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09/03/2025

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26/12/2024

🇩🇪 Germany Job Seeker Visa Guide for Pakistanis🇵🇰

Dreaming of advancing your career in Germany? The Germany Job Seeker Visa offers qualified professionals from Pakistan the opportunity to explore job prospects in one of Europe’s leading economies. Here’s a comprehensive guide to help you navigate the process seamlessly. 🌟

What is the Germany Job Seeker Visa? 🤔

The Germany Job Seeker Visa is a long-term residence permit that allows individuals to stay in Germany for up to six months to search for employment. If you secure a job within this period, you can transition to a work visa or EU Blue Card.

For more details, visit: www.germany-visa.org/job-seeker-visa

Eligibility Criteria ✅

To qualify for the Germany Job Seeker Visa, you must meet the following requirements:
1. Educational Qualifications 🎓
• Hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from a recognized university.
• Ensure your degree is recognized in Germany or equivalent to a German degree. You can verify this through the Anabin database: anabin.kmk.org/anabin.html
2. Professional Experience 💼
• Possess a minimum of five years of work experience in your related field.
3. Financial Stability 💰
• Demonstrate sufficient funds to cover your stay in Germany.
• Open a blocked account (Sperrkonto) with a minimum balance of €5,634, allowing monthly withdrawals of €939. For details on blocked accounts, visit: www.pakistan.diplo.de
4. Health Insurance 🏥
• Obtain valid travel health insurance with coverage of at least €30,000 for the entire duration of your stay.
5. Accommodation 🏠
• Provide proof of accommodation in Germany, such as hotel reservations or a rental agreement.

Application Process 📝

Follow these steps to apply for the Germany Job Seeker Visa:
1. Gather Necessary Documents 📑
• Completed Visa Application Form: Filled and signed.
• Valid Passport: With at least 12 months validity and two blank pages.
• Passport-Sized Photos: As per biometric specifications.
• Proof of Academic Qualifications: Degree certificates and transcripts.
• Proof of Work Experience: Reference letters from previous employers.
• Proof of Financial Means: Confirmation of a blocked account or formal obligation letter.
• Proof of Accommodation: Hotel bookings or rental agreements.
• Health Insurance: Valid for the entire stay.
• Cover Letter: Explaining your purpose, plans to find employment, and career objectives in Germany.

For a complete checklist of documents, visit: pakistan.diplo.de/blob/2208812/53514eb769806af2488948260aa1bd8f/jobseeker-visa—leaflet-data.pdf

2. Schedule an Appointment 📅
• Book an appointment with the German Embassy in Islamabad or the Consulate General in Karachi. To book, visit: visa.vfsglobal.com/pak/en/due

3. Attend the Visa Interview 🎤
• Present your documents and answer any questions regarding your application.

4. Pay the Visa Fee 💵
• The visa fee is approximately €75 (around 22,000 PKR).

5. Wait for Processing ⏳
• Processing times can range from 1 to 3 months, so apply well in advance.

6. Travel to Germany ✈️
• Upon approval, you can travel to Germany and begin your job search.

Benefits of the Job Seeker Visa 🎯
• Extended Stay: Up to six months to explore job opportunities.
• No Job Offer Required: Apply without a prior employment offer.
• Pathway to Employment: Once employed, easily convert to a work visa or EU Blue Card.

Estimated Costs 💸
• Visa Application Fee: €75 (approx. 22,000 PKR).
• Blocked Account: €5,634 (approx. 1,650,000 PKR) to cover living expenses.
• Health Insurance: Varies; approximately €50-€100 per month.
• Travel Expenses: Flight tickets from Pakistan to Germany range between 100,000 PKR to 150,000 PKR.
• Accommodation: Monthly rent varies by city; estimate €700-€1,000.

Exchange rates are subject to change; please check the current rates for accurate conversions.

Important Considerations ⚠️
• Job Search Strategy: Research the German job market and tailor your applications accordingly.
• Language Skills 🗣️: Proficiency in German can significantly enhance your employment prospects.
• Compliance: Adhere to visa regulations to avoid any legal issues.

Official Resources 📌
• German Embassy in Pakistan: www.pakistan.diplo.de
• Visa Application Appointments: visa.vfsglobal.com/pak/en/deu
• Recognized Degrees in Germany (Anabin Database): anabin.kmk.org/anabin.html
• Job Opportunities in Germany: www.make-it-in-germany.com

Embarking on this journey requires careful planning and preparation. Ensure all your documents are in order, and approach the process with diligence. Wishing you success in your endeavors to build a rewarding career in Germany! 🇩🇪🚀

11/09/2022

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01/08/2022

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09/07/2022

Eid-ul-Adha commemorates the sacrifice of the Prophet Ibrahim (A.S.).
This Eid, let's truly celebrate the essence of this sacred festival by making extra effort to protect the vulnerable members of society.

May this Eid bring all of us closer together as a nation united by love.
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24/02/2022

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22/02/2022

MarketForce, the retail B2B and end-to-end distribution platform founded in Kenya, has raised $40 million in Series A funding for its merchant inventory financing and expansion across Africa.

MarketForce, which was launched in Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda last year after growing beyond Kenya and Nigeria, plans to introduce buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) options to help merchants access fast-moving-consumer-goods (FMCGs) on credit. It also plans to enter additional markets in East and West Africa.

Through its merchant super app RejaReja (By MarketForce), informal traders can source goods (hundreds of SKUs) directly from manufacturers and distributors, make and pay for orders digitally, accept payments for utility bills and access loans for their businesses. The RejaReja retail marketplace was launched in 2020 as a brainchild of MarketForce, a SaaS product for the formal markets, founded by Tesh Mbaabu and Mesongo Sibuti in 2018.

“Our mission is to enable SMEs to grow, and what we’ve realized over time is that offering them loans is great, but that we need to empower them to access goods. And that’s why we’ve introduced this merchant inventory financing, which is like an overdraft facility, where they’re able to order goods and pay later after selling them. We started a pilot and it is going well,” MarketForce CEO and co-founder Mbaabu told TechCrunch.

During the pilot, Mbaabu said that order stock value tripled, underlining the demand for such tailored inventory financing options for traders who sell a huge chunk of all the FMCGs sold across sub-Saharan Africa.

“We’re very deliberate about extending working capital and that’s why we raised some debt and also because we are looking at that fintech angle as our big frontier for the next phase of our business,” said Mbaabu.

This latest round (equal amount of debt and equity) brings the total funds raised by MarketForce to date to $42.5 million. It also comes seven months after the startup raised $2 million in a pre-Series A round.

The latest round was led by V8 Capital Partners; a London and Lagos based African-focused investment vehicle with participation from TEN13 VC, SOSV Select Fund, Vu Ventures, Vastly Valuable Ventures, UNCOVERED FUND Inc.. Existing investors that took part in the round include Reflect Ventures, Greenhouse Capital Africa, Century Oak Capital and Remapped Ventures. Cellulant co-founder Ken Njoroge, who joins the MarketForce board as chairman, also took part in the round.

“MarketForce demonstrates what we see as a triple threat with regards to returns. A strong executive team with an amazing track record, an expansive untapped market of informal retailers across the continent, and a business model that scales extremely quickly,” said V8 Capital General Partner and member of the MarketForce board, Tobi Oke.

21/02/2022

Philippines-based fintech PayMongo, which enables merchants to accept digital payments, announced today it has raised $31 million in Series B funding with an eye on regional expansion. Investors include Justin Mateen’s JAM Fund, ICCP SBI Venture Partners and Lisa Gokongwei-Cheng’s Kaya Founders, along with returning investors Global Founders Capitall and Soma Capital. The startup says the round also included founders from European fintechs like Qonto, Viva Wallet (vivawallet.com), Billie and Scalable Capital.

This brings PayMongo’s total funding to just under $46 million. Its last funding was a $12 million Series A announced in 2020 and led by Stripe.

The company works with businesses of all sizes, but targets micro-, small- and medium-sized businesses in particular, enabling them to accept different forms of payments, including credit cards, online wallets and over-the-counter. Its products include PayMongo API and e-commerce plugins. The new funding will be used to further develop PayMongo’s current payments infrastructure and add more financial services, including disbursements, capital lending, BNPL, and subscriptions and recurring payments.

Part of PayMongo’s product roadmap includes acquiring new licenses that will allow it to operate more financial services. At the same time, the company is also exploring regional expansion.

“There is so much more work to do in the Philippines. We also forecast more than doubling our team size to support this increasing demand and deliver on our aggressive product roadmap. In parallel, we have started some initial exploration and leg work to expand in the SE Asia region, a work we have kicked off last year,” co-founder and CEO Francis Plazaa told TechCrunch in an email.

Other digital payment gateways in the Philippines include Dragonpay Corporation, PesoPay, PayMaya Philippines and Paynamics Technologies Inc.. Plaza told TechCrunch in an email that the company differentiates itself by its focus on SMBs and high-growth startups and companies since it was founded in 2019.

“Beyond that, as we work with thousands of businesses on the platform, we are geared towards building more products and services that not only enables merchants to easily accept payments but also to grow through access to other financial services,” he said. “From the ability to move money, store balances, access to credit and other expanded payment options for customers.” Plaza added that it is already testing out several new products and services in beta with merchants.

In a statement, Justin Mateen, the founder of Tinder and JAM Fund, said “As one of PayMongo’s first investors, I’ve seen their path from simplifying payments for a handful of businesses to now being a company that thousands of merchants depend on for their day-to-day operations.”

17/02/2022

Take a look at most subscription-based SaaS pricing strategies and they will often have a free version for a certain number of seats, a pro version for a larger set of seats and an enterprise version for large companies.

But what about everything in between — the company that is just above the 10-seat threshold for the free version, but won’t be growing fast enough to make the pro version worthwhile?

Enter Subskribe, a startup that is bringing flexibility to the world of quote-to-revenue, where it was often difficult for salespeople to set up a software quote when information is found in different places, reconcile it and then bill subscriptions and one-off services.

The company was started in 2020 by Durga Pandey, who previously worked at Google, started the company with former Zuora engineering director Yibin G. and former Okta senior director of business technology Prakash Raina.

“Everyone likes a recurring model, but the customer doesn’t want to pay for a $5,000 license if they can pay $10 per month,” CEO Pandey told TechCrunch. “In the last 10 years, the SaaS model has changed a lot and is similar to what a Netflix subscription would be, but is still sold like a cell phone plan that offers $40 per month for 400 minutes.”

Instead, Subskribe’s technology is designed to be an adaptive quote-to-revenue system built so that salespeople can structure more usage-based contracts, often called ramp deals, that offer increasing discounts as usage grows, and add creative upsells and cross-sells.

Each part of the process, from quoting to billing, refers to the same repository of dynamic orders so that it is a unified experience from end to end. As a result, companies get a deal that’s optimized for their growth and also end up spending less money, Pandey added.

The company officially launched Thursday with a handful of customers and $18.4 million in seed and SERIES A funding from 8VC, which led the A round, and Slow Ventures, which led the seed round. Joining the round were a group of senior finance and operations executives at companies, including Amplitude, Asana, Coupa Software, Dialpad, Okta, Plaid and UiPath.

Pandey plans on using the new funding to expand the engineering team and will also focus on expanding its customer base and product development.

Subskribe has only been selling for four months, so there is not much in the way of growth metrics that he could talk about, but he did say there were some big names in its customer pipeline that are close to signing.

“Our goal is to establish ourselves as the de facto player in this space and provide a product that allows these customers to not worry so much about the process of making money,” Pandey added.

16/02/2022

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15/02/2022

Global spend on enterprise software was expected to reach $599 billion by the end of 2021, and new forecasts say it is now projected to grow 11.5% year over year to nearly $700 billion in 2022.

The average company can have more than 100 software contracts, and Tropic’s technology not only brings a click-and-approve approach to buying and managing all of that software, it also helps customers uncover savings on purchases — an average of 23%.

We last checked in on the company last August when it raised $25 million in SERIES A funding. The company is back six months later with nearly double the investment, a $40 million Series B round of capital led by Insight Partners, to raise a total of $65 million.

Since we spoke to CEO David Campbell, Tropic continued its busy streak. At the time of the Series A, the company saw 100% quarter-over-quarter revenue growth and added more than 60 customers.

In the past four months, Campbell said the company more than doubled its revenue and has 150 customers, including Notion, Nextdoor, Faire and Flatiron Health. It is also up to 85 full-time employees after starting with 15 in 2021.

He revealed that the new funding round took the company by surprise — the result of standard check-ins by investors — in a deal that came together quickly. He attributes Tropic’s growth to companies like his that are raising money and expanding. The global pandemic also put the need for better software procurement processes at center stage as uncertainty grew around software costs, sometimes the biggest spend behind payroll, and how to control them.

“We’ve tapped into a need that is prevalent, and awareness is growing in our space as companies try to get a handle on software spends,” Campbell added. “Procurement was traditionally led by legacy playing and initially designed for hardware, not software. However, there has been tremendous proliferation of the need in software, and with the market catching on, we have been in the right place and the right time for that.”

The new funding will go into R&D for major software elements, like automation, as the company aims to be an end-to-end procurement system of record. Campbell will also begin making key executive hires and expand in different areas across the product.

Meanwhile, the company is preparing for another product release and expansion into North America and internationally to increase the size of the market in the next two quarters.

Teddie Wardi, managing director at Insight Partners, said that when he met the Tropic team, he was “not only impressed by their vision for the platform, but how they were building the product.” He saw what they were doing as an opportunity to replace traditional pen-and-paper methods and the use of legacy platforms meant for other things than software.

15/02/2022

Based in Singapore with offices throughout Asia and Australia, Reebelo wants to make buying pre-owned tech as desirable as a brand new device. “What we have seen is that many younger generations are very much open to the idea of sustainable consumption,” co-founder Philip Franta told TechCrunch. “We see a lot of growth and momentum in the space globally, but also here in this region, because I think we are finally at the stage as a society where we’ve realized that the way we’ve consumed in the past is not sustainable.”

Investors agree, with Reebelo announcing a $20 million Series A today, led by Cathay Innovation and June Fund. Other participants include FJ Labs, NAVER Corp affiliate Kream , Moore Strategic Ventures, French Partners and Gandel Invest. Returning backers also contributed, like Antler, Maximilian Bittner (co-founder of Lazada and current CEO of Vestiaire Collective, an e-commerce site for curated pre-owned fashion) and Michael Cassau, the founder and CEO of Grover, a tech rental platform.

Reebelo’s last funding was a $1 million seed round announced in June 2020. The company was founded in 2019 by Franta and Rastouil Fabien. It says that in less than two years, its revenue has grown 600% year-over-year and it now has 10,000 monthly customers and is nearing $100 million in annualized gross merchandise value. It has offices in Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Taiwan.

In an interview, Franta and Rastouil said they wanted to create a startup that combined social and entrepreneurial impact. Both had related work experience in Europe — Franta was involved in subscription device programs for telecoms, while Rastouil worked at Recommerce Solutions, a French platform for pre-owned devices.

But the two said something like Recommerce didn’t exist yet in Singapore, where Rastouil grew up.

Unlike many e-commerce marketplaces, Reebelo selects its vendors, with an emphasis on standardizing the condition of devices and a specific grading system for shoppers, using criteria like aesthetics (for example, if the device has a couple of scratches) and battery life. Partner vendors range from small shops to B2B players with much larger volumes of devices. Reebelo’s goal is to build the biggest inventory of pre-owned, refurbished devices, and says it is already the market leader in Singapore and Australia.

Before adding vendors to its platform, Reebelo screens them, checking that they are legal businesses, assessing their ratings on different distribution channels and making sure they are willing to abide by Reebelo’s quality checkpoints and returns and conditions. The latter includes free returns for 14 days and a one-year free warranty.

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