Season 1 · 2025 — League of Launchers

The story

Eight weeks. One mission.
Build something that matters.

League of Launchers Season 1 set out to answer a single question: can Pakistan's students build real AI products if given the structure, mentorship, and stage to do it?

The answer arrived in numbers. 300+ applicants from 17 cities entered Cohort 1. After selection, teams spent eight intensive weeks framing problems, validating with real users, prototyping with modern AI tools, sharpening their pitches, and defending business cases — all under structured weekly checkpoints, not hackathon-style theatrics.

It culminated in a Final Pitch Day at the National Incubation Center, Islamabad on 9 September 2025, with S&P Global as title sponsor and Startup.pk as the founding programme partner. Fifty-seven AI products were built. Three were named champions. Two of those teams now sit incubated inside NIC Islamabad, building toward real companies.

Winning teams · Cohort 1

The Champions of 2025.

Three teams. Three problems. Three ways to use AI to make Pakistan a little better.

★ Winner

Team Credo

AI Sign Language Translation · Accessibility

Team Credo took the top prize for an AI-driven sign language translation overlay built to make online learning and entertainment accessible to prelingually deaf individuals. The judges singled out the team for fusing technical depth with a clear social mandate — a product that reads as both engineering and empathy.

Credo's win demonstrated what passion, structured mentorship, and persistence can turn into when given the runway: a bold idea that lasts beyond the final pitch.

Prize · PKR 100,000

1st Runner-Up

RizzMazdoorz

Student-to-Industry Bridge · Edtech

RizzMazdoorz built a platform to bridge the gap between student innovators and industry experts — a route for academic projects to evolve into market-ready startups. Their pitch made the case for unlocking the entrepreneurial potential of Pakistan's universities by connecting emerging talent to real-world commercial opportunity.

2nd Runner-Up

Team Alif

AI Learning Assistant · Edtech

Alif presented an AI-powered learning assistant that turns cluttered study materials — PDFs, lecture notes, recordings — into concise summaries, interactive quizzes, flashcards, and explainer videos. The product takes aim at cognitive overload, helping students prepare for exams with clarity rather than chaos.

Demo Day · 9 September 2025

A national stage,
a national network.

Cohort 1, the day the season closed at the National Incubation Center, Islamabad.

Team Credo presenting on stage at NIC Islamabad

Made possible by

The Season 1 partners.

Season 1 was made possible by partners who believed Pakistan's AI workforce had to be built on outcomes, not credentials.

57 Products.
17 Cities.
8 Weeks.

Eight weeks. One mission.
Build something that matters.