Venture+
Venture+ is a sector-agnostic acceleration program designed to fuel growth of the existing innovative and scalable businesses with one-on-one business coaching leading to potential financing.
Eligibility Criteria
Small enterprises with revenues under 150 Million
Existing scalable businesses creating social, environmental, or economic impact
Small and medium-sized enterprises with annual revenue under 15 million PKR
Open to businesses in Sindh, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit Baltistan
Opportunities for Entrepreneurs
Debt financing of up to 4 Crores PKR
Subsidized interest rates with flexible repayment terms
Business advisory focused on scaling operations
Patient Debt Financing
The Complete Journey of an Entrepreneur
Business Criteria
- A unique and innovative business model with potential for causing or contributing to a transformative effect in the health sector, specifically in terms of improving quality of services, increasing access, convenience and/ or affordability.
- 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.
- The business demonstrates positive environmental and sustainable development (impact) effect.
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 constantlyiterate, 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.
- Strong interest in the health sector and the idea/ business being proposed, with significant skin in the business.
