Elevate The Youth

Elevate The Youth is a capacity building accelerator for the youth of Pakistan

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

The need of time has allowed entrepreneurship and social innovation to become a popular global phenomenon around the world. Whilst youth of developed countries has…

VentureDive

Careem acquires a chunk of VentureDive in a hefty deal

By Maryam Dodhy ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Taxi-hailing cab service, Careem, has acquired a one-third chunk of VentureDive’s development team for an undisclosed amount that includes cash and equity, both. The acquired…

Road

Pakistan among emerging markets of the future, new report says

By Maryam Dodhy ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 5 min read

BMI Research, a financial market analysis firm, has recently identified 10 emerging markets from the Asia and Africa region that are set to become new…

careem

Careem acquires 50 engineers in Pakistan, will invest 100 million dollars in R&D

By Muneeb Ahmad ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Update: A previous version of the story indicated that Careem has hired 50 engineers – which is slightly incorrect. Careem has acquired a chunk of…

Careem

Careem introduces real-time ride tracking system in Pakistan

By Rehan Ahmed ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Taxi-hailing startup Careem has now introduced a new feature to let people track their friends’ or loved ones’ rides in real-time. “At Careem we value…

MIT Based Ricult

This MIT-based startup is hoping to change the Agriculture setup starting with Pakistan

By Maryam Dodhy ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 4 min read

Agriculture remains a widely untapped area from our startup industry viewpoint. This area is so vast that several startups can co-exist without the fear of…

Startup Postmortem

Postmortem of My First Startup

By Wajahat Karim ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 10 min read

Like many programmers and developers, I have also been inspired by the glorious entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, or Larry Page. This inspiration led…

well.pk

Well.pk, health ecommerce site, closes seed funding round of around US $1 million

By Muneeb Ahmad ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Health and lifestyle e-commerce startup Well.pk has secured close to US$1 million from its initial seed funding round, primarily backed by angel investors Nadeem Hussain…

ATM

ATM Skimming: A guide to keeping your ATM credentials safe

By Saad Mughal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 5 min read

Hackers have a way to bypass everything from machines to handheld devices. They can make your security measures seem useless and sometimes even foolish. Today,…

Karlo Compare

KarloCompare closes angel investment round with a 7-figure funding

By Maryam Dodhy ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

KarloCompare announced today that they have raised a PKR 7-figure funding from Hina Khawaja Bayat and Roger Dawood Bayat in their first angel investment round.…

ecommerce

Cheezmall and ACCA sign MoU for improving eCommerce industry in Pakistan

By Saad Mughal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Cheezmall and The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) have signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the promotion of eCommerce in Pakistan. Cheezmall itself…

SLUSH

Invest2Innovate is hosting the local edition of Slush Global Impact Accelerator 2016

By Maryam Dodhy ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Invest2Innovate has partnered with Slush for the second time to host the local edition of the Global Impact Accelerator 2016. The event is scheduled to…

Asia

Marham, a healthcare startup, vows to transform health sector for good

By Fatima Rizwan ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 4 min read

In a matter of a few months, plenty of health segment startups have emerged in Pakistan. Why should they not? Of all the segments, healthcare…

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