Company:MangoBaaz

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MangoBaaz
MangoBaaz.jpg
Available inEnglish
OwnerAli Gul
Ali Ahsan[1][2]
Websitemangobaaz.com
Launched2014[3]
Written inEnglish, Urdu

MangoBaaz (Urdu: مینگو باز‎) is a Pakistani internet media company based in Lahore.[4] It was incubated at Punjab Information Technology Board's startup accelerator program,[2] it began operations as a social news and entertainment company with a focus on digital media in 2014.[4][5]

MangoBaaz was founded in late 2014 as an experiment on tracking viral content by Ali Gul and Ali Ahsan.[6] After the favourable result, the cofounders left the Silicon Valley and registered it as a formal company in September 2015.[7]

References

  1. Husain, Osman (2017-02-24). "Tech in Asia – Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem" (in en-PK). Archived from the original on 2017-07-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20170719043032/https://www.techinasia.com/mangobaaz-memes-pakistan. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "MangoBaaz raises $115,000" (in en-PK). DAWN. 2016-12-15. Archived from the original on 2017-02-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20170207150729/http://www.dawn.com/news/1302373. 
  3. Aazim, Mohiuddin (2017-04-17). "Innovative ways of tech start-up financing" (in en-PK). DAWN. Archived from the original on 2018-02-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20180223032110/https://www.dawn.com/news/1327387. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Sarwar, Mahrukh (2016-12-15). "Digital media startup MangoBaaz raises $115,000 in seed funding" (in en-PK). DAWN. Archived from the original on 2017-07-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20170706234629/https://www.dawn.com/news/1302521. 
  5. "Six Pakistani startups are on their way to the US for an entrepreneurship exchange programme" (in en-PK). DAWN. 2016-08-10. Archived from the original on 2016-10-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20161019123113/http://www.dawn.com/news/1276652. 
  6. Nizami, Babar (2016-11-14). "Mangobaaz" (in en-PK). Pakistan Today. Archived from the original on 2018-02-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20180224012311/https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2016/11/14/mangobaaz/. 
  7. Husain, Osman (2017-02-24). "Pakistani duo showcases lighter side of country for fed-up millennials" (in en-PK). The Express Tribune. Archived from the original on 2017-03-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20170322082651/https://tribune.com.pk/story/1337840/pakistani-duo-showcases-lighter-side-country-fed-millennials/.