Pakistan’s leading buy now, pay later (BNPL) platform uniquely serving the underserved population.

AdalFi
Fintech
AdalFI’s focus is to enable digital lending in Pakistan using a 100 % AI-based credit scoring model to sync with Bank’s core system to provide end to end consumer lending digitally.

COLABS
Fintech
Colabs is Pakistan’s fastest-growing flexible workspace thoughtfully designed to enable people and businesses to grow.

DealCart
Social Commerce
DealCart is a Pakistani Group Buying Social Commerce Platform that allows users to buy together and save together.

Fasset
Fintech
Fasset is a global digital asset exchange that provides people in emerging markets with accessibility to the digital asset space.

Intellia
Financial Services
Intellia is the world’s first managed talent marketplace for finance and strategy.

InventHub
SaaS
Inventhub is an electronics design collaboration and data management platform that helps maximize product quality.

Lean Technologies
Fintech
Lean Technologies is a FinTech startup that develops a platform to provide access to consumer financial data.

Maqsad
Edutech
Maqsad is an edtech firm that provides localized academic content in a mix of English and Urdu to reach a wider section of school-going children.

PriceOye
E-Commerce
Pakistan’s leading eCommerce platform for Consumer Electronics.

Rider
Logistics
Rider is an e-com logistics startup in Pakistan, giving online shippers a tech-driven, customer-centric, solution to last mile delivery.

Safepay
Fintech
Safepay specializes in digital payments that are secure as well as help merchants receive payments faster by enabling online payments.

SastaTicket.pk
Travel
Sastaticket.pk is a one-stop shop for all travel related services.

Savyour
E-Commerce
Savyour revolutionizes the shopping experience in Pakistan on a holistic level for both consumers and merchants.

Tajir
E-Commerce
Tajir is a B2B marketplace for mom and pop stores in Pakistan.

Tazah Technologies
Agritech
Tazah is a B2B agritech marketplace connecting farmers directly with businesses who sell/consume agri/food products.

Trellis
Fintech
Trellis is committed to provide Islamic home financing accessibility across Pakistan and make their dreams of owning a home a reality.

Truck It In
Logistics
Truck It In is a platform tech company focused on simplifying road freight for 3.3M+ businesses in Pakistan.

Udhaar Book
Fintech
Udhaar Book ia a digital ‘khata’ or bookkeeping app to help small businesses keep track of sales, expenses, and udhaar (credit extended to customers).

Zarya
Social Commerce
Zarya App enables sellers to source products, including apparel for women and children, through its platform and sell them in their network.
Fatima Gobi Ventures
Collaboration of Fatima – Gobi
Gobi Partners is an emerging market VC in Asia founded in 2002, and one of the first movers in the Chinese and Southeast Asian venture space. Gobi’s market intelligence, built on data collected over 20 years of early and growth stage investments across Asia, brings innovation insights and strategic guidance to entrepreneurs relating to growth plans, market adoption strategies and investment best practices.

