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| 15.09.2026 | Pathao Launches Pathao Commerce, Strategic Coherence, and Pathao's Motivation | 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 unificat... |
| 21.07.2026 | An Investigation Into How Markets Actually Form and Evolve in Bangladesh
Garments
Pharmaceuticals
Mobile Money
The Facebook Layer
Pathao's Grey Zone
The Invisible Chain
The Same Elsewhere | Somewhere in Sirajganj or Bogura, probably around 2015 or 2020, a rickshaw puller did a calculation. A neighbour had switched to an easy bike, an electric three-wheeler assembled in a local workshop, powered by a lead-acid battery pack from... |
| 26.04.2026 | Hussain M Elius: The Super App Problem | Written by Hussain M Elius
Chasing the super app dream, Pathao built ten products and nearly destroyed the one thing users actually loved.
At some point around 2018, someone opened a board meeting with a slide that said: “Pathao Super App.”... |
| 14.01.2026 | Meet the startup digitizing Bangladesh’s $6b pharmacy market | - |
| 02.02.2025 | Pathao Courier Launches Air Travel Rewards Program to Strengthen Merchant Relationships | Pathao Courier has introduced a merchant rewards program offering air travel packages to top-performing sellers, an interesting move that signals both market maturity, and growing opportunities and competition in Bangladesh's logistics sect... |
| 19.09.2024 | The Pulse of Innovation: A Dive into Recent Funding Trends in Southeast Asia | In the bustling landscape of Southeast Asia, innovation is the lifeblood of growth. Recent funding rounds tell a compelling story of ambition, strategy, and the relentless pursuit of market expansion. Companies are not just surviving; they ... |
| 18.09.2024 | Deals in brief: CarbonEthics secures seed funding, Wavemaker Partners backs Checkmate and Tour Amigo, Xero to acquire Syft Analytics, and more | CarbonEthics secures USD 2.1 million seed funding to scale climate impact solutions
CarbonEthics, an Indonesia-based climate tech startup focused on natural solutions, has raised USD 2.1 million in seed funding led by Intudo Ventures, with ... |
| 16.09.2024 | Asia Digest: Pathao raises $12m for fintech push; GIC sells Hilton hotel in Japan | Bangladeshi startup Pathao has raised $12 million in its pre-Series B funding round while Singapore’s GIC has sold a Hilton hotel property in Japan. Bangladesh’s Pathao raises $12m, shifts to fintech
Bangladeshi consumer technology startup ... |
| 16.09.2024 | Deals in brief: Carsome fuels expansion with new financing, Bangladesh’s Pathao and iFarmer snag funding, five China deals, and more | NewsDeals in brief: Happy5 acquires SugarOKR, EDBI backs Arta Finance, Xendit’s XenCapital secures credit facility from Helicap, and more
Written by KrASIA Writers Happy5, Arta Finance, XenCapital, and more led last Friday’s headlines: Happ... |
| 15.09.2024 | Pathao Raises New Investment, Pathao’s Fintech Ambition | The leading consumer tech startup Pathao announced yesterday that it has raised $12 million in a pre-series B funding round led by the MENA-based VentureSouq with participation from Anchorless Bangladesh, Osiris Group, South Asia Tech, Open... |
| 15.09.2024 | Bangladesh’s Pathao Secures $12m in Pre-Series B Funding, Expands Into Fintech | Listen to this article
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Bangladeshi consumer technology provider Pathao has announced raising $12 million in a pre-Series B funding round as the company shifts its focus towards fintech.
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| 15.03.2024 | Growing Start-up Culture in Bangladesh | - |
| 28.11.2023 | Pathao founders’ new firm secures $3.8m round led by GFC, Spartan Group | CryptoFintechInvestmentsNews
Gabriel Budi Sutrisno · 28 Nov 2023 · 2 min readPathao founders’ new firm secures $3.8m round led by GFC, Spartan Group
The Wind team / Photo credit: Wind
Hussain Elius and Ahmed Fahad have shifted their focus f... |
| 09.10.2023 | The Life Cycle of Every Startup Idea | Dhaka-based agritech startup iFarmer originally started as an Uber for urban farming. After launching the service, iFarmer founders quickly realized that it wouldn’t work. The idea didn’t take long to fail. Six months in, iFarmer pivoted to... |
| 29.05.2023 | Announcing FS Talk June 2023 featuring Hussain M. Elius | “First we shape our social graph; then it shapes us” — Henrik Karlsson
Hello everyone, we're super excited to announce that we’re hosting our 6th FS Talk on 17 June 2023. The event will feature a talk by Hussain M. Elius, Founder of Wind.a... |
| 21.04.2023 | Elastic APM для PHP-разработчиков: Используем APM c Laravel и Lumen | Изображение с: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/get-started/current/images/apm-architecture-cloud.png
APM расшифровывается как Application Performance Monitoring (мониторинг производительности приложений). Если на вашем пути встречается ... |
| 14.03.2023 | Europe’s Bolt expands to Nepal with ride-hailing service | European startup Bolt is expanding to Nepal and launching its ride-hailing service in the country. The company’s previous market expansion was its launch in Thailand in 2020.
On Wednesday, Bolt announced the pilot of its on-demand ride-hail... |
| 21.11.2021 | Future Startup Weekly 25 | This week in Future Startup:
Ride-hailing drivers and discontent of gig economy
Pathao launches BNPL
Chaldal expands to Khulna
SBK Tech Ventures Partners with SOSV and Miaki, Launches Bangladesh-Focused Seed Accelerator SM²
MoneyGram's bKas... |
| 17.11.2021 | Pathao Experiments with ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Feature, Pathao’s Strategic Motivation | Digital services platform Pathao has introduced a new 'Buy Now, Pay Later' (BNPL) feature for top Pathao Food customers. Rolled out on a test basis to a limited number of users, the feature allows select Pathao Food users to choose ‘Pay Lat... |
| 07.02.2021 | Daily Update: Neofarmers Gets into Physical Retail, Understanding Neofarmers’s Motivation, Pathao for Business | Neofarmers Gets into Physical Retail, Understanding Neofarmers’s Motivation
In an apparent sign of growth for alternative safe food products in Dhaka and strategic ambition to scale its business, Neofarmers, a Dhaka-based online safe food ... |
| 20.04.2020 | Pathao to Implement ‘Progressive Pay Cut’ in Response To COVID-19: Full CEO Memo | Pathao, the Dhaka-based ride-hailing company, is implementing a progressive salary restructuring amid the coronavirus pandemic, with the executive leadership team not taking any salaries during this crisis, Chief Executive Officer Husain M ... |
| 29.02.2020 | Nirjhor Rahman: How To Know A Startup Idea Is Worth Pursuing | One of the most frequent questions I get from a founder is: “How do I get investment from Bangladesh Angels?” The second question I get over the course of a sit down is: “What do you think of my idea?” In the former, we start with a screeni... |
| 03.12.2019 | Pathao Introduces Revamped Panel For Courier Merchants, eCommerce Logistics and Pathao Courier | Pathao has introduced a revamped merchant Panel for Pathao Courier merchants. To be specific, the company introduced eight updates - balanced design, mobile-friendly interface, business analytics, order cost projection, customer success rat... |
| 28.10.2019 | Zero to Launch: The Backstory Of How Pathao Points Was Created | Pathao Points
This month, we launched Pathao Points – a unique rewards program that lets our customers earn points every time they use Pathao for rides or food deliveries. Along the way, these points unlock exclusive and exciting benefits ... |
| 11.06.2019 | Behind the scenes of Pathao’s growth to a 600-strong team in 3 years | CommunityQ&AStartupsTransportation
Daniel Song · 12 Jun 2019 · 5 min readBehind the scenes of Pathao’s growth to a 600-strong team in 3 years
This article is from an episode on Asia VC Cast, a podcast hosted by Daniel Song. This is heav... |
| 24.05.2019 | Nigeria’s Gokada raises $5.3M round for its motorcycle ride-hail biz | In many large cities across Africa, motorcycle taxis are as common as yellow cabs in New York.
That includes Lagos, Nigeria, where ride-hail startup Gokada has raised a $5.3 million Series A round to grow its two-wheel transit business.
Gok... |
| 22.05.2019 | Jobberman co-founder, Ayodeji Adewunmi joins Gokada as co-CEO, as the company raises $5.3m Series A | Share this article:
This article was published in December 2019. Adewunmi has since left Gokada.
News circulated last month about Ayodeji Adewunmi’s resignation from Jobberman, a company he co-founded in 2009, while in University, with two ... |
| 06.05.2019 | Bangladesh’s Pathao on track to raise $50m Series B, GOJEK likely to top up | Premium
Pathao, a Bangladeshi ride-hailing startup, is on track to raise up to $50 million for its Series B round by mid-2019.
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| 27.04.2018 | Bangladesh’s version of Go-Jek raises over $10M in a round led by Go-Jek | $4.5 billion-valued ride-sharing startup Go-Jek may be busy in Southeast Asia, where it is aiming to step into the gap following Uber’s exit, but that isn’t stopping it from looking at opportunities elsewhere in the world.
Over in Banglades... |
| 27.04.2018 | Bangladesh’s Pathao Raises over $10M in a Round led by Go-Jek and Openspace | As reported by Jon Russell in TechCrunch (found here):
$4.5 billion-valued ride-sharing startup Go-Jek may be busy in Southeast Asia, where it is aiming to step into the gap following Uber’s exit, but that isn’t stopping it from looking at... |
| 27.04.2018 | Pathao Closes New Round Of Fundraising, Sees Valuation Soar Past $100million | Pathao, the market leader of Bangladesh’s two-wheeler ride-hailing industry, has closed a new round of fundraising that values the company at over $100 million, said a press release sent to Future Startup.
The Dhaka-based ride-sharing plat... |
| 28.11.2017 | Opinion: Bangladesh’s startup scene may seem quiet, but not for long | OpinionStartups
Fariha Imran · 29 Nov 2017 · 5 min readOpinion: Bangladesh’s startup scene may seem quiet, but not for long
A bustling street in Dhaka. Photo credit: Göran Höglund
If you’re a startup founder or investor based in Bangladesh,... |
| 11.09.2017 | Pathao In Talks With Multiple Investors To Raise Over $5m In Series A | Pathao, Dhaka-based fast growing logistics + motorbike ride-hailing startup, is in talks with multiple VCs to raise over $5 million in its Series A round, according to multiple sources aware of the matter.
The sources declined to give any ... |
| 22.02.2017 | Meet the fast-growing Go-Jek of Bangladesh | Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, is an insanely densely populated city.
Growing up here, Elius Hussain says, one thing is always on your mind. The traffic. The horrible jams. How you have to sometimes wait for hours before you can even get on a... |
| 22.02.2017 | Meet the fast-growing Go-Jek of Bangladesh | Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, is an insanely densely populated city.
Growing up here, Elius Hussain says, one thing is always on your mind. The traffic. The horrible jams. How you have to sometimes wait for hours before you can even get on ... |
| 06.11.2016 | Inside Pathao's Big Plan To Take On Logistics And Transportation Industry In Dhaka | Sending things, braving Dhaka’s incredible traffic to courier service office, is a pain in Dhaka. Besides, most of the existing big consumer logistics companies in Dhaka don’t care about customers, as the demand for their service is abundan... |
| 02.11.2015 | Logistics Remains A Nightmare For Ecommerce In Dhaka And This Startup Aims To Make It Tick | [su_note note_color="#ffffff" text_color="#363232" radius="0"]Editor’s Note: This is a FS Network generated post. FS Network is our window to interact and give access to industry experts, entrepreneurs, writers... |
| 02.11.2015 | 03 Logistics Startups That Could Be The Next Big Thing In Bangladesh | As Ramiz wrote today, 'logistics might very well be the Achilles Heel of the e-commerce sector of Bangladesh' and it is. There are other problems as well. Although, we have seen a big boom in ecommerce sector in recent years, infrastructure... |
| 06.09.2015 | Pathao Is The New Logistics Service In Dhaka | A new delivery service platform called Pathao has launched recently in Dhaka. The service, available via an app, promises same day delivery of your packages within the Dhaka city and also offers tracking option and ensures verified delivery... |
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