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Sitting at her US home, Rafa is transforming the lives of children in Bangladeshi orphanages
The pandemic helped to materialise this remote service for underprivileged children, and Fera Foundation’s unique teaching methods helped to keep students in class There were 20 children, sitting in a classroom, waiting for their teacher. They all smiled happily as...
iFarmer is Creating a New Model For Empowering Farmers
iFarmer was born from a simple but powerful idea: Democratizing agriculture financing and supply chain. All over Bangladesh, farmers routinely struggle to access finance, market, quality inputs, and information. As a consequence, farmers, while doing the most...
Dhaka-based Leading IoT Company Bondstein Raises $1 Million in New Investment, Looks to Invest in R&D and Expansion
Bondstein Technologies Limited, the Dhaka-based IOT company, announced that it has secured an investment worth of $1 million. The strategic investment is led by Runner Trading Limited, a subsidiary of Runner Group and is participated by other unnamed investors. The...
Breaking Barriers: Meet the Bangladeshi behind self-driving robots
Labib Tazwar Rahman is known as the Bangladeshi behind self-driving robots, but before co-founding the Seoul-based company that develops autonomous food-delivery robots, he founded InclusionX — a disability inclusion and mental health service in Bangladesh. Educated...
Ayat Education: An organisation addressing the skills gap of our workers
A way to solve the “low-skilled” Bangladeshi migrant problem is with more training organisations, say experts. This is how Ayat is becoming part of the solution. Anjana (not her real name) had taken the toughest decision of her life – abandoned her three-year-old son...
Meet the man who introduced Bangladesh to the world through his stamps
Fifty years ago, Biman Chand Mullick was assigned with designing the first Bangladesh stamp series. He not only delivered, but continued to live an active life of an artist and activist for five decades 1963, Spain. Long before Satyajit Ray made 'Agantuk,' a young man...
Re-commerce Startup SWAP Raises $1.25 Million In Seed Funding, Looks to Double Down On Growth
SWAP, Bangladesh’s first re-commerce platform, announced that it has raised $1.25 million in Seed Funding, led by Accelerating Asia with participation from ZA Capital Advisory, Bangladesh Angels and Southeast Asian angel investors. Bangladesh, being the 8th largest...
Her Corporate job paid well. But her plant business brings more money and happiness
Aroneer, a nursery and garden store on Facebook and a labour of love of the founder Aronee, is fetching around Tk3 lakh a month This city of concrete has abundant plants lovers. And why not? Who does not miss a little greenery in this dust dune. Shahadat Hossain – not...
How Truck Lagbe Has Built a Distinct Culture Around Empathy, Empowering People, and Humane Values
“If you invest in your people, they will grow and if you care for your people, they will care for you and will walk with you and walk for you,” says Maksud Alam Rifat, Director of HR and Culture at Truck Lagbe. Based on that axiom and understanding, digital trucking...