Vector Plinth, a Chattogram-based Bangladeshi architecture firm whose founders we featured recently, has been seeking to ...

bKash, valued at over $2 billion dollar in its last funding round, is Bangladesh’s first and only tech unicorn. The MFS company posted a profit of Tk 315.77 crore in 2024, a staggering 67% ...

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 ...

When the announcement of Jiji acquiring Bikroy came out last week, the coverage framed it as a global operator buying Bangladesh’s largest classified marketplace startup. While the news is accurate, ...

There is a particular kind of optimism that afflicts coverage of emerging digital economies. The tendency to treat growth metrics as a proxy for structural transformation. Manufactured hype.

Pathao Founder and CEO Hussain M Elius on the early days of Pathao, how it has evolved and grown from a small team of 30 people to a team of over 500 people in a span of a few years, the hard work and ...

Fashion is an enduring passion we can't help but embrace. As the digital era advances, fashion has made its way onto our mobile devices, computers, and tablets, previously exclusively found in ...

bKash is a fascinating company for many reasons beyond the obvious. Yes, it is Bangladesh's largest MFS provider, has transformed the country's financial services landscape, and become its first tech ...

Multinational food delivery company Foodpanda recently introduced a new service named Pandamart, a platform where customers can order and get groceries and other essentials delivered at their doorstep ...

Islami Bank has separated mCash, its MFS business, into a standalone subsidiary and approved, in principle, a deal to bring in a US-based investor, B100 Holdings, which would take up to 48.99% of ...

SupportKori started as a ‘Buy Me a Coffee for Bangladesh’. It is now building a broader creator-commerce platform around a simple thesis: Bangladesh has the creators and the audience. What it has ...

How Bangladesh’s one of the most disciplined startups lost the plot and a decade of operational excellence gave way to strategic overreach — and what it cost What followed on social media was entirely ...