Top 5 Consumer VC Funds & Investors in Bangladesh (October 2023)

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• Super Scholar — Super Scholar is on a mission to give every Indian student access to the education they deserve by offering exclusive scholarships and grants.
• Dastgyr Technologies — Making trade and capital seamless and reliable
• LOOX — Loox.com.bd is Bangladesh's first live Shopping platform aimed at making shopping engaging, social and real.

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• Hishabplus — Hishabplus operates Android and IOS based apps that enable businesses to keep track of their financial transactions, credit information and accept payments online from different payment gateways.
• Digi Dokaan — DigiDokaan is a 100% free app that allows you to make your online store within thirty seconds. Set up your shop, upload your products, and start selling.
• Shajgoj — Bangladesh’s number one beauty & personal care e-commerce is SHAJGOJ. Our mission is to inspire women to be inspirational, to feel confident & empowered. We have touched more than 20 million Bangladeshi women’s heart, either by our content, or by our service. We have a huge curation of more than 15,000 products, which are 100% authentic,from 400+ brands in shop.shajgoj.com. With a huge rate of 50% growth every month, and a 70% delighted returning customer rate, we have been launching exclusively big names like Mamaearth, Ossum & global beauty leader L'Oréal since the beginning. We have always wanted to make a difference in the Bangladeshi women’s lives, and sharing knowledge makes that difference. Our consumers always take an informed purchase decision with our guidance. With our unique packaging & confirmed gift on every purchase, our customers get into that kernel of delight where they become delighted from being satisfied. And for that, we have built all our assets including our app & website to be super user friendly. We have a big team of in-house beauty consultants who give free beauty consultation to any of our readers or customers over messenger, texts or phone calls. Free beauty consultation is available in our retail outlets too, where the customers can try out a wide range of color cosmetics testers as well along with the huge collection of 100% authentic beauty & personal care products. Our retail stores & social media handles have always given us better inspiration & ideas about product lines & consumer behavior. When the internet penetration got higher, and people were habituated in the social first internet culture, there were no good contents in Bangla about beauty & personal care. That’s when Shajgoj launched its first content site shajgoj.com, with its unique & dynamic contents back in the year 2013. Till date, our content is richest as they are made with knowledge, experience, and loads & loads of research. We also get our content inspiration from the queries & feedback of our valuable customers & readers, both online & offline. Our team members are a bunch of cool learners, who are always open to learn new things. We have created a culture where the entire #teamshajgoj feels empowered. From pulling out targets to celebrating occasions together, our young-hearted bunch of amazing team members do everything together. And that’s how we all are thriving together, working & improvising ourselves each & every day. We have 65% female team members, and this is the best workplace for any women out there in Bangladesh. Along with doing the regular practices like paid maternity leave, we have opportunities to work from home, flexibility of bringing the kids to the workplace, always working on menstrual health awareness & many more activities to nurture the mental health. We have a very strong emotional relationship with all our valuable customers. They are our biggest strength. And we believe it will grow only stronger in the coming days.

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• Ohsogo — Ohsogo is an e-commerce startup that provides beauty and skincare products.
• Iba Halal Care — Buy Beauty & Makeup Products Online from India's No.1 Vegan & Halal-Certified Brand. Shop Cruelty-Free & PETA-Certified Cosmetic & Skin Care Products from Iba Cosmetics.

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• Netomnia — Netomnia are investing in and building a new full-fibre network right across the UK. Future-proofing homes and businesses with a reliable, high-quality, and high-speed internet connection.
• AdaniConneX — AdaniConneX is the largest Hyperscale Data Center provider. Avail the maximum uptime, highest energy efficiency, full scalability and security to your business and customers.
• Reliance Industries — Reliance Industries is engaged in the exploration, development, and production of crude oil and natural gas in India and internationally. Reliance Industries is the second-largest publicly traded company in India by market capitalization and is the second-largest company in India by revenue after the state-run Indian Oil Corporation.

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• Battery Smart — Battery Smart provides advanced Li-ion batteries to e-rickshaws. Battery Smart develops a retrofittable 48V Li-ion twin battery system that is compatible with all major electric rickshaw (e3w) models.
• Dashen Bank — Dashen Bank is the banking firm that offers deposit, international trade and services, loan, and gurantees.
• Indifi Technologies — Indifi Technologies is a digital lending platform that offers loans to those that have potential and intent.Indifi believes in helping small businesses grow by offering loans to those that have potential and intent. Most such businesses have little or no access to financing from traditional institutions such as banks or lack either collateral orfinance data trail to access a loan.Indifi is a technology platform that gathers and analyzes data of businesses from various sources and draws insights to judge their creditworthiness, their past and current performance in the context of the industry they are operating in. This differentiated approach helps find businesses that are low on risk and high on promise thus opening up possibilities for those who earlier had no access to short or long term business funding.Indifi takes the relevant applications to multiple lenders, increasing the chances to secure a loan and creates choice for lenders to pick the ones they wish to back.