Ali Sajjad, Founder and Principal Advisor of IZAK 10 Corporation, a startup that emerged from NIC Karachi Cohort 12, is sharing his entrepreneurial journey and how the incubation ecosystem at NIC Karachi provided the mentorship, strategic guidance, and community support that helped transform an early-stage vision into a growing technology venture. IZAK 10 Corporation is developing a customer contact management platform that serves customer service, sales, complaints, arrears, and anti-money laundering teams within organisations, equipping these functions with smarter and more efficient workflows that improve both the quality of customer interactions and the compliance posture of the organisations deploying them.
The problem IZAK 10 is addressing sits at a genuinely important intersection of operational efficiency and regulatory compliance that many organisations, particularly in financial services, telecommunications, and utilities, manage through fragmented tools and manual processes that create both operational bottlenecks and compliance risks. Customer service teams handling complaints and arrears alongside anti-money laundering responsibilities are often working across multiple disconnected systems, which slows response times, increases error rates, and creates audit trail gaps that regulators and risk teams find increasingly unacceptable as compliance standards tighten. A unified customer contact management platform that integrates these workflows into a single, smarter system addresses that fragmentation at its root rather than layering additional tools on top of an already complex operational environment.
Ali Sajjad’s account of the NIC Karachi journey reflects the kind of founder experience that the incubation programme is designed to produce, one where the combination of mentorship from practitioners, access to investor networks, connections to industry stakeholders, and the strategic guidance that comes from being embedded within a structured ecosystem accelerates development in ways that independent building cannot replicate at the same pace. For a founder working on a product with compliance implications that require institutional trust before enterprise customers will adopt it, the credibility signals that come from being associated with a recognised national incubation programme carry particular commercial value in opening doors to the conversations that sales cycles in regulated industries depend on.
NIC Karachi is highlighting IZAK 10 Corporation’s story alongside the open call for Cohort 16 applications, inviting the next generation of founders to apply at lnkd.in/dKF94w8x and access the same combination of mentorship, investor connections, industry networks, and strategic support that has helped ventures like IZAK 10 move from concept to commercial traction. For founders who are building solutions to real organisational problems in sectors where the right ecosystem support can meaningfully accelerate the path from product to paying customer, the Cohort 16 application represents an opportunity worth acting on. NIC Karachi, supported by Ignite and the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication alongside partners including Tech Destination Pakistan, LMKT, LuckyOne Mall, and Orbit Ventures, continues to build a portfolio of ventures that reflects the depth and diversity of the problems worth solving in Pakistan’s growing technology market.
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