LUMS:
The Lahore University of Management Sciences is a world class academic institution with a history of achievement and ambitions for the future. LUMS encourages research and intellectual growth and thus plays a pivotal role in producing professionals prepared to compete with colleagues across the world.
The Foundry entails 80+ sessions and 115 learning hours conducted by 11 LUMS faculty members and external consultants. Courses include:
- Design Thinking
- Business Communications
- Strategy & Business Modeling
- Marketing, Branding & Sales
- Data Analytics & Marketing Research
- Entrepreneurial Finance
- Negotiations & Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship
The Foundry graduates pitch at the Investor Summit: our capstone event to provide start-ups the exposure and runway to launch their ideas, get on investors’ radar and raise angel investment
Saarland University (Germany):
A modern research university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in six faculties that cover all major fields of science.
Entrepreneurship 1:1 is a one-month asynchronous training program that fosters idea generation.
Stanford Seed Spark:
An initiative of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Seed Spark Program delivers essential business training to early-stage entrepreneurs in collaboration with incubators, accelerators, and other organizations.
NICL was proud to be the first incubation centre to launch this program in Pakistan.
The four-months immersive online acceleration program provides an action-based curriculum, networking opportunities with peers, 1:1 mentorship and live sessions with experts in the field.
Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences:
A partnership with LUMS to establish an incubation centre (NIC Quetta) to accelerate the growth and success of ICT entrepreneurship, achieved through a wide array of business support resources including marketing, technical know-how, trainings, management resources, mentorship, shared information technology services and assistance in obtaining finance/start-up capital to ensure enterprise growth in the province of Balochistan.