Inside Pakistan’s Tech Investment Boom
April 19th, 2022
Via Rest of World, an article on Pakistan’s tech investment boom: In 2019, when Kalsoom Lakhani and Misbah Naqvi founded i2i Ventures, a $15 million Pakistan-focused venture capital (VC) fund, they hoped to sign about three deals a year. Now, they’re signing that many deals every quarter. “I can barely keep up with the deal flow,” Lakhani […]
Read more »TAPI’ng Out?
April 14th, 2022
Via The Diplomat, commentary that the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline project seems to have far more going against it than pushing in its favor: India has restarted efforts to revive the much-delayed Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline project. The pipeline was discussed during a recent three-day state visit to Turkmenistan by Indian President Shri Ram Nath Kovind. TAPI remains […]
Read more »Uzbekistan Looks South for New Trade Routes
April 2nd, 2022
Via The Diplomat, a report on Uzbekistan search for new trade routes to the south: Uzbekistan has received its first transit shipment via Pakistan and Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. For Uzbekistan, this means prioritizing a southern-looking policy, as it seeks to assert its own identity in the region and establish viable alternative trading partners. A private trader in […]
Read more »Obstacles To Energy Security In Central and South Asia
March 19th, 2022
Via East Africa Forum, an article on obstacles to energy security in Central and South Asia: On 25 January 2022, an unprecedented blackout spread across much of southern Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. This is not the first time that Central Asia has experienced power outages, which have increased alarmingly in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. In […]
Read more »MENAP Digital Economy Could Hit $700B by 2030
March 16th, 2022
Via The National, a report that the digital economy of the MENA region and Pakistan could hit $700bn by 2030: The digital economy of the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan (Menap) is set to exceed $100 billion this year and has the potential to reach $700bn by 2030 if backed by adequate investment, according to […]
Read more »Airlift: Pakistan’s Buzziest Start Up
March 15th, 2022
Via Rest of World, a look at one of Pakistan’s “buzziest” start ups: After graduating from college in 2016, Yahya Humayun jumped headfirst into management consulting. He joined Ernst & Young in Lahore as an associate consultant. But within a year, he realized that the job wasn’t the right fit for him. Humayun wanted to […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.