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League of Launchers
Pakistan’s Student AI Startup Challenge

Turning ideas
into ventures,
nationwide.

League of Launchers is Change Mechanics’ flagship entrepreneurship programme — a national platform where Pakistan’s brightest young minds compete, build, and launch AI‑driven startups from the ground up.

In partnership with Startup.pk · Hosted at NIC Islamabad
Cohort 1 / 2025
300Participants nationwide
across 17 cities
National AI startup challenge
· Free to apply · Eight weeks ·
/ About the programme

Pakistan’s talent is young. We make sure it doesn’t go to waste.

Pakistan is home to one of the youngest populations in the world — and League of Launchers exists to make sure that talent doesn’t go to waste.

Organised by Change Mechanics in collaboration with Startup.pk, the League of Launchers is an intensive eight‑week hybrid innovation programme open to students, aspiring founders, and young professionals from across the country — regardless of background, city, or experience level.

Participants move through a structured journey: from problem discovery and market validation to prototyping, MVP development, and a Grand Pitching Round before a panel of industry judges. Along the way, they receive hands‑on mentorship from leading founders, AI experts, and ecosystem builders — and walk away with the skills, networks, and confidence to take their startups forward.

This isn’t just a competition. It’s a launchpad.

/ Cohort 1 · By the numbers

What 2025 actually looked like.

300+
Participants nationwide
17
Cities represented
57
Startup ideas developed
17
Finalists at the Grand Pitch
40+
Hours of mentorship & workshops
100K
PKR cash prize · winning team

Eight weeks.
Eight themes.

The programme runs across eight structured weeks, each with a distinct theme — designed so a participant who shows up with an idea on Day 1 walks out on Day 56 with a pitch deck, a working prototype, and an investor audience.

01
Week One
Opening Ceremony & Problem Discovery
02
Week Two
Market Validation & User Discovery
03
Week Three
Solution Ideation & UX Design
04
Week Four
Technical Design & Prototyping
05
Week Five
MVP Development
06
Week Six
Final Pitch Deck Preparation
07
Week Seven
Data-Driven Evaluation
08
Week Eight
Grand Pitching & Closing Ceremony

2025 winners.

Three teams stood out at the Grand Pitch — each shipping something built and demoable, each solving a problem they actually saw in their own lives.

🥇Winner

Team Credo

AI Sign Language Translation

An AI‑driven sign language translation overlay making online learning and entertainment accessible for prelingually deaf individuals — a market the existing tooling effectively ignores.

🥈First Runner-Up

RizzMazdoorz

Student–Industry Bridge

A platform bridging student innovators with industry experts, helping academic projects evolve into market‑ready startups — built by people who lived the gap.

🥉Second Runner-Up

Alif

AI Learning Assistant

An AI‑powered learning assistant that transforms cluttered study materials into summaries, quizzes, flashcards, and explainer videos — built for the way Pakistani students actually study.

What participants walk away with.

League of Launchers isn’t just a competition window. It’s a structured pipeline of mentorship, tooling, exposure, and direct entry into Pakistan’s flagship incubator.

01
Founder mentorship
One‑on‑one and group mentorship from top founders and AI experts — people who’ve actually shipped.
02
Hands‑on workshops
Validation, design, development, and pitching — the practical skills a deck and a demo actually require.
03
Founder capability assessment
AI‑powered assessments via EDDIY — objective evidence of where each founder is strong and where they need to grow.
04
Free website hosting
Provided via LearnOnline — so every team has a public surface for their MVP from Day One.
05
Google Cloud credits
Eligible startups get the cloud spend they need to actually run their AI workloads — not just talk about them.
06
Direct path to NIC Islamabad
A direct entry pathway into Pakistan’s flagship national incubator — the room every serious founder wants in.
07
National visibility
Coverage through Startup.pk media and podcasts — the audience that recruits, invests, and partners.
08
Tools & templates
Participant resource dashboard, tooling kits, and templates — the unglamorous infrastructure of actually finishing.

Our 2025 partners.

Google Cloud
S&P Global
NIC Islamabad
Startup.pk
Cheezious
Slack
Notion
EDDIY
LearnOnline
Change Mechanics

The next edition is coming.

League of Launchers will return — bigger, bolder, and with deeper impact. If you’re a founder, partner, or sponsor who wants to be part of Pakistan’s most exciting youth innovation platform, we want to hear from you.