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Pakistan edtech startup Maqsad gets $2.1M pre-seed to make education more accessible

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Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in strategy consulting and investment banking in London earlier this year in order to found a mobile-only education platform startup, Maqsad , in Pakistan, with a goal “to make education more accessible to 100 million Pakistani students.”

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Give 30 Minutes to Help Pakistan!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I just got an email from another board member that told me that they’re using Ushahadi in Pakistan for the PakReport System! Here’s the information: Give 30 minutes to help Pakistan. But access to relevant, timely, and up-to-date information about the flood remains elusive in this emergency context.

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Nigerian digital bank Kuda is the latest African startup to lay off employees

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The company, having raised more than $90 million in total from investors such as Valar Ventures and Target Global, is also planning an expansion outside Africa to Pakistan. Kuda said in the email that affected staff cuts were made across various departments in the company.

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Oraan raises $3M to increase financial inclusion among Pakistani women

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After working as an investment banker in Canada for a decade, Halima Iqbal moved back to Pakistan in 2017 and quickly realized how difficult it is for women to access financial services. “I Iqbal and Tapal said they are the first women entrepreneurs in Pakistan’s fintech space to raise a seed round. . Iqbal said. .

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PostEx acquires Call Courier to become Pakistan’s largest e-commerce service provider

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million users with over 8,000 merchants across 500 cities in Pakistan, and is on track to having a monthly loan book of more than $12 million. PostEx co-founder and CEO Omer Khan told TechCrunch that according to the World Bank, about 100 million adults in Pakistan don’t have a bank account. PostEx will now serve 1.3 It has raised $8.6

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SnappRetail helps Pakistan’s kiryanas compete against supermarkets

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The number of global retailers, department stores and supermarkets operating in Pakistan is increasing, which spells convenience for consumers, but trouble for kiryanas, or small general stores. The platform also enables them to accept digital and card payments, and access micro credit for working capital.

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Tazah gets pre-seed funding to make Pakistan’s agriculture sector more bountiful

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The founders of Tazah Technologies , a B2B agriculture marketplace in Pakistan, met while serving leadership roles at Uber subsidiary Careem. The startup, which launched two months ago in Lahore, announced today it has raised a $2 million pre-seed round led by Global Founders Capital and Zayn Capital.