National Incubation Center Hyderabad will host the Raqami Founder Bootcamp: Market It. Fund It. on Wednesday, November 18, 2026, from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm at the center, as Day 3 of its Global Entrepreneurship Week 2026 program. The bootcamp is built around two questions that every founder faces: can you make people buy into your idea, and can you fund its next big move? The center describes the session as a look at the business side of building businesses, with leaders from Raqami Islamic Digital Bank sharing their views.
The session will be led by Syed Babar Ahmad, Chief Marketing Officer of Raqami Islamic Digital Bank, and Fahad Asad Khan, Chief Financial Officer of the bank. Together they cover the two halves of the theme. The marketing half focuses on making a startup impossible to ignore, which means finding customers, building a brand and getting attention in a crowded market. The finance half looks at the money behind a startup’s growth, so that founders understand how funding works and what is needed to pay for the next stage of expansion.
For early-stage founders, both subjects are often the hardest to learn. Many startups begin with a strong product idea but struggle to explain it to customers or to plan the cash needed to grow, and a bank executive can offer a view on how financial decisions affect a young company. Hearing from a marketing leader and a finance leader in the same session lets participants see how selling and funding are linked, since a startup that attracts customers can also show investors and lenders that its business is working.
Interested participants can register through the official registration link. The program is held under the banner Entrepreneurs Thrive Here and carries the names of the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication, Ignite National Technology Fund, PTCL, LMKT and Tech Destination Pakistan, alongside Raqami Islamic Digital Bank. For founders in Hyderabad and across Sindh, the afternoon bootcamp offers practical guidance from people who work at the heart of marketing and finance.
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