Epic Angels, recognized as the world’s largest all female investment collective, has announced its participation in the Pre Series A funding round of Neem, a Pakistan based fintech focused on building a full stack payments infrastructure platform. The investment is aimed at supporting Neem’s continued expansion as it works to modernize how businesses across Pakistan manage collections, disbursements, and digital wallets. The funding round brings together a mix of local and international investors, reflecting growing confidence in Pakistan’s fintech ecosystem and its potential to address long standing inefficiencies in enterprise payments.
According to a company statement, Epic Angels is joined in the Pre Series A round by DNI Group, Hi2 Global, and AKD, alongside continued support from seed stage investors SparkLabs Ventures, Outrun Ventures, Arif Habib, and MyAsiaVC. The round also includes strategic angel investors with experience at global fintech and payments companies such as Stripe, PayNet, and Aspire. Speaking to Business Recorder, Neem co founder Vladimira Briestenska explained that Epic Angels was drawn to Neem’s role in building foundational financial infrastructure within a large and under digitised market at a time when demand for integrated payment solutions is accelerating.
Briestenska noted that Neem differentiated itself through its full stack platform that combines collections, disbursements, branded wallets, and an integrated ledger system. She highlighted that the platform has already demonstrated early enterprise traction across sectors including logistics, insurance, and e commerce. Beyond market opportunity, she said Epic Angels expressed strong confidence in Neem’s founding team, which includes experienced leadership and a woman founder, and in the company’s ability to execute at scale in a complex operating environment. Founded by Vladimira Briestenska, Nadeem Shaikh, and Naeem Zamindar, Neem officially went to market in January 2025 and has since reported rapid growth, with transaction volumes increasing by more than 30 percent month on month and over 50 B2B businesses onboarded across logistics, insurance, healthcare, agriculture, and e commerce.
Neem positions itself as a response to the fragmented nature of Pakistan’s payments ecosystem, where enterprises often rely on multiple service providers to manage revenue collection, vendor payouts, and payroll. This fragmentation leads to manual reconciliation, operational inefficiencies, and limited real time visibility into financial data. The company says its single API driven platform is designed to streamline these processes by enabling collections, disbursements, and branded wallets through one integrated infrastructure layer, similar to platforms operating in more mature markets. Briestenska emphasized that Neem’s growth strategy prioritizes large enterprises by embedding deeply into their workflows, reducing complexity, and becoming an essential part of their financial operations.
On expansion plans, she said Neem remains focused on Pakistan as its primary growth market while selectively exploring adjacent opportunities such as cross border remittance rails that align with existing enterprise relationships and regulatory frameworks. The capital raised will be directed toward scaling the company’s technology infrastructure, strengthening cybersecurity and data protection, expanding enterprise partnerships, and accelerating onboarding across priority sectors. Commenting on the investment, Epic Angels Founding and Managing Partner Maaike Doyer said global payments leaders remain heavily concentrated in developed markets, leaving room for local platforms in emerging economies. She added that with large enterprises already signed, Neem is positioned to play a central role in supporting Pakistan’s digital economy. Epic Angels currently supports early stage female led startups across APAC and LATAM, with a network of more than 800 investors and 44 investments made to date across industries.
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