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​​01-ISF-10​ (Approved Cost: Rs. 8,000,000)

Startup DetailsAbout StartupSolution/ Results
Name/Title:
Printablepk | Online design, print and packaging Marketplace 

Startup Lead:
Mr. Muhammad Hamid Saeed Qadri

BIC: UET lahore
Year 2021-22
Thematic Area:
E-Commerce, Smart Retail, Banking & FinTech

Current Status:
Timeline Completed

Printable.pk is Pakistan's largest Design & Print marketplace, with a range of quality vendors covering all types of print services and materials.

02-ISF-78 (Approved Cost: Rs. 7,999,000 )

Startup DetailsAbout StartupSolution/ Results
Name/Title:
Orko Pvt Ltd

Startup Lead:
Mr. Muhammad Talha Khan


BIC: NED UET Karachi
Year 2021-22



Thematic Area:
Emerging Technologies, Transportation & Logistics

Current Status:
Timeline Completed

Orko is a digital platform for Pakistan's Electric Vehicle (EV) ecosystem.
Their core products are:

1. ​Software as a Service (SaaS) Platform for EV charging infrastructure owners for asset management​ and demand generation.

2. Connected Vehicle Platform for EV assemblers/ manufacturers (2/3/4W).

3. Consumer app for all different types of EV owners (2/3/4W) to control their vehicles and find, book & pay for charging sessions.

With the help of ISF support, they have targeted to achieve the following goals:

1. 6% reduction in oil import.

2. 3X improvement in air quality across Pakistan's major urban centres.

3. 4X reduction in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of vehicles.


03-ISF-183 (Approved Cost: Rs. 7,700,000 )

Startup DetailsAbout Startup​Solution/ Results
Name/Title:
Boltay Huroof

Startup Lead:
Mr. Syed Tabish Ahmed


BIC: NED UET Karachi
Year 2021-22

Thematic Area:
Education EdTech, Creative & Digital Media Arts

Current Status:
Timeline Completed


Boltay Huroof is bridging the gap between education, employment, social and financial inclusion for the Blind community by providing innovative and affordable solutions for underserved economies.


04-ISF-226 (Approved Cost: Rs. 8,000,000)

Startup DetailsAbout Startup​Solution/ Results
Name/Title:
TRUEId


Startup Lead:
Dr. Abid Rafique


BIC: NUST
Year 2021-22


Thematic Area:
E-Commerce, Smart Retail, Banking & FinTech


Current Status:
Timeline Co
mpleted


This product is a solution for quick, robust and low-cost identity verification in less than 30 secs that has following main features:
• Liveness Verification
• ID Document Authenticity Check
• PhotolD - Selfie Matching,  Touchless Biometric Capture (using Mobile Camera)
• SBP and SECP fully compliant verification
• Dashboards for Analytics & Audit Trail
• Manual Workflow for Unknown ID Documents
• Support for Variety of ID Documents (Passport,
Driving License, ID Card, etc.)
• Integrations available for iOS, Android and Web


05-ISF-254 (Approved Cost: Rs. 7,700,000)

Startup DetailsAbout Startup​Solution/ Results
Name/Title:
Arm Rehab Technologies


Startup Lead:
Mr. Muhammad Hamza Shafique


BIC: International Islamic University Islamabad
Year 2021-22


Thematic Area:
Health & Health Care Tech


Current Status:
Timeline Completed

Arm Rehab Technologies is making functional and affordable robotic artificial hands to empower people without hands. It is estimated that about 400,000 people are without hands in Pakistan and globally around 20 million. Through ISF fund, Arm Rehab hands has targetted these people to perform daily activities  without being dependent on others and can utilize their full potential. This product has key features like intuitive control, functional to perform activities of daily life easily, durability and affordability.
The robotic hand is being enhanced with machine learning to provide an easier control and an artificial sense of touch to it so that it feels like part of the body. 
With the support of ISF, own designs and electronics has been designed and helped the startup to revolutionize the prosthetic market by providing robotic hands-on subscription basis which makes it easy for patients to get hands.


06-ISF-293 (Approved Cost: Rs. 8,000,000 )

Startup DetailsAbout Startup​Solution/ Results
Name/Title:
ezGeyser – Smart Thermostat


Startup Lead:
Mr. Ashar Bazeb Saeed


BIC: NUST
Year 2021-22
Thematic Area: Sustainable Development, Energy & Climate

Current Status:
Timeline Completed

EzGeyser is an IoT-based smart thermostat for domestic geysers (gas, electric, or hybrid). It reduces natural gas wastage and helps users save up to 60% in gas bills. It reduces gas wastage by scheduling the usage timing according to needs and keeping geysers off otherwise. The saved gas can be diverted to industrial users where its efficiency is much higher. With diverted savings, all entities in the energy supply value chain make profit and eventually will reduce LNG import which is now very expensive.


07-ISF-298 (Approved Cost: Rs. 8,000,000 )

Startup DetailsAbout Startup​Solution/ Results
Name/Title:
Digital Village

Startup Lead:
Mr. Mubashir Habib


BIC: IBA-Sukkur
Year: 2021-22
Thematic Area: Education EdTech, Creative & Digital Media Arts

Current Status:
Timeline Completed


Through ISF Funding, this startup has empowered villages through tech trainings that solve basic digital problems and provide earning model for villagers to offer high value contents/products to potential markets that will directly impact on rural areas  to make village life easier and smarter.

08-ISF-321 (Approved Cost: Rs. 7,998,000)

Startup DetailsAbout Startup​Solution/ Results
Name/Title:
Savvy Engineers Private Limited

Startup Lead: Mr. Muhammad Muaz Suhaib

BIC: International Islamic University Islamabad
Year 2021-22
Thematic Area: Sustainable Development, Energy & Climate

Current Status:
Timeline Completed

This startup has been working on environmental conservation by recycling plastic waste into a 3D printing filament.
With the support of ISF, they have introduced a large-scale market for 3D printing filament in Pakistan that can be quite effective for environmental safety and stablility.


09-ISF-324 (Approved Cost: Rs. 7,989,000 )

Startup DetailsAbout Startup​Solution/ Results
Name/Title:
Wonder Women

Startup Lead:
Mr. Uzair Masood

BIC: Universirty of Punjab, Lahore
Year 2021-22
Thematic Area:
Health & Health Care Tech

Current Status:
Timeline Completed

Wonder Women is working to create solutions for menstrual hygiene Management in Pakistan.
ISF funding has helped in improving the making of period products accessible through ASANI - mounted sanitary napkins vending machine that dispenses period products and is installed in female restrooms, to create ease and convenience for women by facilitating them with quick and convenient access to menstrual hygiene.


10-ISF-343 (Approved Cost: Rs. 8,000,000 )

Startup DetailsAbout Startup​Solution/ Results
Name/Title:
Mimar Studios

Startup Lead:
Mavara Ahmad

BIC: NUST
Year 2021-22
Thematic Area:
Emerging Technologies, Transportation & Logistics

Current Status:
Timeline Completed
The business revolves around providing Architectural Visualization to Real Estate Developers for them to explain their future projects to Home-buyers and potential investors. Revenue is generated against provided services and SAAS-products to Real Estate Developers.
The innovation is in the very idea of using Mixed-reality (i.e. a mixture of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality) to visualize architecture in ‘Real-Life Scale’. The user gets to experience the space before it’s built by walking into in in the actual scale either wearing a VR headset or using the mobile phone screen and camera in the AR mode. The interactive mode offers the user to make real-time changes in terms of architectural and interior elements, giving a sense of ‘User-centric’ design to the user.


11-ISF-433 (Approved Cost: Rs. 8,000,000 )

Startup DetailsAbout Startup​Solution/ Results
Name/Title:
Funkshan

Startup Lead:
Adnan Ahma Adnan Ejazd

BIC: NUST
Year 2021-22
Thematic Area:
Education EdTech, Creative & Digital Media Arts

Current Status:
Timeline Completed
Funkshan is a mobile-first SaaS platform to plan, showcase, discover, manage and memorialize Events. Focusing on  the proclivities of Gen Z, Funkshan offers sending, receiving, and managing of smart invites on the basis of cell numbers, email addresses or Vanity IDs: for casual, formal, professional and public events. These invites sport creative anime/video cards, +1s/+Ns, dynamic RSVPs, GPS guidance, updatability, schedule of activities, guest and gift lists, guests’ guidance via AI-based chatbots, and blockchain based automatic mobile borne/scanned digital entry passes. Events can be hoisted by simply creating new event in the app after supplying as little as three essential details (event name, when and where) whereby Event Webpages are automatically generated in a variety of templates.
Each event also allows shared event albums among attendees, easing up the post-event ritual of media sharing, where every attendee can share media to and from the host, and among themselves. Public or professional events can be discovered and registered to on Funkshan as well; also enabling event-specific commercial services, marketplace, connectivity, retail, and later on, bookings too.


12-ISF-525 (Approved Cost: Rs. 7,662,000 )

Startup DetailsAbout Startup​Solution/ Results
Name/Title:
Living Sensors


Startup Lead:
Ms. Sarah Khan


BIC: Institute of Management Sciences IMS Peshawar
Year 2021-22

Thematic Area:
Health & Health Care Tech

Current Status:
Timeline Completed

Averos has to developed a low-cost rapid paper-based test which can be used by consumers on farms, in businesses and in households to test their water supplies, easily, cheaply and frequently as they like.
By using ISF funding, this is being done by designing and building a Strip-based Biological Sensor using Synthetic Engineered Bacteria for the Detection of Pollutants.


13-ISF-531 (Approved Cost: Rs. 7,993,594)

Startup DetailsAbout Startup​Solution/ Results
Name/Title:
Inspection AI

Startup Lead:
Mr. Ammad Nadeem

BIC: Bahria University Islamabad
Year 2021-22
Thematic Area: Emerging Technologies, Transportation & Logistics

Current Status:
Timeline Completed

Inspection AI via ISF Funding has helped Automobile manufacturing companies automate the manual surface quality inspection process using Cameras and Artificial Intelligence.


14-ISF-545 (Approved Cost: Rs. 7,933,222 )

Startup DetailsAbout Startup​Solution/ Results
Name/Title:
Porter Pakistan


Startup Lead: Mr. Aurangzaib Alamgir

BIC: NED UET Karachi
Year 2021-22
Thematic Area:
E-Commerce, Smart Retail, Banking & FinTech

Current Status:
Timeline Completed

Porter Pakistan is an online platform to book leisure and travel experiences. With over 500 service providers on-board, 50% of which are physically verified, our platform offers convenience of online bookings with trust and credibility. Through ISF, A digital travel agent has been developed which helps the user to curate your travel experiences, and Pakistan’s first free inventory / property management app for service providers.


15-ISF-555 (Approved Cost: Rs. 7,957,500)

Startup DetailsAbout Startup​Solution/ Results
Name/Title:
OX-BRIDGE Empowering Girls in STEM through Ejaad Gahs

Startup Lead:
Ms. Manzil-e-Maqsood


BIC: Bahria University Islamabad
Year 2021-22
Thematic Area: Education EdTech, Creative & Digital Media Arts

Current Status:
Timeline Completed

An Ejaad Gah is a collaborative workspace inside a school, library or separate public/private facility for making, learning, exploring and sharing that uses low to high-tech tools, and is designed to challenge learners to create and learn through hands-on, personalized experiences. Such spaces can help develop 21st century learning skills such as: critical thinking, decision-making, problem-solving, collaboration, communication, and empathy and innovation.