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A look at Pakistan’s startup environment, entrepreneurs and investors.
Many thanks to our contributors who helped so willingly in creating this infographic.
Faizan Laghari — Mini Ventures
Usama Shahid Khan — Cloud9 Startups
Shaun Gibson — Techhub Manchester
Imtiaz Noor — Effective Measure
Johannes von Rohr — Alpha Founders
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China — Second largest VC investment in the world[1] with hundreds of statups coming up each year[2]
India — Sequoia Capital and 500 Startups already present, Flipkart and Inmobi with $1 billion valuations, and many rising stars[3]
Thailand — second largest economy in ASEAN attracting foriegn capital especially in the mobile space [4]
Indonesia — is 2nd largest facebook users, and 4th largest twitter users in the world. Many dotcom companies are flocking here and buying startups to speedup their expansion in Indonesia.[5]
“Pakistan has been an eye-opener, I never expected to see such a lively start-up community” — Shaun Gibson, Founder of Techhub Manchester, May 2013[6]
[1] http://thenextweb.com/asia/2013/04/15/vc-deals-and-dollars-are-down-in-china-as-interest-cools/
[2] http://www.techinasia.com/china-silicon-valley-startups/
[3] http://www.slideshare.net/WorldStartupReport/india-startup-report
[4] http://www.slideshare.net/bizbote/thailand-amazing-startup-destination
[5] http://www.quora.com/Is-Indonesia-the-new-startup-heaven
[6] http://www.techinasia.com/techhub-pakistan-coworking-space/