The popular ride-sharing app Uber has come under heavy scrutiny after a plethora of leaked confidential files highlighted the company's potentially illegal tactics to fuel its meteoric global expansion beginning nearly a decade ago, a joint media investigation showed recently.

The country's largest business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce platform, ShopUp, has raised more than Tk 550 crore ($62.89 Million) in its latest round of fund-raising as it looks to ramp up its operation by bringing small neighbourhood groceries and small retail shops online.

Bonik, a mobile app that enables SMEs to launch their e-commerce store within minutes, has raised its pre-seed investment of $47,000 from prominent angel investor Mohammad Maaz.

Shape, an intimate clothing line for women in Bangladesh, provides lingerie and innerwear that caters to the distinct body featurettes of South Asian women.

60 UK companies are taking part in a six-month trial of a four-day working week, the worl'ds largest trial of such model.

Bangladesh ranked 93 out of 100 countries in the latest Global Startup Ecosystem Index by the global startup research company StartupBlink. 

Seven Bangladeshi youths have made the 'Forbes 30 Under 30' Asia class of 2022. Launched in 2011 by the prestigious business magazine Forbes, the '30 under 30' lists the thirty movers and shakers under the age of thirty. From 2016 to 2021, a total of eighteen Bangladeshis got on the list for their outstanding work.

10 Minute School, the leading Bangladeshi ed-tech startup, has recently appointed Mirza Salman Hossain Beg as its Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer (COO). 

3 Bangladeshi startups - Shuttle, Markopolo and MedEasy, recently received funding from Accelerating Asia, a Singapore-based early-stage venture capitalist firm and startup accelerator.

Zilingo, the unicorn B2B apparel-tech startup, has shocked the startup and venture capital community in the past few weeks.

ShopUp, the full-stack B2B commerce platform, recently soft-launched its brand new headquarters at the capital's SKS Tower in Mohakhali. ShopUp's new headquarters has a massive capacity of 60,000 square feet.

Former Cricketer and serial venture capitalist Mahela Jayawardene have co-founded ‘Dygisec’, a next-gen technology company focused on cloud security compliance for the South Asian markets including Bangladesh.

Edutechs, an edtech startup based in Bangladesh has raised USD 100K in its pre-seed round, led by serial investor Mohammad Maaz and industrialist F. K. Md. Emdad Khan.

Wavemaker Partners, a leading venture capitalist firm in Southeast Asia, recently invested 35 crore taka in the second round of Bangladeshi edTech Shikho’s seed round. 

Bangladesh Angels Network (BAN), the nation’s first angel investment network, recently launched Bangladesh Women Investors Network (BWIN) to support women entrepreneurs and investors. 

According to a press release, Edutechs aims to bring futuristic advanced learning technology to every classroom in Bangladesh. Moving forward, they want to automate education-related administrative tasks in the country.

Mahbubul Matin is a seasoned Bangladeshi tech entrepreneur and the founder of Dotlines, a technology-powered service and business solution group, working across 12 countries with its headquarters in Singapore.

LIFE Bangladesh is an up-and-rising humanitarian organisation that began its operations back in January 2021, intending to create long-term sustainable development projects.

Obidur Rahman a Bangladeshi data scientist and marketing tech expert who has innovated solutions catering to both local and international clients.

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