More women in Pakistan are following the global tide of technological development. Many women monitor and manage the Pakistani technology industry. They are as committed and passionate about running their businesses as they are about raising their families.
More women need to work in technology so that they can help shape a more inclusive future. To do this, women must be prepared with the skills and knowledge necessary to use the start-up and tech spaces.
The following entrepreneurs have created applications that allow them to operate their firms on their own.
1. 1. Shanza Khan & Rabab Fatima – BoloTech
BoloTech is a health firm that has created speech therapy solutions to help those who have difficulty speaking. Their user-friendly site allows persons with speech difficulties to connect verbally with caregivers, parents, and health experts, allowing them to access their performance and improve their speech efficiency.
They offer clinical and home-based therapy to help with your speech and communication issues, particularly in Urdu. They are dedicated to bettering and increasing the quality of life for persons who have issues with speech, language, and cognition.
BoloTech is a technology business that sells speech treatment equipment. It provides a tool for augmentative and alternative communication for those with congenital disability.
The portal provides personalised photos, videos, and audios, as well as Urdu-based lesson modules and interactive activities. It offers a variety of games such as Bolfun, skill builder games for everyday discussion, Basket Ball, for cognitive ability development, and others.
1.1. BoloTech Founders
- Rabab Fatima, Co-Founder
- Shanza Khan Shahani, Co-Founder
2. 2. Wajiha Kanwal — Affordable.pk
Wajiha and her husband had a brilliant idea to launch an internet shopping platform with low prices. She was able to raise Rs. 10 million by appearing on the popular show “Idea Croron Ka.” The startup’s strongest feature is its usage of the escrow payment system, which secures payments by clients only after their pleasure.
Affordable.pk is a fashion fusion that makes online buying in Pakistan easy for its customers by offering cash on delivery. Enhance your online shopping experience by browsing a big selection of high-quality trendy goods from a range of categories.
Fashion goods displays all of the local top class businesses’ distinctive designs and offers a superb online shopping environment for all ages and genders with total customer satisfaction.
3. 3. Sana Farooq — E-Learning Network (ELN)
The e-Learning Network (ELN) offers online approved teacher training and Educational Management courses for beginning to experienced instructors. They assist all instructors in Pakistan who lack easy, internationally recognised training for their personal growth and development.
According to Sana Farooq, they reinvent their methods to guarantee applicants have a consistent experience from the time they find courses until they complete their certifications.
Online interactive self-paced learning is possible with an LMS. They are always upgrading their instructional material to make it more accessible and understandable. Even with a self-paced certification, students have access to live tutorials and webinars, allowing them to experience a classroom-like setting.
4. 4. Sihah Waris – RiseMom
Sihah graduated from the Founder Institute (Islamabad Chapter), a world-renowned business accelerator programme with origins in Silicon Valley. Sihah was named “The Top Founder” from the first class of graduates of the Founder Institute Islamabad for her new firm, RiseMom.
Because they are concerned about their children, 60 percent of Pakistani women quit their occupations after becoming moms. The remaining 40% who continue to work phone every 2 hours at home or at the day care centre to see how their child is doing.
RiseMom is an online day care monitoring system that allows mothers to observe their child’s progress while working in their workplace at their leisure.
5. 5. Saba Gul – Popinjay
Saba Gul was intrigued by the abundance of skill and craftsmanship seen in underdeveloped areas. She became motivated to link this talent to worldwide marketplaces, as well as to connect product creators to their customers.
While attending graduate school in the United States, Saba heard the tale of Azaada Khan, an Afghan girl who disguised herself as a guy for 12 years in order to be able to attend school at a period when girls were legally forbidden from receiving an education. Saba was inspired by her narrative to leave her career in the United States and relocate to Pakistan to test a programme that gave livelihoods and education to young Pakistani women.
Saba founded the sustainable fashion line Popinjay in the fall of 2013. Popinjay was among the first Pakistani firms to garner worldwide popularity. This firm blended luxury and ethical business with its handcrafted accessories and bags, positively improving the lives of many artisan women across Pakistan.
Saba Gul believes in female empowerment and creating entrepreneurial solutions to poverty. She is the Founder and Executive Director of BLISS, a humanitarian organisation that helps poor girls in Pakistan choose between education and job. As an addition to the traditional curriculum, BLISS provides girls with practical skills.
By effectively selling their abilities in the high-end retail business, girls may supplement their families’ income while attending school. Over time, BLISS equips the girls with the skills and knowledge they need to create and sustain their own micro-enterprises through its business and financial literacy curriculum.
6. 6. Sana Khan Niazi – Paimona
Paimona believes in the strength of Pakistan’s story, which includes its history, tradition, and, most importantly, its people. The business is known for producing handmade, ethereal, and timeless furniture that can add undeniable beauty and elegance to any living area. We are the ideal combination of current aesthetics and cultural significance, tailored to your creative sensibility.
7. 7. Rameeza Moin – Transparent Hands
Rameeza Moin is the current Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Transparent Hands, a worldwide crowd financing platform that links needy patients directly to benefactors all over the world. Her responsibilities include maintaining the seamless running of Transparent Hands activities by building confidence and credibility in the worldwide market.
Transparent Hands is Pakistan’s largest crowdfunding website in the healthcare industry, with 2(36) tax benefits. It provides a comprehensive spectrum of free healthcare services, including medical and surgical treatments, as well as free medical camp facilities to Pakistan’s disadvantaged people.
This online fundraising platform allows people from all around the world to give to needy patients in Pakistan while maintaining total transparency. It also establishes free medical camps in Pakistan’s rural regions, where worthy patients may receive free consultation, free drugs, free health awareness workshops, and free diagnostic testing.
8. 8. Sahr Said – Beauty Hooked
Beauty Hooked is Pakistan’s first female-funded and female-run firm, offering a one-stop shop for females to browse salon and spa services, compare costs, and schedule appointments online. In addition to Beauty Hooked, The Girl in Pink is an online business that sells basic skin care and high-quality cosmetics.
9. 9. Arusha Imtiaz – Edjunction
Edjunction is an education platform that allows parents to communicate with instructors at school and receive real-time information on their child’s development. Arusha Imtiaz, the COO of Edjunction, has collaborated with various local and international organisations to provide the answer to every school in Pakistan.
To execute pilots in several district schools, the team is actively collaborating with Microsoft, Telenor, Samsung, and numerous government organisations. There are 180,000 schools in Pakistan, including 80,000 private schools serving over 25 million students.
Edjunction is primarily aimed at this market. The product, which has already been released in Dubai, has a target market of around 500 schools and 200,000 accepted pupils.
Edjunction was founded in 2014 as a consequence of a heated debate between three brothers, Waqar, Ehtesham, and Arusha. The point was that while we are aware of what is going on in the world through social media, we are unaware of what our children are doing at school. To tackle this challenge, the three resolved to confront it straight on. Arusha Imtiaz resigned her full-time work to oversee the product’s operations, while her two brothers contributed in a part-time role.
10. 10. Sidra Qasim – Makhor and ATOMS
Markhorin Okara has been producing handcrafted leather shoes and selling them all over the world since 2010. The brand is named after the Markhor, an endangered kind of wild goat endemic to Pakistan and Central Asia’s northern and central mountainous areas.
Sidra Qasim and Waqas Ali, two young entrepreneurs, have worked tirelessly to achieve this exceptional export activity. Over the course of eight years, they have successfully recognised indigenous shoe-making talent, raised its capacity to international levels, and established a market for its products outside of Pakistan.
11. Conclusion
These young, gifted women are the genuine meaning of “entrepreneurs.” They not only succeeded in starting some of the most inspiring and lucrative start-up companies in the nation, but they also used social media as a platform to inspire many others via their admirable causes.
These ladies demonstrate that being an entrepreneur should involve more than simply generating money and profit; it should also involve working to improve and develop society and the well-being of the populace.
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