About us

Venture building,ecosystem first.

AdVentures is a venture-building and startup growth platform based in Islamabad, dedicated to scaling high-potential businesses through structured support, funding and strategic partnerships. We work across startup incubation and acceleration, our own venture studio, training and development, corporate innovation and ecosystem development.

In practice that means running Pakistan's largest incubation centre, designing incubation programmes for universities from TMUC to Beaconhouse, training senior government officers and corporate teams, placing graduates into careers, and building our own startups alongside it all.

What we believe

Problem-oriented

We do not start with an idea and look for a market. We start with a problem that is expensive for someone, and build the smallest business that removes it.

Bootstrap, fast and lean

Our own mindset, and the one we teach: move quickly, spend carefully, and let paying customers rather than funding rounds tell you whether the thing works.

Build the whole ecosystem

Founders alone are not an ecosystem. We build the training, the incubators, the mentor bench, the angel network and the rooms where people meet.

Impact you can count

Startups incubated, founders supported, jobs created, investment committed. Numbers we can name, from programmes we actually ran.

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

Founder

Parvez Abbasi

Founder, AdVentures · Project Director, National Incubation Center

Parvez Abbasi has over 30 years of practical experience across telecom, startups, greenfields and market leaders, with companies including BT, Nokia, Motorola, Orascom, Telenor, Etisalat, Millicom, C&W and Samsung.

He started Mobilezone from scratch and built it past $1.0bn in revenue and a $7bn+ valuation. As Chief Commercial Officer at Mobilink, now Jazz, he owned all commercial objectives and added over 50 million subscribers.

He advises government, the HEC and welfare organisations on youth development and entrepreneurship, and was named a Pride of Pakistan recipient in 2021. In his free time he is a full-time grandad who plays golf and tends fruit trees.

The team

A combined 100+ years of launching, scaling and operating companies.

Abdur Rafay

Strategy & Growth

Nauman Abbasi

Business Development

Kashif Ahmad

Operations & Business Development

Taha Khalid

Training & Development

Mirza Masood Baig

Learning & Development

Saima Abbasi

AI & Future Readiness

Erum Rizvi

Strategic Communications

Samra Qazi

Marketing

Hijab Jillani

Business Development

Adnan Riaz

Principal

Azam Jamil

Hospitality Consultant

Daniela Draugelis

Cultural Expert

Experts & mentors

Aamir Ibrahim

CEO, Jazz

Uzma Khan

CEO, Sana Safinaz

Irfan Sheikh

MD, Bestway Group

Usman Nazir

Director BS & BA, S&P Global

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.