A pandemic erased two businesses and left their founders with weeks of runway. The rescue plan - finding work for the engineers they refused to fire - became Remotebase, and then became something else again.

From hedge-fund screens to ride-hailing streets and delivery-only kitchens, Safee Shah has spent a career testing how technology can widen opportunity in Pakistan.

He learned e-commerce from the warehouse outward, traded quick commerce's flashiest promise for a workable one, and carried Krave Mart from Karachi dark stores to an inDrive acquisition.
Zayn VC looks sector-agnostic until you follow the money. Across wallets, freight, fashion and student loans, its portfolio makes one recurring wager: digitize the transaction first, then build finance on top of it.