The Best Pakistani Startups in 2026

Meet the top Pakistani startups of 2026: Bazaar, PostEx, Haball, MedIQ and more. What they do, how much they’ve raised, and how they’re growing.

Pakistan’s startup scene has been through a rollercoaster. Founders raised record sums in 2021, watched money dry up in 2022 and 2023, and are now building more carefully, with a sharper focus on revenue. This guide profiles eight startups worth knowing, explains what each one actually does, and shows how they’re growing. It ends with the patterns the survivors share, which are useful for any founder.

Funding is recovering, but not evenly, and the numbers depend on who’s counting. Invest2Innovate reported that Pakistani startups raised over $74 million in 2025 across 11 disclosed deals, up 121% from $33.5 million in 2024. But most of that was not pure equity: hybrid deals made up roughly $66 million of the $74.2 million total. Data Darbar, counting only equity, reported about $36.6 million across 10 rounds, up from $22.5 million a year earlier, with fewer deals overall. The takeaway: money is coming back for companies with revenue, while the number of deals stays low.

Over the longer view, startups in Pakistan have attracted over $1 billion in funding since 2015. Fintech has led the way, and healthtech has been the second strongest sector. Female-led startups raised $8.8 million in disclosed equity in 2025, nearly a quarter of the total

Bazaar Technologies: 
B2B commerce + fintech        Connects retailers to suppliers; owns Keenu payments                               Roughly $100M+ raised

PostEx:
Logistics + fintech                  Pays e-commerce sellers upfront for cash-on-delivery orders                    650+ cities after an acquisition

Haball: 
B2B fintech                              Digital B2B payments, invoicing, supply chain finance                                  $52M pre-Series A

MedIQ:
Healthtech                               Digital health platform for insurers and corporates                                         $6M Series A, Saudi expansion

Qist Bazaar:
Fintech (BNPL)                        Installment buying for the underbanked                                                          $3.2M Series A

Trukkr:
Freight tech                             Digitizes trucking and fleet finance                                                                  ~$10M equity and debt

Shadiyana:
Wedding tech                          Wedding planning app and vendor marketplace                                              $800K pre-seed

Jams:
Generative AI                          AI video experiences; founders joined OpenAI                                                 Exit for Indus Valley Capital

What it does. Bazaar is a Karachi-based B2B e-commerce platform that lets small retailers source inventory from manufacturers and wholesalers through a mobile app. It also grew into financial services. It was founded in 2020, and by the end of that year it had passed 10,000 Karachi retailers, against an initial target of 800.

How it’s growing. Funding came fast: a $1.3 million pre-seed in 2020, a $6.5 million seed in January 2021, a $30 million Series A that August, and a $70 million Series B in March 2022. In 2025, it bought the payments company Keenu, which gives it merchant coverage in over 150 cities, plus mobile wallets and point-of-sale services. Bloomberg-reported guidance said the company expects to reach profitability in the coming quarters.

Why it matters. Bazaar is Pakistan’s best-funded startup, and it’s betting that commerce and payments work better together.

What it does. Most online orders in Pakistan are paid in cash on delivery, which leaves sellers waiting weeks for their money. PostEx pays merchants upfront on COD orders and pairs that with its own logistics fleet.

How it’s growing. After a seed round that closed at $8.6 million in 2021, PostEx acquired a rival, Call Courier, in August 2022, which took it from three key markets to over 650 cities. In 2024 it raised $7.3 million to expand, starting with Saudi Arabia, and reported non-performing loans below 0.03%. 

What it does. Haball, founded in 2017, digitizes how businesses pay each other. It has three revenue streams: payments aggregation, digital invoicing, and supply chain financing, which lets SMEs get early payment on approved invoices. 

What it does. Founded in Islamabad in 2020 by Dr. Saira Siddique, MedIQ is an AI-powered health platform offering cashless OPD and IPD services, claims management, and digital health tools for insurers, telcos, and banks. 

What it does. Founded in 2021 in Karachi, Qist Bazaar is a buy-now-pay-later platform that lets people buy electronics, phones, home appliances, and even motorbikes on installments. Its customers include domestic workers, rickshaw drivers, students, and micro-entrepreneurs. 

What it does. Trukkr is a Karachi logistics and fintech company, founded in 2019, that offers fleet management, trip coordination, invoicing, and lending for a fragmented trucking industry. It reports serving over 20,000 drivers and 100+ enterprise clients in a logistics market estimated at $35 billion or more. 

What it does. Shadiyana is an Islamabad-based wedding startup whose app lets couples discover and compare vendors, book services, and manage wedding tasks in one place. The company says it has more than 500,000 users, 600+ registered vendors, and 30,000 weddings planned. 

What it does. Jams was a generative AI startup founded by two former Meta engineers, building authentic video experiences with AI. 

Airlift shows what happens when growth outruns funding. It raised $85 million in August 2021, the largest startup round in Pakistan’s history, and shut down in July 2022, blaming the global recession, a downturn in venture capital, and a failed funding round. It started with vans and small buses, then pivoted to quick commerce. The lesson isn’t that big rounds are bad, but that hyper-growth models need constant fresh capital, and that margins matter more when money gets tight.