SHEHRYAR
HYDRI

Start with a Relationship Manager at Faysal Bank, doing what smart Pakistani kids with economics degrees did in the late '90s. Then fast-forward through an M.Phil at the International Islamic University in Islamabad, a stint marketing strategic alliances at Elixir Technologies — and suddenly, in 2005, a small team in Islamabad builds something the world has never quite seen before.

Scrybe was a calendaring and productivity suite that worked offline inside the browser — before Google Gears, before anyone else. It was the first web app of its kind. A YouTube demo went viral. Adobe came calling. The world noticed that there were people in Pakistan building genuinely world-first things.

Shehryar was co-founder and Marketing Director. He had learned early that the best product in the world needs someone who can tell its story. Scrybe eventually evolved into Convo — an enterprise social network that raised $15 million from Adobe and Morgenthaler Ventures, predating Slack, and quietly becoming a global platform used in over 7,000 companies.

Meanwhile, Trango Interactive — a game development and CGI studio Shehryar co-founded — was delivering animation and game content for Lucas Arts, SEGA, Discovery Channel, Lexus, and Nike. Nominated for the Red Herring Asia 100 within two years of formation. This was not a small country quietly catching up. This was a small country quietly ahead.

The lesson Shehryar kept learning: Pakistan had an extraordinary supply of talent and an extraordinary shortage of capital, connections, and the institutional trust that turns talent into industry. He would spend the next two decades doing something about it.

Deosai Ventures — named after the high-altitude plateau in Gilgit-Baltistan, one of the most extreme terrains on earth — was the vehicle Shehryar built to back early-stage companies in Pakistan with no sector bias and no gatekeeping. The "no warm intros needed" ethos wasn't marketing. It was a statement about what's wrong with most VC and a deliberate correction.

In November 2023, Endeavor Pakistan — part of the 42-market global network that has backed 2,500+ founders including some of the world's most consequential companies — appointed him Managing Director. He came in not as a career investor, but as someone who had lived every stage of the founder journey from co-founder to operator to policy advocate to VC. That combination is rare anywhere. In Islamabad, it's singular.

At Endeavor, Shehryar chairs selection processes, hosts firesides with global VCs, connects Pakistani founders to the Endeavor Catalyst co-investment fund, and acts as a bridge between the local ecosystem and the $4.5 billion+ combined startup value that Pakistan's tech sector now represents.