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The 5-year Journey of iFarmer: Imagining the Future of Farming in Bangladesh
In this fascinating guest post, iFarmer Co-founder and CEO Fahad Ifaz reflects on iFarmer's journey, highlighting a mission-critical approach that sustained the company through ups and downs, and shares his entrepreneurial lessons from building in Bangladesh's crucial...
Interactive Cares Raises Investment From Accelerating Asia
Interactive Cares, the Dhaka-based ed-tech startup that focuses on creating employability for millions of youths in Bangladesh, announced that it has been selected for the 9th Cohort of Accelerating Asia's flagship accelerator program. As part of the program,...
Farmerly: An agricultural marketplace to beat Facebook algorithm
The new marketplace, Farmerly, apart from being a platform for selling and buying, also provides a solution to small businesses struggling with page reach on Facebook. The decline in Facebook page reach is a critical problem for its users. To overcome this, page...
AMS Academy: Country’s first online English Medium school
AMS Academy embarked on its journey in April 2020, just as the Covid-19 pandemic was taking hold. Currently, they have around 100 students and a pool of 30 experienced teachers. Five-year-old Zoha begins her days bright and early, matching her parents' schedule....
Startup Bangladesh to invest Tk 100cr in 46 startups
Startup Bangladesh Limited, a government-backed venture capital firm, is set to inject Tk 100 crore into 46 selected startups, aiming to strengthen the country's startup ecosystem. Since its establishment in 2020, the company has actively approved investments totaling...
Meet Legalized: Bangladesh’s first legal education app
Legalized founder Barrister Tasnuva Shelley aims to leverage cutting-edge technology to empower future legal professionals. The ed-tech app offers over 25 specialised courses and provides customised compliance training solutions to local businesses. As the world...
Two Bangladeshi scientists’ AI tech that can predict diabetes
Genofax, a healthcare tech startup, has introduced a new form of technology called AI-enabled Health-Metric Determination (AIeh-MD) that, by monitoring an individual's gut microbiome, can predict metabolic trends and potentially identify early signs of conditions like...
Rafa’s journey from BUET to Tesla
Rafia Rahman Rafa's pursuit of her dreams took her from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) to a promising career at Tesla. Now she dreams even bigger. On a winter morning in 2001, Rafia Rahman Rafa, dressed in a sky-blue and white uniform and...
Delivering Success Through Culture, The Vivasoft Way
Founded in 2016, Vivasoft Limited is a Dhaka-based technology company that provides IT consulting and software development services to both local and international businesses. Starting as a small operation with six people, Vivasoft has grown into a team of over 200...