SBK Tech

Jatri is the fastest growing technology company in Bangladesh with a mission to bring reliable transport to everyone, everywhere at the touch of a button. We are offering a mobility-as-a-service platform that enhances bus system reliability and quality.

Ostad is a learning platform that offers best learning experience through online live courses. Unlike video courses, Ostad provides the opportunity to develop skills from the best instructors at an affordable price.

Bonton aims to bring the next billion users and businesses online via connectivity technology and embedded software.

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.

10 Minute School is an online education platform. It has been operating since 2015, and every day it teaches nearly two million students for free through its app and website. It has already created 19,000+ video tutorials, 50,000+ quizzes, 1,350+ smartbooks, and 1,139 live classes that are available on its platform. 10 Minute School has already covered all textbook contents for classes 1–12 through its video tutorials. It has 9 million+ followers on social media channels. It provides e-training and e-learning services and plans to launch e-books and premium courses.

LOOX is a B2C Fashion focussed live Shopping marketplace making fashion shopping authentic, fun and real. Fashion ecommerce is estimated to be a $3.5bn industry by 2022 in Bangladesh and currently the market is untapped as there are no fashion brand aggregator here. We use the power of fashion eCommerce, live shopping, fashion specific product reviews such as colour accuracy, fit, feel, to solve shopping related problems and provide fashion & beauty content to help improve user’s lifestyle. Hence our vision is to be a giant fashion & beauty brand aggregator in Bangladesh first, then southeast Asia and then build our presence globally. We also solve problems for brands and sellers by getting them into the live selling business by providing them access to live studio, live presenters, marketing, logistics, all of this for free of cost.

Jatri is the fastest growing technology company in Bangladesh with a mission to bring reliable transport to everyone, everywhere at the touch of a button. We are offering a mobility-as-a-service platform that enhances bus system reliability and quality.

NextPay is an alternative to bank accounts for small businesses and entrepreneurs. Its platform enables companies to collect customer payments via digital invoices, manage their cash, and pay their employees, suppliers, or bills in batches to any bank or e-wallet.

MedEasy is a digital healthcare platform that allows its users to talk with doctors. It is an app that enables patients to connect with doctors and, receive consultations through video calling. They also sell medical products in the following categories such as women's medical products, sexual wellness products, baby care products, elderly care products, otc products, medicines, and tablets.

Praava Health is a patient-driven company disrupting the healthcare standard for Bangladesh’s 170 million citizens. Tripling growth every year since launching in 2018, and currently serving 300,000+ patients, Praava’s tech-forward model is designed to be efficient, accessible, and scalable across emerging markets, where 85 percent of the world lives. Praava Health's work was featured in TechCrunch in March, and in June 2021, Praava was selected as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. Praava’s business model is the subject of case studies published by Harvard and Columbia Business Schools and taught globally. Praava’s “brick-and-click” healthcare platform integrates digital health and in-clinic experiences convenient to where everyone lives, works, and clicks. The platform seamlessly combines technology with traditional health services — meaningful doctor-patient relationships (15-minute appointments) and quality diagnostics (lab and imaging) and medications — to improve patient experiences and outcomes. Praava’s digital products include Bangladesh’s first patient app (launched in 2018), as well as telemedicine, e-pharmacy, and virtual primary care. Praava is also the first in the region to introduce value-based healthcare concepts, aligning patient values with its own incentives. The founder and her team are focused on producing strong financial returns – this is not a concessionary or philanthropic endeavor, although Praava’s health care services are addressing an important social need.

Sustainable, affordable energy access for low income rural people is possible right now. Their decentralised peer-to-peer microgrids deliver solar power to households and businesses, and enable them to trade their (excess) electricity for profit. SOLshare has created a revolutionary new approach to bring affordable solar electricity to everyone in Bangladesh and beyond through its peer-to-peer solar energy trading platforms based on distributed ledger technology. They believe the smart peer to peer grids they are building in Bangladesh can be the future for utilities globally. SOLshare pioneers a micro-energy transition model 3.0 by interconnecting solar home systems in peer-to-peer networks, monetizing excess solar energy along the value chain in real time with mobile money and empowering communities to earn a direct income from the sun.

Sigmind harnesses computer vision to turn videos into actionable assets by extracting data from the images and motions happening within. Actions and patterns detected within the images are then used as context for business use. This data is then processed on our fully automated AI-powered platform to glean marketing, merchandising, distribution, and analytical insights that businesses can use. Additionally, the extracted data is cataloged in an easily searchable way and can be repurposed later.

Shuttle is a mass-transit startup that provides safe transportation at an affordable fare by moving more people with fewer vehicles and caters to both B2B and B2C customers. The startup also has B2B offerings that allow companies to provide daily commutes for their employees. Shuttle was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Roar Media is a digital platform producing original journalism and informative content for a South Asian audience. We currently publish in English, Sinhalese, Tamil and Bengali, creating content that informs, inspires and entertains. We break complex issues down through our articles, videos, interviews and photo essays — creating an intellectual smorgasbord for our readers.