New York-based Shimmy Technologies aids and upskills factory workers in Bangladesh with the technical skills required to sustain jobs in the age of automation through gamification When Sarah Krasley was flying into Dhaka airport last month, she was overjoyed. She...
Back in the 1980s when Professor Siddique-e-Rabbani began to invent inexpensive alternatives to highly expensive medical equipment for poor countries like Bangladesh, the usage of the word ‘startup’ to describe a ‘budding company’ had just been...
Senior citizens require a lot of love and attention during their twilight years but an increasingly demanding lifestyle sees their primary caregivers out of the house for a major part of the day. This is where Home and Community Care Ltd steps in. In the fast-paced...
Dhaka-based ed-tech startup Shikho announced today that it has raised US$4 million in new seed funding. The round was led by Wavemaker Partners, a leading venture capital firm in Southeast Asia, with participation from returning investors LearnStart, the seed fund of...
Bangladesh Youth Enterprise Advice and Helpcentre (B’Yeah), a non-profit organization, announced that it has launched the first edition of its “Bangladesh Youth Enterprise Competition” with an ambition to create a platform for the youth of Bangladesh to...
