Furthering its mission of training a generation of future business leaders, the National Incubation Centre (NIC) at LUMS is delighted to appoint a new Foundation Council (FC), comprising of the leadership of some of the most successful Pakistani start-ups. \u201cNIC is thrilled to elicit support from Pakistani role model entrepreneurs for our future generation of problem solvers. I’m confident that our continued efforts to connect ideas with people and capital will yield positive outcomes for Pakistan\u201d, said Saleem Ahmad, Chairman, NIC Advisory Board, speaking of the formation of the Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Making\nup the Council, are dynamic Pakistani entrepreneurs and investors including: Aatif\nAwan, Founder and Managing Partner of Indus Valley Capital, a Pakistan-focused\nearly stage Venture Capital fund that has led investment rounds for Atoms,\nAirlift, Aimfit and Bazaar; Saba Gul, Founder and CEO of Popinjay, an ethical\ne-commerce retailer with a supply chain spanning Pakistan, Vietnam and China.\nMIT-educated engineer turned entrepreneur, she was most recently a Director of\nProduct at VentureDive, a technology studio in Karachi; Hamza Iqbal, Founder of\nHealthwire, a health-tech start-up incubated at NIC LUMS (formerly LCE) which\nhas raised US$700,000 from 47 Ventures; Junaid Iqbal, former Managing Director\nof Careem Pakistan and Careem Pay, is an investor and partner at Mentors Fund,\nand Chairman of Salt Arts, a music, art and entertainment agency; Muneeb Maayr,\nFounder at Bykea, the largest network of motorbikes serving on-demand\ntransport, logistics and payment services in Pakistan. Previously, Maayr was\nCo-Founder and CEO at Daraz.pk, Pakistan\u2019s leading ecommerce platform, acquired\nby Alibaba Group, and Qasif Shahid, CEO and Co-Founder of Finja, a fintech\nstart-up focused on providing accessible financial services to Micro, Small and\nMedium Enterprises and their stakeholders.The Council will be joined by NIC\nAdvisory Board members Saleem Ahmad, Zehra Hyder Ali and Ali Mukhtar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\nFoundation Council, together with the NIC Advisory Board, will provide guidance\nto the Foundation programme by selecting its sixth cohort of aspiring\nentrepreneurs from a large and diverse pool of applicants; and coaching, mentoring\nand connecting them for success. Funded by Ignite, the Foundation is an\nimmersive six-months long programmedesigned to help young Pakistani\nentrepreneurs develop their ideas into an investor-ready business plan, benefit\nfrom a network of experts and business leaders, culminating in a capstone Investor\nSummit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\nrenewed vision for NIC is focused on problem solving in high impact areas for\nPakistan\u2014agriculture, education, environment, health, financial inclusion and\napplications using machine learning and artificial intelligence\u2014with success\ndetermined as fundraising for growth. \u201cRaising capital from investors is\nincontrovertible evidence of commercial viability and conviction in the\nentrepreneur team, and our new FC embodies just that”, commented Saleem\nAhmad, about the choice of council members. Dr. Alnoor Bhimani, Dean, School of\nBusiness, LUMS, added,\u201cOur start-up community has a lot to learn from the\nsuccesses and mistakes of our FC members in navigating to great success; while\nFC members will have a gratifying engagement with the next generation of\ninnovators and an opportunity to contribute to their success.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NIC Lahore aims to build a comprehensive entrepreneurial ecosystem, with LUMS at its epicentre, and support of Ignite, Ministry of Information, Technology and Telecom, and Fatima Ventures, to help maximize the growth potential of Pakistani entrepreneurs.NIC\u2019s renewed vision expands upon the LUMS \u2018Learning without Borders\u2019 agenda that aims to create an environment of inclusion, unity, and boundless knowledge to develop innovators, leaders and change-makers who can contribute to the community and economic development of Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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