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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...
B’Yeah launches youth entrepreneurship competition to empower early-stage founders
Bangladesh Youth Enterprise Advice and Helpcentre (B'Yeah), a non-profit organization, announced that it has launched the first edition of its "Bangladesh Youth Enterprise Competition” with an ambition to create a platform for the youth of Bangladesh to showcase and...
Wagely: Helping workers manage money better
Wagely began with the idea of providing workers with their earned but unpaid wages during times of financial need. Now it plans to become a holistic financial wellness platform for workers. Abdul Malek is a factory worker at SQ Group, a leading apparel manufacturing...
AmarLab’s evolving B2B strategy: Lab outsourcing, employee health benefits, and bundling healthcare services
For any consumer service company, building a B2B business is both difficult and lucrative. Lucrative because companies are generally a collection of people. If you can convince companies to buy from you for their employees, you have a large group of customers at...
Glamscape: A Bangladeshi makeup brand that hits the right note between quality and price
Starting with only two products (Eyelash and Silk Pillowcase), the brand now has 160 products in seven categories, in just a year. In the hustle and bustle of our daily life, we often neglect the most important person of our lives: Ourselves. And here is where makeup...
In an interesting move, safe food startup Green Grocery introduces grocery as a gift service for individual customers and businesses
Using Green Grocery’s grocery as a gift service, customers and businesses can now send high-quality grocery products as gifts. We live in a functional age where the functional features of an object often outweigh the importance of the aesthetic values of things. But...
Miyako: A Bangladeshi home appliance brand with a Japanese name
As of now, around 400 of the 450 Miyako products are imported from China, Turkey, India, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Among the rest, 43 are assembled and seven are manufactured in Bangladesh. Soon after the Liberation War, Mohammed Idris Ahmed, a Dhaka University...
GoZayaan quietly embarks on a South Asia expansion
“Bangladesh has the potential to create not just local, but also regional and global companies,” said GoZayaan CEO Ridwan Hafiz after it acquired Pakistani startup FindMyAdventure. Although Ridwan didn’t mention GoZayaan’s regional ambition before, it has always been...
Indonesian earned wage access platform Wagely raises $8.3M in pre-series A funding as it expands in Bangladesh
Wagely, Indonesia-based fast-growing financial wellness platform announced that it has raised $8.3 million in an oversubscribed pre-series A funding as the company scales its platform to help workers access their earned salaries on-demand in Indonesia and Bangladesh....