National Incubation Center for Aerospace Technologies is sending four of its startups to Silicon Valley, in what it calls its first Silicon Valley Class. NerdFlow, AIDE AI, RLabs and CoBlack will take part in the programme of Plug and Play, the Silicon Valley innovation platform, taking their ideas and ambition with them. The incubator describes the group as the Pioneers of 2026 and the occasion as a moment of pride for everyone who has been part of the founders’ journey, with the hope that it will be the first of many such cohorts.
The four founders are Muqeet Khawaja of NerdFlow, Ansar Moughis of AIDE AI, Harris Ahmed of RLabs and Syed Alamdar Hussain of CoBlack. NerdFlow builds an affordable, no-code enterprise resource planning and customer management platform for small and medium businesses, designed to let them set up their operations in under 30 minutes. AIDE AI, which has already been selected for the Antler residency in Riyadh, has been chosen for the immersion programme of Plug and Play in Silicon Valley this October, and its founder says the product is ready for a bigger stage. RLabs brings more than ten years of experience in extended reality, and it is training its own language model to power a simulation engine that it says can speed up development by 75 percent.
Plug and Play runs programmes that accelerate more than 2,500 startups a year and has selected 140 startups from 20 countries for its Silicon Valley fall batches of 2026, which will present to investors and corporations at the Silicon Valley Summit from 3 to 5 November. Its accelerator programmes are equity-free, so founders can seek pilots and investment from corporate and venture connections without giving up shares simply for taking part. For startups from Pakistan, a place in such a programme offers direct access to investors, corporate buyers and mentors who are hard to reach from home.
National Incubation Center for Aerospace Technologies is Pakistan’s first aerospace and deep technology incubator, funded by the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication through Ignite National Technology Fund. It is run by a consortium led by NetSol Technologies with the National Aerospace Science and Technology Park, Air University and Pakistan Aeronautical Complex Kamra. Plug and Play is also a supporter of the National Incubation Center in Lahore, which makes the link a natural one for the network. The founders will use their time in California to learn, meet people and build, and the incubator says it is excited to see what they bring back.
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