Powered by Google for Entrepreneurs, Aplos Innovations and Dot Zero organized Startup Weekend Karachi at Institute of Business Administration, Karachi from 20th November to 22nd November 2015. Startup Weekend is a global grass root movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 1800 past events in 120 countries around the world.
The Winning Team
Team Aplos Innovations helped participants at the event with guidance and mentoring.
“Aplos Innovations believes in the strength of technology & entrepreneurship, and how they can act as strong catalysts to our socio-economical growth.
It was a sight of pure pleasure to see so many young entrepreneurs working in collaboration towards innovative ideas under the guidance of mentors to create a business that can be “the next big thing”.
– Mr. Owais Afaq, CEO, Aplos Innovations
Over the course of three days, the participants pitched their ideas, formed teams, created the prototype and presented their final business plan.
The event had guest speaker sessions by:
On-going mentoring sessions were arranged for participants with leading technopreneurs and industry gurus.
The final day was full of energy where 11 teams presented their prototypes and were evaluated by judges. The winning teams and runners-up were as
follows:
“Startup Weekend is a big opportunity for all the budding entrepreneurs who are looking for a platform to pitch and present their ideas.
Startup Weekend Karachi is part of a global celebration happening in over 250 cities the next 2 weekends and we really want our winning team to be among the shortlisted ideas which will compete in the Global Battle at Berlin. It would indeed be a proud moment for all of us”.
– Mr. Hashim Yasin, Facilitator of Startup Weekend
