Rabeel Warraich
Rabeel is the Founder and CEO of Sarmayacar, an early stage VC firm focused on Pakistan. He serves on the boards of a number of Sarmayacar investee companies including Bykea, OneLoad, Revolving Games amongst others. He is also the first Pakistan focused Kauffman Fellow. After graduating from MIT, Rabeel gained his professional experience in London where he initially worked in Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley and then followed it up with Private Equity experience at GIC, Singapore’s Sovereign Wealth Fund. Sarmayacar: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sarm... Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sarmayacar Rabeel Warraich: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rabeel-wa... Twitter: https://twitter.com/RabeelWarraich/ 00:00 Responding to Venture investment pitches 03:00 Entrepreneurship and assessing them 06:13 Investment in Petari by Sarmayacar 08:08 Music as a vital part of our tradition 10:25 Synopsis of E-commerce and Venture Funds in Pakistan 14:02 Targeting scalable opportunities 15:10 Petari-Evolution and limitations 21:00 Maintaining users at Petari 22:15 Petari in Global perspective 23:57 How does Sarmayacar guide the entrepreneurs funded? 26:10 Challenges for Procheck, funded by Sarmayacar 28:00 Regulatory authorities in Pakistan 30:20 ABHI finance, proposition and funding 33:13 Success story of SIMPAISA by Sarmayacar 37:35 Exiting from the investment funding 38:20 Primary and secondary capital 40:55 Analyzing food delivery service economics-unit economics 43:45 Grocery buying online vs from stores in Pakistan 47:25 Models of Uber and Kareem 50:01 Entrance of BYKEA 52:05 Concept of In-Drive 54:00 Elevated risk analysis by VCs 55:25 Corporate giants vs specialized/personalized services 1:00:29 “Human Effort carries a premium” says Rabeel 1:04:38 Role of Belief and Faith in the system 1:07:06 Future plans of Sarmayacar 1:10:00 Emergence of Venture capital Globally and locally 1:10:40 Contacting Sarmayacar 1:12:25 An International partner in Sarmayacar 1:14:18 Thank you to and end note by Rabeel