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The trends have been changing along with people’s ease and comfort. In the era where everything is done and dealt online, shopping has been vastly included into the category. Good news for people of Pakistan is that they don’t have to keep their online shopping…

In this segment, FreshStart conducts an interview of Nadir Mumtaz, CEO of Sehat, an online pharmacy with immense potential to become the “one-stop shop” for medicines for Pakistanis. 1. How did you envision Sehat? My family has been involved heavily in the pharmaceutical industry of…

DISRUPT PAKISTAN 2.0   “Oh, the times, they are a changin’ “. Stepping in to Dojo’s co-working space, I reflected, to a Bob Dylan song that was playing in the background, on how Pakistan’s startup ecosystem has truly changed in the past 2 years. The…

Meet Humayun Mazhar, the Founder of CresVentures. I had the chance to sit down with Humayun Mazhar, founder and CEO of CresVentures, a wing of the Crescent Group focused on investing in Pakistan’s startup ecosystem. His story is one of struggle, mentorship, and optimism for…

Startups in this country are truly taking off. The myth of Pakistan lacking any capable investors has long been banished with the portfolio that Fatima Ventures has presented to the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Pakistan. Further bolstering its repertoire was a recent investment round of $280,000…

Many a times we are told that starting a business alone is madness and that one should settle as corporate slave rather than dreaming about romancing in the world of startups where sky is the limit. It is true that startups require a lot of…

KICKSTART CO-WORKING SPACE HOSTS DISRUPT PAKISTAN 2.0   A start-up, according to Merriam Webster’s dictionary, is defined simply as “a new business”. New means exciting; a prospect of discovery of innovation while making your footprint in the world. It is on this premise that a…