Shehryar Hydri

Managing Director

2023 - Current

Endeavor is the leading global community of, by, and for High-Impact Entrepreneurs — those who dream bigger, scale faster, and pay it forward. Driven by our belief that High-Impact Entrepreneurs transform economies, Endeavor is on a mission to build thriving entrepreneurial ecosystems in emerging and underserved markets around the world. Endeavor creates a Multiplier Effect by inspiring high-growth founders to dream bigger, supporting and investing in them to scale faster, and providing a platform to pay it forward — thereby compounding their individual impact. To sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way, Endeavor created Endeavor Catalyst — a rules-based, co-investment fund, set up to invest in the same High-Impact Entrepreneurs that Endeavor supports. Today. Endeavor Catalyst is among the world’s top early-stage funders of startups-turned $1B+ companies (“Unicorns”) outside of the U.S. and China. *** Endeavor Entrepreneur companies from Pakistan include Bazaar, Abhi, SadaPay, LAAM, PostEx and PriceOye.

Founding Partner

2020

Sector agnostic, early-stage investments focused on Pakistan. No warm intros needed! Portfolio: www.roomy.pk - The fastest growing hotel chain in Pakistan. www.truckitin.com - Digital freight platform www.creditper.pk - Fintech / microlending www.easyfreshtech.com - B2B Fresh produce supply chain www.Inventhub.io - “GitHub for Hardware Design” www.scribeaudio.com – AI-based text-to-speech platform. www.metricapp.co - The most founder-friendly finance app in the world! www.farmdar.co.uk - Fruitful data for agriculture www.remoty.dev – SaaS – Simple task tracking and attendance app. www.thepattern.app/ - Pattern – Customer loyalty app for restaurants. www.ezwi.fi/ - Build, Monetize & Scale your WiFi network

Secretary General

2017 - 2020

- As the head of the sole IT industry association, I was part of the core team that enabled the MOITT and Ministry of Commerce to launch the long awaited Digital Pakistan Policy 2018, the Ecommerce Policy Framework 2019 and multiple policy and project proposals. - We established the Secretariat in Islamabad to ramp up engagement with the Federal and Provincial governments as well as launch new projects with multiple stakeholders, ranging from Facebook, Google and Microsoft to The World Bank, Ignite, SECP, SBP, PITB, KPITB etc. - We doubled the associations membership base through industry outreach, events, community forums, and partnerships that helped 4X the previous growth rate, resulting in newfound interest and participation from dormant SME's. - Major policy wins by P@SHA included an extension of the export tax holiday till 2025, reduction in GST on IT services in the Federal Capital and KPK and principle approval of a 5% cash reward on exports.

Director of Marketing and Operations

2013 - 2017

Member of the Advisory Board

2012 - 2017

Ingrain (Groopic) was acquired by Motive (KeepTruckin) in 2017.

COO

2004 - 2013

- Co-founded Trango as a subsidiary of Trivor Software. - Set up the studio from scratch and grew it to a team of 50+ artists and developers. - Listed in the Red Herring Asia 100 within two years of formation for our proprietary game engine and tools. - Global clients/projects include Lucas Arts, Discovery Channel, SEGA, Tomb Raider:Legend, Playdom, Audi, Lexus, Toyota, Scion, Mazda, Hyundai, Fisker, Icon, Jabra, UPS, Novartis, Craftsman, Quakerstate, Vizio, Barclays, Visa, PG&E, Telenor Next, AT&T, Vans and Nike. - Extremely proud of the fact that Trango Alumni have created companies like Quixel, we.R.play, Binex, 3rd World Studios, directed feature films like "Janaan" and "Bilal: New Breed of Hero" and gone on to work in top studios like Walt Disney, EA Vancouver, Futurlab, TrollVFX, Barajoun Entertainment, Silver Ant, HMX Media and The Foundry.

Member of the Board of Directors

2006 - 2013

Co-Founder

2002 - 2006

Co-founded the studio in 2002.

Manager, Strategic Alliance Marketing

2000 - 2003

Relationship Manager, Corporate Banking

1999 - 2000