ExperienceMINT, a Connecticut-based startup, has launched ELEVATE, an in-store platform combining interactive displays, virtual visualization, AI voice assistants, and real-time customer analytics to bring online-style personalization to physical retail, addressing decades-old problems around customer decision paralysis and blind spots in retailer data on in-store shopper behavior.

Wafi Energy Pakistan sponsored the regional round of the World Startup Championship, giving over 300 student-led startups from Sindh access to professional mentorship, business development resources, and direct pitching opportunities with investors and corporate partners.