Pakistan’s Startup Revival: How Hybrid Financing Drove a $74 Million Surge in 2025

After years of contraction, a strategic pivot to debt-equity blends signals maturation—not just survival—in one of South Asia’s most resilient tech ecosystems In early April 2025, Omer bin Ahsan faced a familiar dilemma. The founder of Haball, a Karachi-based fintech enabling shariah-compliant supply chain financing, had spent months courting investors for a pre-Series A round….