{"id":779282,"date":"2026-07-23T05:26:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/779282\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T05:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:26:22","slug":"man-quits-investment-banking-career-joins-brother-to-launch-startup-we-raised-1-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/779282\/","title":{"rendered":"Man quits investment banking career, joins brother to launch startup: \u2018We raised $1.5 million\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The entrepreneurial<\/a> journey is often a lonely road, but brothers and co-founders, Hasan and Omair, proved that having just one believer can change everything. Taking to Instagram, the duo shared a nostalgic post reflecting on their transition from corporate employees questioning their future to successful entrepreneurs. Having built an app that has already amassed over 100,000 downloads, the brothers revealed their biggest milestone yet: raising $1.5 million from top-tier investors and advisors.<\/p>\n

\"BrothersBrothers Hasan and Omair Sarwar, who now run a startup. (Instagram\/@peekabox.app)<\/p>\n

\u201cFind someone who believes in your dreams before the world does. Looking back, it\u2019s honestly been a crazy few years,\u201d read a post shared on the official Instagram<\/a> page of \u201cPeek A Box\u201d.<\/p>\n

Also Read: \u20b990 lakh after tweeting about needing \u20b92 crore funding”>Indian co-founder raises \u20b990 lakh after tweeting about needing \u20b92 crore funding<\/a><\/p>\n

It continued, \u201cWe went from two brothers with an idea, questioning whether we should leave our jobs, to building an app that\u2019s now been downloaded by over 100,000 people. But the biggest lesson isn\u2019t about the downloads, the fundraising, or the milestones.\u201d<\/p>\n

The post added, \u201cIt\u2019s that you don\u2019t need everyone else to believe in your dream first. You just need a few people who believe in you. For us, that was each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

The post is accompanied by a series of visuals showing before-and-after life updates of the brothers. One of the slides highlights how much they have raised for their startup. \u201cNow, we raised $1.5m with top-tier investors and advisors behind us.\u201d<\/p>\n

What did social media say?<\/p>\n

An individual praised, \u201cProud of you boys, come a long, long way.\u201d Another commented, \u201cProud of you both! The goats.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also Read: Meet the IIT Kanpur-educated founder who made $8 million in a single day<\/a><\/p>\n

A third expressed, \u201cAmazing story well done!\u201d The fourth wrote, \u201cAmazing journey and it\u2019s only the beginning!\u201d<\/p>\n

Who are Hasan and Omair Sarwar?<\/p>\n

The brothers completed their higher education at the University of Warwick. Soon after, Hasan started his career as an investment banker while Omair focused on real estate after his stint as a management consultant.<\/p>\n

They left their job and started \u201cPeekabox\u201d in 2025. It is a UAE-based \u201cFood-tech platform for stores to list their surplus food at a discount for customers.\u201d The company partners with bakeries, restaurants, caf\u00e9s and grocery stores.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spoke to my brother Omair about it, and from that first conversation, it just clicked,\u201d Hasan told Gulf News when asked why he decided to leave the field of investment banking.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe both felt we had the commercial instinct to make this work, not as a charity, but as a real business that creates a win-win for retailers and consumers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The entrepreneurial journey is often a lonely road, but brothers and co-founders, Hasan and Omair, proved that having…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[332002,28,13362,158,4136,25528,14729,1154],"class_list":["post-779282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-brothers-to-cofounders","tag-business","tag-dubai","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-instagram","tag-investment-banking","tag-startup","tag-viral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}