Meenah TariqCo Founder

Pakistan - Islāmābād,

Articles by Meenah:
The Pakistani startup spectrum: Wapistanis and local survivors: https://www.menabytes.com/pakistani-startup-spectrum/
Lessons from first six months as a VC in Pakistan: https://www.menabytes.com/first-six-months-as-a-vc-pakistan/

Meenah is currently a Partner at Karavan.vc, a venture capital fund actively investing in high-growth startups across Pakistan.

Meenah is also helping design the Women Entrepreneurs Financing Initiative (WeFi) at the World Bank - a $3M project for Pakistan looking at access to early stage finance for women entrepreneurs, the meaning of 'investor readiness' in Pakistan's context, and strengthening the entrepreneurship ecosystem in the country.

Meenah's last position was the Head of Strategy and Accelerator at Invest2Innovate Pakistan. In her role at i2i, Meenah supported hundreds of entrepreneurs since 2015, across a wide variety of industries and geographies. She is a passionate supporter of the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Pakistan and has been designing and implementing programs to practically support women entrepreneurs, encourage entrepreneurial mindsets in young people, and equip entrepreneurs across the country with the business acumen required to scale high-impact businesses and SMEs.

Beyond this, she conducts training on business creation and scale (with the USAID SMEA project to name one, where she traveled across the country delivering a two day business workshop to 400+ women led SMEs in tier 1 and 2 cities), mentors a number of startups, and teaches entrepreneurship at local business schools at the undergrad level.

Meenah is also constantly experimenting with business ideas of her own - the latest was an experiential gift delivery platform operating in Islamabad and Pindi! Meenah completed her MBA at Babson College, as a Fulbright Scholar.