Written by Hussain M Elius Chasing the super app dream, Pathao built ten products and nearly destroyed the one thing users actually loved. At some point around 2018, someone opened a board meeting with a slide that said: “Pathao Super App.” Everyone nodded. Of course. Gojek was doing it. Grab was doing it. WeChat had […]
The tablet market has evolved significantly, and buyers in 2026 face a wider set of choices than in previous decades. Whether for work, study, creativity, or leisure, selecting the right tablet PC now requires careful evaluation of several key factors. Display and Build Quality Come First A tablet's display is its most essential feature. Buyers […]
This is an excerpt from our upcoming book on Startise. If you want to be notified when the book comes out, fill out this form. Startise's story is specific to its context. The company started as a WordPress company and then expanded into several directions, built in Bangladesh, in a particular window of the internet's development. […]
Debasish Chakraborty has been building companies for more than ten years. He started Tedfo in 2016, an export marketing and management company, ran it profitably without raising meaningful external capital, and exited in 2021. He then went to Cornell for a master's degree, conceived the idea for Chamak with his wife and co-founder Sangita, returned […]
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iFarmer, the Dhaka-based full-stack agricultural platform, has raised $1.5 million in fresh funding from Symbiotics, a Switzerland-headquartered market access platform for impact investing. The investment is structured as working capital financing, intended to support iFarmer's agricultural input distribution operations and strengthen market linkages across the agricultural value chain. The funding was first reported by The […]
How a Bangladeshi-Canadian founder is bringing structure, trust, and professionalism to an unorganized industry In 2020, while Tanveer Rahman was working at TD Bank in Toronto, his father began searching for a match for him back in Dhaka. What should have been straightforward quickly became frustrating. "Ghotoks took money and disappeared. Others sent biodatas that […]
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