#181. SWASH ENTERPRISES

Year Founded: 2014

Location: Karachi

Industry: Online Services

Award Category: Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Home-based Business of the Year, Innovative Entrepreneur of the Year

Swash Enterprises is a newly launched company (Start up) that aims to launch online and offline services based business. Swash Enterprises main focuses on providing online Services to International companies and individuals related to:

Content Writing

Website Development

Research

Press Release Writing etc

Besides, Swash Enterprises has also launched different online projects like www.tipslo.com , www.kquotes.com, www.offlineworker.com etc. Offline Worker is the biggest project of Swash Enterprises which is designed to provide short term offline jobs through internet at world level. This project will hopefully create 1 million jobs across the globe.

#182. LETTUCEBEE KIDS

Year Founded: 2010

Location: Islamabad

Industry: Education

Award Category: Best Startup of the Year, Social Entrepreneur of the Year, Best Franchisee of the Year, Innovative Entrepreneur of the Year

Lettuce Bee Kids: Pakistan’s first self-sustainable social enterprise that aims to bridge the gap between street-children and quality education by employing both formal and informal modes of education, especially through blended learning, digital literacy and character building.

The process hinges upon four guiding principles of life, which not only provide social inclusion and self-actualization to these children but also generate internal revenues for the LBK ecosystem to be self-sufficient:

• Arts and Crafts | The more you draw, the more you draw [Lettuce bee Design]

• Relationship with Nature | The more you grow the more you grow [Lettuce bee Deli]

• Importance of Music | The more you play, the more you play [Lettuce bee Band]

• Respect of Elders | Adopt a grandparent [Lettuce bee Yours]

• Formal Education| Digital Literacy – Blended Learning [Lettuce bee Literate]

The long-term aim is to establish human-ties that are inviolable by culture, status or religion.

Following art therapy sessions, Lettuce Bee design has converted the children art-work and launched a series of products; a greeting cards line, stationery products, notebooks, USB drives and other life-style/textile products like lamps and cushions, the revenue from which is used to fund further activities.

LBK conducted two very successful art and products exhibition at Serena Hotel on world street children day in 2012 and 2013. We had our first international exhibition in Paris, hosted by the Pakistan Embassy in France in December 2014.

#183. COOPERATIVE COMPUTING

Year Founded: 2013

Location: Karachi

Industry: IT Services

Award Category: Best Startup of the Year, Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Best Technopreneur of the Year, Service Business of the Year

Cooperative Computing is a business-focused technology solutions company that enables organizations to create demonstrable business value through the use of technology. By assisting the enterprise to develop and execute on focused strategies to reduce operating costs or drive critical competitive advantage, Cooperative Computing ensures your business will obtain the desired benefit from your technology investments or can exit a project quickly with little risk.

With a systematic approach and a well-vetted partner network Cooperative Computing can tackle the most complicated and sophisticated business issues that require technical experience and depth of know-how that is rare to find in today’s chaotic technology marketplace.

In today’s financially demanding marketplace no business executive can be limited by not having a clear vision of what the possibilities are and a partner that can get things done swiftly and affordably.

#184. AROUND.PK

Year Founded: 2015

Location: Islamabad

Industry: Online Shopping

Award Category: Best Startup of the Year, Best Technopreneur of the Year, Service Business of the Year

Around.pk – One of its kind & the most feature rich online directory where you can find all the amazing and quality places in Pakistan.

On Around.pk, you will be able to find information about restaurants, shopping places, hotels, cinemas, tourist spots, video-gaming cafes, schools, colleges, universities, businesses and much more!

The aim of the website is to provide the visitor with information on all the places in Pakistan on one website! The visitor does not have to find information about different places on multiple websites or search engines.

Features

Google map integration (you can find the places on Google maps within the website)

Step by step road instructions on reaching different locations.

Step by step driving and walking instructions to desired locations

In depth search functionality so you can easily find places

Ratings and reviews of all the places on the website

Events/Offers/Promotions/discounts offered by the business owners

Owners get complete ownership of their business listing and can change information, images, and post events, offers, discounts and promotions by themselves

Personal User accounts

Bookmark favorite places

#185. JALEBI

Year Founded: 2011

Industry: Fashion & Clothing

Award Category: Social Entrepreneur of the Year, Home-based Business of the Year

Jalebi is an ethically conscious and super affordable fashion label having both womenswear and baby girls clothing and accessory line. Also now catering customized formals and semi formals upon order based system.

Sweet, yummylicious and twisted..The Jalebi, an ethically conscious company, offers nothing but fun and frolic to those who seek!!

With brilliant and vivacious colors, chewy textures and flirty feminine cuts the clothing line is sure to drool over!! Checkout our tiny footsteps taken towards promoting the handcrafts and a range of crochets done by the rural women of Karachi and Sind and don’t forget to just ADORE!!

Oh n we just LOOVVEEE recycling!! its the coollest thing EVERRRRR!!! do checkout our crazy recycled jewellery line..totallyy delish!! be healthy, promote healthy and save mother earth!

Mix it, match it and flaunt it..BE the Jalebi woman or MAKE your woman the Jalebi woman!