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Pak-American Entrepreneur Raises $600M for AI Vehicle Startup Applied Intuition
SAN FRANCISCO: In a major development for the autonomous vehicle industry, Pakistani-American entrepreneur Qasar Younis has raised $600 million in new funding for his AI-driven startup, Applied Intuition, more than doubling the company’s valuation to an impressive $15 billion, according…
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AliBaba acquires Daraz Group
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Daraz Group, a leading e-commerce company in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and Nepal today announced that the company was fully acquired by Alibaba to…
Future of digital healthcare platforms in Pakistan
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Whenever there’s a conversation about social welfare, healthcare is the topic that is considered to be the most challenging and most important of all. Providing…
Pakistani startups will now get trained in Silicon Valley
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The NUST Global Acceleration Program (GAP) – is a pioneering acceleration program. Sponsored by the US Department of State it aims to boost post-revenue Pakistani…
Impact network launched to address developmental challenges in Pakistan
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A unique collaboration between Incubation Centers, Social Entrepreneurship Support Organizations, Universities, Public Sector, Donors, and Investors, called the Impact Network was launched in Islamabad. The…
Startups from 2014: What have tech founders learned whilst hustling for the past four years?
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From academics to professional life, it is difficult for a regular Pakistani youngster to break away from conventional careers and deal with societal and family…
Twitter also sold data to the same researcher who harvested 87 million Facebook accounts
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Ever since the scandal of Facebook selling data to Cambridge Analytica has emerged, users have started putting more attention to what they are sharing on…
Will Pakistan ever witness the emergence of a tech unicorn?
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At the fourth edition of Digital Youth Summit, Pakistan’s premier technology conference, a billion dollar question was asked to an eminent panel, Will Pakistan ever…
18 diverse startups graduate from the 7th cohort of The Nest I/O
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The Nest I/O concluded its seventh incubation cycle with their Demo Day event, where graduating and alumni startups pitched their solutions and products to local…
ConnectHear organizes Pakistan’s first deaf-inclusive interpreted concert
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ConnectHear is a technology startup bridging the gap between the deaf and the community, through a video-based and in-person sign language interpretation system. A Nest…
Pakistani high-school entrepreneurs win $11,000 at the Global Diamond Challenge Summit
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Team Aab-e-Hayaat has won the Global Diamond Challenge winning $11,000 in prize money. It is the first Pakistani team to reach the semi-finals of the…
National Incubation Center Karachi to begin operations next month
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Ministry of IT and Ignite’s flagship initiative National Incubation Center (NIC) will kickstart in Karachi, next month. After the establishment of NICs in Islamabad, Lahore,…
A startup of Karachi won 1M rupees in 2017-18 Startup Cup Finals
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In the fourth edition of the American Embassy-funded event, a team from Karachi, Retailistan, beat 17 other teams to take the top prize of 1…
Women’s Digital League partners with Facebook for its #SheMeansBusiness program
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Women’s Digital League, a social enterprise empowering women in the digital area, has partnered with Facebook to bring its #SheMeansBusiness program to the Pakistani landscape.…
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