Tong is a through-and-through Bangladeshi venture that remains authentic to its roots and aims to instil the flavours of Bangladeshi street food on American tastebuds Tong was nothing more than a small fuchka cart in Jackson Heights when it started its journey in...
Although Mehzeb Chowdhury is best known for his invention of MABMAT, a rover aiding crime scene analysis, he is also a screenwriter, songwriter, journalist, lawyer, academic and an aspiring football manager Imagine if there was a technology that could teleport juries...
Borrowing its name from James Bond and Einstein, ‘Bondstein’ was founded by two university students who have been friends since the sixth grade and bonded over their inherent interest in ‘making something new’ On 26 May this year, Mir Shahrukh Islam and Zafir Shafiee...
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...
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...
