Star Tech: COLABS, Pakistan’s fastest-growing flexible workspace, eyes UAE, MENA markets

Star Tech: COLABS, Pakistan’s fastest-growing flexible workspace, eyes UAE, MENA markets

The startup's main mission is to redefine the future of work in Pakistan by creating avenues and opportunities for the country’s youth

Published: Fri 7 Oct 2022, 4:57 PM

COLABS, an entrepreneurial co-working platform that was launched in Lahore, Pakistan, in May 2019, has been striving to innovate the local ecosystem by creating new work experiences. It is also supporting and collaborating with young entrepreneurs in Pakistan’s burgeoning startup ecosystem.

COLABS’ big idea and main driving mission is to redefine the future of work in Pakistan by creating avenues and opportunities for the country’s youth bulge, who are below 27 years of age and make up around approximately 64 per cent of the south Asian country’s population.

COLABS is a big idea, whose time has come, in a country known for its budding raw talents and demographic dividends that are yet to be realised.

COLABS, which is planning to expand to Karachi — Pakistan’s most populous city and in the Indian subcontinent — and the nation’s capital within the next three to five months, wants to be a disruptor and goes beyond a physical workstation and a desk.

The startup’s productive spaces and an ecosystem of entrepreneurs and partners form the bedrock for its members to