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Neem Paymenow Gets Rs100 Million from HBL to Scale Earned Wage Access
Neem Paymenow, Pakistan’s pioneering earned wage access platform, has secured a Rs100 million term sheet—the first tranche of a $4 million credit facility—from HBL. This strategic move will enable Neem Paymenow to accelerate its Shariah-compliant solution, empowering working Pakistanis with…
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Fixing Patari
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In short span of under three months, Patari has gone from the darling of our tech ecosystem to a cultural and management nightmare. I didn’t…
Meet Arghawan Hatif, empowered by Karandaaz, who turned her skills into a business venture
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Hazara Town, a minority community at the outskirts of Quetta, stands Hatif Art Gallery, a solace for the troubled community. It is here that Arghawan…
6 must-follow podcasts for all startup enthusiasts
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Are you struggling to take a leap of faith and kickstart your entrepreneurial journey? Or have you already started building the next big innovation? Are…
What is wrong with the selection process of incubation centers in Pakistan
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Innovation District aka ID92 recently rolled out their first batch of startups. If Twitter is to be believed the response was amazing and no less…
What not to do, Murmurings from Popinjay
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One of the many things not happening in our tech ecosystem is startup postmortems. We do not know, to this day, why Madiha agreed to…
Innovation District 92 announces an international exchange program
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The newly launched Innovation District 92 (ID92), an innovation hub located in Lahore has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Oklahoma,…
PTI unveils its 14 point Digital Policy for ‘Naya Pakistan’
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Ahead of elections that are due very shortly, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has outlined key initiatives that it would be picking to reform the Digital Arena for…
Pakistan’s first EdTech company acquired in a deal sub $100 million
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360training, a Pakistani-American e-learning platform for industry-focus skills, has been acquired by a New York-based private equity firm, PWP Growth Equity. While the financial details…
Patari receives another blow as the core team resigns
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Music streaming platform Patari is once again in hot waters as the core team has today announced that they are stepping away from the startup…
EVERYTHING you need to know about She Loves Tech competition
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CIRCLE, a social enterprise focused on economic empowerment of women, is bringing back She Loves Tech, a women-centric global technology startup competition to Pakistan. The…
Karandaaz invests almost PKR 64M in 15 women-led businesses
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The country’s leading promoter of financial inclusion, Karandaaz Pakistan has signed financing agreements with 15 successful female entrepreneurs who took part in the Women Entrepreneurship…
Meet the first startup cohort of Innovation District 92
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Innovation District 92, the entrepreneurship facility backed by Superior Group, has inducted its first incubation cohort comprising of seven diverse startups. The facility received a…
This Pakistani startup makes it to the Health-Focused USA Accelerator Program
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Pakistani health-focused startup, AzaadHealth has been selected in the US-based accelerator program – the StartUp Health. The program has selected 10 startups from all around…
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