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He modernised crime scene investigation, making movies and music along the way
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...
Chaldal raises follow-on investment from Startup Bangladesh Limited
Chaldal, the country’s largest online grocery startup, announced today that it has raised BDT 5 crore in a Series C Plus funding round from Startup Bangladesh Limited, the Government-backed VC fund of the country. Startup Bangladesh co-led the round with Taavet+Sten....
Bangladesh traveltech firm bags $500k from government-sponsored fund
ShareTrip, a Bangladesh-based online travel agent, has raised US$500,000 from Startup Bangladesh Limited, a government-sponsored VC firm. The deal pushed the company’s total funding raised to date to around US$7 million. Founded in 2014 by former Nokia executive Sadia...
Bondstein Technologies: From Dhaka College science club to Forbes 30 under 30 list
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...
Meet the Yale professor who anchors his research in Bangladesh and scales up interventions globally
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...
Bangladeshi startups MedEasy, Markopolo, and Shuttle receive investments from Accelerating Asia
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...
The country’s first mobile game developer company took root from a programming book bought from Nilkhet
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 firm raises $1.3m in seed money
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...
EdTech startup Shikho raises $4 million in new seed funding
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...