q: what are the major incubators/ accelerators of pakistan?

Here are the following 10 major incubators of Pakistan:

1) Plan9
With the supervision and great assistance of Government of Punjab, PITB (Punjab Information
Technology Board) has recently started a project Plan9 to assist Pakistani entrepreneurs
especially in the field of technology. Now, it has become a best startup incubator in Lahore that
works directly under the supervision of PITB

2) Invest to Innovate (i2i)

I2I (Invest to Innovate) is a Pakistani investment firm that accelerates Startups in Pakistan. The
duration of incubation in i2i is four months and after the incubation period, they helped the
entrepreneurs to get funded through potential investors.

3). Nest I/O

This incubator is working efficiently under the supervision of P@SHAs global partners Google
for Entrepreneurs and it is financially assisted by US State Department. Nest I/O provides its
startup incubation services to more than 50 teams and has the capacity to provide office space to
700 hundred entrepreneurs for one year.

4) NUST technology incubation center (TIC)

NUST is a leading semi-government technology university in Pakistan. In order to promote the
tech-startup culture in Pakistan, they have also started their TIC (Technology Incubation Centre).
It is one of the best startup incubators in Pakistan. TIC supports and promotes the Technology
ideas and help the Entrepreneurs to turn these ideas into reality.

5) LUMS Centre for Entrepreneurship (LCE)

Under the great supervision of Khuram Zafar (Executive Director), LCE is aiming to maximize
the trend of startup culture in Pakistan. In order to accomplish this goal, they are building
entrepreneurial ecosystem in Pakistan that will boost the potential growth of Pakistani

Entrepreneurs. LCE has got high attention in Entrepreneurs due to its strong network of potential
investors and mentors.

6) MICROSOFT INNOVATION CENTER (MIC)

MIC connects entrepreneurs to resources and provides all the support they need in shaping and
building their ideas into solutions. They offer a 12 weeks long training program which concludes
with a MIC DEMO WEEK in April where a global audience observes the products
demonstrations of entrepreneurs and they receive feedback from experts. The program is up and
running over 35 startups.

7) CLOUD9 STARTUPS
Cloud9 is another idea-incubation center for the ambitious entrepreneurs of Pakistan. They give
tech startups access to resources, money, mentoring opportunities etc. They have successfully
supported and funded over 5 startups up till now.

8) NATIONAL ICT R&D FUND

The Federal Governments National ICT R&D Fund is working jointly with the industry and the
academia to provide support and funds to concrete research and development initiatives. They
have successfully funded and completed 14 projects so far. Currently they are supporting 38
projects

9) BREEZE ANGEL INVESTMENTS

Another early-stage investor, BAI supports Pakistans technology entrepreneurs and guides them
to success. Their portfolio includes three successful companies.

10) COMSATS INCUBATION CENTER

COMSATS IC aims to contribute towards improvement of socioeconomic structure of Pakistan.
They have successfully incubated 2 companies and 3 projects.