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 […]
On September 10, 2026, Bangladesh's marketing and branding community gathered on a Facebook Live event for the AI for Marketers Summit, organized by iDEAN Consulting. The Facebook Live event featured Professor Philip Kotler in a conversation moderated by Mark Anupom Mollick, Founder and Executive Consultant of iDEAN Consulting, alongside Professor Dr. Waldemar Pfoertsch, co-author of […]
Hi there, I’m Ruhul, and this is 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 this week’s reads. 1. ViewSense Wants to Rethink Bangladesh’s Ad-Tech Market Bangladesh’s digital advertising market has grown rapidly, but the infrastructure underneath remains […]
ViewSense is building an ad-tech and communications platform combining media, PR, data, and AI to help brands reach the right audiences and make better advertising decisions.
iDEAN Consulting, a Dhaka-based strategy consulting firm, announced that it will host Professor Dr. Philip Kotler in a live Facebook conversation with its founder, Mark Anupom Mollick, as part of its AI for Marketers Summit, per a press release shared with FS. The event and the conversation will take place live on Facebook on Thursday, […]
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