Pakistan IT Industry Association, known as PASHA, through its Startups and Entrepreneurship Committee, is hosting an online webinar titled How to Raise Funding for Your Startup on June 23, 2026, from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Pakistan Standard Time. The session will feature Taqi Hyder, Manager Investments at Accelerate Prosperity, as the primary speaker, bringing practitioner-level expertise in startup investment to an audience of founders, entrepreneurs, and startup teams navigating one of the most consistently challenging aspects of building an early-stage company. Founders interested in attending must register before the deadline of June 22, 2026, and the session will be conducted entirely online.
Fundraising remains one of the areas where Pakistani startup founders most frequently identify gaps in their knowledge and preparation, not because they lack ambition or product capability but because the investor landscape, the mechanics of deal structuring, and the expectations that professional investors bring to early-stage conversations are rarely taught in any systematic way within the environments where most founders develop their initial skills. A one-hour session with a practitioner who works on the investment side of the equation daily offers a concentrated opportunity to build the kind of literacy that typically only comes through repeated exposure to investor conversations, many of which end in rejection before the patterns become legible. Taqi Hyder’s role as Manager Investments at Accelerate Prosperity places him in precisely that position, with direct visibility into what investment-ready looks like in practice and what separates founders who close rounds from those who do not.
The webinar’s agenda spans the core dimensions of the fundraising process that founders most need to understand before entering investor conversations. The startup fundraising landscape in Pakistan and regionally, including the types of capital available at different stages and the institutions and individuals who deploy it, will provide participants with a map of the environment they are operating in. Investor expectations, covering what professional investors actually look for when evaluating an early-stage company, will give founders a framework for assessing their own readiness from the perspective of the people they are trying to convince. Investment readiness as a concept, which addresses the operational, financial, and narrative preparation that distinguishes a fundable company from a promising idea, and valuation fundamentals, which demystify one of the most confusing and anxiety-inducing aspects of any fundraising conversation, will round out the practical content of the session.
PASHA’s Startups and Entrepreneurship Committee has been building a consistent programme of events and initiatives aimed at equipping Pakistan’s growing startup community with the knowledge and connections it needs to compete effectively in an increasingly demanding funding environment. The June 23 webinar continues that effort with a session whose practical orientation and experienced speaker make it one of the more useful offerings available to Pakistani founders at the stage of preparing for or actively pursuing their first or subsequent funding rounds. The online format ensures that founders from across Pakistan can participate without the constraint of geography, and the one-hour structure respects the time pressures that early-stage founders consistently face. Registration closes on June 22, 2026, and further information is available at www.pasha.org.pk.
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