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Islamabad based social media gaming company, White Rabbit, has been covered here on TechLahore numerous times. We’ve even included guest posts from their Founder and CEO, Hassan Baig. Well, we wanted to revisit our past coverage and get you the latest that’s happening at White Rabbit. Hassan gave us a great update and caught us [...]

I must say, a lot of interesting tech events and forums have been arranged recently. First the Blog Awards, then TEDx Karachi, which by the way deserves another post altogether. Now, Jehan Ara, President of PASHA (Pakistan Software Houses Association) has announced that her organization will be starting a series of events appropriately called “Launchpad”. [...]

The Wall Street Journal, reporting on authority of VentureWire, seems to think that VCs might be making a comeback. The entrepreneurial environment, apparently, is improving. This sort of flies in the face of the investment data from Q1 ’09. But, 42 VCs seem to think so, so all argument ends right there… I mean, it’s [...]

We recently covered the trials and tribulations of the Venture industry and hypothesized that perhaps it is curtains for the VC industry as we’ve known it over the past few decades. Well, here’s some more on the same. In a new report published by Dow Jones’ VentureSource, new investments are down 50% . In Q4 2008, [...]

So let’s continue where we left off a few days ago. If you need to catch up with the first part of this article, simply click here. For those of you who are up to speed, let’s charge forth. We’ve already looked at how the diminishing importance of large amounts of capital have made VC [...]

Forbes published an annual list of the 100 most influential VCs in the world. This year, they have recognized Asad Jamal, Partner at ePlanet Ventures, on their top 10 list. Yeah, one of the world’s 10 best venture capitalists is a Pakistani. You can find out more about Asad Jamal by reading this interview he [...]

While there are a couple of exceptions to the implication in the headline, WebLo and Scrybe for instance, it does appear to be generally true. Pakistani companies are not attracting venture attention in general. Sure, you may have a few founders comfortable with the Bay Area scene making their case effectively and pulling money in. [...]