Thirty-nine Bangladeshi commercial banks launched Bangladesh Startup Investment Company PLC (BSIC) on May 12th in Dhaka, introducing its inaugural fund, Onkur Bangladesh Fund 1, with committed capital of Tk 425 crore — roughly $35 million. Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury was the chief guest. Bangladesh Bank Governor Md Mostaqur Rahman attended. The launch event […]
Since 2014, Somvranto has been quietly building something the Bangladeshi health and wellness market desperately needed: a direct-import, Halal-compliant, authenticity-first destination for dietary supplements, sports nutrition, and organic health products. This is the story of how two founders navigated a broken supply chain, survived a global pandemic, and built a brand that now serves thousands […]
Hello there, hope you are doing well in a rapidly changing and increasingly turbulent world. As usual, this is the FS Weekly Letter, where we talk about entrepreneurship, technology, business expertise, and more. You can read our previous letters here and subscribe here if someone forwarded this to you. We sent the last letter at […]
Biniyog.io is trying to connect two halves of Bangladesh's economy that have always needed each other but never had a way to meet. The man sitting across the table has a profitable business. He has customers, a track record, and an invoice from his buyer: real money, confirmed on paper, coming in within ninety days. […]
The startup versus SME debate has been going on in Bangladesh for as long as I can remember. I have heard it at events, read it in newspapers, and watched it play out on Facebook, which somehow manages to generate more heated discussions than most actual policy issues in this country. I have been meaning […]
Bangladesh already runs one of the world's largest electric fleets, built entirely without government planning. What comes next is harder: turning a massive informal economy into a formal industry while the vehicles keep moving. In This Brief: 1. Context and the Size of the Opportunity: A Market That Built Itself In many countries, the electric […]
Caretutors and the Reinvention of Tuition in Bangladesh | How Caretutors built Bangladesh's largest tutoring platform — 500,000 tutors, 125,000 guardians — and what it replaced. An analysis of the private tuition market in Bangladesh.
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