Pakistan's 10Pearls earns place on Inc 5000 list again

10Pearls, a leading end-to-end digital services company in Pakistan has been recognised for a second consecutive year in the annual Inc. 5000 list, ranking among the nation's fastest-growing private companies.

With this milestone, 10Pearls joins Intuit, Zappos, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other companies that are rapidly expanding.

Zeeshan Aftab, Co-founder & Managing Director Offshore Operations of the digital services company decided to cash in on the technological boom that was slowly taking over the world.

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What started with two used computers and Rs100, 000 is now a multi-million dollar global company.

In 2009, the company made its first breakthrough by winning an app development competition for Nokia's first touchscreen mobile phone - the N8.

10Pearls developed an application using Nokia's platform within a month and secured the first position, this was a stepping stone for the company as it gave them the opportunity to partner with Nokia and create applications for media houses in Pakistan.

Further, the digital services company also developed a gaming app for children for a contest by the American telecommunications company, AT&T.

This opened the door for 10Pearls to develop games for Marvel Studios and since then, the company has expanded globally with around 450 employees.

Today, the company is among the top 20 software exporters of Pakistan. Having built its foundations here, the company is now registered in the United States of America (USA) and has franchises in Dubai, Virginia, Colombia, and Canada.

Pakistan is slowly making its way towards digitalisation however; the country still lacks the skillsets needed to work in the IT industry, a challenge also faced by Zeeshan when he was recruiting for the company.

To counter this problem 10Pearls provides training and employment opportunities to recent IT graduates with its own university-like curriculum.

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Now, there are nearly 5,000 people who have been trained by 10Pearls, and those trainees are now training more graduates with the goal to expand the IT community in Pakistan.

The Inc. 5000 ranks companies by overall revenue growth over a three-year period. All 5,000 honoree companies are individually profiled on Inc.com.

The top 500 are featured in the September issue of Inc. Magazine, the leading entrepreneurial advocate for 38 years running. Inc. also ranks the fastest-growing companies by industry, metro area, revenue, and a number of employees, and highlight women and minority-run companies.