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Meet the 3 winners of SEECS Social Hackathon

By Maryam Dodhy ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

It would not be wrong to say that Pakistan has a pool of talented and innovative individuals. Over the past decade, the entrepreneurship culture has…

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Peshawar Digital Youth Summit 2015 – A Quick Glance

By TechJuice ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 5 min read

TechJuice has had the opportunity to attend various technology, digital and entrepreneurship events all over the country, but Digital Youth Summit(DYS) at Peshawar is incomparable…

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Pakistan Innovation Foundation Collaborates With I Am Karachi For A 3-Day Hackathon

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The I AM Karachi Innovation Challenge is a 3 day Hackathon happening from 12th June – 14th June 2015 at Habib University, Karachi. The event…

Messiah was offered an undisclosed amount of funding from two Pakistani-American investors, Shubber Ali & Kash Rehman and from a Jordan-based investment company, Oasis 500 at Digital Youth Summit (DYS) 2015. *TechJuice *reached out to the Founder of Messiah app, Ebtihaj Khan for the details on their startup which has gained tremendous attention in the past few months. Messiah is an emergency responder app designed to relay distress signal to friends, family or fellow Messiahs in case of an accident or an emergency. The idea of Messiah was born in Code for Pakistan's Civic Hackathon held in Peshawar last year where the team stood second. They were offered to participate in 6-month Code for Pakistan's Peshawar fellowship program which, according to Ebtihaj, helped a lot in gaining the attention of both local and international investors. See also: Raising the first million for your startup and clueless about where to begin? Here are 7 lessons from Digital Youth Summit (http://www.techjuice.pk/raising-the-first-million-for-your-startup-and-clueless-about-where-to-begin-here-are-7-lessons-from-digital-youth-summit/) Speaking of the angel investment at DYS 2015, Ebtihaj told *TechJuice* that the details for the investment has not been finalized yet. He added that the investment from the Oasis-500 was already in talk after they won the Bootcamp earlier this year, but it was put on hold as they came back to Pakistan. They will have to incubate at Oasis 500 for 100 days in order to receive the investment. However, Messiah has not yet signed any investment agreement with either of the investors. See also: Digital Youth Summit 2015: Panel Discussion Revealed horrifying facts about Cyber Crime Bill (http://www.techjuice.pk/digital-youth-summit-2015-panel-discussion-revealed-horrifying-facts-about-cyber-crime-bill/) *TechJuice *asked Ebtihaj about the reasons in the delay of the launch of the Messiah app. He pointed out that the main reason for the delay is the fulfillment of the testing procedures for the application; otherwise, the application is fully developed to be launched on both Android and iOS platform. He added that currently they have around 50 beta users within the Peshawar region and they will soon launch the applications. While talking about the future of Messiah, Ebtihaj shared with *TechJuice* that they will bring more functionalities to Messiah in addition to one-click messenger such as Accident detection mode. *Keep following TechJuice for more updates on Messiah application. *

Messiah secures angel investments at Digital Youth Summit 2015

By Sarwat Fatima ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Messiah was offered an undisclosed amount of funding from two Pakistani-American investors, Shubber Ali & Kash Rehman and from a Jordan-based investment company, Oasis 500…

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Pakathon DC announces a series of civic hacking and startup events for global hackathon 2015

By Sarwat Fatima ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Pakathon DC organized a successful weekend hackathon in September last year where students from Pakistan and USA solved Pakistani community problems through a cross-Atlantic collaboration.…

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Raising the first million for your startup and clueless about where to begin? Here are 7 lessons from Digital Youth Summit

By Salman Ahmad ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

This year’s Digital Youth Summit was bigger and better, approximately 3500 participants attended the Digital Youth Summit (conference and expo). Around 100 speakers, of which…

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9 Startups Awarded at All Pakistan Startup Expo 2015

By Sarwat Fatima ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

All Pakistan Startup Expo 2015 was held for the first time today at Pak-China Friendship Centre, Islamabad that was a joint collaboration of Startup Magazine…

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Yasser Khatak, a teenager who raised 400,000 pounds, was at Digital Youth Summit

By Fatima Rizwan ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 4 min read

There is a famous quote “Start Early and Finish Strong” which instantly came to my mind when I met and got a chance to know…

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What’s the future of NetSol?

By Adam Zia ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 4 min read

NetSol Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTWK) is a global provider of IT and Enterprise Software Systems and provides solutions to a global clientele in USA, Pakistan,…

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One of the Graduating Founder’s take on Founder Institute Program in Karachi

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Silicon Valley based Founder Institute had their first Graduation Ceremony and Founder Showcase in their Karachi chapter (one of over 65 campuses around the globe)…

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International car booking service Careem enters Pakistani market

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There exists a marketplace for ride sharing and ride rental services in Pakistan, but it also remains a fact that the citizens are not very…

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Anonymous messaging application Secret shutting down

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Messiah was offered an undisclosed amount of funding from two Pakistani-American investors, Shubber Ali & Kash Rehman and from a Jordan-based investment company, Oasis 500 at Digital Youth Summit (DYS) 2015. *TechJuice *reached out to the Founder of Messiah app, Ebtihaj Khan for the details on their startup which has gained tremendous attention in the past few months. Messiah is an emergency responder app designed to relay distress signal to friends, family or fellow Messiahs in case of an accident or an emergency. The idea of Messiah was born in Code for Pakistan's Civic Hackathon held in Peshawar last year where the team stood second. They were offered to participate in 6-month Code for Pakistan's Peshawar fellowship program which, according to Ebtihaj, helped a lot in gaining the attention of both local and international investors. See also: Raising the first million for your startup and clueless about where to begin? Here are 7 lessons from Digital Youth Summit (http://www.techjuice.pk/raising-the-first-million-for-your-startup-and-clueless-about-where-to-begin-here-are-7-lessons-from-digital-youth-summit/) Speaking of the angel investment at DYS 2015, Ebtihaj told *TechJuice* that the details for the investment has not been finalized yet. He added that the investment from the Oasis-500 was already in talk after they won the Bootcamp earlier this year, but it was put on hold as they came back to Pakistan. They will have to incubate at Oasis 500 for 100 days in order to receive the investment. However, Messiah has not yet signed any investment agreement with either of the investors. See also: Digital Youth Summit 2015: Panel Discussion Revealed horrifying facts about Cyber Crime Bill (http://www.techjuice.pk/digital-youth-summit-2015-panel-discussion-revealed-horrifying-facts-about-cyber-crime-bill/) *TechJuice *asked Ebtihaj about the reasons in the delay of the launch of the Messiah app. He pointed out that the main reason for the delay is the fulfillment of the testing procedures for the application; otherwise, the application is fully developed to be launched on both Android and iOS platform. He added that currently they have around 50 beta users within the Peshawar region and they will soon launch the applications. While talking about the future of Messiah, Ebtihaj shared with *TechJuice* that they will bring more functionalities to Messiah in addition to one-click messenger such as Accident detection mode. *Keep following TechJuice for more updates on Messiah application. *

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