Nagad becomes BD’s fastest unicorn

Business Desk :
Nagad, a leading mobile financial service (MFS) provider in Bangladesh, has turned into a unicorn startup only in four years of its launch — the fastest in Bangladesh to reach this impressive feat.
In recognition of the achievement, Tanvir A Mishuk, founder and managing director of Nagad Limited, received the “Fastest to Unicorn Award” from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at “Bangladesh Startup Summit 2023” in Hotel InterContinental Dhaka on Saturday.
At the award giving ceremony eight organizations received awards in eight categories.
Startup Bangladesh Limited, the flagship venture capital company of the Information and Communication Technology Division of the Government of Bangladesh, organized the two-day event that brought together startups, enterprises, venture capitalists, angel investors, regulators, think-tanks, and experts from various countries
Inaugurated by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on March 26, 2019 with a motto of changing lives, Nagad has reshaped the country’s MFS industry with one after another disruptive innovations and inspired confidence among a large number of people to embrace diversified products and services offered by it.