Pakistani fintech platform Neem has successfully secured Pre-Series A funding from Epic Angels, the world’s largest all-female investment collective, along with participation from global investors including DNI Group, Hi2 Global, AKD, and existing seed investors such as SparkLabs Ventures, Outrun Ventures, Arif Habib, and MyAsiaVC. Strategic angel investors from companies like Stripe, PayNet, and Aspire also joined the round, signaling strong international confidence in Neem’s enterprise-focused payments infrastructure. The funding round will enable the company to accelerate growth, expand enterprise partnerships, and scale its technology infrastructure across Pakistan.
Founded by Vladimira Briestenska, Nadeem Shaikh, and Naeem Zamindar, Neem officially launched commercially in January 2025. The platform has quickly gained traction, growing transaction volumes by over 30 percent month on month while serving more than 50 B2B clients across logistics, insurance, healthcare, e-commerce, and agriculture sectors. By providing a full-stack payments platform that integrates collections, disbursements, and branded enterprise wallets with a ledger system, Neem addresses the fragmented nature of Pakistan’s payments ecosystem. Businesses previously relied on multiple providers to manage revenue collection, vendor payments, and payroll, often resulting in operational inefficiencies, manual reconciliation, and limited financial visibility.
Neem’s co-founder Vladimira Briestenska emphasized that the platform’s integrated approach differentiates it from other players in the market. “While many fintech companies in Pakistan focus on isolated solutions, such as collections only or consumer wallets, Neem provides a unified payments infrastructure that simplifies enterprise workflows. By embedding deeply into large businesses’ operations, we reduce complexity and increase stickiness, enabling clients to manage revenue, payouts, and payroll through a single, compliant system,” she said. This enterprise-led strategy allows Neem to scale organically within existing client ecosystems and consolidate its presence in a market that remains highly fragmented.
Looking ahead, Neem plans to maintain Pakistan as its primary growth engine while selectively exploring adjacent opportunities, including cross-border remittances that extend naturally from its existing platform and enterprise relationships. The funds raised from the Pre-Series A round will be utilized to strengthen cybersecurity, enhance data protection, and expand technology infrastructure, while accelerating onboarding across key sectors. Maaike Doyer, Founding and Managing Partner at Epic Angels, highlighted the investment rationale, noting that major global payments players remain concentrated in developed markets, leaving substantial opportunities for local fintech platforms in emerging economies. With early enterprise adoption already established, Neem is positioned to become a foundational financial operating system powering Pakistan’s digital economy.
Epic Angels supports early-stage, female-led startups in APAC and LATAM, providing capital, mentorship, and access to a network of over 800 female angel investors. To date, the network has made 44 investments across various sectors, and its participation in Neem’s funding round underscores the growing interest in scalable fintech solutions that address operational inefficiencies and drive financial inclusion in emerging markets.
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