i2i Ventures

About i2i Ventures

Our team has worked with startups in Pakistan for over a decade, and have played a direct role in the ecosystem's growth and evolution. We have a deep understanding of the market, and the needs of early-stage companies.

We have a strong global and local network, and help our companies with fundraising, strategy, and partnerships ‍ Our sister entity’s research arm, i2i Insights, supports our portfolio companies on collecting user insights to accelerate their growth

We have a bench of operators & experts that support the growth of our portfolio companies via AMAs, office hours, and hands-on technical support

We know talent is one of the biggest challenges every startup in Pakistan faces We help our companies with sourcing, hiring, and optimizing their talent pool

What Our Founders Say

Our Co-Founder & General Partner Kalsoom Lakhani founded Invest2Innovate in 2011, which was one of the earliest players in the Pakistan startup ecosystem i2i Ventures, our early stage VC fund, launched in August 2019, co-founded by both Kalsoom & Misbah Naqvi They are separate but sister entities -- Invest2Innovate runs ecosystem support programs and houses Insights, which releases comprehensive research on the Pakistan startup space i2i Ventures is a standalone VC fund, but we get exposure to pipeline via Invest2Innovate and work closely with our Insights team, which helps our investment team make better data-driven decisions and also works with i2i Ventures' portfolio companies on user insights & research

We invest in both pre-seed & seed stage companies We are sector agnostic, but are most excited by companies addressing large market opportunities in Pakistan If you're pre-seed, we'll focus mostly on the founding team and the market opportunity, and if you're seed-stage, we'll also dig deeper into your initial traction and actual numbers But most of all, we love & invest in great founders, who are curious, thinking big, know what they don't know, and have what it takes to build big & bold companies

We're really proud of the value we provide our portfolio companies after the deal is done, and our founders are some of our best ambassadors We support our companies on fundraising, strategy via our bench & network, hiring & talent optimization, and user insights via support from our sister company Invest2Innovate's Insights team

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