Great news for Pakistani startups with global ambitions. We have approved a new program called BridgeStart which will fund 100 startups each year to be incubated/accelerated in any of the top 40 incubators/accelerators all over the world. From our experience at Plan9 and our 8 National Incubation Centers (NIC), we observed that startups which were able to make it to incubators such as YCombinator, Capital Factory, 500 startups etc grew much more rapidly as they were able to successfully tap into a more developed ecosystem and sources of funding. However, a lot of startups could not be part of such a program due to lack of resources for travel/lodging/expenses in a program abroad. Through BridgeStart, we will give you up to Rs 5 million if you able to qualify for these top 40 international programs. You just need to be good enough to qualify — we will take care of the rest. Go conquer! (Details coming soon via IGNITE) Via Umar Saif

Visited Axiom Karachi today and founder Adil Altaf Axiom is a training Institite with objective of creating excellence in IT industry and create organizations in future like Accenture ! Adil worked in Accenture and lived in United States for 18 years and now returned to do this ! His focus is on Blockchain, Intenet of Things, Video production and scaling of education to reach out to 5 million students who can then make us$10,000 a month ! His partner Zia Khan is the leading expert and a Pakistani Legend in the planet who has thought single handedly thousands of IT EXPERTS in last 20 years ! Help their cause by joining them and enrolling yourself and your friends to make us$120,000 a year sitting in Pakistan, creating world class web internet products like Careem , Uber, @nest and others ! I hope they will transform their space and make it more like a YCombinator Watch the tour video of their multi million dollar space below #changeyourself #newPakistan

Simarpreet Singh at YCombinator Startup School If you get selected you are already on your way to success !

Finally got to meet Haseeb Awan YCombinator Startup School alumni, Professor of crypto in Japan, did his public company in bitcoin atm 🏧, and now moving to Pakistan to automate Traditional businesses into empires becoming the Sequoia Capital of Pakistan 🇵🇰 He has verbally requested to open our first ever 3rd party sponsored Rehan School in Dera Ismail Khan which we hope to open soon ! Thank you Haseeb ! May your good luck be good luck for the planet 🌎

🌍✨ She Got the Scholarship… But Not the Stamp (A real story. A real heartbreak. A real chance to fix it.) Today, I saw a post on Dr. Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani wall about a brilliant Pakistani girl who was offered a fully-funded international scholarship. 🎓 She had the grades. 💻 She had the skills. 🌎 She had the dream. 📩 She had the acceptance letter in hand. But she lost it all. Because her degree couldn’t be verified in time. Why? Because in Pakistan, getting your degree verified is like doing Hajj. Multiple times. With no Kaaba at the end. ⸻ 😔 The Current Reality To verify one Pakistani degree, a student has to: 🔹 Pay their university to issue the degree 🔹 Wait weeks for HEC (Higher Education Commission) to verify it 🔹 Get MOFA (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) to attest it 🔹 If you’re in healthcare, the Ministry of Health gets involved 🔹 Then the embassy of the destination country has its own separate process 🔹 Pay for courier services or travel physically 🔹 Then wait. And wait. And wait. You could lose your opportunity. Your admission. Your job offer. All because our system is still running on paper and pain. ⸻ 💥 The Vision: Let’s Build “VerifyPK” 🇵🇰 Let’s create a Pakistani startup that changes this broken system forever. 🎯 VerifyPK – A blockchain-powered digital platform that allows students, universities, and authorities to issue and verify degrees instantly and globally. ⸻ 🔐 How VerifyPK Will Work: 1. Students register and upload their degrees (or request verification). 2. Universities verify authenticity and digitally sign the record. 3. HEC, MOFA, Ministry of Health each digitally sign using smart keys. 4. A globally shareable, tamper-proof digital certificate is issued. 5. Embassies, employers, foreign universities can verify it instantly using a secure link or QR code — no need for stamps or weeks of delay. ⸻ 🧠 Technologies Used: • Blockchain (Ethereum or Polygon) for tamper-proof security • Digital ID integration (NADRA or passport) • Smart contracts for multi-party validation • IPFS for decentralized document storage • Web portal + Mobile app for easy, global access ⸻ 💸 Revenue Model User Type Fee Students PKR 3,000–5,000 one-time fee Universities Free onboarding + per verification fee Embassies/Employers Free lookup or API subscription ⸻ 🧱 Step-by-Step: How YOU Can Build It 🧑‍💻 Step 1: Form a Team Gather 2–4 mission-driven people. You need: • A tech lead • A policy/legal brain • A sales/partnership wizard • A storyteller 💻 Step 2: Build a Basic MVP Use Firebase, Webflow, Solidity — make a pilot that verifies degrees for just one university. 🤝 Step 3: Talk to Registrars Start with 1–2 universities. Get them excited. Offer free digitization as a bonus. 🚀 Step 4: Apply to These Programs • Y Combinator – Silicon Valley’s top accelerator • Antler – Global startup investor with programs in Pakistan • NIC Pakistan – National Incubation Centers in major cities 📢 Step 5: Tell Your Story Interview victims of the broken system. Show their pain. Show your solution. Turn tears into traction. ⸻ ❤️ Why This Matters 🎓 Thousands of students miss international admissions. 💼 Professionals are stuck abroad without verified documents. 💔 Families suffer. Dreams die. Opportunities fade. Let’s fix this once and for all — and make Pakistan proud. ⸻ 💬 What You Can Do Today ✅ Share this post ✅ Tag a coder, founder, dreamer ✅ Form a team ✅ Apply to an incubator ✅ Use AI like ChatGPT to turn ideas into plans ⸻ 📣 I wrote this entire idea using ChatGPT. It didn’t take me more than a single minute. 🛠 You don’t need permission anymore. You just need purpose + AI. 🌱 Look around you. Every problem is a startup idea in disguise. Solve one. Build something. Change your country. Change the world. — Rehan Allahwala #VerifyPK #ZeeshanUsmani #StartupPakistan #DigitalPakistan #BlockchainForGood #PakistaniStudents #NIC #Antler #YCombinator #StopComplainingStartBuilding #MadeWithChatGPT #BuildWithPurpose #PakistanZindabad

If you on internet 🛜 please follow @ycombinator and Antler everywhere on social media! Follow and add as many of their staff as they can and see the future being built and be part of building it !

🚀 کچھ سال پہلے… اگر کسی نے کہا ہوتا کہ ایک آئیڈیا سے کروڑوں کی کمپنی بن سکتی ہے… تو لوگ ہنستے تھے۔ آج؟ ایک لیپ ٹاپ… ایک انٹرنیٹ… اور صحیح رہنمائی… آپ کو اربوں کی دنیا میں لے جا سکتی ہے۔ اور یہی کام دنیا کے دو پلیٹ فارم کر رہے ہیں: 👉 Antler 👉 Y Combinator یہ صرف فنڈنگ نہیں دیتے… یہ آپ کو “چھوٹے سوچنے والے” سے “گلوبل فاؤنڈر” بناتے ہیں۔ 💡 آپ کو ملتا کیا ہے؟ ✔ دنیا کے بہترین مینٹرز ✔ عالمی سرمایہ کاروں تک رسائی ✔ سسٹم، سٹرکچر، اور کلیرٹی ✔ ایک ایسا نیٹ ورک… جو آپ کی زندگی بدل دے اور سب سے بڑی بات… 📈 آپ کا اسٹارٹ اپ چند سالوں میں 28 کروڑ روپے (₹280 million / ~PKR 10+ crore) کی ویلیو تک پہنچ سکتا ہے لیکن ایک سچ سنو… ❌ مسئلہ پیسے کا نہیں ہے ❌ مسئلہ آئیڈیا کا بھی نہیں ہے 👉 اصل مسئلہ ہے کہ ہم apply ہی نہیں کرتے 👉 ہم ڈرتے ہیں 👉 ہم سوچتے ہیں “یہ ہمارے لیے نہیں ہے” 🔥 آج فیصلہ کرو: کیا آپ صرف سکرول کرتے رہیں گے؟ یا apply کر کے اپنی زندگی بدلیں گے؟ 📌 جا کر دیکھو: 👉 ycombinator.com 👉 antler.co 💥 ایک فارم بھرنے میں 10 منٹ لگتے ہیں 💥 لیکن وہ 10 منٹ آپ کی اگلی 10 سال کی زندگی بدل سکتے ہیں 🚀 دنیا بدل رہی ہے… AI، انٹرنیٹ، اور گلوبل نیٹ ورکنگ کے ساتھ اب سوال یہ نہیں ہے کہ موقع ہے یا نہیں… سوال یہ ہے: 👉 آپ تیار ہیں یا نہیں؟ #StartupPakistan #AIRevolution #YCombinator #Antler #BuildInPublic #RehanSchool #LearnToEarn