Founders 2.0; a new co-working space launches its first facility in Karachi, adding another 144 seats to the capacity of 15,000+ existing seats in the market nationwide.
Founders 2.0 hosted an exclusive dinner to commemorate its vision, which The Provincial IT Minister attended on a special invitation requesting her presence at the affair. Miss Tanzila Umi Habiba; Provincial IT minister & member of the Sindh Provincial Assembly as well as the Chairman of the Standing committee on Higher, Technical Education and Research in Sindh, continually praised Founders 2.0 for creating a state-of-the-art facility for tech startups to grow and thrive from while adding tremendous value to the startup ecosystem of Pakistan.
“Founders 2.0 seems to be a dynamic and promising project. Pakistan needs more progressive facilities such as this one to facilitate the young entrepreneurs& thriving tech startups of Pakistan.” Said Ms. Tanzila.“I hope they succeed in their vision by enabling synergies and growth across the tech sector, especially during these tumultuous economic times. We will continue to support their initiatives.” She added.
Various prominent political figures & leaders like Pir Muhammad Sadiq, Chairman of Luari Pak Group as well as Pir Noorullah; Special Assistant to Cheif Minister Sindh were also present at the dinner alongside Hollywood film producer, Habib Paracha & Asmar Naim; Director at K-electric.
The event was attended by one of the only unicorn founders in the country presently, Jonas Deizun– the ex Co-Founder of Razor group that went on to raise over USD 1 Billion. Jonas & his team are currently working on a generative AI-based tech startup, Beam.So and occupy private offices in Pakistan at Founders 2.0’s Facility.
Other attendees of the launch include several stakeholders in the corporate world and startup fraternity includingRabeelWarraich, Founder & CEO Sarmayacar, Jamil Mughal, CEO of Mcdonalds & Director at Lakson group, Hassan Khan, Founder of Trax, Rafay Sheikh, CEO of Dunkin, Akbar Jaffer, CEO ASSL and Jaffer Group, Owais Shaikh of Hubpay, Raza Afzal, co-founder of Truck it in, Kassim Shroff and Ahsan Kidwai, founders of Krave Mart, MuneebMaayr, founder of Bykea, Adeel Rashid, Co-Founder of Snapp retail & Chairman Of The Supervisory Board, AIESEC, Haider Raza, Co-founder of Dealcart, Ahmed Ayub, Co-founder of Airlift,Muzaffar Manghi, Co-founder of farmdar, Talha Khan of Orko, Taha Iqbal Teli and Ahsen Ali Khan of Zaraye, Khurram Shroff, President of imining Technologies, Ali Ladubhai of Abhi, Usama Nini, co-founder of quroes and CEO of Affinity; Usman Khan& Pir Saleh Qureshi; Director at Stylight textiles. The event was also attended by The co-founders of Swich;Shah Aun Hussan and Syed Aoon Shah who is also the the Investing partner at Founders 2.0.
Founders 2.0,despite being a new market player, claims to Transform the coworking Landscape of Pakistan with their first office kicking off at the Top Floors of the iconic Bahria Town Tower Karachi, They offerbeauti fully designed offices with carefully cultivated environment of creativity & collaboration for all types of professionals & tech communities. The offerings include fully furnished & serviced private offices suites, high-speed internet, Bookable meeting rooms, Sound proof calling pods, gaming spaces, reception facilities,Procurement, trained staff, Pantries, an exclusive café on the 23rd floor of the smart building as well as free-flow of endless hot beverages exclusively for its customers.
They currently host 144 seats of which 70% capacity has been pre-booked and sold out or is in discussion with various Canadian, U.S& Pakistan based tech startups. “We will not get into the race of multiplying seats, that’s not our area of focus, the objective is to add significant value to our clients who pay a premium owing to the quality of service being offered and the value-add in terms of connect and social network.”, said Ms. Shehr Bano Hussain. The Co-Founder of Founders 2.0.
“We’re thrilled to witness the benchmark Founders 2.0 is establishing for the coworking ecosystem of the country. This will certainly help start-ups remain laser focused on their high impact domains”, said Aman, Partner at Sarmayacar, who was also in attendance at the event.
Founders 2.0 is set to lanch chapters across multiple cities in Pakistan before expanding to UAE, explained Ms. Shehr Bano. The company also claims to employ technology to scale the shared office space industry once they succeed in achieving their first few milestones.
According to datadarbar, Pakistani startups have received more than $347 million in VC funding in 2022 alone & require office spaces to operate from. This latest addition to the country’s coworking space amongst a tumultuous economic crunch is welcoming. What the country requires in these testing times is innovation, growth and a sociable environment for businesses to grow and the tech sector to pick up. Founders 2.0 aims to provide just that and more.
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