Rabeel is the Founder and CEO of Sarmayacar, an early stage VC firm focused on Pakistan. He serves on the boards of a number of Sarmayacar investee companies including Bykea, OneLoad, Revolving Games amongst others. He is also the first Pakistan focused Kauffman Fellow. After graduating from MIT, Rabeel gained his professional experience in London where he initially worked in Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley and then followed it up with Private Equity experience at GIC, Singapore’s Sovereign Wealth Fund.
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00:00 Responding to Venture investment pitches
03:00 Entrepreneurship and assessing them
06:13 Investment in Petari by Sarmayacar
08:08 Music as a vital part of our tradition
10:25 Synopsis of E-commerce and Venture Funds in Pakistan
14:02 Targeting scalable opportunities
15:10 Petari-Evolution and limitations
21:00 Maintaining users at Petari
22:15 Petari in Global perspective
23:57 How does Sarmayacar guide the entrepreneurs funded?
26:10 Challenges for Procheck, funded by Sarmayacar
28:00 Regulatory authorities in Pakistan
30:20 ABHI finance, proposition and funding
33:13 Success story of SIMPAISA by Sarmayacar
37:35 Exiting from the investment funding
38:20 Primary and secondary capital
40:55 Analyzing food delivery service economics-unit economics
43:45 Grocery buying online vs from stores in Pakistan
47:25 Models of Uber and Kareem
50:01 Entrance of BYKEA
52:05 Concept of In-Drive
54:00 Elevated risk analysis by VCs
55:25 Corporate giants vs specialized/personalized services
1:00:29 “Human Effort carries a premium” says Rabeel
1:04:38 Role of Belief and Faith in the system
1:07:06 Future plans of Sarmayacar
1:10:00 Emergence of Venture capital Globally and locally
1:10:40 Contacting Sarmayacar
1:12:25 An International partner in Sarmayacar
1:14:18 Thank you to and end note by Rabeel