Certificate of Excellence at the Founders and Startups Networking Dinner

The Founders and Startups Networking Dinner brought Lahore's founders, investors and public-sector guests into one room under the Pakistan Startup banner. Events Media and Digital Workup organised the evening; the certificates were presented by Mian Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman, Finance Minister of Punjab.

The recognition

Tech Solutions received a Certificate of Excellence for Outstanding Achievement, Innovation and Excellence in the Startup Industry, "with appreciation and recognition of your valuable contribution to Pakistan's entrepreneurial ecosystem". I accepted it on behalf of the company as its founder and CEO.

The citation is for the work this site documents: business process automation for SMEs, Odoo ERP rollouts, point-of-sale and back-office systems for retail and restaurants, and fleet IoT dashboards for transport operators in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. It is the first external recognition of Tech Solutions as an automation agency rather than a general software house.

Why it matters to the work

Most of the systems I build replace a spreadsheet or a WhatsApp group that nobody thought of as a problem. Recognition from a room of founders and from the provincial finance ministry says the category is visible now: automation is something a Pakistani SME can buy, not something only large companies get.

Who was there

• Presented by Mian Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman, Finance Minister, Punjab
• Syed Hussain Alam, Founder and CEO, Digital Workup (Pvt) Ltd
• Syed Naseem Naqvi, CEO, Events Media (Pvt) Ltd
• Founders and teams from Lahore's startup community

What Tech Solutions does

If you run a business in Lahore, Pakistan or the Gulf and have a process your team does by hand every week, the services page explains how an engagement starts: a 30-minute process review, then a written scope. The company itself is at tech-solutions.co.