Dr Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak was born in Bangladesh and worked his way up to become a professor of economics at one of the top-ranking universities in the world. He also has several ongoing research projects in Bangladesh, Nepal and Sierra Leone. In recent times, a young...
Accelerating Asia, the Singapore-based international accelerator VC targeting pre-Series A startups in the region, announced its sixth cohort of startups yesterday. The cohort features nine startups and has a market presence in 10+ countries in Southeast Asia, South...
Tanveer Ahmed’s Free Pixel Games Ltd is the first mobile game development studio in Bangladesh born out of a love for computers and a failed outsourcing venture It was 1998. Tanveer Ahmed was a second-year student at Notre Dame College. The college had just introduced...
Bangladesh-based healthtech firm Arogga has raised US$1.3 million in a seed round from investors like Hyper, Ratio Ventures, and Sketchnote Partners. Demand Curve CEO Julian Shapiro, IDLC Finance, and SRB Ventures, along with other angel investors, also took part in...
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 has the potential to create not just local, but also regional and global companies,” said GoZayaan CEO Ridwan Hafiz after it acquired Pakistani startup FindMyAdventure. Although Ridwan didn’t mention GoZayaan’s regional ambition before, it has always been...
