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. Optimistic hypotheses without any real basis. Bangladesh generates a lot of that optimism. Internet penetration, mobile subscriptions, e-commerce volumes, MFS accounts, the trend lines all point up […]
In November 2025, we published a conversation with Raisul Kabir, founder and CEO of Brain Station 23, where we explored one of the most consequential questions in business: how do you scale? When we last interviewed Mr. Raisul in 2019, Brain Station 23 was a 185-person software services company. Today, it employs nearly 1000 people […]
Shahreer Zahan is the founder and CEO of Adroit Education, an education consulting service and mentorship program that has fundamentally changed how Bangladeshi students access top American universities. Since 2017, Adroit has helped students secure over $100 million in scholarships from institutions like Princeton, Stanford, MIT, and Yale, while maintaining a near-perfect success rate across […]
Registration is open now. You can register by filling out the form below or going here. "First we shape our social graph; then it shapes us" — Henrik Karlsson Hello everyone, we're hosting an FS Talk, our flagship entrepreneurship lecture and networking event, on 28 February 2025. The event will feature a talk by Talukder […]
This week’s FS weekly features some fascinating stories across founder lessons, why Bangladeshi conglomerates should pay attention to Dhaka’s growing entrepreneurship scene, an analysis of the new travel agency ordinance 2026, and an interview from our archive with IFA Consultancy co-founder Yusuf Sultan. All links are below. 9 Practical Takeaways From Our Interview with JoulesLabs […]
On January 1, 2026, Bangladesh's government published amendments to the Travel Agencies (Registration and Control) Ordinance, 2026. Issued by presidential order, the ordinance arrives after at least three online travel agencies collapsed between 2024 and 2025, allegedly defrauding customers of hundreds of crores in ticket payments. The government earlier published a draft of the same […]
The Dhaka-based hosting platform joins a small but growing list of providers making the viral AI agent easier to deploy. OpenClaw has become 2025's breakout open-source project, surpassing 100,000 GitHub stars within two months with demos of an AI agent that can actually control your digital life through Telegram or WhatsApp. But getting it running […]
Future Startup publishes original and deeply-reported insight, analysis, and inspiration about the business, technology, and entrepreneurship in Bangladesh that you won’t find elsewhere.
