Mohammed Saquib and Hassam Ud-din, two Pakistani innovators, have won the Asia Pacific Low Carbon Lifestyles Challenge in energy efficiency and low carbon mobility categories, respectively. They will now receive a United Nations (UN) Environment grant worth US $10,000 each to support …Continue reading
The Emerging Healthtech Landscape
Sattar Khan suffered chronic pain in his legs for seven years. He consulted several doctors in his hometown of Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan, who told him he needed a hip joint surgery but the facility was not available anywhere in …Continue reading
The Dawn of Pakistan’s Fintech Boom
After spending 18 years in the commercial banking sector, Qasif Shahid recently quit his job and started his own company. He raised $1 million in venture capital to introduce a digital wallet that will allow users to minimize their reliance on hard …Continue reading
Partnerships in the New Age of Financial Services
If you are a young fintech startup in Pakistan aspiring to ride the fintech wave, you might find yourself stumbling on the edges, unable to strike the right balance to make it to the mainstream. You ask yourself, “How does one pull …Continue reading
PlanX Set to Host Fintech Conference
A Fintech Conference, organised by PlanX Technology Accelerator of the Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB), will be held on Thursday, September 21. The conference aims to highlight the challenges faced by Fintech startups in Pakistan and propose solutions for the entrepreneurial ecosystem of …Continue reading
Women Startups Take Center Stage
She Loves Tech Global Startup Competition is taking place in Pakistan in July 2017. The competition aims to give promising women entrepreneurs and women-impact startups an opportunity to showcase their businesses to a global audience of investors and influencers from the tech …Continue reading
Social Media Toolkit, Campus News Portal and Coursework Assistance Startups Win at Momentum Tech
SocialChamp, a startup providing social media management tools, was declared the winner of a startup pitch competition held at the two-day Momentum Conference in Karachi this week. The first runner up was CampusFeed. It offers an online platform to college and university …Continue reading
Plan9 Startups Selected for ATX+PAK Exchange Program
Plan9, a technology incubation project of the Punjab Information Technology Board, has announced the list of startups selected for the 3rd cohort of the exchange program with the city of Austin in the United States. Known as the ATX+PAK Exchange program, it …Continue reading
All You Need to Know About the Punjab IT Policy
The Punjab Information Technology (IT) policy draft is not just about IT. Rather, it aspires to be about governance in the age of IT. The Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) has held a public consultation on the draft and is now revising …Continue reading
Monetizing Startups in Pakistan
‘Only 10 to 20% of all startups actually make it’ says Hafsa Sohrish Director at Plan X, one of the country’s largest startup accelerators. The statistic may not be surprising, but the number of startups that are entering the local IT industry …Continue reading
- 1
- 2