Almost every conversation about Dhaka’s startup scene these days quickly gravitates toward the familiar repertoire of complaints: founders wasting investor money, a discount frenzy that destroys unit economics, fraud, and a persistent shortage of quality talent. These are from the people who are critical of the current state of startups in the country. Industry insiders, […]
Accelerating Asia, a Singapore-based early-stage VC accelerator, has announced its 13th cohort, selecting five startups from a record 724 applications across 20 countries. Two of the five, DIGIBOX and Govaly, are Bangladeshi. Cohort 13 was, by Accelerating Asia's own account, its most competitive selection yet, run through five rounds of evaluation. Every company in the […]
Audacity Ventures has spent a decade turning communication, commitment, and impact from words on a wall into the actual mechanics of how a software company runs. Here's what that looks like.
On June 4, 2026, Khondoker Rashed Maqsood resigned as chairman of the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission. All four commissioners resigned the same day. The BSEC building was emptied of its entire leadership in a single afternoon. Within hours, the Ministry of Finance issued a new set of appointments under Section 5(2) of the Bangladesh […]
A distributor we spoke with some time ago ran an FMCG territory outside Dhaka. He handled several well-known brands, had a team of six, a delivery van, and retail relationships built over eleven years. Each cycle, he told us, the math works out on paper. The orders come in, the goods go out, the payments […]
Each chapter of Philip Kotler's introductory marketing textbook, one of the bestselling business textbooks in history, comes with a long, detailed case study of a real company. Each case comes with specific numbers, strategic dilemmas, and questions that require actual thinking to answer. Each case takes about twenty minutes to go through, but when the […]
On May 12th, thirty-nine Bangladeshi commercial banks launched Bangladesh Startup Investment Company PLC (BSIC), unveiling its inaugural fund, Onkur Bangladesh Fund 1, with committed capital of Tk 425 crore — roughly $35 million. In short, BSIC is Bangladesh's first institutionally governed venture capital platform. The firm is formed under Bangladesh Bank's guidance to pool the […]
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