Silicon Valley’s Entrepreneurship Programme Founder Institute Relaunches In Thailand

May 21, 2016 SD Asia Desk Leave a comment

Founder Institute, the entrepreneurship training and startup launch programme from Silicon Valley, has relaunched in Thailand. The Bangkok chapter is now re-started with the help of Southeast Asian online education provider Topica Edtech Group and Co-directors Bobby Liu and Quang Mai Duy. The Founder Institute Bangkok programme attracted more than 100 applicants, and 25 startups made the starting lineup.
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2 Bangladeshi Startups Bag $15K Investment From Fenox

June 14, 2015 Mustafizur Rahman Khan Leave a comment

Silicon Valley based venture capitalist firm, Fenox has made an investment of $15000 each to two Bangladeshi startups - SmartKompare and HandyMama.co - at the event 'Pitch Night' held for the startup graduates of Founder Institute. 5 graduates of Founder Institute pitched their ideas to investors at the event.

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Founder Institute’s Graduates to Pitch in Front of Fenox

May 22, 2015 SD Asia Desk Leave a comment

Author: Rizwan Shamim Five startups graduated from Founder Institute's first entrepreneurship training and startup launch program in Bangladesh. On Thursday 21st May, graduates were awarded certificates at a program organized at the BDjobs Training Center in Karwan Bazar. Founder Institute is based out of Silicon Valley and helps to build technology companies. Graduates from the first program will be pitching in front
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One of the Graduating Founder’s take on Founder Institute Program in Karachi

May 16, 2015 SD Asia Desk Leave a comment

Showcasing their Karachi chapter (one of over 65 campuses around the globe) on Saturday, 25th April, the Founder Institute was created in 2009 and has graduated more than 1500 technology company founders since. TechJuice sat down with one of the graduates, Sibtain Jiwani, CEO & Founder of Smartchoice.pk, to discuss his experience. TJ – How did you hear about Founder Institute
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Sajid Speaks About Founder Institute’s Graduating Class

May 13, 2015 Mustafizur Rahman Khan Leave a comment

Most of our readers are probably aware that the Bangladesh chapter of Founder Institute (FI) began their startup program earlier this year. After four months, the first batch which consists of 5 companies will graduate from FI's chapter in Bangladesh. We had the opportunity talk to Sajid Rahman who is the director of local chapter of
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Cambodia's Meal Temple raises 6-figure funding

Cambodia-based startup Meal Temple Group, which operates food delivery platform MealTemple.com and grocery delivery platform GroceryDelivery.asia., has raised an undisclosed six-figure round private European and Australian investors. The company was established 5 years ago, at the nascent stage of the Cambodian startup ecosystem. The company plans to use the newly-raised funding to grow its local operations and extend its logistics services to more

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