Annual Report 2021

Cohort 6: Total no of startups: 13 Active startups: 13 Star startups: The Nuksh is Pakistan's gift e-Store which is crafting happiness for customers by providing the best creative gifts solution for all occasions. Average monthly revenue as of October 2021: PKR 35,000-40,000 SugarMe is a cosmetic brand providing with clean, vegan and cruelty free cosmetics in elegant and chic packaging. Partnerships & Linkages Partnerships and international linkages between Takhleeq, external organizations and incubators in foreign universities provides capacity building to Takhleeq and offers connections to its startups to expand their businesses. Takhleeq has partnered with the following: • SGB Evidence Fund. A project by Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs. • School of Leadership (SOL) to conduct trainings for its incubated startups. Frontiers Incubator - a Government of Australia funded "Incubator of Incubators" aimed at capacity building of Takhleeq for social entrepreneurship. Amazon Web Services (AWS) where startups get $5000 Web Credits. Outreach Events Outreach activities of Takhleeq are designed to invite students, faculty, staff and alumni of UCP to engage with Takhleeq. • Number of UCP students and staff reached in-person through outreach activities: 7,150 Number of general people reached through social media and email: 26,700 Featured articles in popular news blogs/websites Classroom visits along with faculty interaction with startups. Faculty is encouraged to motivate their students to engage with Taklheeq. Startups incubated at Takhleeq have participated in number of events including: TAKHLEEQ NEOP SMEDA PRESENTS A ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS A VIABLE CAREER Takhleeq Café Incubator FIRE EXTINGUISHE Takhleeq has transformed its in-house café as a dedicated Café Incubator that will house an entrepreneur starting their food business, providing rent-free space for months and will be provided with expert mentoring on how to successfully run a café. This innovative idea has never been tested before in the incubation ecosystem. The Café Incubator engages an industry expert, an entrepreneur that has successfully started his/her café business to share the learnings of its journey with the incubated venture. This program is exclusively for current UCP students and are selected by inviting application that are evaluated by industry mentors. Cohort 1 Foodies Café, run by Mr. Furqan Ali, student of PharmD 7th semester having expertise in sandwiches and burgers. Opened up a small pop-up store in a shopping mall near Mall Road. Cohort 2 La Gustosa, run by Mr. Muhammad Ahsan, student of 7th Semester BBA with expertise in shakes and coffees. Cohort 3 Dreamers Café, run by Mr. Dilawar Khan, student of 5th Semester FOIT with expertise in chillers, juices and tea. Partnerships & Outreach O EduFest 2019 Startup Grind 2019 DICE Mega Event 2018 and 2019 PITAC Applied Entrepreneurship- Think and Grow 2019 On-Campus Hult Prize Hult Prize International Regional Levels Take Off Pakistan 2020 during Pak Tech Summit 2020 Falling Walls Lab FCCU Lahore 2021 Entrepreneurship Worldcup 2021 Takhleeq has hosted the following mega events at UCP: DICE VIC 2019 Pursuit 2019 aws Evolve Entrepreneurship Summit 2019 'Entrepreneur Growth and Fundraising Trainings' for Women Entrepreneurs 2021 Entrepreneur of UCP award' at the annual convocation December 2019 Seminar on 'Entrepreneurship as a Viable Career Option' in collaboration with SMEDA November 2021 UBI GLOBAL 39 Annual Report 2021 Partnerships & Outreach Frontier Incubators IMPACT NETWORK 40 Annual Report 2021

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