Groopic - Made Pakistan Proud

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Eyedeus Labs Selected for BlackBox Connect Summer 2013

July 15, 2013



Eyedeus Labs, a spin-off from Computer Vision Lab (CV Lab), LUMS, is a startup developing Computer Vision technologies for smartphones. Eyedeus has already developed several components of their vision technology and demonstrated its potential through their first product, groopic, which allows users to take a group photo that includes the photographer.

Groopic, developed by Eyedeus Labs, has just been selected for BlackBox Connect Summer 2013. Blackbox Connect is a 2-week Silicon Valley immersion programm for startup founders who are based outside the US. Selected founders are invited to Silicon Valley where they live at the Blackbox Mansion for the two weeks, and have the opportunity to live and collaborate with like-minded entrepreneurs from all around the world and take part in an intense agenda of meetings and workshops with entrepreneurs, investors, experts and executives. Google for Entrepreneurs is sponsoring 8 teams from around the world for this summer's two-week session and groopic team from Eyedeus Labs is one of them.

Groopic also won the Best Startup Award at Startup Weekend Lahore in February 2012 and has earned Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) Plan 9 incubation in September 2012 and has recently been featured by TechCrunch which is a leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products and breaking tech news.Group photos are always missing the photographer. Groopic solves this impossible problemby seamlessly including the photographers in every group photo, without asking for help from a stranger or setting up a tripod.

With Groopic, the user's pictures can have every friend, every time!Samsung's new phones claim to solve this problem using Dual Cameras but that’s like pasting a sticker on a photo. Instead, Groopic gives you a perfect group photo in just three simple steps. The user simply takes two pictures, marks the photographer and groopic automatically combines these incomplete pictures into one complete group picture. Groopic is currently available on the App Store. The Android version is in the final stages of development and will be released soon.Groopic uses patent pending technology developed at Eyedeus Labs.

They also have some really interesting ‘natural user interface’ gaming demos for smart phones. The core team has over 20 years combined experience in Computer Vision related R&D.The co-founders are from the Computer Science Deptartment at the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering, LUMS, and include Ali Rehan and Abdul Rehman (MS CS graduates) on development and testing; Aamer Zaheer (Senior PhD student) and Dr. Murtaza Taj (Visiting Assistant Professor) on product prototyping, R&D and quality assurance. The team also includes Faraz Hassan (Co-founder at Eyedeus Labs, BE CS, GIKI graduate) and Shehryar Hydri (Advisor at Eyedeus Labs, COO Trango Interactive, Co-founder at Scrybe).In addition to the core team, Eyedeus is mentored by national stalwarts including Dr. Sohaib Khan (Chair, Computer Science, LUMS) and industry leaders, including Babar Ahmad (CEO MindStorm Studios), Khurram Zafar (CIO, Lahore Stock Exchange), Jawaad Fareed (CEO & Actuary at Alchemy Technologies) and Badar Khushnood (Google Pakistan Country Consultant).

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Pakistan's tech talents find app success

By Saima Mohsin, CNN and Sophia Saifi, for CNN
September 18, 2013 -- Updated 1012 GMT (1812 HKT)

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Pakistan app developer community growing




STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Young tech entrepreneurs converge in Lahore to invent new apps
  • Apps like Groopic caught eyes of tech titans like Google, Samsung, Huawei
  • Apps provide for companies that were previously reluctant to come to Pakistan



Lahore, Pakistan (CNN) -- The Pakistani city of Lahore is known as the heritage capital of the country. It's scattered with ancient mosques, majestic 16th century mansions and antique minarets. Lahorites are proud of their cultural legacy.

It's old, it's timeless but it's changing. In the midst of this old city, a vibrant technological revolution is taking place that is buzzing its presence onto the Internet and beyond. Groups of dynamic young tech entrepreneurs are converging on the city to invent mobile apps that can change the way Pakistan can do business with the rest of the world.

Pakistan has 30 million Internet users, that's almost four times the population of New York City. About 15 million Pakistanis are accessing the Internet via their mobile phones opening up a whole new stream of consumer possibilities for savvy business people.
Young entrepreneurs like Ali Rehan, 26, are now exploiting this potential. Rehan and his team at Eyedeus Labs has created"Groopic," a new smartphone app that lets you take a group picture -- and put yourself in it. This way, the photographer will also be included in the picture. It's easy to use and it's making waves in the tech world.

Rehan told CNN about how the Internet as a medium is a "paradigm shift for all the companies working in Pakistan."
Citing his company Eyedeus Labs as an example he said: "We worked on a product online, we launched it online, we marketed it online. We got featured by all these big blogs and we were contacted by smartphone companies."

Picked up by Google, Rehan's team was flown out to Silicon Valley for a mentoring program to develop its product. Now Rehan says that major mobile phone companies like Samsung, Huawei and LG are courting Eyedeus Labs. But they're not the lone rangers in Pakistani tech talent.

Companies in the country are making mobile apps for Fortune 500 companies in the United States, said Badar Khushnood, from Google Pakistan.

These are companies that had previously been "very reluctant to come to Pakistan" because of the security situation, Khushnood said.

In the country, both the private and government sectors have come up with financial solutions to provide assistance to gifted young whiz kids who are down on their luck.

For example, Plan 9 is a business incubator in a swanky skyscraper in the heart of Lahore. Founded by Dr. Umar Saif and funded by the government, its main goal is to transform young tech talent into budding businesses.

"The world is becoming flat," said Saif, vice chancellor at Information Technology University-Punjab. "The geography, the political situation, the security situation is becoming totally irrelevant in a country like Pakistan."

Thirteen teams at Plan 9 are developing apps and products like "DrivePal" - which alerts relatives and emergency services about a car crash and "iTrak," an optic mouse for paraplegics that was inspired by an 18-year-old who lost his limbs and wanted to continue studying. Meanwhile location based app "LocPro" adapts your phone's privacy settings depending on where you are. It can even remind you to pick up milk when you walk past the supermarket.

The next big app you download on your smartphone may have been made in Pakistan.


 
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Invest2innovate Accelerates Pakistan's Young Entrepreneurs

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INVEST2INNOVATE ACCELERATES PAKISTAN'S YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS

ANGEL INVESTORS, UNIVERSITY-RUN TECHNOLOGY INCUBATORS, CO-WORKING SPACES...THIS ISN'T THE PAKISTAN OF YESTERDAY'S HEADLINES.


BY: ANYA KAMENETZ


Pakistan is a country beset by poverty and persistent political unrest, with two-thirds of its population under 30. Many Americans more closely associate Pakistan with terrorism than innovation. But Pakistanis are striving to replace that image with one of philanthropy and entrepreneurship.

"SO MANY PEOPLE WANT TO INVEST IN PAKISTANI STARTUPS, BUT DON’T WANT TO TAKE THE RISK."


Kalsoom Lakhani, 30, the daughter of a successful businessman, was educated at international schools (she speaks English with an unmistakeable American accent) and started blogging about her native country's burgeoning creativity as she was running the philanthropic arm of her father's company.

"I was fascinated by the role that strategic and innovative philanthropy could play to support private enterprise," she says. "And I was meeting all these young Pakistanis through my day job and through writing. They had these amazing ideas but couldn’t get the capital to start up."

She started Invest2Innovate two years ago as a four-month accelerator program for early-stage startups run on a $5,000 budget.

Invest2Innovate is currently running anIndiegogo campaign to fund its second class of startups--to the tune of $15,000.

The seven companies included in this round aim to be economic multipliers--like Oddjobber, a mobile app that is like an "Uber for rickshaws"; and Setu, which gives young graduates the soft skills they need to prepare for the workforce.

Invest2Innovate is part of a widening ecosystem of entrepreneurship supported by the state, universities, individual business leaders, and outside companies like Google. Invest2Innovate will be using space at Dotzero, a co-working space and hub in Karachi. Invest2Innovate is partnering with Plan9, a government-supported technology incubator in Lahore, and the Karachi Institute of Technology and Entrepreneurship, which maintains a "hacker's hostel" so youth from out of town can stay in Karachi and work while they learn. And Invest2Innovate mentors include local success stories like Zafar Khan, founder of tech company Sofizar, who also runs anorganic farm that he started "for fun," says Lakhani.

"I WAS MEETING ALL THESE YOUNG PAKISTANIS THROUGH MY DAY JOB AND THROUGH WRITING. THEY HAD THESE AMAZING IDEAS BUT COULDN’T GET THE CAPITAL TO START UP."

With so many great connections, I asked why Lakhani turned to crowdfunding to support her second round. With her infectious enthusiasm, it's clear she'd have no trouble raising cash. It turns out the strategic purpose is twofold. She wants to use the platform to get the word out about her entrepreneurs and widen their circle of supporters. Secondly, over the next month Invest2Innovate will be approaching investors to create its own fund to invest and take equity in the companies it is accelerating. "We'll be functioning almost as a holding company," Lakhani says. "So many people want to invest in Pakistani startups, but don’t want to take the risk. We do the work of finding, vetting, and investing in these companies so they don't have to."

http://www.fastcompany.com/3017598/invest2innovate-accelerates-pakistans-young-entrepreneurs
 
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Pakistan's tech talents find app success

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Pakistani Students bring Pride to their country: Invent Groopic


http://sabbkuch.pk/pakistan-smartphone-app-success-groopic/

I dont know how big it is but i am happy that i find my country being discussed Internationally for something really Positive, reflecting what we can really do if given the proper opportunity and environment.


Thank you guys for Highlighting Pakistan all over the world for a good Reason...... You showed the world a brighter face of Pakistan which we seldom find in International Media.
 
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Re: Pakistan smartphone app success

ہمارے تمام ٹی وی چینل کی خبریں اس وقت تک مکمل ہوتیں جب تک وہ یہ نہ بتا دیں کہ پڑوس میں لچر کار کب سو کر اٹھے ، کب کس کی سالگرہ ہے ، کون کس کے پیچھے بھاگ رہا ہے
مگر کسی کوئی یہ توفیق نہیں ہوتی کہ اپنے ہو نہاروں کے کارنامے بھی عوام تک پہنچائیں​
 
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CNN : " groopic " An App by Pakistani Students and got Google invitation but " SOLD out Media Silent "





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Re: CNN : " groopic " An App by Pakistani Students and got Google invitation but " SOLD out Media Silent "

an app is noting .
web is full of billions of app
 
Res1Pect

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Re: CNN : " groopic " An App by Pakistani Students and got Google invitation but " SOLD out Media Silent "

the.paki said:
an app is noting .
web is full of billions of app
Click to expand...

Mr. 'Sweeping Remarks'...There is no other app of this sort in the market yet....Google hasn't 'blindly' offered this talented group of students....OR Do you think google doesn't know there are billions of app out there????(thumbsdown)
 
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Re: CNN : " groopic " An App by Pakistani Students and got Google invitation but " SOLD out Media Silent "

Every body's going, but you went that extra mile!!!
Pakistan Zindabad!!!
 
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