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 […]
Eleven years ago, three friends from Dhaka University started a Facebook page to sell honey and milk to people concerned about what they were eating. They delivered the orders themselves, packed products in a one-room borrowed place, and financed their tiny operation with meagre capital they put in from their combined savings. Today, Khaas Food, […]
Debasish Chakraborty is the founder and CEO of Chamak, a Dhaka-based financial technology company building the trade finance infrastructure that connects small businesses to formal financing in Bangladesh. Before Chamak, Debasish built and exited Tedfo, a profitable export marketing and management company he ran from 2016 to 2021. He holds a master's degree from Cornell […]
In 1984, University of Chicago psychologist Benjamin Bloom published what became known as the 2 Sigma Problem. His finding: students who received one-to-one tutoring performed, on average, two standard deviations better than students taught in conventional classrooms. Two sigma. That is the difference between an average student and one performing better than 98% of their […]
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