Bangladesh’s startup funding boom has a growth problem

M. Rokonuzzaman

The Business Standard
(Thoughts)
20 May, 2026

Despite billions in venture funding and a new Tk425 crore fund, Bangladesh still struggles to build globally competitive startups due to weak innovation capacity and flawed investment models

 

Many of the world’s major wealth-creation engines — Daimler-Benz, General Electric, Toshiba, Apple, Sony, TSMC, and ASML — began as startups. Their embryonic beginnings were successfully scaled into high-performing firms, generating both wealth and employment.

Indeed, the rise of such startups has been instrumental in enabling economies such as Japan, Taiwan, the United States, and Germany to attain high-income status. Bangladesh, likewise, has been allocating resources in an effort to replicate this trajectory and accelerate its own transition to a high-income economy.

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