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Pakistani Startup DIYGEEKS to promote Do-It-Yourself culture in the country

Back in 2013, a budding techno-geek from Lahore, Usama Abid realized the need for building a platform that would...

Feb 27 · >

Nearpeer raises investment at 6 figure (USD) valuation from Shopistan

Nearpeer, Plan9’s startup incubated under Ilm Ideas 2, has raised a product acceleration investment at 6 figure (USD) valuation...

Jan 28 · >

Eye-Automate wins ERUPT Lahore

ERUPT Lahore, Pakistan’s biggest startup competition, concluded on 15th December at Arfa Software Technology Park. Eye-Automate claimed the top...

Dec 15 · >

Umar Saif joins the Punjab Cabinet as an advisor to Chief Minister

Dr Umar Saif, the Chairman Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) and the Vice Chancellor ITU, has joined the Cabinet...

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Nov 28 · >

Pakistan’s business idol ERUPT is all set to make waves

Careem, the ride hailing service based out of MiddleEast, which has teamed up with Plan9 and PITB for Pakistan’s...

Nov 17 · >

ERUPT, Pakistan’s business idol is taking applications for the grand competition

Pakistan has been witnessing an increasing trend towards entrepreneurship, specially in youth. Quality startups are being founded at an...

Oct 20 · >

Punjab Information Technology Board Herself partners with Facebook to bring #SheMeansBusiness to Pakistan

The entrepreneurship wing of Punjab Information Technology Board, Herself, has partnered with Facebook to bring Facebook’s She Means Business...

Oct 17 · >

Meet 8 selected startups for Telenor Velocity Acceleration Program

Telenor’s own acceleration program in Pakistan, Velocity, today in a pitching competition, has just announced 8 startups which will...

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Sep 22 · >

Punjab Government launches a video to encourage investment flow in Pakistan

“Join us, work with us, invest in us!” This is the message which Punjab Information Technology Board(PITB) wants to...

Sep 15 · >

‘Pakistani Startups Making Waves’ celebrates local entrepreneurs

Plan9 took this year’s Independence Day as an opportunity to highlight some of Pakistan’s brilliant startups that have taken...

Aug 16 · >

6 Pakistani Startups to visit the United States for Entrepreneurship Program

Pakistani startups have gained quite a lot of popularity in the last few years. Just recently, a startup from...

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Aug 11 · >

Pakistani startup Travly raises USD 200,000 seed fund from CresVentures and Faisal Sherjan

The news of Travly raising funding has been circulating since January. However, the team had kept it under wraps...

Jul 22 · >

Channeling Energies  –  Raising Problem Solvers

Learning by doing, Plan9’s effort to promote entrepreneurship at the grass root level. Imagine being surrounded by young kids,...

Jul 12 · >

14-year-old security researcher from Pakistan listed in Google Hall of Fame

Muhammad Shahzad, a 14-year-old security researcher from Pakistan, has been enlisted in the Google Hall of Fame for reporting...

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Jun 25 · >

PITB launches a project ‘Herself’ to encourage women to embrace freelancing

PITB has triggered a project named ‘Herself’ meant to empower females by enabling them to learn and earn using...

Jun 16 · >

Inside Google’s plan to take Pakistan’s startup industry to a global scale

Google, as an organization, is known to be one of the most innovative ones. From being a technology giant...

Jun 11 · >

Pakistan’s first-ever Facebook developers meetup held in Lahore

The first ever Facebook developers conference in Pakistan was organized at Plan9 at the Arfa Kareem Technology Park in...

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Jun 6 · >

Umar Saif invited by The White House to represent Pakistan at Global Entrepreneurship Summit

Dr. Umar Saif, Chairman Punjab Information Technology Board has been invited by The White House on behalf of Barack...

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May 28 · >

Startups Graveyard — 10 Pakistani startups that do not exist any more

To start a company from scratch is a surely a big deal. There are countless sleepless nights and sweating...

May 27 · >

NUST graduates launch Pakistan’s first Kickstarter campaign for wearable tech

Trequant Inc., today, launched their Kickstarter campaign to fund their tremor quantifying watch. Trequant, a watch to assist patients...

May 16 · >

Karachi’s first HEC backed business incubation center holds its inaugural pitching session

CINETIC – Center of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Technology Incubation and Commercialization at NED University, Karachi is the first business incubation...

Mar 2 · >

Umar Saif among Top 500 Most Influential Muslims around the world

Dr. Umar Saif, the current Chairman of the Punjab Information Technology Board, has been included in a list of...

Feb 14 · >

Pakistani Gaming Venture Mindstorm Studios expands executive team to enter $9.7 billion China gaming market

Popular gaming venture, Mindstorm Studios, known for many gaming titles including Whacksy Taxi, Cricket Revolution, and War Inc is...

Feb 12 · >

Government takes the rein, vows to launch incubators with coworking spaces in Pakistan

The Minister of State for Information Technology and Telecom, Anusha Rehman, has announced the government’s plan to launch a...

Feb 9 · >