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ABOUT SIHAH WARIS

CEO & Founder Rise mom • Co-Founder

CEO Solugix pvt ltd • Co-Founder

IT Assistant United Nations

Sihah Waris the founder of Rise Mom is a wonderfully charged and motivated young lady, has all the entrepreneurial spirit that has the tell tale signs of success in all her endevours. This needs to be seen in context with the male dominated Pakistani business eco system. Her technology back ground is a tremendous plus for her business plan, as Rise Mom would have a major component that relates to internet connectivity of her day care system. Sihah Waris, is massively talented and driven. She has a hunger to learn and grow and has very good presentation and people skills. She has a sharp analytical mind and can see the patterns in user behavior and response.

SHE IS WELL EDUCATED ENTREPRENEUR

Sihah is young tech entrepreneur from Pakistan, equipped with a strong command of business with a track record of proven success. She completed her graduation in Business Administration and IT Management in 2009. 

CAREER

 HER ENTREPRENEURIAL JOURNEY STARTED WHEN 

SHE LAUNCHED SOLUGIX

 Her entrepreneurial journey began when she launched Solugix (www.solugix.com) in 2013, providing IT solutions to small and medium companies worldwide. In 2013, she was looking for a job so she applied to different companies and got offers from all of them. But she didn’t join any because none of the companies attracted her enough. That’s when she decided to set up her own company, Solugix. Her first company is successfully running and funding her second startup Rise Mom (www.risemom.com). She have been participating as a panelist, at UNIDO, UNICEF, Higher Education Commission, U.S. Embassy, Startup Expo, National Incubation Center, Founder Institute etc, and have been the speaker to multiple local, and national events.. Sihah’s undergrad life was full of adventures. She was the president of sports club at her university and the chief editor of a magazine.

WHAT IS RISEMOM?

RiseMom is actually a stress-free online daycare monitoring system. RiseMom focuses on enabling professional women to balance the demands of career advancement with the demands of motherhood, by creating a stress-free online daycare monitoring system.

HOW IT WOR

The online platform and mobile application connect working mothers to their kids through live video feeds and status updates about their child’s activities. Rise Mom is established to empower working mothers, it assist working women by keeping them remotely connected with their children while they are at work.  It offers an online day care monitoring system through which the mothers while working in their office can view online, at their own convenience, how their child is doing. If he is sleeping or playing or crying. 

WHAT WAS THE IDEOLOGY BEHIND RISEMOM?

RiseMom is designed for young working mothers. These women have a dual responsibility of managing their career and of taking care of their young ones. Most of the time, mothers find it stressful to juggle both of these roles and hence end up quitting their jobs. We are losing our talented women due to this reason. 60% of the women, in Pakistan, leave jobs after becoming mothers because they are worried about their infants while the rest of the 40% who continue to work call every 2 hours at home or day care center to know how their child is doing. They are worried about their child’s well-being.

“We are enabling the mothers to be with their children even if they are at work” 

THE AIM OF SIHAH

Her aim is to provide nothing but complete transparency to working parents and peace of mind to working mothers out there. For the future, she aims to establish Rise Mom as the superhero of the daycare centers, and to provide best childcare and early education services all across Pakistan. Furthermore, she intends to provide services to new and expecting mothers and fitness programs for mothers.

Questions by people and their answers by sihah

1)    Your target audience are working parents especially mothers. In a country like Pakistan where working women mostly rely on close family members like parents or grandparents, do you think your startup will experience growth in such a framework?

That is an excellent question! Yes, I strongly believe that it would. Pakistani working mothers usually ask their parents or grandmothers to look after their children when they are not around. And those mothers call them almost every hour just to remain updated about their child.

2) How do you plan to scale up your business?

ACHIEVEMENTS

We are starting from Islamabad, and plan to extend our services in Lahore and Karachi next. Once we have strong presence in these cities, we will expand to other areas where there is need and high ratio of working women. We are established to provide comfort, ease and satisfaction to mothers. We are going to organize seminars and training workshops to help them strive in their professional and personal life. We’ll arrange quarterly event for mothers where they can connect with each other, find/share opportunities and help other women become successful.

HER ACHIEVEMENTS ARE WORTH MENTIONING  

1.  First female graduate of entrepreneurship accelerator program.
2.    Sihah was declared “The Top Founder” for her new startup, RiseMom.
3. Awarded by Woman Of The Year on Women's Day 2018

Putting it into a nutshell  

Sihah aspires to promote female entrepreneurship in Pakistan and empower working mothers. She dreamed of building a company of her own from a young age and with its’ fulfillment she now aims to continue managing startups, mentoring founders and inspiring women to be independent and self-sufficient.

According to Sihah:

       "I see myself as a serial entrepreneur managing startups, mentoring founders and inspiring women to be independent and self-sufficient so they can groom leaders of tomorrow!"