Venture studio — Islamabad

Building startups,one AdVentureat a time.

A problem-oriented venture builder. We incubate and accelerate startups, build our own, train the people who run them, and stand up the incubation centres, programmes and platforms that keep the ecosystem alive.

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What we do

Seven business lines.
One venture builder.

We work across every layer of the ecosystem — building companies, training the people who run them, and standing up the incubators, events and platforms that keep them alive.

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Venture Studio

AdVentures founder speaking at a Build Your Dream Startup session

We build companies from the problem up — bootstrapped, fast and lean, with operators who have already done it.

  • Problem-first venture building
  • Product, brand and go-to-market
  • Startup stack working on adjacent problems
  • gopay · mobylitics · Retailigence · SalesWalla
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AdVentures Academy

AdVentures Academy session in a university auditorium

An advisory and consulting practice for training and development, with 100+ combined years in HR, recruitment and talent optimisation.

  • Leadership, coaching and mentoring programs
  • Recruitment timelines and talent retention
  • Programs for senior government officers
  • Partners across telecom, finance and tech
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Career Launchpad

Career Launchpad session speaker

Pakistan's #1 career accelerator. We close the skills gap by putting industry leaders in the room with graduates.

  • 3-month hybrid program
  • 400+ graduates, 100% placement rate
  • Mock interviews, industry projects, mentoring
  • Recruitify: pre-vetted, job-ready talent
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Business Incubation Centres

Parvez Abbasi leading a What is Entrepreneurship session at TMUC Accelerate

We design and run incubation centres inside universities and communities — then hand over a working machine.

  • TMUC Accelerate · CAS Incubation Centre
  • BIC Foundry with Beaconhouse
  • Murree Incubation Centre
  • NSTP x AdVentures Accelerator
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NEXT Summit

Parvez Abbasi welcoming attendees at NEXT Summit

Pakistan's premier HR networking event, built with NUST's Professional Development Centre and Career Launchpad.

  • Leaders, HR professionals, founders, students
  • Panels, Q&A and structured networking
  • Three editions to date
  • November 2025 edition hosted at NSTP, NUST
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Mad House

Lok Mela activation produced by Mad House

A creative studio for brands that don't play it safe. Smart strategy, bold design, campaigns that move the needle.

  • 150+ projects across 10 industries
  • 75+ clients
  • Brand identity, websites, social, paid, SEO
  • madhouse.pk
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PakDesi

AdVentures team with partners at a community event

A global initiative empowering Pakistanis worldwide through entrepreneurship, cross-border partnerships and knowledge exchange.

  • Industry research in agritech and fintech
  • Global workforce and remote hiring
  • Business plans, legal and financial advisory
  • Access to grants and funding

Our approach

Method to the magic.

01

Start with the problem

We are a problem-oriented venture builder. Before a company exists, there is a problem worth someone's decade — and evidence that people will pay to have it gone.

02

Bootstrap, fast and lean

Small teams, short cycles, no burn theatre. We build the smallest real thing and put it in front of customers rather than investors.

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Customer centric, always

Customer discovery, Lean Canvas, interviews, validation. The same method we teach in our incubation centres is the one we run on our own ventures.

04

Build the whole ecosystem

A startup needs founders, talent, mentors, capital and a room to be in. We build all five — through the Academy, Career Launchpad, incubation centres, Angels and NEXT Summit.

National Incubation Center — by the numbers

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Startups incubated at the National Incubation Center, over 12 cohorts

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Founders supported, 136 of them women

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Jobs created through the NIC

PKR 0.00B

Investment committed to NIC startups

Named work

Programmes, centres and deals we actually ran.

National Incubation Center signage in Islamabad

Ignite, MoITT

National Incubation Center

Pakistan's largest incubation centre

  • 295 startups incubated across 12 cohorts
  • 707 founders supported, 136 of them women
  • PKR 6.21B investment committed and PKR 6.4B+ revenue earned
Parvez Abbasi leading a What is Entrepreneurship session at TMUC Accelerate

The Millennium Universal College, Islamabad

TMUC Accelerate

Flagship university incubation programme

  • Incubation centre launched May 2025 and covered nationally
  • First cohort of aspiring entrepreneurs delivered end to end
  • An ongoing session series on mentorship and market validation

Fauji Cement Company Limited

Fauji Cement × Askari Cement

A merger that made a market leader

  • FCCL became Pakistan's second largest cement manufacturer
  • PKR 5 billion saved in the first year
  • Moved from ninth to second in market share in year two
A car driving on Pakistan's first plastic road in Islamabad

Coca-Cola and CDA

Pakistan's first plastic road

Green initiative

  • Pakistan's first plastic road, inaugurated in Islamabad
  • A replicable template for circular infrastructure projects

Startup pipeline

Companies from our own kitchen table.

A consumer payments app in the AdVentures startup pipeline, led by founder-CEO Sipehre Shamsi.

Our platforms

Lok Mela activation produced by Mad House

Mad House

Creative studio

Brand identity, websites, social, paid media and SEO. 150+ projects across 10 industries for 75+ clients.

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AdVentures Academy session in a university auditorium

Career Launchpad

Career accelerator

Pakistan's #1 career accelerator, plus Recruitify — our hiring platform for pre-vetted, job-ready talent.

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Mad House team working on a campaign

PakDesi

Global diaspora platform

Connecting Pakistani entrepreneurs and professionals worldwide with markets, talent and capital at home.

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Networking at a NEXT Summit event

AdVentures Angels

Angel investing

Democratising angel investing: co-invest with experienced leads, manage a portfolio, and get quarterly startup reporting.

Let's build somethingthat matters.

Ready to collaborate, build, or scale? Tell us what you're chasing and we'll tell you honestly whether we're the right people for it.