Observer Report
Karachi
Standard Chartered, in partnership with INNOVentures Global (Pvt.) Limited, on Friday announced the top seven winners of the #SCWomenInTech Programme 2020. This is a global programme aimed at supporting gender representation within technology-based entrepreneurship.
Friday’s event saw the announcement of the seven women led businesses shortlisted from over 280 applicants, each winning up to, PKR 1,500,000, in seed grants for their businesses. This year in addition to the regular five grants the programme had announced two additional grants for “covid-19 relief-based projects”.
The seven winning companies for 2020 are:
ConnectHear— Azima Dhanjee, CreditBook— Iman Jamall, OrbitEd—Wajiha Habib & Naveera Waheed, PakAgri Market—Ayesha Ahmed, Scaryammi—Ayesha Nasir, Foster Learning—Hira Javaid and Skin Deep International—Sadaf Mohyuddin.
The winners will be supported with extended mentoring and milestone-based disbursement of the winnings for a period of 9 months.
Speaking at the event Mr. Rehan Shaikh, CEO, Standard Chartered Pakistan mentioned, “I would like to congratulate the winners of the #SCWomenInTech programme and appreciate all the participants who had applied to this programme.
