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Jamil Goheer caught the entrepreneurship bug while still a student fresh out of college. After several failed ventures, he went on to become the Founder of an internationally recognized quality assurance firm. He is currently the Founder of three ventures: Kualitatem, an independent quality assurance firm; Virtual Force, an early stage accelerator; and CoVenture, a seed investment firm with a funding of US$20 million.
During the first decade of 2000, Pakistan’s software industry was nowhere in terms of products and services, mainly because of quality issues. When I met the Kualitatem team, my first thought was that if they succeed in their venture, they would add great value to the whole industry. During the five and a half months long mentorship at BAP, we worked together on achieving focus and boosting their confidence in meeting customers, in addition to adding depth in their products and services. Here was a firm that was pitching itself as Pakistan’s first independent quality assurance and testing firm. They were already working for and tapping an international clientele. Jamil is now co-founder of three successful firms: Kualitatem, the quality assurance firm, with an illustrious Fortune 500 clientele; Virtual Force, a mentoring and incubation center and CoVenture, an early stage VC fund with a US$ 20 million investment, all in a period of six years. They are a clear role model for others to follow.
Jamil Goheer stumbled upon his career while in the final year of his Bachelor’s program in Computer Science. He did an internship in Speech and Language Processing that set him on the entrepreneurial path. Jamil and his team set up Kraysis that started as a speech company and went through multiple pivots before offering an independent software testing and quality assurance service.
A series of unfortunate events caused the team to reboot and set up Kualitatem, a venture focused on executing independent Quality Assurance Projects. The course correction paid off and today Jamil and his team have made Kualitatem an award-winning company that provides independent software quality assurance and testing services. During the last eight years, the company has expanded from Lahore to the Middle East and the US. In 2015, Kualitatem was featured in the Top 10 list of ‘Pure Play Testing Companies’ by Gartner.
Jamil and his team have also contributed significantly to the country’s IT sector by demonstrating that Pakistan is not only a low-cost offshore outsourcing destination, it is also one that can provide world-class services verified by quality independent providers.
Jamil and his co-founders have spun off developing and supporting a few other ventures. They have also initiated CoVenture, a venture fund for startups that works for pre-launch ideas, based out of New York.
