NIC Peshawar Opens Cohort 16 Applications for Entrepreneurs

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The wait is over. Cohort 16 at NIC Peshawar is now live, opening a fresh application window for entrepreneurs across the region. For anyone who has been building an idea or waiting for the right moment to apply, this cohort represents that opening, bringing new founders and new stories into NIC Peshawar’s incubation programme as its sixteenth season officially begins.

Applications for Cohort 16 are open to entrepreneurs looking to access mentorship, industry connections, and the broader ecosystem support that NIC Peshawar has built up over its previous fifteen cohorts. Interested applicants can apply through https://bit.ly/3RNw9P8, joining what organisers describe as the next story at NIC Peshawar, continuing the incubator’s established pattern of bringing in new cohorts of founders on a rolling basis as previous cohorts progress through and beyond the programme.

NIC Peshawar’s continued cohort cycle reflects its sustained role within Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s broader entrepreneurship ecosystem, giving founders based in and around Peshawar structured access to incubation resources that might otherwise remain concentrated in Pakistan’s larger commercial hubs. The call for Cohort 16 applicants is supported by a broad coalition of partners including Ignite National Technology Fund, the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication, LMKR, LMKT, Orbit Startups, Accelerate Prosperity, Sybrid, IM Sciences, Rehman Medical Institute, CECOS University, and Frontier Platinum, reflecting the scale of institutional backing behind NIC Peshawar’s ongoing programming.

With Cohort 16 now officially open, NIC Peshawar continues its mission of going beyond boundaries in supporting entrepreneurship across the region, giving another wave of founders the opportunity to build, refine, and scale their ventures with structured mentorship and industry access over the course of the incoming cohort’s programme.

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