Byte

Byte is a Lahore-based food company that owns the whole plate - it cooks its own branded meals inside delivery-only dark kitchens and gets them to customers cheaply and fast. Founded in 2020 by former Uber Pakistan GM Safee Shah, it became the first Pakistani consumer internet startup backed by Y Combinator (S20). Instead of being a marketplace listing other restaurants, Byte runs its own in-house brands - fried chicken, biryani, pizza and wings - which lets it undercut incumbents like Foodpanda while controlling quality end to end.