National Incubation Center Sialkot has introduced the startups joining its inaugural Cohort 1, a group of founders working across artificial intelligence, deep tech, and information technology whom the center describes as pioneering innovators driving the future of intelligent enterprise. Sialkot’s selection as the site for this new center followed the city’s rise as an e-commerce and export hub, and this first cohort’s makeup, spanning fintech, healthtech, and manufacturing focused ventures, suggests the center is casting a genuinely broad net rather than confining itself narrowly to industries traditionally associated with the region.
Among the founders welcomed into the cohort, Abdul Rehman leads Whitestone Research Terminal, an all-in-one trading research platform combining broker data, decision journaling, risk analytics, and AI coaching for traders. Ali Ahmed heads Ovela, a concierge medical tourism platform connecting international patients with JCI-accredited Pakistani hospitals at a fraction of Western costs, tapping into Pakistan’s underleveraged position as a comparatively low cost destination for high quality medical care. A second founder also named Abdul Rehman runs Bitlogia, an AI manufacturing assistant that structures messy factory data into a voice and chat assistant specifically built for small manufacturers, a use case well suited to Sialkot’s dense base of small and medium industrial producers.
Mohsin Ali founded SLate Console, a touch based color grading control surface that turns any tablet into a professional DaVinci Resolve panel, extending Pakistan’s growing presence in creative and post-production tooling into hardware adjacent software. Atif Gondal co-leads Bizintegrate, a one-stop service helping Pakistani small and medium enterprises set up hosting, e-commerce, and marketplace operations in the UK and US, directly supporting the kind of cross-border digital commerce Sialkot has built its export reputation on. Muhammad Faiq runs Smash, an outcome-based marketplace connecting brands with creators and marketers that pays only for verified delivered work, while Muhammad Falak Sher founded Fazier, a Product Hunt-style platform where makers launch products and get discovered by early adopters.
Rounding out the cohort, Osama Saeed leads Reach The Globe, an AI-powered omnichannel dashboard helping Pakistani exporters respond to and convert buyer enquiries instantly, a tool with direct relevance to Sialkot’s export-driven economy. Ahsham Javed founded Knitwright, an AI-enabled, vertically integrated, design-to-manufacturing platform for sportswear, drawing on Sialkot’s established strength in sports goods manufacturing, and Moaaz Malik runs Hostryve, a remote 24/7 cohosting and operations service managing short-term rental properties for hosts in the US and UK. NIC Sialkot, delivered from a purpose-built facility at Kent Mall and funded by Ignite National Technology Fund under Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication, plans to admit up to 25 startups annually across two cohorts, with this first group backed by Mobilink Bank and CyberVision International.
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