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August 2022

National Investment Summit-22 

As a premium player in the Pakistani innovation ecosystem, the National Incubation Center prides itself in bringing holistic solutions for its startups. That means helping startups with investor readiness and connecting them with investors. The NIC investment initiatives have helped startups raise more than $21 million. 

 

The National Investment Summit is a platform that showcases handpicked startup founders and connects them with the leading investors from across the globe. For investors, it presents a unique opportunity to invest in startups that are ready to go big. This edition of the NIS came to an end with our Startups pitching to the investors from around the globe and we had some great pitches from our participating startups, plenty of whom have received bookings for one-on-one office hours with investors. 

 

Upcoming Events

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We're back with yet another exciting episode of the NIC Master Class, with one of our startups Frost Fire Technologies. It's a pleasure to host speaker Affaf Imran CTO at Frostier and Muhammad Umar CEO at Relymer Group at the NIC for an exclusive session on "Game Development and Blockchain for Gaming" to be held on Tuesday 13th Sept, 2022 at 3:30 PM. Join us at the NIC to become a part of this exciting event. Reserve your spot here.

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Interested in joining our coffee club? The Founders Coffee Club (TFCC) is a founder’s community that brews idea together and sip them away with success and aspirations. At the Founders Coffee Club meetups, startups come together to discuss their challenges and huddle together to find solutions on the fly. So mark your calendars and get your mugs ready because we will be sipping in some insightful conversations. The Founders Coffee session will be held on 14th September from 11:00 am - 12:00 pm. Book your seat here.

The National Incubation Center in collaboration with Allied bank is proud to present the “Fintech Hackathon 2022”. Fellow participants will go through an extensive bootcamp full of trainings and information which will equip them to win PKR 2 million worth of cash prize. The purpose of this event is to find practical innovative ideas, prototypes and solutions to challenges in the Fin-Tech space. Learn more here.

A seminar for entrepreneurs running startups or planning to initiate a startup will would be held at NIC, Islamabad on 22 September, 2022. Entrepreneur interested in learning about information technology industry in Pakistan, incentives given to ICT industry and startups, updates on tax incentives, information on PSEB projects and programs for startups would find the seminar useful. To reserve your spot fill out the form.

 

NIC Visits

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We were honored to have Hamid Mir - Host of the Geo News talk show "Capital Talk" visit us here at the NIC and meet with some of our star startups. Hamid Mir and his team met with our founders and documented their innovative ideas. You can watch the full video here.

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Tencent visited the National Incubation Center to explore potential areas for collaboration. We were honoured to host the Tencent team at the NIC to share insights into the work being done here to support the startup ecosystem of Pakistan. For highlights visit here.

The NIC was pleased to invite differently abled people to visit the facility and introduce them to the startup ecosystem as well as to understand the business reasons to hire disabled people, the initiatives, and the disability sensitization measures undertaken by the organizations to promote an inclusive work culture.

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Nouman Ali Khan a Pakistani-American Islamic scholar came to visit NIC and learn more about what the startup ecosystem is and how NIC is facilitating startups. It was our pleasure to show him around the award winning NIC facility, and have him meet with some of our star startups to discuss areas of future collaboration. For more, check out our highlights here.  

 

NIC Sessions

Hamza Bhatti, one of the top trending influencers in Pakistan, came to NIC to give an exciting session on his "The Dadho Mazo Ayo Workshop". He gave a demonstration on his creative process of covering food for the first time, that to live at the National Incubation Center, in collaboration with Sony.  See the highlights from the event here.

We were happy to host Ameeq Asrar - Product Manager, AppFlows and Huda Shahzad, Junior Product Owner, AppFlows for this session. Our speakers spoke at length about the different types of email automation strategies, gave a full demo on Appflows, discussed problem statement and their solutions. For more info on AppFlows click here

Parvaz-e-Takhayyul and the NIC hosted a Book Club Soirée to celebrate Pakistani fiction writers right here at the NIC. The session was a great meet and greet for the writers joining in and gave them a chance to sahre their latest updates. For more on this, visit here.

Aclan had a session with our startups to help them  in full-spectrum digital services for their startups. They helped them strategise, integrate and optimise their tech, design and marketing funnels. Visit our Facebook page for highlights. Click here

Jazz Chief Commercial Officer, Asif Aziz demonstrated history of his experience in the digital world and more specifically in the Telecom industry. He talked about Marketing Management, Business Planning, Customer Experience, and Sales for startups to learn and apply to their businesses. 

The NIC was pleased to host Pakistani media channels for a digital meetup. Startups discussed on the growing Startup ecosystem in Pakistan and how digital media is helping Pakistan and the youth with many ingredients for a thriving startup-up ecosystem. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"There's always hurdles. So keep moving and constantly redefining yourself. That's how you stay in the race." 

- Isaac Hayes

 

 

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