Sindh Enterprise Incubation Center held MentorConnect’26 at its Mentors Connect session, bringing together 20 startups and 20 mentors under a single shared objective — to build ventures that last. The current SEIC cohort draws from a wide range of sectors including HealthTech, EdTech, Logistics, Climate Tech, and Artificial Intelligence, with each team working on a problem specific to the Pakistani market and backed, according to the incubator, by conviction and grit.
At MentorConnect’26, each startup team received focused, milestone-driven guidance from an industry expert who has navigated the same category of challenges the founders are now facing. The format is built around relevance — pairing teams not with generalist advisors but with practitioners who have direct experience in the sector the startup is operating in, making the guidance immediately applicable rather than broadly theoretical.
The mentor roster for the session included Muhammad Ghayas Uddin, Kassim Motiwalla, Muhammad Hasan Ashraf, Umer Farooq, Mohammed Atif Sami, Faisal Jalal, Valeed Kidwai, Fasih Hansmukh, Muhammad Shoaib Siddiqui, and Shuja Ahmed — a mix of executives and entrepreneurs spanning finance, technology, consulting, and enterprise sectors. Their collective presence reflected the kind of cross-industry network that SEIC has positioned as one of its core offerings to cohort members.
The event was supported by Hum Network, Sapphire Consulting Services, and SITD Government of Sindh. For a cohort that spans as many sectors as SEIC’s current batch, MentorConnect’26 served as one of the more substantive interventions in the program — a structured moment where the distance between where a startup is and where it needs to go gets mapped out by someone who has made the same journey.
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