14-year-old Kairan Quazi is set to join SpaceX as a software engineer after university graduation. Elon Musk’s rocket and spacecraft manufacturing company SpaceX has hired 14-year-old Bangladeshi-American Kairan Quazi as a software engineer, reports Los Angeles...
Singapore-based early-stage VC fund Accelerating Asia announced today that it has invested in ten new companies joining Cohort 8 of its flagship accelerator program. The new cohort has two companies from Bangladesh: Edutechs and WeGro. The companies come from 7...
In its latest pre-seed fundraising round, Edutechs has raised funds from Dekko Isho Venture Capital and Paramount VC. Previously, it raised $110,000 in pre-seed from prominent angel investors Mohammad Maaz, F. K. Md Emdad Khan, other strategic seed investors and the...
Seven Bangladeshis have made the list of ‘Forbes 30 Under 30′ Asia Class of 2023. The famous business journal, Forbes, first launched the ’30 under 30’ list in 2011, listing the thirty movers and shakers under the age of thirty. From 2016 to...
The country may overtake Asia’s two giant economies — India and China — in the next FY24 in economic growth, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted in its latest evaluation report. Bangladesh will outgrow China in the current FY23 with its...
Startups in Bangladesh raised around $35.58 million from January to March of this calendar year, according to Dhaka-based research and business consulting firm LightCastle Partners. Covid-19 and the Russia-Ukraine war have exposed the fragility of economic...
