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Radar · FinTech in Bangladesh

Best FinTech Companies in Bangladesh

The 75 best FinTech companies in Bangladesh in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: bKash.

75companies tracked
$283.6Mdisclosed funding
2unicorns
3have raised
Sources & further reading
  • IMARC Group
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · FINTECH × BANGLADESH

Our analysis of 1,006 FinTech companies

$195.5b in tracked funding; 96% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.

1,006companies analysed
96%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
124unicorns
2018median founding year
443kcombined LinkedIn audience
94%of audience held by top 3
4companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best FinTech companies in Bangladesh

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackRecent signals
1bKash 🦄
Mobile financial services and payment system for consumers
$261M55 mo agoSeries CKamal Quadir
CEO
2011BootstrapTikTok PixelMicrosoft Clarity+152 internships · 1 partnership
2Keystore
Secure, efficient, and professional digital asset service provider
$10M77 mo agoDeadpooled2012
3SureCash
Re-loadable mobile wallet.
$7M134 mo agoSeries BShahadat Khan
CEO
2010WordPressMySQLPHP+14
4iFarmer
Provider of agri-input financing and advisory services to farmers
$2M2 mo agoSeedJamil Akbar
Co-Founder & COO
2017RubyUbuntuGoogle Maps+283 job openings · 2 awards
5PayWell
Online bill payment platform for consumers
$2M120 mo agoSeedAnisul Islam
CEO & MD
2012PHPGoogle MapsYouTube+14
6BullBear AI
AI-powered platform using user behaviors and price action to predict markets
$1M35 mo agoSeedAbdullah Sheikh
Founder
2023
7Dana
Lending as a Service Platform
$200K55 mo agoSeed2020UbuntuBootstrapNginx+10
8Shadhin
Peer-to-peer lending firm
$165K57 mo agoSeed2018WordPressMySQLPHP+18

Top 11 FinTech companies in Bangladesh

#1
Seed · Dhaka, Dhaka Division · founded 2017 · 300 employees
$2.2Mraised

Provider of agri-input financing and advisory services to farmers. It is a full-stack agri-tech startup that provides smallholder farmers with finance, high-quality inputs, agronomic advisory, and access to the market. It provides a one-stop solution using technology by providing smallholder farmers with finance, high-quality inputs, agronomic advisory, and access to the market.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 49k LinkedIn followers — 11.2% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 3 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · momentum +3 · hiring: Regional Coordinator, Farmer Financing Operations, Software QA Engineer/Senior QA Engineer
Activity: 2 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2026Seed$1.5M
  • May 2025Seed$500K
  • May 2022Seed$2.1M
  • Dec 2020Seed
Founders & team
Jamil AkbarCo-Founder & COOFahad IfazCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Accelerating Asia, IDLC Finance, Startup Bangladesh, Falcon Network, Symbiotics Group, Zayn Capital
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesCore-JsFramer SitesGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font ApiGoogle Workspace
#2
bKash 🦄
Series C · Dhaka, Dhaka Division · founded 2011 · 3115 employees
$261Mraised

Mobile financial services and payment systems for consumers. It features a solution for money transfers, mobile recharges, utility bill payments, and others. Users can dial a number to initiate the transaction, fill in the account, and amount, and the money will be sent to the receivers mobile. Application is made available on Android and iOS platforms.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 361k LinkedIn followers — 81.6% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. Mastercard) announced in 12 mo
Founders & team
Kamal QuadirCEO
Investors
IFC, Gates, SoftBank Vision Fund, Alipay, Gray Ghost Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesAngularAosApexcharts.Js
#3
Deadpooled · Bangladesh · founded 2012
$10Mraised

Developer of digital asset management platform designed to provide information security protection and data encryption for enterprise users. The company's core business is to securely store private keys to encrypted data for enterprises, enabling users to obtain solutions to cryptocurrency depository security and financial audit.

Investors
Jianyuan Fund, Fenbushi Capital
#4
Seed · Dhaka, Dhaka Division · founded 2023
$1Mraised

AI-powered platform using user behaviors and price action to predict markets. It provides AI tools for users to apply to trading and prediction for investments. The platform features governance, prediction games, a digital token, and more.

Funding rounds
  • Jun 2023Seed$1M
Founders & team
Abdullah SheikhFounder
Investors
PolkaBridge
#5
Series B · Dhaka, Dhaka Division · founded 2010 · 130 employees
$7Mraised

Developer of a banking platform intended to offer mobile banking, payments, and remittance processing technologies. The company's platform offers banking, financial assistance, and electronic commerce in Bangladesh, enabling banks to provide mobile and branchless banking services to their customers.

Founders & team
Shahadat KhanCEO
Investors
The Osiris Group, Beenos, SBI Investment, Beenext, DG Ventures
Tech stack
BootstrapContact Form 7ElementorFont AwesomeGodaddyGoogle Analytics
#6
Seed · Dhaka, Dhaka Division · founded 2012 · 14 employees
$2Mraised

Developer of a financial application designed to provide users with a convenient way to pay. The company's application offers mobile recharge, electricity bill payment, flight ticket booking, and mobile financial services as a national distributor, enabling clients to make smooth financial payments through the platform.

Founders & team
Anisul IslamCEO & MD
Investors
Aavishkaar Capital
Tech stack
AosBootstrapEnvoyFont AwesomeGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Maps
#7
Seed · Dhaka, Dhaka Division · founded 2019 · 19 employees
$95.6Kraised

Provider of digital insurance services intended to offer easy and convenient access to insurance in a single place, digitally. The company specializes in focusing on transparency, convenience, mass reach, and ease of use in health insurance, life insurance, and more, enabling customers with reliable digital insurance alternatives, and letting individuals compare and avail their daily needed insurance needs.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Founders & team
Arnab PaulCo-FounderAlvi NizamCo-Founder & CEOArif HossainCo-Founder
Investors
Startup Bangladesh
Tech stack
Alpine.JsAxiosBootstrapCdnjsCloudflareCore-Js
#8
Seed · Dhaka, Dhaka Division · founded 2020 · 12 employees
$200Kraised

Lending as a Service Platform. It offers a solution that enables banks and financial institutions to provide digital lending services to the end customers. It features proprietary credit scoring for individuals and a specialized scoring system for farmers, digital onboarding solutions, and more. It also provides a point-of-sale financing solution that enables users to purchase products and pay in monthly installments within the partnered merchant network.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 2 product launches announced in 12 mo
Investors
Accelerating Asia, Pankha ventures, SBK Tech Ventures
Tech stack
Core-JsFacebook PixelNext.JsNext.Js App RouterNginxNode.Js
#9
Seed · Dhaka, Dhaka Division · founded 2018 · 6 employees
$165Kraised

Peer-to-peer lending firm

Investors
Bangladesh Angels
Tech stack
Core-JsElementorFont AwesomeGoogle Font ApiGoogle WorkspaceHello Elementor
#10
Seed · Dhaka, Dhaka Division · founded 2021 · 16 employees
raised

App-based provider of informal distribution software solutions for retail businesses. The solutions include a distribution engine, supply chain management, trade promotion management, digitization of retail networks, and reports & analytics. The mobile application is available for Android users.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 457 LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2021Seed
Founders & team
Irfan RafiqueCEOSalma Nur E JahanCo-Founder
Investors
Accelerating Asia, Tenity, Hustle Fund, HASAN.VC
#11
Seed · Mirpur, Dhaka Division · founded 2018
raised

Operator of a business services platform intended to make small and medium enterprises manage and grow their businesses. The company offers a combination of a cloud-based self-service platform and service marketplace for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to tackle various challenges that hinder their success and manage their books of account and financial dealings by sending digital invoices to customers, monitor various metrics of its business in real-time, enabling businesses to get access to the business necessities such as accounting, marketing, legal services, and training.

Founders & team
Mahadi Hasan SagorCo-FounderSaimum HossainCo-Founder
Investors
Asif Rahman, Nazmul Hasan Rupok
Tech stack
BetterdocsBetterdocs PluginCore-JsElementorEssential Addons For ElementorFacebook Pixel

Funding & investor landscape

$283.6Mtotal disclosed funding
9companies funded
5disclosed rounds
1rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Accelerating Asia3 rounds
SBK Tech Ventures2 rounds
Startup Bangladesh2 rounds
Tenity2 rounds
Aavishkaar Capital1 rounds
Alipay1 rounds
Asif Rahman1 rounds
Bangladesh Angels1 rounds
Beenext1 rounds
Beenos1 rounds

Notable founders

Jamil Akbar
Co-Founder & COO · iFarmer
Fahad Ifaz
Co-Founder & CEO · iFarmer
Kamal Quadir
CEO · bKash
Abdullah Sheikh
Founder · BullBear AI
Shahadat Khan
CEO · SureCash
Anisul Islam
CEO & MD · PayWell
Arnab Paul
Co-Founder · Bimafy
Alvi Nizam
Co-Founder & CEO · Bimafy
Irfan Rafique
CEO · SupplyLine
Salma Nur E Jahan
Co-Founder · SupplyLine
Mahadi Hasan Sagor
Co-Founder · SMEVai
Saimum Hossain
Co-Founder · SMEVai
Prism market signals · Bangladesh · country-scoped Prism corpus, 373,951 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of FinTech coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH SIGNALS · Bangladesh

How research on Fintech is moving in Bangladesh

A read on the academic research around Fintech — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 114 Bangladesh-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
202320252026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and steady — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 31% → 32% across 2023–2026.
top research entities
  • Islamic University16
  • Bangladesh Bank8
  • Presidency University8
  • University of Dhaka7
  • Jahangirnagar University6
leading researchers
Md. Aminul Islam · Zahiduzzaman Zahid · Md. Shahed Alamm · Muhammed Zakir Hossain · Asma Ahmed · Md. Enamul Hasan · Nahida Sultana · Rubaiyat Shaimom Chowdhury
Breakthroughs12 · 11%
▲ 0%→11% share
0 median citations100% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (0%→11% of field), led by Financial services.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Financial services6
  • Robustness (evolution)2
  • Agile software development2
  • Software2
  • Digital transformation2
Newly emergingFinancial services 0→6
Landmark Construction of a composite fintech index to measure financial inclusion for developing countries · 16 cites
Advancements38 · 33%
▲ 0%→35% share
0 median citations100% since 2021mostly empirical
Advancements are rising (0%→35% of field), led by Financial services.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Financial services16
  • Structural equation modeling8
  • Financial inclusion6
  • Financial literacy6
  • Key (lock)5
Newly emergingFinancial services 0→16 · Structural equation modeling 0→8 · Financial inclusion 0→6
Landmark Can Fintech Alleviate the Financing Constraints of Enterprises?—Evidence from the Chinese Securities Market · 28 cites
Concerns44 · 39%
▲ 0%→36% share
0 median citations98% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are rising (0%→36% of field), led by Financial services.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Financial services25
  • Payment8
  • Financial inclusion5
  • Unbanked5
  • Pace5
Newly emergingFinancial services 0→25 · Payment 0→8 · Financial inclusion 0→5
Landmark Financial Innovation on Zakat Distribution and Economic Growth · 24 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Bangladesh

Where fintech is researched across Bangladesh

Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.

Kushtia178 · +0.16
Hot · Financial servicesAdvancing · Financial literacyOpportunity · Structural equation modelingConcern · Normative
Dhaka31 · +0.18
Hot · Unified theory of acceptance and use of technologyAdvancing · PaymentOpportunity · Financial servicesConcern · Unbanked
Sylhet10 · +0.03
Hot · Financial servicesOpportunity · Financial inclusion
Chittagong9 · +0.09
Hot · Financial inclusionOpportunity · Transparency (behavior)Concern · Payment

Common questions

How many FinTech companies are there in Bangladesh?
Radar tracks 75 indexable FinTech companies headquartered in Bangladesh that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by FinTech companies in Bangladesh?
The FinTech companies in Bangladesh on this list have raised a combined $283.6M in disclosed equity funding across 9 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded FinTech company in Bangladesh?
bKash is the highest-funded FinTech company in Bangladesh, with $261M in disclosed equity funding.
How many FinTech companies in Bangladesh are funded?
9 of the 75 FinTech companies in Bangladesh on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many FinTech unicorns are there in Bangladesh?
2 FinTech companies in Bangladesh on this list are valued at $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Bangladesh FinTech companies?
The most active investors in Bangladesh FinTech companies on this list include Accelerating Asia, SBK Tech Ventures, Startup Bangladesh, Tenity, Aavishkaar Capital.
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