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Interactive Cares, a Dhaka-based edtech startup with a focus on employability, has recently launched a revamped version of its website, featuring exciting new AI capabilities, an enhanced learner and partner experience, and new technology aimed at improving outcomes for both learners and corporate partners.
About three months ago, we embarked on an ambitious journey to develop a framework for identifying, supporting, and empowering grassroots innovations in Bangladesh. We consulted the existing literature on the subject, studied relevant works in countries like India, spoke with entrepreneurs, incubators and accelerators, teachers, development workers, trade unions, grassroots innovators, and experts, experimented with online calls to ideas, set up temporary local networks, and interviewed stakeholders and innovators. We encountered challenges, learned surprising new insights, and developed new realizations about grassroots innovations. In this post, we try to articulate what we have learned from that journey.
Wagely, the financial wellness platform that allows workers to access their pay after each workday, announced that it has secured $23 million in new funding amidst the current funding drought as the company surpasses more than one million salary disbursements since its inception.  Wagely allows workers to better manage their money by letting them access […]
WPDeveloper, the Dhaka-based global software company focused on developing products for the WordPress community, announced that it would now operate under a new parent company. The move comes as WPDeveloper outgrows its WordPress community identity with the launch of several SaaS products for users outside of the WordPress ecosystem. The new parent company, called Startise, will now oversee five different companies including WPDeveloper.
PriyoShop, Bangladesh’s leading B2B retail marketplace for MSMEs, today announced the completion of a US$5 million Pre-Series A round of financing led by Century Oak Ventures, with participation from Evolution Ventures, Iterative, SOSV (Orbit Startups), GFR Fund, BonBillo, Accelerating Asia, South Asia Tech Partners, and Voltity.
Aminul Islam is the founder and CEO of AyyKori Digital, a fast-growing Dhaka-based cashback and affiliate marketplace. In this fascinating conversation with Aminul, we talk about the origin of AyyKori, the challenges it faced in the early days, the current state of the business and future plans, and AyyKori’s growth strategy and organizational structure, we discuss the lessons he has learned from his journey so far, mistakes founders should avoid, his favorite books and much more. 
Climate Innovation Challenge (CIC) is a six-week program that brings together a diverse group of young people, project partners, mentors, and stakeholders from all over the world to tackle the growing challenges of climate change.
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