The Foundation, business incubator and accelerator of LUMS Center for Entrepreneurship, is graduating its first cohort of 7 startups in September. These startups have gone through an intense, 4-months-long, startup development bootcamp at LUMS and have been mentored by some of the best in the industry. The startups were selected by an elite, independent panel of business leaders 4 months ago after a nation-wide search.
Now, it is time to connect these startups with investors who can invest $50-250K dollars in early-stage, high growth businesses in Pakistan, either individually or as a syndicate, and allow these budding businesses to grow and be successful.
LUMS Center for Entrepreneurship is holding an exclusive investors summit on Friday, October 3rd, 2014 from 4pm to 9pm at LUMS for this purpose. The summit proceedings will be livestreamed as well for remote participants. Agenda for the summit is as follows.
TIME |
EVENT |
VENUE |
LIVESTREAM |
DESCRIPTION |
| 4:00pm – 5:00pm | Open House | LUMS Center for Entrepreneurship3rd Floor, SDSB, LUMS | Not livestreamed | Investors are welcome to visit the center any time during this hour to informally meet with the startups and get to know the founders and the products they are building |
| 5:00pm – 5:15pm | Introductions | Rousing Executive Development Center (REDC), LUMS | livestreamed | Keynote addresses by Syed Babar Ali, Mr. Razak Dawood (tentative) & Dr. Sohail Naqvi |
| 5:30pm – 5:40pm | Pakistani Startup Success Story | Rousing Executive Development Center (REDC), LUMS | livestreamed | From building a company, to raising capital and providing exit to investors by Khurram Samad, CEO of GenITeam |
| 5:40pm – 5:55pm | Legal Readiness of Startups | Rousing Executive Development Center (REDC), LUMS | livestreamed | Legal status of The Foundation startups and introduction to template offer term sheet |
| 6:00pm – 8:15pm | Startup Pitches | Rousing Executive Development Center (REDC), LUMS | livestreamed | A total of 8 startups will be presenting |
| 8:15pm – 9:00pm | Dinner and Startup Dating | Executive Dining Hall (EDH) | Not livestreamed | Investors spend more informal time with startups that interest them as a follow-up over dinner |
(All times are local Pakistan times (GMT+5 hours)
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