How ZEIT, a Bangladeshi watch brand, designs in Dhaka, builds in China and targets Tk 3,500 to Tk 7,000. Founder Zeeshan ...

Ten lessons from Nasim Uddin, CEO of Riverborn, on self-taught engineering, a failed startup, production AI, and building ...

Around 250 entrepreneurs, business owners, professionals, and technology leaders gathered at Dhaka Regency Hotel for AI ...

Welcome to this week’s Future Startup Letter, our weekly selection of stories, ideas, and conversations about business, ...

Bangladesh and IFAD launch CRALEP ($112M) and GREEN ($212M) to reach 2.5 million rural people across the Haor, High Barind, coast and chars.

Future Startup’s Companies to Watch series has traditionally focused on technology and tech-enabled businesses. This time, we ...

Building a company that lasts takes something different from building one that grows quickly. Growth and durability are two different challenges. However, that is not to say one is more desirable than ...

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.

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 ...

Asikul Alam Khan, the founder and CEO of PriyoShop, started his career as a web entrepreneur in 2006. Before starting PriyoShop, his third venture, he successfully ran an Ed-tech company and an IT ...

In September 2016, a small team at ByteDance launched a short-video app in China. Within a year, it had 100 million users and over a billion daily video views. By 2024, its international version, ...

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% ...