Telenor Pakistan’s corporate accelerator, Velocity, held the closing ceremony of a month-long hackathon ‘Developer’s Game Jam: GameBird Edition’, at its 345 Campus in Islamabad. The hackathon was aimed at enabling an ever-growing community of game designers, developers, artists, and writers to come together on a common platform, to learn new skills and create video games … [Read more…]
Builtbyher Hackathon Winners Receive Seed Funding From UBL in support of LMKT and (NICK) to promote Women’s Entrepreneurship in Pakistan
United Bank Limited (UBL) recently collaborated with LMKT and the National Incubation Center, Karachi (NICK) to host the BuiltByHer 3.0 Hackathon. The Hackathon focused on empowering aspiring female entrepreneurs in creating technologies to improve Pakistani women’s economic inclusion, while promoting Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (‘STEM’) education amongst young women. At the event, 13 participating teams pitched … [Read more…]
3rd BuiltByHer Hackathon concludes successfully
National Incubation Center Karachi, in collaboration with The Asia Foundation, concluded the 3rd BuiltByHer Hackathon by hosting the top eleven teams for a competitive grand finale. BuiltByHer is a 48-hour long hackathon that requires women lead teams to hack and find solutions to the most pressing issues prevalent in society. The 3rd iteration of competition … [Read more…]
NIC , Ignite and Huawei Collaborated To Hold Pitching Day for Huawei Cloud Startup Program
16 different start-ups from across Pakistan pitched their business ideas to a set of decorated judges during the Huawei Cloud Start-up program. The program is a global support program launched by HUAWEI CLOUD for global startups. The main purpose is to help and accelerate the business growth of technology startups and ecosystem partners. Eligible start-ups … [Read more…]
Google to Launch a Circular Economy Startup Accelerator in Pakistan
Google in this program will choose and work with new businesses and non-benefit associations that utilization innovation to tackle circularity challengesGoogle has forever been holding nothing back for advancing sound monetary action and new business thoughts. As of late, the tech monster proceeded to begin a startup gas pedal for advancing roundabout economy in Pakistan. … [Read more…]
National Incubation Centre Lahore at LUMS holds Investor Summit for its 9th Cohort of Entrepreneurs
The National Incubation Centre Lahore (NICL) at LUMS held its capstone event – the Investor Summit, which brought together its 9th Cohort of change-driven start-ups, pitching their ventures in Agritech, Cleantech, Edtech, Healthtech, and Fintech to seasoned investors and start-up founders in Pakistan. The Investor Summit is the culmination of a 6-month long Foundation Programme … [Read more…]