- agency
- Ignite – National Technology Fund, Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication (MoITT)
- amount
- PKR 5,000,000 (approx. USD 17,500–18,000) seed grant per selected startup, plus USD 25,000 Google Cloud credits, USD 10,000 AWS credits, co-working space, mentorship, and investor access.
- country
- Pakistan
- deadline or recurrence
- Cohort-based; each NIC runs multiple cohorts per year. E.g., NIC Sialkot Cohort 1 opened June 2026. Check individual NIC portals.
- eligibility
- Early-stage tech startups; competitive cohort-based selection via application and pitch process. Each NIC hosts cohort-based incubation programs.