This Pakistani startup bags $100,000 grant at Dubai Expo Live for its fuel-efficient stove

By TechJuice ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Jaan Pakistan, a company developing innovative smoke-free and fuel-efficient cooking stoves to prevent fatal respiratory illness could now save 11,000 more lives with the recent…

These are the world’s 10 most valuable tech companies

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

A recently released list of the most valuable private companies in the world reveals that technology companies are raising the highest valuations. The list has…

World Summit Awards calling applications of digital innovators

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The World Summit Awards (WSA) are now accepting applications of local digital innovations that are producing high impact by improving societies. Essentially, WSA is an…

Will Pakistan ever witness the emergence of a tech unicorn?

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 7 min read

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

By TechJuice ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 4 min read

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

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

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

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

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…

Apply for the Zayed Sustainability Prize to win up to $600,000

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Are you building a sustainable project to help solve challenges of Health, Food, Energy, Water and Global High Schools? Then apply to Zayed Sustainability Prize…

National Incubation Center Karachi to begin operations next month

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

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,…

20 years old entrepreneurs are a lie, MIT

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

According to a working paper titled, Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship by Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Professor Pierre Azoulay and PhD student Daniel Kim, the…

Seven startups graduate from Revolt, Peshawar 2.0’s incubation program

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The second cohort of Revolt comprising of seven startups graduated from Peshawar 2.0’s business incubation and acceleration program. The graduation was celebrated in a Demo…

KeepTruckin raises $50 million from Google Ventures and others, expands to Islamabad & Lahore

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

The Silicon Valley startup with its roots in Pakistan, KeepTruckin has raised $50 million in Series C funding led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) with…

How to watch the second day of Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony to Congress

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

It seems that Mark Zuckerberg has emerged unscathed from the five-hour gruelling hearing session before the Congress, answering questions of US Senators. However, it not…

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