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| Sep 8, 2026 | iDEAN Consulting to Host AI for Marketers Summit Featuring Philip Kotler | iDEAN Consulting, a Dhaka-based strategy consulting firm, announced that it will host Professor Dr. Philip Kotler in a live Facebook conversation with its founder, Mark Anupom Mollick, as part of its AI for Marketers Summit, per a press rel... |
| Aug 27, 2026 | BLACKWOOD Locks September 16 Launch Date: Buy Act 1, Get Full Story Free | By John Bright
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| Aug 5, 2026 | Как появилось законодательство о борьбе со спамом — и что действует в России | В конце 2024 года спам составлял почти половину мирового почтового трафика — 47,27%. Подобные рассылки съедают ресурсы серверов, скрывают мошеннические схемы и обходятся бизнесу потерянными часами продуктивности. Технические фильтры помогаю... |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Bangladesh Measles Outbreak Tops 100,000: How Vaccine Bureaucracy Killed 716 Children | By Chase Fiorini
Published: Jul 01 2026, 1:58 PM EDT
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| Jun 30, 2026 | The New Budget Wants to Take Startups Seriously. A Close Reading of the FY2026-27 National Budget's Startup Provisions | For most of the past decade, when a Bangladeshi startup founder sat down to file taxes, the fiscal system had no particular record of their existence. The government collected what it could from wherever it could, and the startup, burning t... |
| Jun 7, 2026 | A Seasoned CFO Walks Into a Broken Market. Meet Masud Khan, Bangladesh's New BSEC Chairman | On June 4, 2026, Khondoker Rashed Maqsood resigned as chairman of the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission. All four commissioners resigned the same day. The BSEC building was emptied of its entire leadership in a single afternoon.... |
| Jun 2, 2026 | Some Additional Thoughts On BSIC: Potential Risks, Second-Order Consequences, and What Bangladesh’s Startup Ecosystem Still Needs | On May 12th, thirty-nine Bangladeshi commercial banks launched Bangladesh Startup Investment Company PLC (BSIC), unveiling its inaugural fund, Onkur Bangladesh Fund 1, with committed capital of Tk 425 crore — roughly $35 million.
In short, ... |
| May 19, 2026 | RangsX: Rangs Group's Bet on Bangladesh's Electric Future | Rangs Group has been in the vehicle business for over four decades. It entered automotive distribution in 1979 with the sole distributorship for Mitsubishi Motors — the company's founding move. Since then, it has built one of the most exten... |
| May 18, 2026 | Three Tech Startup Acquisitions, Three Foreign Companies, Zero Local Founders: Bangladesh's Exit Problem | When the announcement of Jiji acquiring Bikroy came out last week, the coverage framed it as a global operator buying Bangladesh’s largest classified marketplace startup. While the news is accurate, that framing leaves out more important de... |
| May 13, 2026 | Bangladesh's Banks-backed VC Firm BSIC Launches With Tk 425 Crore Inaugural Fund Onkur. Here's Everything You Need To Know | Thirty-nine Bangladeshi commercial banks launched Bangladesh Startup Investment Company PLC (BSIC) on May 12th in Dhaka, introducing its inaugural fund, Onkur Bangladesh Fund 1, with committed capital of Tk 425 crore — roughly $35 million. ... |
| May 7, 2026 | Four Years, 125 Crore, and a Structural Bet: The Biniyog.io Story | Biniyog.io is trying to connect two halves of Bangladesh's economy that have always needed each other but never had a way to meet.
The man sitting across the table has a profitable business. He has customers, a track record, and an invoice ... |
| May 1, 2026 | What Is a Startup? And Does It Even Matter? The Definition Debate, the Bangladesh Reality, and Policy Context | The startup versus SME debate has been going on in Bangladesh for as long as I can remember. I have heard it at events, read it in newspapers, and watched it play out on Facebook, which somehow manages to generate more heated discussions th... |
| Apr 16, 2026 | iFarmer Secures $1.5 Million from Symbiotics as International Capital Continues to Back Bangladesh's Agritech Infrastructure | iFarmer, the Dhaka-based full-stack agricultural platform, has raised $1.5 million in fresh funding from Symbiotics, a Switzerland-headquartered market access platform for impact investing. The investment is structured as working capital fi... |
| Mar 13, 2026 | Islami Bank Eyes Strategic Investment in mCash, Overcoming the Innovator's Dilemma, and Breaking Bank-Led MFS Stagnation | Islami Bank has separated mCash, its MFS business, into a standalone subsidiary and approved, in principle, a deal to bring in a US-based investor, B100 Holdings, which would take up to 48.99% of mCash. The deal still requires regulatory ap... |
| Mar 8, 2026 | The Undoing of Chaldal and the Chaldal Lessons
A company that was doing everything right
Endnote | How Bangladesh’s one of the most disciplined startups lost the plot and a decade of operational excellence gave way to strategic overreach — and what it cost
In early March 2026, news broke that Chaldal’s employees at its Jashore Hi-Tech Pa... |
| Feb 8, 2026 | Travel Agency (Registration and Control) Ordinance 2026: Well-Intentioned Regulation, Problematic Execution | On January 1, 2026, Bangladesh's government published amendments to the Travel Agencies (Registration and Control) Ordinance, 2026. Issued by presidential order, the ordinance arrives after at least three online travel agencies collapsed be... |
| Jan 20, 2026 | Space Sector Investment Set to Grow in 2026 After Record Year | Image: Adobe
The space business has moved beyond rockets and moonshots. Today, it runs on budgets, balance sheets, and national priorities.
After a record year for private funding, investors are lining up for what could be another strong ru... |
| Jan 10, 2026 | The EdTech Growth Paradox: How Bangladesh's Online Learning Platforms Can Scale Without Breaking With Proper CRM Implementation | When Fazle Rabbi, COO of Hubxpert, meets with EdTech founders, he hears the same story repeatedly. Their platforms are growing, sometimes doubling users quarter over quarter. Revenue is climbing. New courses launch weekly. But beneath this ... |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Violence erupts in Bangladesh after wounded youth leader dies in Singapore | DHAKA: Violence broke out in Bangladesh's capital early on Friday (Dec 19) after a youth leader of the country's 2024 pro-democracy uprising who was injured in an assassination attempt died in a hospital in Singapore.
Thousands of protester... |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Who is Sharif Osman Hadi, the youth leader whose assassination sparked protests in Bangladesh? | The assassination of Bangladeshi youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi on Thursday (Dec 18) has triggered violent protests in the country.
Hadi, 32, was shot on the streets of the capital Dhaka last Friday.
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| Dec 19, 2025 | Bangladesh protesters demand arrest of student leader's killers | DHAKA: Protesters rallied across Bangladesh on Friday (Dec 19) for a second straight day, calling for the arrest of the gunmen who shot and killed a key figure in last year's pro-democracy uprising.
As news spread that 32-year-old student l... |
| Dec 3, 2025 | PulseTech Raises $3Mn in New Funding to Tackle Counterfeit Medicines Through its B2B Ordering and Logistics Platform | Dhaka-based healthtech startup PulseTech announced that it has raised $3 million in a pre-Series A round co-led by Singapore based accelerator Iterative and Vietnam-based early stage VC firm Ascend Vietnam Ventures (AVV). First reported by ... |
| Nov 11, 2025 | Starlink in Bangladesh: What You Need to Know and The Best Place to Order Starlink | On a humid morning in May, Ahmed pointed his smartphone at the sky above his village in Bandarban. The app on his screen showed a constellation of satellites passing overhead—part of a network thousands of miles above Earth that would soon ... |
| Oct 26, 2025 | Huawei Story, Kaz Founder Interview, A National Level E-ticketing Platform in Eight Weeks, Policy Analyses + Reading Recs | Huawei origin story, an interview with Kaz Software founder and CEO, a story on how Brain Station 23 built a national level e-ticketing platform in 8 weeks, an analysis on recent bank deposit protection ordinance, and our eclectic weekly re... |
| Oct 24, 2025 | Economic Reform Summit 2025: Can Bangladesh Build Serious Conversation and Consensus Before Politics Drowns Out Reform? | As Bangladesh prepares for the polls in early 2026, a coalition of civic groups is trying something ambitious: building serious conversation and consensus on economic reforms before the election campaign begins in earnest and serious policy... |
| Oct 22, 2025 | Banking Reform: Why Deposit Protection Ordinance Misses the Point | In October 2025, Bangladesh's interim government announced the Deposit Protection Ordinance, and one should acknowledge what the ordinance gets right before examining what it misses.
The technical improvements are meaningful. Doubling cover... |
| Sep 21, 2025 | FS Weekly 116: Dipty Mandal Interview, BRAC Otithi, Geeky Social Lessons, Brain Station’s Cloud Business | Find the collection of last week’s excellent reading from Future Startup. 1. An Interview with Dipty Mandal, Co-founder and CMO, PriyoShop
Dipty Mandal is not your typical founder or CMO. She left a cushy job at Bangladesh’s largest telecom... |
| Sep 9, 2025 | The Business of Dreams: Why Bangladesh's Education Consulting Boom Needs Better Systems | The numbers tell a compelling story. According to UNESCO data, 52,799 Bangladeshi students studied abroad in 2023, with the United States being the top destination (8,524 students), followed by the UK (6,586) and Canada (5,835).
This repres... |
| Jul 28, 2025 | Inside PRAN-RFL Group's Growing Retail Dominance and The Power of Owning Distribution | Ask any local manufacturer trying to get their products into the countless mom-and-pop shops that dot Bangladesh's retail landscape. The competition is fierce. The margins are thin. And the gatekeepers of distribution hold most of the cards... |
| May 6, 2025 | The State of Mobile Financial Services (MFS) Industry in Bangladesh at the Beginning of 2025 | bKash, valued at over $2 billion dollar in its last funding round, is Bangladesh’s first and only tech unicorn. The MFS company posted a profit of Tk 315.77 crore in 2024, a staggering 67% year-on-year increase. By all means, the company is... |
| Apr 22, 2025 | A Brief History of bKash: Trajectory, Funding, and Lessons | bKash is a fascinating company for many reasons beyond the obvious. Yes, it is Bangladesh's largest MFS provider, has transformed the country's financial services landscape, and become its first tech unicorn. As we have noted in these pages... |
| Apr 14, 2025 | A Brief History of ShopUp: From Facebook Commerce Facilitator to Cross-Regional B2B Powerhouse | When ShopUp launched in 2016, it identified a specific niche: helping small businesses selling through Facebook—known as f-commerce entrepreneurs—overcome fundamental operational challenges. The startup provided tools that automated order m... |
| Mar 31, 2025 | BFSI Security Summit 2025 to Address Rising Cybersecurity Threats in Africa’s Financial Sector | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – Media OutReach Newswire – 1 April 2025 – The BFSI Security Summit 2025 is set to take place on May 7, 2025, at the Radisson Blu Gautrain, Sandton, Johannesburg, bringing together leading cybersecurity experts, I... |
| Feb 10, 2025 | Павел Дуров застрял во Франции на круассановой диете, а также возвращение Comic Con в РФ | Самые интересные новости финансов и технологий в России и мире за неделю: порно-приложение для европейских айфонов, штраф 40% за покупку машины у иностранца за наличку, DOGE-трекер борьбы Маска против бюрократии, любовные послания Илона Тра... |
| Jan 13, 2025 | PriyoShop and the Digitalization of Emerging Market Distribution | The most fascinating aspects of technology's impact often emerge not in Silicon Valley; but in emerging markets where structural inefficiencies create opportunities for transformative solutions.
PriyoShop, a B2B marketplace in Bangladesh, o... |
| Nov 25, 2024 | Bangladesh protesters besiege key newspaper demanding closure | DHAKA: Protesters in Bangladesh on Monday (Nov 25) surrounded the offices of one of the few remaining independent newspapers, Prothom Alo, in the latest mass demonstrations demanding that critical media close.
Government security forces gua... |
| Aug 19, 2024 | The CU Buffs: Gearing Up for a New Season | As the sun sets on summer, the Colorado Buffaloes are sharpening their claws for the upcoming season. The clock ticks down to their opener against North Dakota State on August 29. Coach Prime, the architect of this transformation, is demand... |
| Aug 15, 2024 | Political Journey of Muhammad Yunus, Bangladesh's Interim Chief His several economic policies and social initiatives inspired several governments across the world but in recent years he's faced several legal charges. | Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is known for his social economic initiatives around the world and renowned for his work to uplift the poor, especially women in Bangladesh.
After political unrest led to the ousting of Sheikh Hasina, who had go... |
| Aug 13, 2024 | Bangladesh court opens murder case against ex-premier Sheikh Hasina | DHAKA: A court in Bangladesh opened a murder investigation into ousted ex-premier Sheikh Hasina and six top figures in her administration on Tuesday (Aug 13) over the police killing of a man during civil unrest last month.
Hasina, 76, fled ... |
| May 7, 2024 | ShopUp Appoints Veteran Banker Mamun Rashid as President, ShopUp’s Motivation | In a move that signals its maturity and ambition, ShopUp, the largest full-stack B2B commerce platform in Bangladesh, has appointed veteran banker and former PwC Bangladesh Managing Partner Mamun Rashid as its new president. First reported ... |
| May 5, 2024 | Apple is Gearing Up to Join the AI Race with a Competitive Edge: Cost | John Lopez, Tech Times 05 May 2024, 11:05 am
Apple, long seen as a leader in consumer technology, is now making significant strides to establish its presence in the artificial intelligence (AI) race, with a unique focus on cost efficiency.
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| Apr 23, 2024 | Shikho Launches Offline Experience Center, Strategic Pragmatism and Emerging Edtech Models | In an interesting strategic move, edtech startup Shikho announced that it has opened its first offline Exam and Experience Center in Dhaka's Farmgate area. The move comes amid a growing trend where digital players are increasingly eyeing om... |
| Mar 26, 2024 | New Report Examines The State and The Future of Online Pharmacy Market in Bangladesh Amid A Changing Healthcare Landscape | Bangladesh, a country of 170 million people, faces a growing demand for quality healthcare services as the country gradually goes through a series of consequential economic, demographic, and socio-cultural transitions.
Healthcare remains o... |
| Mar 19, 2024 | Facebook 'Poke' Sees Surging Interest Among Gen Z: "Who's Poking Who?" | Quincy Jon, Tech Times 19 March 2024, 09:03 pm
Facebook has revived the "Poke" tool with slight modifications to improve user engagement, reminiscing about its early days.
The social media behemoth said on Tuesday that it has made... |
| Dec 5, 2023 | This B2B marketplace is helping Bangladesh’s mom and pop shops take care of business | EcommercePaid partnershipProfiles
Kaya Domingo · 7 Dec 2023 · 5 min readThis B2B marketplace is helping Bangladesh’s mom and pop shops take care of business
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| Nov 28, 2023 | A Brief History of PRAN | The PRAN-RFL Group is one of the largest conglomerates in Bangladesh with a dominant position across the food, beverage, and plastic industries.
Its main objective is to help reduce poverty and boost the agricultural sector in Bangladesh, ... |
| Oct 23, 2023 | Bangladesh-based Arogga gets $4m injection to fight counterfeit drugs | InvestmentsNews
Lokesh Choudhary · 6h ago · 2 min readBangladesh-based Arogga gets $4m injection to fight counterfeit drugs
Arogga Team/ Photo credit: Arogga
Counterfeit medicine has become a significant problem in developing countries, inc... |
| Sep 7, 2023 | The Digital Bank Hype, MFS Lessons, and The Dilemma Of Traditional Banks | Traditional banks in Bangladesh failed to build a dominant mobile financial service (MFS) despite enjoying a favorable regulatory environment. If they follow a similar playbook, they will also fail in the digital banking race. This time, fa... |
| Aug 23, 2023 | Market map: The State of Online Pharmacy in Bangladesh | We're seeing a generational shift in consumer behavior. The increasing prevalence of the digital economy has resulted in both new opportunities and challenges for businesses of all types. There has been a trend towards digitization on a glo... |
| Aug 22, 2023 | The Real Challenge of Bank-led MFS Players, Innovator's Dilemma, and Corporate Innovation | Mahmudul Hasan and Md Mehedi Hasan of The Daily Star published a fascinating report a few days ago titled "Most MFS Operators Struggle in a Booming Market." The report suggests that although the overall MFS market has seen excelle... |
| Aug 2, 2023 | Maximize your mango haul with fruit bagging | 👋 Deirdra here. A neighbor posted a picture on social media recently that struck me as funny: he tied bags onto individual mangoes while they were still on the tree.
Why it matters: Since everyone here knows the tragedy of reaching for a be... |
| Jul 11, 2023 | Nepal’s Progressive March Towards Social Justice for Sexual Minorities | Recent rulings by the Nepalese Supreme Court demonstrate the increasingly progressive society for sexual minorities in the high mountain country. While the current government continues to fight these orders, Nepal has quietly become known a... |
| Jun 22, 2023 | Pickaboo: Unlocking new possibilities with an omnichannel e-commerce strategy | Ecommerce is a fascinating market in Bangladesh for various reasons. The market has seen excellent growth over the past several years. All predictions suggest the market is going to grow significantly in the next couple of years.
At the sa... |
| Jun 8, 2023 | ADN Telecom to invest BDT 120 million in Shohoz | Publicly listed IT and telecommunication services provider, ADN Telecom, announced in a price-sensitive information notice issued on 7th June 2023 that it is going to acquire a 10% share of the online ticketing platform Shohoj Ltd (operatin... |
| May 1, 2023 | How to Secure Admission to a Top Engineering College in the US | Share
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| Apr 24, 2023 | Ten years of Rana Plaza: How safe is Bangladesh garment industry? | Dhaka, Bangladesh – It has been 10 years but the trauma of gasping for breath under debris for more than 10 hours still haunts Rehnuma Akter.
On the fateful day of April 24, 2013, Akter went to work at a garment factory in Bangladesh’s Sava... |
| Mar 27, 2023 | Market-map: The state of edtech in Bangladesh | Edtech in Bangladesh has been growing steadily in recent years. With a population of over 164 million people, of which a large portion is under the age of 26, and the government's focus on digitization, there has been a meaningful growth in... |
| Mar 1, 2023 | Over 100 hospitalised after new gas attacks on Iran girls’ schools | Over 100 hospitalised after new gas attacks on Iran girls’ schools. Image from Twitter by HRANA English
More than 100 students were hospitalised in Iran after a new spate of suspected gas attacks on girls’ schools Wednesday, media outlets i... |
| Feb 26, 2023 | FS Weekly 58: This is the best time to build, lessons on dealing with hardships, new founder interview, and more | Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Society | 26 February 2023 | No. 58
Hello there, Welcome to another edition of FS Weekly. I'm Ruhul. I convene Future Startup Weekly to help you understand entrepreneurship and the technology landscape in ... |
| Feb 19, 2023 | 6 takeaways from the layoffs and spending cut hitting Dhaka’s startup scene right now | Layoffs and spending cuts indicate Dhaka’s fledgling startup scene has a difficult time ahead but it doesn’t warrant pessimism.
There has been some news about the layoffs happening in Dhaka’s tech startup scene. Delivery Hero-owned multina... |
| Feb 6, 2023 | EU sends rescue teams to Turkey after deadly quake | Several governments in the EU pledged help, including French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Belgium, Poland, Spain and Finland also said they stood ready to deploy teams and help. Image from Twitter by MegaNews... |
| Jan 23, 2023 | The fascinating rise of vertical ecommerce in Dhaka | We’re seeing a shift in the internet company landscape in Bangladesh. A new wave of vertical players is gaining momentum. Food delivery. Grocery. Gadgets and electronics. Rides. Education. Beauty. Supply chain. Online pharmacy. Travel.
If ... |
| Jan 17, 2023 | Vietnam president resigns amid major anti-graft purge | Vietnam president resigns amid major anti-graft purge. Image from Twitter/@Reuters
Vietnam President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has resigned, state media said Tuesday, after days of rumours he was about to be sacked amid a major anti-corruption drive... |
| Dec 27, 2022 | Osudpotro: The online pharmacy startup builds an omnichannel operation, eyes adjacent healthcare services | I. The unique insight
A shift in the market: The growing digital economy is creating new opportunities and challenges for all kinds of businesses. Osudpotro is essentially a product of this broader thesis that the economy is moving digital... |
| Dec 14, 2022 | What Comes After the Loss and Damage Fund for Responsibility and Repair in a Climate-Disrupted World? | Climate-driven geophysical shifts are driving geopolitical shifts that are putting increasing pressure on international law and global governance. The recent landmark decision to establish an international “loss and damage” fund offers a gl... |
| Dec 9, 2022 | Bangladesh opposition leaders held before anti-government rally | The two senior leaders from Bangladesh’s main opposition party have been arrested by police, a day before a planned rally to call for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation over soaring fuel prices and the rising cost of living.
Mirza F... |
| Nov 29, 2022 | Iterative launches its second fund for Southeast Asia startups | Despite global headwinds, Southeast Asia’s early-stage startups are still going strong, say the founders of Iterative Capital. The Singapore-based venture capital firm, which runs a YC-style accelerator program, announced today it has raise... |
| Nov 27, 2022 | Future Startup Weekly 50: Links and Commentary | Entrepreneurship, Technology and Society | 27 November 2022 | No. 49
If you enjoy reading Future Startup, I would be grateful if you share it with other people who might find it inspirational and educational — post it on Facebook/LinkedIn,... |
| Oct 18, 2022 | Parcelmagic: Disrupting logistics with innovation and excellent service | I.
Logistics is a complex problem. More so in the context of Bangladesh where Google map often fails to find the right address. Infrastructure continues to make delivering to many places in the country challenging and costly. Problems like... |
| Sep 6, 2022 | FS Weekly No. 47: Amarlab, GoZyaan, IDLC’s CSR philosophy, new book review, Taptap Send | Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Society | 6 September 2022 | No. 47
Hi everyone, I need your support because I think FS Community is the best place to find people to work with for us. I'm hiring a few interns to work with me at FS. It is... |
| Sep 4, 2022 | Bangladesh’s eCommerce logistics market is going through a radical shift | Logistics is the holy grail of digital commerce. It is the main service. The rest of it is just supporting activities. Deliver a product to a customer as quickly as possible. Deliver the right product to the right address. Deliver within or... |
| Sep 1, 2022 | From Aircon to Motive, here are the 41 top supply chain startups of 2022, according to venture capitalists | Harlem Capital; Fontinalis Partners, Urban Innovation Fund; Autotech Ventures; Alyssa Powell/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
We asked top venture capitalists to na... |
| Aug 28, 2022 | FS Weekly 46: Story of two expansions, ShareTrip turns three, Chaldal raises money, Brain Station story, and more | Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Society | 28 August 2022 | No. 46
Today’s newsletter is a bit different in that I’ve added a curated reading list on the tech/business scene in Dhaka in the recommendation section. I hope you find it usefu... |
| Aug 16, 2022 | Two Indian logistics startups expand to Bangladesh but take divergent approaches | Thanks to the consistent growth of ecommerce, logistics has become one of the fastest-growing verticals in Bangladesh. The growth of ecommerce has created new opportunities in the vertical. Several local logistics players have raised capita... |
| Jun 25, 2022 | FS Weekly No. 41: The best definition of man | “When darkness fell, we were all brought to the barracks, where we were locked in for the night. I always found it hard to go back to our barrack from outside. It was a long, low, and stuffy room, dimly lit by tallow candles, with a heavy, ... |
| Jun 7, 2022 | On building scalable organizations, the ambition of Brain Station, and management in practice with MJ Ferdous, COO, Brain Station 23 | MJ Ferdous is the Chief Operating Officer of Brain Station 23, a Dhaka-based technology services company serving customers across 25+ markets. Brain Station is one of the largest IT outsourcing companies in Bangladesh. Over the past years, ... |
| May 26, 2022 | 1982 Ventures raises $20m in debut seed fund | FintechInvestmentsNewsStartups
Qishin Tariq · 26 May 2022 · 2 min read1982 Ventures raises $20m in debut seed fund
Early-stage VC firm 1982 Ventures has raised US$20 million in capital for its debut seed fund. The fund was oversubscribed, w... |
| Feb 7, 2022 | DBID is a Good Idea but All Policies Involve Trade-offs | After months of work, the commerce ministry yesterday launched the digital business identification (DBID) for the ecommerce companies with the stated goal to check irregularities in the sector. A mobile app has also been launched for DBID r... |
| Jan 17, 2022 | Transforming SME Lending Landscape in Bangladesh | Bangladesh has close to 7.9 million small and medium enterprises. The sector makes up approximately 25 percent of the country's economy. SMEs combinedly generate 40 percent of the overall employment, are responsible for 11% of the industria... |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Myanmar’s Shadow Government Recognizes Tether (USDT) as Official Currency | The National Unity Government (NUG), Myanmar’s shadow government led by supporters of the county’s ousted leader Aung San Suu, has officially recognized the USD-backed stablecoin, Tether (USDT) as a national currency rather than the Myanmar... |
| Oct 24, 2021 | iFarmer is Creating a New Model For Empowering Farmers | iFarmer was born from a simple but powerful idea: Democratizing agriculture financing and supply chain. All over Bangladesh, farmers routinely struggle to access finance, market, quality inputs, and information. As a consequence, farmers, w... |
| Sep 16, 2021 | Бангладешский стартап по доставке продуктов Chaldal привлек $10 млн в серии С | Раунд возглавил соучредитель Wise Таавет Хинрикус. Среди других инвесторов — российский венчурный фонд Xploration CapitalВенчурный фонд, поддерживающий технологичные компании на ранних стадиях. Учредителями являются Евгений Тимко и Игорь Ки... |
| Aug 3, 2021 | Bangladesh Tech Briefing #03: Bangladesh Bank Plans New Entity to Monitor Ecommerce, Regulating Ecommerce, Praava Health, SHAREit's Bangladesh Plans, and More | Bangladesh Tech Briefing: Issue 03 covers:
Bangladesh Bank looks to set up new entity to monitor ecommerce, regulating ecommerce and technology policy
Praava Health
SHAREit Bangladesh Market Plans
Coca-Cola and WhatsApp commerce and more
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| Aug 2, 2021 | EXCLUSIVE: India's largest zinc miner is eyeing a share of the Bangladesh economic boom | Bangladesh’s economy has lured many Indian companies like Adani, Hero and now, Hindustan Zinc is ready to tap the growth in India’s neighbouring country.
Bangladesh’s per capita income surpassed India’s last year, and its GDP has been growi... |
| Jul 29, 2021 | Bangladesh Tech Briefing: 12 Observations About EdTech Market in Bangladesh Plus Dorik, Evaly, Shikho, and Tap | Bangladesh Tech Briefing by FS: Issue 01 covers
Observations about edtech market in Bangladesh
Deals and launches
Evaly investment with nuances
Dorik version two
Tap launches
Shikho investment
Education is a big market in Bangladesh. While... |
| Jun 13, 2021 | The State of Fast-growing Logistics Startups in Bangladesh 2021 (Part 01) | A new generation of logistics startups in Bangladesh such as Paperfly, e-Courier, RedX, Pathao Courier, Delivery Tiger, and E-logistics, among others, are reshaping the local logistics landscape.
In recent years, with the rapid growth of e... |
| Jun 3, 2021 | Bangladesh gives new tax exemptions to its IT industry as Pakistan does the opposite | According to reports, Bangladesh has exempted 9 more ICT services from tax as part of its fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), including cloud service, e-learning platforms, mobile apps, system link, e-book platforms, app developers, and fre... |
| May 23, 2021 | 7 EdTech Startups Looking to Take Online Education Mainstream In Bangladesh | EdTech startups have been receiving increased attention from both users and investors since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic — at least three local edtech startups raised investments of different sizes in the past several months.
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| Apr 24, 2021 | Future Startup Dossier: Grameenphone | Grameenphone, a joint venture of Telenor and Grameen Telecom Corporation, is the largest telecommunication service provider of Bangladesh serving more than 79 million subscribers (as of December 2020).
Iqbal Quadir, the founder of Grameenp... |
| Apr 10, 2021 | The Future Startup Dossier: Sheba | Sheba is a Dhaka-based on-demand service marketplace that connects households and businesses with the service provider companies and individuals under one platform so that users can compare and choose their ideal solution without going thro... |
| Mar 25, 2021 | Rohingya Refugees Describe Tearing Through Fences to Escape Massive Fire | With flames and smoke filling the sky, 72-year-old Rohingya refugee Abdul Hakim made it to safety by passing through a hole cut out of a barbed wire fence by kids.
“I had great difficulty when they pulled me through,” Hakim told VICE World ... |
| Mar 17, 2021 | The Future Startup Dossier: Maya | Founded as an online platform that provides healthcare information in 2011, over the past years, Maya has evolved and turned itself into an anonymous messaging platform helping people, regardless of gender, with on-demand expert advice in a... |
| Mar 4, 2021 | Editorial Roundup: US | Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:
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The Fort Worth Star-Telegram on the Texas governor's decision to lift coronavirus restrictions:
Before issuing his order to end mask mandates, Gov. Greg Abbott mus... |
| Feb 19, 2021 | The Future Startup Dossier: Daraz Bangladesh | “There is nothing you can not find on Daraz”.
That was how I came to know about Daraz from one of my friends back in 2018 and he was right. From socks to electronics, anything you want to buy, you’ll find on Daraz.
Daraz, an Alibaba Group... |
| Feb 15, 2021 | The Future Startup Dossier: Rokomari | I first came to know about Rokomari in 2014. Home delivery outside Dhaka and cash on delivery payment, these things were not a common thing at the time. I still remember how surprised I was, when I got my ordered books from Rokomari, delive... |
| Dec 30, 2020 | Bangladesh Police Invoked Anti-Porn Law to Crack Down on a Film About Gender Violence | A viral scene from a film has landed a filmmaker in jail under the strict pornography law in Bangladesh. The police arrested renowned filmmaker Anonno Mamun late last week for showing a rape survivor being interrogated harshly by a cop in h... |
| Dec 24, 2020 | The Future Startup Dossier: iFarmer | iFarmer is a Dhaka-based agri-tech platform that connects farmers with access to finance, training, knowledge, and market. Founded in 2018, the company started by addressing the challenge of finance. To date, iFarmer has worked with some 50... |
| Nov 23, 2020 | Mobile phone Subscribe Growth Update, Creative Products Marketplace Tukitaki and Niche on the Internet | Mobile phone subscribers growth bounce back: After a decline in the total number of subscribers between March-June amid the coronavirus pandemic, mobile phone subscription has bounced back with a 2.4% year-on-year growth to 16.81 crore subs... |
| Nov 21, 2020 | Coursera in Bangladesh and the EdTech Outlook | The US-based edtech company Coursera appears to be making a serious inroad into the online education market in Bangladesh. In a recent interview with the Daily Star, Coursera’s Managing Director for India and APAC, Raghav Gupta, suggests th... |