Architect Muhammad Jabed Iqbal Rupam and Architect Mohammad Faisal Sabri are the co-founders of Vector Plinth, an architectural firm that has spent the last nine years pioneering neo-modern architecture in Bangladesh. The firm started in 2017 with an ambition to bring clean, functional, Nordic-inspired design to Bangladesh in a way that honors local context, climate, […]
The new platform helps brand managers monitor and understand how AI sees, mentions, and recommends their brands, and provides actionable recommendations to strengthen AI visibility. A new type of consumer is beginning to influence brand discovery. Alongside the human consumer, brands increasingly have to account for what pioneering digital-first agency GEEKY Social describes as the […]
How does Biniyog finance businesses in Bangladesh? We look at its SME financing model, working capital financing, risk assessment, costs, process and Shariah-compliant structures.
Hello everyone, welcome to this week’s Future Startup Letter, a weekly selection of stories, ideas, and conversations about business, entrepreneurship, technology, and the people building in Bangladesh and beyond. Here are five of our latest stories, along with two conversations from the Future Startup archive worth revisiting. This Week at Future Startup 1. Four Companies […]
After a break of almost two years, we are bringing back Future Startup's Startups to Watch series. The idea behind the series has always been simple: we want to keep an eye on young companies building interesting products and businesses in Bangladesh. This is not a ranking. We are not trying to identify the country's […]
GoZayaan has appointed former foreign secretary Farooq Sobhan as the first chairman of its Bangladesh operations, bringing a veteran diplomat and policymaker into the leadership of one of Bangladesh's better-known travel-tech companies, first reported by TBS. The appointment comes as GoZayaan expands beyond its original online travel business. The company is building Hometown, a platform […]
Pathao, Bangladesh's leading homegrown consumer tech company, announced that it has launched Pathao Commerce, an e-commerce platform that bundles storefronts, sales channels, orders, inventory, payments, delivery, and customer chat unification for the country's social commerce, aka f-commerce, merchants. The company says the platform targets the roughly 200,000 merchants who together account for more than 80 […]
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