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GravyPlanting it Forward in HoustonWhile immigration is at the forefront of today’s news cycle,
it’s hardly a new issue in Southeast Texas. Since the 1800s, Galveston has been a major port of entry for foreign newcomers. That pattern continues today up Highway 45 in Houston, which ranks among America’s largest destinations for refugee resettlement.
While Harris County has many resources for assistance, transitioning into the workplace in a new country and culture is rarely easy for even the most skilled, educated, and adaptable English-speaking arrivals. But for those arriving from rural and agrarian backgrounds, it is even more difficult. There...2025-07-3024 min
Bangladesh Angels37Angels: The Untapped Potential of Women Investors | Angela Lee, Founder @ 37AngelsHear from Angela Lee, Founder of 37 Angels, about the story behind 37 Angels, its initiatives, guiding principles in due diligence, her approach to value creation in getting companies from Seed to Series A, and more. 37 Angels, based out of New York, is one of the leading communities of women investors committed to funding early stage startups.Angela Lee is an award-winning professor and former Chief Innovation Officer at Columbia Business School where she teaches venture capital and leadership courses. Angela started her career in product management and then moved to consulting at McKinsey & Company. She has started...2021-10-2740 min
Bangladesh AngelsBacking Early Stage Frontier Market Companies | Women Startup Leaders SeriesEugenia Shevchenko is an Acceleration & Growth Programs Manager at Seedstars. Seedstars is a global venture capital fund, investing in early-stage tech startups in emerging markets, with over 50 portfolio companies. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, it operates across Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Central-Eastern Europe, and Asia, with an aim to support changemakers who are passionate about making a difference in emerging and frontier markets through entrepreneurship and technology.Hear from her on Seedstars' curated programs, service accelerator, and portfolio, creating pathways for exits and follow-on funding, her experience as a female entrepreneur and ecosystem builder, and...2021-10-0239 min
Bangladesh AngelsBuilding & Supporting Women in Startups with BWIT | Women Startup Leaders SeriesIn the ninth episode of the Women Startup Leaders Series, we have Lafifa Jamal (President @ BWIT), Rezwana Khan (CEO of Star Computer Systems Limited and Secretary General @ BWIT), and Tawhida Shiropa (Founder & CEO @ Moner Bondhu) speaking on the bottlenecks and challenges for women in building startups, moving beyond SME-type models, and how we can get more female investors and mentors involved in the Bangladeshi ecosystem. This is an exclusive episode in collaboration with the Bangladesh Women In Technology (BWIT), which is dedicated to mobilizing women involved in different levels of the technology industry in Bangladesh and creating a wide ran...2021-09-1858 min
Bangladesh AngelsClassplus: South Asia's Emerging Edtech Company | SCALEWelcome to the second episode of SCALE by Bangladesh Angels. In this podcast series, we talk to entrepreneurs and investors who built and invested in businesses that have gone on to raise or generate revenues of millions of dollars, employ hundreds or more employees and serve millions of users in order to unlock the secrets of scaling a companyIn the second episode of SCALE, we have Mukul Rustagi, Co-founder and CEO of Classplus, where he engages in a fireside chat with the BAN community and a host of other edtech founders from the Bangladeshi ecosystem...2021-09-1259 min
Bangladesh AngelsFastScaling: The Growth Handbook for Founder and Investors | SCALEWelcome to the first episode of SCALE by Bangladesh Angels. In this podcast series, we talk to entrepreneurs and investors who built and invested in businesses that have gone on to raise or generate revenues of millions of dollars, employ hundreds or more employees and serve millions of users in order to unlock the secrets of scaling a companyPatrick Flesner is a growth capital investor and a partner at the investment firm LeadX Capital Partners. Each year, he looks at hundreds of tech companies that want to raise capital in order to accelerate growth. He...2021-09-121h 11
Bangladesh AngelsInvesting in High-Impact SMEs in BangladeshSharawwat Islam has been leading the Truvalu Bangladesh team for the last 3 years. With more than 15 years of work experience in well-known investment banks and banks in Bangladesh, Sharawwat joined Truvalu in 2018 from her passion to work with impact investments. She is responsible for the overall country operations of Truvalu Bangladesh and also represents Truvalu in the Boards of investee companies.In the latest episode of our Women Startup Leaders series, she outlines her career and her experience in managing an international investment firm in Bangladesh, and the growth potential of key sectors such as agritech.2021-08-0949 min
Bangladesh AngelsStrategic Branding & PR as a Competitive AdvantageNaushaba Salahuddin is the Director, Head of PR & Communications at Zilingo - the largest B2B e-commerce ecosystem in Southeast Asia and South Asia, having raised over $308 million in funding to date.She is a Communications Specialist and has worked across a spectrum of companies ranging from multinationals to startups. With experience spanning international markets and sectors including development, finance, technology, retail, and travel, her highly adaptable nature coupled with a strong understanding of global markets, make her an ideal leader with the foresight to predict industry trends and devise communication strategies. In t...2021-07-2556 min
Bangladesh AngelsBuilding a Career in Impact EnterpriseNitida Wongthipkongka is passionate about social impact and improving the quality of lives around the world. She is currently a Venture Director at Rippleworks, a foundation focused on helping high-impact ventures scale. She works with CEOs, investors, and other partners to help ventures tackle their current challenges to enable them to expand their impact and scale. Prior to Rippleworks, Nitida developed and supported social ventures with SC Johnson, Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP), and with other non-profit organizations in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. She also has deep private sector experience through her roles at Boston Consulting Group, No...2021-06-3042 min
Bangladesh AngelsFrom the Corporate World to Angel InvestingSayma Rahman is an active startup mentor, investor, and advisor, with companies such as Thrive Edtech and Jobike under her portfolio. An INSEAD and North South University alumna, Sayma has held several positions of leadership across top organizations in Bangladesh. Her expertise and experience across digitalization, partnerships, retail modernization, product development, projects, intrapreneurship & angel investing make her an asset to any startup founder. Hear from her on her journey, as a third culture kid growing up in the Middle East, to coming back to Bangladesh and helping to set up partnerships with major international tech companies a...2021-06-2944 min
Bangladesh AngelsBA Women Presents: Fostering Women in ITRezwana Khan is the CEO of Star Computer Systems, a technology company working on enterprise application solutions, development & implementation, high skilled tech resource development, managed service and cyber security. Educated in Computer Science, Software Engineering and in Advanced Management Programme, Ms. Khan started working with her company and has been doing Professional Consultancy for leveraging ICT to support different industry & Government. Her expertise include strategic planning & growth, technology upgrade, team building and change management.In addition to these roles, she's also an active angel investor and serves as the Secretary General for Bangladesh Women i...2021-05-241h 00
GSD Venture Studios Podcasts by Gary FowlerNirjhor Rahman: How Bangladesh Is Coming Out Of Nowhere To Be The Next Big Startup Market In AsiaIn this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary interviews Nirjhor Rahman.
About GSD Venture Studios:
We travel the world investing in resilient teams bold enough to #GoGlobal.
For too long self-motivated entrepreneurs have navigated the minefield of challenges to launching a global company with very little support. The last thing you should bet on in this situation is an unproven team that you don’t trust. GSD Venture Studios travels to every corner of the globe inviting resilient teams to establish partnerships that ensure organizations grow the right wa...2021-05-2130 min
Bangladesh AngelsPraava Health: Building a Consumer First Healthcare CompanyMs. Sylvana Q. Sinha, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Praava Health, is a Bangladeshi-American lawyer and entrepreneur. Ms. Sinha built Praava Health from scratch after experiencing the challenges facing the Bangladeshi health system first-hand. Praava’s “brick-and-click” healthcare platform integrates digital health and in-clinic experiences convenient to where everyone lives, works, and clicks. Tripling growth every year since launching in 2018, Praava’s tech-forward model is designed to be efficient, accessible, and scalable across emerging markets, where 85 percent of the world live. In 2020, Praava was recognized by Fast Company as a World Changing Idea. Praava Health is a patient-driven company disrupting the standard for healthc...2021-05-1048 min
Bangladesh AngelsInvesting in Growth Stage Asian StartupsIn this episode, Karen Contet, co-founder of WHub.io - Hong Kong's biggest startup community and power connector, and co-founder & CEO of AngelHub, dives into investing in growth-stage tech companies scaling or established in Asia. Karen is also the founding board member of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong. Immersed in the startup scene, she is a French Foreign Trade Advisor, Community Leader for Techstars, Accelerator Programs Mentor, International Conference Speaker (InspireFest2018 in Dublin, JS conference in Singapore, Vivatech in France, RISE in Hong Kong), FrenchTech Ambassador, and WomenWhoCodeHK Founder. This is a public episode. If y...2021-04-1657 min
Bangladesh AngelsLegal Aspects of Startup InvestingBangladesh Angels is the nation’s first and angel investment network created with a mission to nurture innovation & entrepreneurship in Bangladesh by connecting innovative startups to both local & global investors. In this episode, Anita Ghazi Rahman, who has been a constant mentor to the burgeoning Bangladeshi startup ecosystem since its inception, will walk us through the legal aspects of startup investing. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bangladeshangels.substack.com2021-04-1152 min
Bengalis of New YorkNirjhor Rahman, CEO at Bangladesh AngelsSeason 3 - Episode 23: "I've been back in Bangladesh full-time since 2014 I've worked in different elements. I worked in social entrepreneurship. I worked in running an accelerator for social entrepreneurs, grassroots entrepreneurs around the country. I think one of the realizations I had is that there's a significant talent in the country. And if we're going to change the economy we have to accelerate the transformation towards being an industrialized, very traditional economy towards a digital one. Then we have to find the entrepreneurs who are doing it. We have to find the ones that are capable of scaling their...2021-01-3137 min