Epic Angels, 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 company. The investment is aimed at supporting Neem’s efforts to scale its full-stack payments infrastructure platform and strengthen digital financial services for enterprises across the country.
The Pre-Series A round also includes participation from DNI Group, Hi2 Global, and AKD, along with continued backing from existing seed investors such as SparkLabs Ventures, Outrun Ventures, Arif Habib, and MyAsiaVC. In addition, strategic angel investors associated with global fintech and payments firms, including Stripe, PayNet, and Aspire, have joined the round. Neem has not disclosed the total amount raised in this funding cycle.
Speaking to Business Recorder, Neem’s co-founder Vladimira Briestenska said Epic Angels’ decision to invest reflects confidence in the company’s mission to build foundational financial infrastructure in a large and under-digitised market. She explained that Neem stood out due to its full-stack platform, which integrates collections, disbursements, branded wallets, and a ledger system into a single infrastructure layer. According to Briestenska, the company has also gained early enterprise traction across sectors such as logistics, insurance, and e-commerce.
Neem was founded by Vladimira Briestenska, Nadeem Shaikh, and Naeem Zamindar, and commercially launched its platform in January 2025. Since going to market, the company has scaled rapidly, recording transaction volume growth of over 30% month-on-month. The platform currently supports more than 50 B2B businesses operating across logistics, insurance, healthcare, e-commerce, and agriculture.
The company noted that Pakistan’s payments ecosystem remains highly fragmented, with many businesses relying on multiple payment providers to collect revenue, pay vendors, and manage payroll. This fragmentation often leads to operational inefficiencies, manual reconciliation processes, and limited real-time visibility into financial data. Neem aims to address these challenges by offering a unified, full-stack payments platform that enables collections, disbursements, and branded wallets through a single API, similar to modern payments infrastructure platforms in more developed markets.
Briestenska said Neem’s growth strategy is focused on winning large enterprises by positioning itself as an integrated infrastructure provider rather than a single-use payment solution. She added that this enterprise-led approach allows the company to embed itself deeply into client workflows, reduce operational complexity for businesses, and scale organically through expansion within existing client ecosystems.
On geographic expansion, she said Neem remains firmly focused on Pakistan as its core growth market, while selectively exploring adjacent opportunities such as cross-border remittance rails that align with its existing platform and enterprise relationships.
The funds raised will be used to scale Neem’s technology infrastructure, strengthen cybersecurity and data protection, expand enterprise partnerships, and accelerate onboarding across key sectors of the economy. Epic Angels, which supports early-stage female-led startups across APAC and LATAM, said emerging markets present significant opportunities for local platforms like Neem to play a central role in powering digital economies.
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