Our Services
AP offers creative financial solutions and pre and post investment technical assistance to growth businesses and startups after a rigorous selection Process. It follows comprehensive selection criteria and due diligence process to offer financing for high growth high impact potential businesses that create multiplier effects across the value chain in terms of revenues as well as jobs.
Our Services
AP offers creative financial solutions and pre and post investment technical assistance to growth businesses and startups after a rigorous selection Process. It follows comprehensive selection criteria and due diligence process to offer financing for high growth high impact potential businesses that create multiplier effects across the value chain in terms of revenues as well as jobs.
International Certificate in Entrepreneurship
Start your Business with us
International Certificate in Entrepreneurship (ICE) AP’s online incubation program in partnership with the E4Impact Foundation (E4Impact) of Altis School of Business of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milan for existing and aspiring entrepreneurs to help start and grow their business ideas and early stage businesses. We accept applications for the program once every year where select entrepreneurs receive a customized training, advisory and required financing to start a business or grow an existing startup.
Financing and Investment
Other Requirements: flexible collateral options
Ticket size: PKR1 million – PKR 30 million
Instrument: Patient debt
Interest rate: Kaibor + 1.5%
Term: up to 10 years
National Health Incubator (NHI)
Incubation and financing Services for health technologies and
innovation
NHI is a joint initiative of Accelerate Prosperity, Pakistan (AP) and the Aga Khan University (AKU) which aims to catalyze commercialization and growth of new technology, innovation and services being manufactured/ created by entrepreneurs
in the health sector in Pakistan.
Business Acceleration
Grow your business with us
AP’s Business Acceleration is a tailored investment-readiness and patient financing services for existing businesses with medium or strong revenue streams and having significant potential for growth. It is designed to help select businesses in target
geographies to unleash growth and achieve scale with the help of customized training and advisory, investment readiness tools and financing/ investment.
EdVenture
Incubation and financing Services for educational technologies and innovation
EdVenture is a joint initiative of Accelerate Prosperity, Pakistan (AP) and the Aga Khan University (AKU) which aims to catalyze commercialization and growth of new technology, innovation and services being manufactured/ created by entrepreneurs in the education sector in Pakistan.
AP’s Co-Working Space
Accelerate Prosperity coworking spaces located in Gilgit Baltistan, Chitral and Karachi aim to facilitate tech innovation, entrepreneurship, freelancing,networking, and prepare the young generation for the future of work in today’s fastest growing and competitive market.
Fast-track Ideation Bootcamp
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Fast-track Incubation
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What do our clients say about us
When we started we had very ambitious plan which wasn’t based on any feasibility, AP pushed us to rationalize our expansion plans without taking undue risk and it helped us to take holistic approach which enabled us to realize weaknesses in our processes and in same time guided us to opportunities relevant to us.
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What do our clients say about us
AP helped us streamline all our business processes. We started proper record keeping after 10 years of running our business. We now do proper planning and costing of every new investment in the business and set clear goals for every new initiative.Frequently Asked questions
Step 1: Submission of Application Form for Investment.
Step 2: Application Shortlisting.
Step 3: Interviews of Shortlisted Applications.
Step 4: Business Training & Advisory.
Step 5: Submission of Information Memorandum & Financial Models.
Step 6: Pitch for investment.
Step 7: Due Diligence of selected applicants.
Step 8: Investments for shortlisted businesses.
Our Interest is Kaibor + 1.5% and Diminishing.
We Offer financing from PKR 1 Million up to PKR 30 Million.
Along with AP’s loan, we help streamline all the processes of the business and prepare them to unlock larger investments. We also do business diagnosis to reduce the risks of loss and failure in business and also assist in mitigating those risks. As part of our Technical Assistance Facility we offer a tailored training and advisory clinic designed based on the results of the business diagnosis to fill the current gaps in the business and make them investment ready.
We do not proactively hunt and provide market linkages to businesses however, we offer numerous opportunities through our mentor’s network, subject matter specialists, tailored training and advisory to network and build market linkages. In the past we have successfully intermediated national and international market linkages for our portfolio businesses. We have also conducted GBC’s first ever conference in Islamabad in which we invited more than 60 investors from across the globe in the conference.
No. The owner is expected to attend all the trainings because he/she is also going to appear in the pitch to the investors. However, the owner can bring along a staff for the trainings, for example the finance officer can join the financial modeling training.
AP offers International Certificate In Entrepreneurship for new ideas and startups. This is to be offered by Accelerate prosperity, E4Impact Foundation of Altis School of Business (Italy). Entrepreneurs completing our business training and advisory will improve their capacity to execute and realize their business ideas and enable them to qualify for our final pitch session. Entrepreneurs meeting all assessment requirements of the training and advisory program will also qualify for an international certificate in entrepreneurship.
The total duration of the training depends on each program you are applying for.
Firstly, AP makes sure to extend financing only when the business is financing ready and the amount offered also depends on the capacity of absorption of the business. Then AP secures its loan by collateral and if the business fails, the business will have to pay back the loan as per agreement signed.
Business Criteria
- A unique and innovative business model with potential for causing or contributing to
positive economic and social transformation. - A clear market niche, sound target market and customer base.
- Realistic competitive advantage in terms of price, quality and easy/ large access.
- Strong revenue and profit models, potential for scalability and growth.
- Strong value chain effect.
- Impact potential.
Personal Criteria
- Strong entrepreneurial traits, including (but not limited to) leadership qualities, risk taking, street smartness, ability to do more with less etc.
- Coachable team, including (but not limited to) openness to advisory, learn, ability and
openness to constantly iterate, adapt and evolve based on changing conditions, realities or
assumptions etc. - Past experience in doing business, or as an employee in a similar industry, or subject matter
expertise relevant to the product/ service.
- Entrepreneurs from Pakistan who aim to launch a business anywhere in Pakistan, are eligible to apply.
- New, innovative and unique business models offering highly value-adding, scalable and technological solutions and demonstrating potential for causing positive economic and social transformation will be preferred.
- Businesses from ALL sectors can apply.
- Not-For-Profit business ideas or institutions are INELIGIBLE to apply.
- Each entrepreneur should submit ONLY one application. Submission of multiple applications may result in disqualification.
Option 1: Post Application Form at our address Accelerate Prosperity, PDCN, Konodas, Gilgit.
Option 2: Scan your filled application along with deposit slip and send it to us at
start@accelerateprosperity.org
We are sector agnostic. We accept ideas of all sorts and sectors except for something illegal
or unethical.
Selected team members of Accelerate Prosperity potentially the investment and due diligence team and AP’s selected local and national mentors and investors will sit in the selection panel.
Pitch session and training of the selected businesses will be held at Accelerate Prosperity Business Centre, PDCN, Gilgit.
The loan is given for a period of maximum five years with a grace period of one year. After the first year the loan is paid back in 16 installments where a diminishing interest of Kaibor + 1.5% will apply.
The selection process for financing will take up to two months. Once selected for financing it will take a few months to get financing for Accelerate Prosperity.
We do not have hard and fast rules for dropping out. Your business can drop out of the process anytime during the pre-financing and after financing you can drop out from AP services but you will have to pay back the loan received as per agreement or all at once.
