Deosai Ventures

Deosai Ventures is an early-stage, sector-agnostic venture capital fund based in Islamabad, Pakistan, founded around 2020. The fund is led by Managing Partner Shehryar Hydri, who also serves as Managing Director of Endeavor Pakistan and is a former founder himself. Deosai operates with the explicit policy of requiring no warm introductions, lowering barriers for founders who lack established networks. The fund writes checks between $50,000 and $300,000 — with a sweet spot at $200,000 — targeting pre-seed and seed-stage companies across AI, SaaS, agritech, fintech, transportation technology, logistics, developer tools, and supply chain tech. With 10 investments to date, portfolio companies include Farmdar (agritech, $1.3 million Seed in 2022), Metric, Truck It In (digital trucking), CreditPer (Shariah-compliant microfinance), Inventhub (hardware design collaboration), and EasyFresh Technologies. Hydri is known for backing diverse and female founders, and the fund covers startups with connections to UAE and US markets alongside Pakistan-focused businesses. The firm operates at a scale appropriate to Pakistan's early-stage ecosystem, combining the conviction of a hands-on founding-stage investor with broad sectoral flexibility. Deosai represents one of the few institutional pre-seed funds actively building the Pakistani startup ecosystem from Islamabad rather than from Karachi or overseas.