RILITS, a startup incubated through NIC Karachi Cohort 13, has achieved a significant commercial milestone with the successful launch of its first RFID tunnel at Soorty Textile’s facility in Cumilla Export Processing Zone in Bangladesh, marking the company’s expansion into one of the world’s most significant textile manufacturing markets and demonstrating that a Pakistan-incubated technology venture is capable of winning and deploying enterprise contracts in the highly competitive and quality-conscious export textile sector across multiple countries simultaneously.
RILITS develops RFID tunnel technology, a hardware and software solution that enables textile manufacturers and exporters to automate the scanning, tracking, and verification of shipments at speed and scale that manual processes cannot match. In the export textile industry, where shipment accuracy, on-time delivery, and compliance with buyer specifications are non-negotiable requirements that directly affect commercial relationships and export revenues, the ability to scan and verify an entire shipment quickly and reliably using an RFID tunnel represents a meaningful operational advantage over factories still relying on slower and more error-prone manual checking processes. The Soorty Textile deployment at Cumilla EPZ is particularly significant given Soorty’s position as one of Pakistan’s and Bangladesh’s most internationally recognised premium textile manufacturers, a company whose buyer base includes some of the world’s most demanding global fashion brands.
The Cumilla EPZ launch adds Bangladesh to a growing geographic footprint that now spans Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh, placing RILITS within three of South Asia’s most important textile manufacturing economies and giving the company a multi-market commercial presence that most Pakistani technology startups take years longer to achieve. Each deployment in a new geography requires RILITS to demonstrate not only that its technology works but that it can be installed, integrated, and supported in a different operational and logistical environment, and the factory management at Soorty Textile Cumilla EPZ’s described cooperation during the installation reflects the kind of on-the-ground partnership that makes international deployments technically and commercially successful rather than simply completed on paper.
For NIC Karachi, RILITS’s international deployment trajectory represents exactly the kind of outcome that the incubation programme is designed to produce and that its partners including Ignite, the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication, Tech Destination Pakistan, LMKT, LuckyOne Mall, and Orbit Ventures collectively invest in supporting. A startup that emerged from Cohort 13 and is now operating RFID tunnel installations across three countries in South Asia’s textile sector is a concrete and visible demonstration of what Pakistan’s incubation infrastructure can produce when the right technology, the right team, and the right support environment come together within the same ecosystem.
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