NED Alum Rehan Jalil's Cloud Security Start-up Gets $6.3 Million VC Funding

[RiazHaq]

http://www.pakalumni.com/forum/topi...-cloud-security-startup-gets-6-3-million-vc-f

Pakistani-American Rehan Jalil's Cloud Security Startup Elastica Comes Out Of Stealth With $6.3M From Mayfield


Rehan Jalil is NED University's EE Alumnus.


Elastica has an engineering team working in Karachi, Pakistan.


Jalil's prior startup Wichorus also used Pakistani engineering talent in Karachi.


Wichorus was acquired by Tellabs for $165 million in 2009.


http://www.pakalumni.com/forum/topics/nedian-rehan-jalil-s-cloud-security-startup-gets-6-3-million-vc-f

 

[Pak1stani]

:biggthumpup: Good work keep it up.

 

[auqab]

NED, Karachi and whole Pakistan is proud of you! what a great engineering institution v have! In USA the NED was remembered as the MIT of Pakistan!

But now NED is not alone, UET Lahore, UET Peshawar, GIK, NUST, FAST, all are doing great job!

 

[MADdoo]

NED, Karachi and whole Pakistan is proud of you! what a great engineering institution v have! In USA the NED was remembered as the MIT of Pakistan!

But now NED is not alone, UET Lahore, UET Peshawar, GIK, NUST, FAST, all are doing great job!

But still we have to do a lot more and more..... We are loosing the best brains due to wrong educational system and promotion of Ashiq Mashooq Telecom.....

 

[RiazHaq]

Rehan Jalil (2nd from right) at a panel discussion of Silicon Valley NEDians in 2007

 

[auqab]

But still we have to do a lot more and more..... We are loosing the best brains due to wrong educational system and promotion of Ashiq Mashooq Telecom.....

No dear we are not loosing brain because of "Ashiq Mashooq", if u travel around the world, this ashiq mashooq is every where!

Basically the brain drain is because of nepotism, the sifarshi culture in our Pakistani job industry!

The best of the best Engineers are compelled to get dishearten from Pakistan and they fly abroad!

In govt organisations or even in private organisations u need an insider to move ur CV! Yes there are 20% who got job purely on the basis of merit But the rest 80% are appointed on the basis of sifarish!

Have you ever wonder that Why our Engineers are doing such a great job in USA and Europe and not so research work in Pakistan this is just because they were not given opportunity in Pakistan!

All I can tell you is Our Engineering Bachelor's Education in Pakistani University is very much fine, the problem we have is in at Masters and Phd Level,

 

[MADdoo]

No dear we are not loosing brain because of "Ashiq Mashooq", if u travel around the world, this ashiq mashooq is every where!

Basically the brain drain is because of nepotism, the sifarshi culture in our Pakistani job industry!

The best of the best Engineers are compelled to get dishearten from Pakistan and they fly abroad!

In govt organisations or even in private organisations u need an insider to move ur CV! Yes there are 20% who got job purely on the basis of merit But the rest 80% are appointed on the basis of sifarish!

Have you ever wonder that Why our Engineers are doing such a great job in USA and Europe and not so research work in Pakistan this is just because they were not given opportunity in Pakistan!

All I can tell you is Our Engineering Bachelor's Education in Pakistani University is very much fine, the problem we have is in at Masters and Phd Level,

Yes bro, you are right, this is one of the aspect. Our Bachelor of Engineering is really a thing... Sifarshi culture actually making them dull who believe that they have power and they will get a seat and dis heart the others.
and i am talking about " Ashiq Mashooq Telecom" this is the worst, i never saw any where else. The desperation in our young boys and girls....Its really the worst thing in our culture....Bcoz this is a sudden change we got in our culture in 2004-05 and result is in front of u. I have very very strong comments on this issue that can be discussed separately...

 

[RiazHaq]

http://www.riazhaq.com/2012/05/minorities-are-majority-in-americas.html

The U.S. Census Bureau has recently reported that the United States has reached a historic tipping point -- with Latino, Asian, mixed race and African American births constituting a majority of births for the first time. Minorities made up about 2 million, or 50.4%, of the births in the 12-month period ending July 2011. The latest figure was up from 49.5% reported in the 2010 census.

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I have personally witnessed Silicon Valley's racial mix change dramatically over the last several decades. When I arrived here to join Intel in 1981, there were few non-whites in the Valley. In fact, I was the only nonwhite person in a picture of the six-member award winning Intel 80386 CPU design team which was published by the PC Magazine in 1988.


My experience of the demographic changes in this high-tech valley is not just anecdotal. It's supported by data compiled by the localSan Jose Mercury newspaper in 2010. The data shows that 49% of Intel employees are now Asian, a full 7% more than whites. In Silicon Valley, the difference is even more pronounced with Asians accounting for 53.9% of the employees versus 37.6% white workers.

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With Asians accounting for just 15.5% of the high-tech work force nationally, Silicon Valley's high-tech racial mix is also very different from the rest of the country. Silicon valley's employee pool also differs in terms of under-representation of Blacks, Hispanics and women relative the national averages.

Among Asian-Americans, Pakistani-Americans are the 7th largest community in America, according to a report titled "A Community of Contrasts Asian Americans in the United States: 2011" published by Asian-American Center For Advancing Justice. Pakistani-American population has doubled from 204,309 in 2000 to 409,163 in 2010, the second largest percentage increase after Bangladeshis' 157% increase in the same period.

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The total fertility rate in the United States is now at 2.06, just enough to maintain the current level of US population. It's possible mainly due to the history of relatively liberal US immigration policy. If US immigration policy is tightened in response to pressures from various labor organizations and the traditional anti-immigration groups, the US fertility rate is likely to dip and hurt the US economy which needs more workers to pay for the retiree benefits of the growing population of senior citizens. Already, many US multinational corporations have added 1.5 million workers to their payrolls in Asia and the Pacific region from 1999 to 2009, and 477,500 workers in Latin America, according to US Commerce Dept data as reported by the Wall Street Journal. If the businesses can not find workers in the United States, they are more likely to continue to accelerate moving jobs elsewhere, depriving the US government the revenue it needs to balance its budget.

http://www.riazhaq.com/2012/05/minorities-are-majority-in-americas.html