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CONNECTING THE VERY BEST OF PAKISTANI STARTUPS WITH THE GLOBAL INVESTORS
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June 08
Dinner & Banquet

June 09
Unconference (Roundtables/ Networking) + Cocktails

Hotel Location
El Prado Hotel, California
Paklaunch Unconference Event ( San Francisco)
One-of-a-kind unconference event where all attendees get to participate in curated discussions instead of a typical conference.
Top 50 Pakistani entrepreneurs are specially flying especially for this event and will be introduced to major Silicon Valley investors (reference Sandhill Road - famous for VCs). It will be the highest density of Pakistan tech startup talent in one room so expect high quality engagements !!
Why Pakistan is The Next Big Thing in Startups

- 220M population, 5th largest population
- 22 year median age
- Growing middle class -> 7th largest consumption class by 2030
- Strong tech talent -> 360K+ tech professionals
- One of the fastest growing startup markets
- Startups raised $350M+ in 2021
- Till date 2022 - Pakistani startups have raised $200M+
Paklaunch Unconference 2022
Why Pakistan is the NEXT BIG THING
Entrepreneurs And VCs

Aakash Jain
Associate Partner, VU Venture Partners

Mohammed Almeshekah
Founder & Managing Partner, Outliers Venture Capital

Julia Olson
CEO & Founder, Treehut

Fawad Zakariya
Executive-in-Residence, Costanoa Ventures

Johannon Olson
CEO, People First Systems Inc.

Atif Khan
Co-Founder & CTO, Alkira

Umair Khan
Founding Partner, Mentors Fund

Aly Fahd
Founder & Managing Partner, Paklaunch

Ali Jamal
Founding Partner, First Check Ventures

Saad Hasan
Senior Investment Officer, Venture Capital, HBL

Shehram Jamal
 Senior Director Product Management, Broadcom Inc.

Asad Awan
Head of Monetization & Public Content Facebook App, Meta

Amir Khan
CEO & Founder, Alkira

Jawad Arif
Director, UCAAZ

Shaheer Piracha
Co-Founder, Umbulizer

Asif Makhani
Chief Technology Officer, Handshake

Benek Bolohan
Investment Associate, Alter Global

Yana Yasevich
Head of Platform, Alter Global

Mobeen Bajwa
SVP Certent Products, insight software

Omar Khan
CEO & Founder, vInventa

Khurram Zia
Director Product Management, Meta

Zohaib Mian
Vice President Product, Velodyne Lidar

Abhishek Garg
Head of Growth & Partnerships, The Capital Net

Adnan Ahmad
CEO & Founder, LORRYZ

Rizwan Muhammad
Partner, Arcis Capital

Danish Bhatti
Neurology Clerkship Director, University of Central Florida
Neurology Clerkship Director, University of Central Florida

Porter Wong
Startup Mentor & Angel Investor

Stephen B. Day
Co-Founder, Navidar

Zain Gulamali
Venture Investor, Amazon Alexa Fund

Bedy Yang
Managing Partner, 500 Global

Samia Razak
CEO & Founder, Code Kids Robotics Limited

Majid Khan
CEO, Cheetay Logistics (Pvt.) Ltd.

Naeem Raza
Venture Partner at Mighty Capital

Touseef Liaqat
CEO & Founder, Manaky

Ashar Ahmad
Co-Founder, Rapticore, Inc

Samar Abbas
Co-Founder and CTO, Temporal Technologies

Afshan Abbas
CEO & Co Founder, Fuchsia Shoes Inc.

Samina Seth
Co-Founder, Walee

Sanjit Singh Dang
 Chairman & Co-Founder, U First Capital

Mamoon Hamid
Partner, Kleiner Perkins

Hassan Ejaz Chaudhry
Growth Investor, Morgan Stanley

Arooj Sheikh
Founder, Amplify Training Institute

Khurram Zafar
Director, 47 Venture

Bilal Ahmed Khan
Investor, Dragoneer Investment Group

Rustom Birdie
Venture Fellow, NFX

Manveer Sandhu
Venture Capital Fellow, Sutton Capital

Hamza Iqbal
CEO & Founder, Healthwire

Mohammed Rafiq
Co-Founder, Rewind

Omar Askari
CEO, Wali Venture Technologies

Asad Samar
CEO & Founder, Roomy

Dr. Muhammad Ehsan Khan
CEO & Founder, Trade Foresight

Radhika Prabhu
Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of State

Brandon Thompson
Senior Associate Director, The White House

Farrukh Usman
CEO & Founder, Byonyks Medical Device

Muhammad Khalid
Founder, Clicky.Pk

Wasif Khan
Co-Founder, viaPhoton

Usman Rabbani
Partner, Brighton Park Capital

Shawn Xu
Partner, On Deck

Noor Kamruddin
Investor, Clear Ventures

Aaqib Gadit
CEO & Co-Founder, Cloudways.com

Vidya Vasu-Devan
Director, Gates Foundation Strategic Investment Fund

Richard Holmes
Investment Associate, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Babar Tufail
Partner, High Plains ComputingÂ

Kashif Saleem
Director, Subscription Flow

Shoroon Saleem
Co-Founder, Jugnu

Malik Ahmad Jalal
CEO & Founder, Cordoba Ventures

Dr. Ali Chaudhry
CEO & Founder, Emerging Health International

Robin Butler
Partner, Sturgeon Capital

Rupa Athreya
Chief Accelerator Investments Officer, Techstars

Samir Qureshi
Vice President, Enverus

Imran Maskatia
Vice President, Evoca

Faizaan Ghauri
CEO, WRLD

Muhammad Mustafa
CEO & Co-Founder, EasyFresh

Dr Shahid Rafiq
President & CEO, Comprehensive Neurology Services

Shane Shin
Founding Partner, Shorooq Partners

Minjia Wu
Partner, SOSV

Naveed Sherwani
CEO & President, Rapid Silicon

Avery Lu
Partner, Aventurine Capital Group

Asaad Hakeem
CEO, SARC MedIQ

Muhammad Uzair Arshad
CEO & Founder, Best Buy Mall

Ali Khayyam
General Manager Internet Monitoring, AWS

Asad Khaliq
Founding Partner, Acrew Capital

Ali Rehan
Co-Founder, Ingrain.io

Juan Sildavar
Partner, Rise Capital

Asher Hassan
CEO & Founder, doctHERs

Nitin Pachisia
Founder, Unshackled Ventures

Nilesh Trivedi
Founder & Managing Partner, Summation VC

Mansoor Rathore
Business Growth Analyst, McKinsey & Company

Ali Khalid Chaudhry
Senior Vice President, Caption Health

Chad Fox
Managing Partner, Fox Ventures

Baber Abbas
CEO, viaPhoton

Zain Jeewanjee
CEO & Founder, Zain Jeewanjee Insurance Agency

Tom Terbell
Partner, Rise Capital

Kevin Carter
Founder, EMQQ Global

Nora Alkadi
Partner, Graphene Ventures

Pramod Gosavi
Board Observer & VC, JupiterOne

Waheed Qureshi
Founder & CEO, Mesmer

Waqas Makhdoom
Head of DevRel & Community, Snowflake

Purvi Gandhi
Managing Partner, Quain Investments

Mazhar Hussain
Vice President, Siemen

Kirill Kozhevnikov
Partner, RTP Global

Umair Rauf
VP Product Management, Salesforce

Rehan Khursheed
Director, Barclays Corporate & Investment Bank

Eliot Pence
General Partner, Tofino Capital

Sameer Anwar
Head of Strategy & Business Operations, Trove

Shahla Aly
Vice President gTech, Google

Chris Dix
Head of MENAP | Global Capital Director, Antler VC

Kamil Saeid
Partner, defy.vc

Awais Nemat
Angel Investor & Startup Advisor

Akif Malik
CEO and Managing Partner, PodiumVC

Saad Rehmani
Executive Vice President Engineering, Reddit

Julian Zegelman
General Partner, Step Ahead Capital

Ahmed Malik
Founder, SparrowLabs
Founder, SparrowLabs

Syed Fahad Khalid
Lead Product Manager AI, Meta

Cindy Zhang
Investor, Hundreds Capital

Riaz Siddiqi
Chairman, Epochal Technologies

Farukh Awais
GM 5G Sales, Samsung Electronics America

Sohaib Waheed
Senior Director Business Operations, LinkedIn

Sudheer Kuppum
Managing Partner, Epsilon Venture Partners

Ali Moiz
Founder, Stonks
Founder, Stonks

Faizan Buzdar
Vice President Product Management, Box

Mo El-Bibany
Founder & General Partner, Page One Ventures

David Greenbaum
Partner, Quiet Capital

Omar Nawaz
Chief Product Officer, Chargebee

Arif Lakhani
Co-Founder, Qist Bazaar

Mashhood Alam
Head of Platform Product Management, Equinix
Head of Platform Product Management, Equinix

Lynn Eisenhart
Deputy Director, Gates Foundation Strategic Investment Fund

Ali Shan Jadhavji
Co-Founder and General Partner, K3 Diversity Ventures

Fawad Butt
Executive In Residence, Canvas Ventures

Benjamin Cardarelli
CEO & Founder, CrossFundÂ

Salman Khalid
Partner, Paklaunch

Taleha Aftab
Engagement Manager, Stanford Women on Boards

Zohaib Ali
Co-Founder, Dastgyr

Uzair Gadit
Co-Founder & Director, Gaditek

Umair Gadit
CEO and Co-Founder, Savyour

Sibtain Jiwani
CEO, SmartBenefits.pk

Shahbaz Ali Jamote
CEO & Co-Founder, TelloTalk Inc.

Shazil Mehkri
CEO & Co-founder, Sastaticket.pk

Salman Khan
Co-Founder, BioticsAI

Rabeel Warraich
CEO & Founder, Sarmayacar

Naz Khan
Associate Partner, Product Design, Prophet

Mohammad Nasrullah
CEO & Founder, Integry

Myra Qureshi Jahangir
CEO, Conatural Beauty

Mustafa Najoom
Vice President Growth, Gaper.io

Monis Rahman
CEO & Co-Founder, Dukan

Misbah Naqvi
Co-Founder, i2i Ventures

Marvin Liao
Partner, Zayn Capital

Mahboob Mahmood
CEO & Founder, Knowledge Platform

Kassim Schroff
CEO & Founder, Krave Mart

Fawaz Valiaani
CEO, Elixir Securities Pakistan

Kang Kai Yong
Startup BDM Southeast Asia & Pakistan, AWS

Kalsoom Lakhani
Co-Founder, I2I Ventures

Jordan Olivas
CEO & Founder, QisstPay

Hammad Saleem
Chief Innovation Officer, HealthTap

Mohammad Hadi
CEO & Founder, ezBike

Faizan Aslam
CEO & Founder, Bookme.pk

Wajahat Qadeer
Chief Architect and Co-Founder, Kinara

Danish Lakhani
CEO, NayaPay

Babar Lakhani
CEO & Founder, LVC

Ayesha Saleem
Investment Analyst, LVC

Asad Gabol
CEO & Founder, Moveit.pk

Asad Khan
CEO & Co-Founder, Medznmore

Ali Nawab
CEO & Co-Founder, Agentnoon

Adeel Rasheed
Co-Founder, SnappRetail

Ali Rizvi
CEO & Founder, Axelerated Software

Ali Farid Khwaja
Co-Founder & Chairman, KASB Securities

Faisal Aftab
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Zayn Capital

Shazia A. Khan
CEO, EcoEnergy

Teddy Himler
Global Investment Partner, Antler

Yousuf Khan
Partner, Ridge Ventures

Courtney Powell
COO & Managing Partner, 500 Global

Chris Schroeder
Co-Founder, Next Billion Ventures

Bilal Zuberi
Partner, Lux Capital

Ansaf Kareem
Partner, Light Speed Venture Partners
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