Where a founder gets to spend two weeks can change a decade.
Silicon Valley isn't a place — it's a density of relationships. The Silicon Valley Tech Exchange, run by our sister organization Ejad Labs, exists to make that density accessible to founders who weren't born within a BART ride of it.
The world's most valuable network is still a plane ticket away.
A disproportionate share of US venture capital is still deployed within a short drive of Palo Alto. The mentors, the engineers who've seen zero-to-one before, the operators who've scaled from ten to ten thousand — a critical mass of them are still in the Bay.
The PAK–US Tech Exchange launched in 2018 to make that network reachable to founders across South Asia. Today it runs as the Silicon Valley Tech Exchange, a two-week program timed to SF Tech Week, LA Tech Week, and the Pakistan Tech Summit's US edition.
What two weeks in Silicon Valley actually look like.
Investor & Accelerator Access
Sessions and site visits with partners including 500 Startups, StartX, and Draper University — plus curated introductions to Bay Area angel networks and the Pakistani-American diaspora VC community.
Operator Mentorship
Meetings with operators from companies like Uber and Airbnb, plus alumni of Stanford and long-tenured Big Tech engineers — matched to each founder's stage and sector.
Ecosystem Immersion
Programming aligned with SF Tech Week and LA Tech Week, campus visits to Stanford, demo events, and diaspora dinners across San Francisco and Los Angeles.
US Market Setup
For founders ready to go global, Ejad Labs helps with US company formation and physical bank account setup, plus US/EU visa consultation — turning a visit into a foothold.
A typical exchange.
- 8 weeks outApplications open · founder selection · thesis calls
- 4 weeks outMentor & investor matching · agenda curation · US visa support
- Weeks 1–2SF & LA immersion — meetings, demo events, tech-week programming
- OngoingFollow-up intros, capital connections, US market entry support