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Space is building a distributed filesystem that lets humans and agents instantly access and work across petabytes of live data while using zero local disk space. Cloud storage was supposed to make computers feel limitless. Yet workflows remain constrained by the disk inside each device. The cloud gave data another place to live, but not a better way to reach it. People are still forced to upload, download, sync, duplicate, and search for files before work can begin.

A six-week, speaker-led curriculum will prepare 15 female founders from emerging markets to raise capital, build investor relationships, and run their own communications as they expand into Europe, the UK and the US. Mindset, a women-led integrated marketing and communications agency, opens applications for its first Growth Program, a six-week non-profit initiative for female founders from emerging markets who already have a working product and are ready to scale internationally.

Hi there, I'm Ruhul, and this is Future Startup Letter (formerly FS Weekly), a weekly newsletter about business, entrepreneurship, expertise, and doing good work. Today’s episode features: How iDEAN’s GrowthX Program Helps Entrepreneurs Build a Growth Machine from the Inside Startup Bangladesh Ltd Launches BDT 4 Billion Fund of Funds.

Sadia Haque, Co-Founder and CEO of ShareTrip, has been appointed by the Secretary-General of UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) as an eTrade for Women Advocate for South Asia for the 2026–2027 term, per a press release sent to Future Startup. She is the first Bangladeshi appointed to the role. The eTrade for Women initiative appoints a small number of women business leaders worldwide to carry the concerns of women digital entrepreneurs into policy discussions with governments and regulators.

Startup Bangladesh Limited (SBL) formally launched the operations of the Bangladesh Fund of Funds, a government-backed initiative designed to mobilize local, international, and development capital into Bangladesh’s startup ecosystem, at a program held on Sunday, August 16, at the ICT Division in Dhaka. The vehicle carries an initial size of BDT 400 crore, with an ambition to scale further.

Registration is open now. Fee: Tk 900. You can register by going here. Every company has a story in the market, whether it deliberately builds one or not. It is the story people encounter when they search for the company, read its reviews, come across an article about it, hear what others say, or, these days, ask an AI what it knows about the company. That is the story that shapes what people believe the company is, what it is good at, and whether it can be trusted.

Written by Md Ismail Hossain Bangladesh’s semiconductor industry is gaining momentum. There have been a lot of discussions and policy movements around how to take the industry forward in the last few years. Some of these efforts have created a renewed sense of optimism and dynamism in the industry. Coming to where the industry is today has been a long and difficult journey. For a long period, the industry received meagre attention from the policymakers and the broader business community.

We have published two pieces on Mark Anupom Mollick and iDEAN Consulting. The first was a long company profile that covers Anupom's fourteen-year journey, the founding of iDEAN, and the full picture of what the firm has built. The second went in depth on how iDEAN's consulting service works, examining its diagnostic process, frameworks, and what a business should expect from a strategy engagement. This article focuses on one of iDEAN's flagship programs: GrowthX.

One of the perks of my job running a knowledge platform is that I get to spend a lot of my time reading, which happens to be my favorite thing to do, and get paid for it. It is a privileged position. Of course, being an operator-writer means you still need to build and run an operation, which is not easy. The challenges are there. However, it also puts me in a vantage point where I can see both worlds with context and clarity. As such, I consume a ton of reading materials every week.

This week’s newsletter features: Bangladesh's Electric Vehicle Market: Structure, Forces, and the Future The Rise of Chinese AI Companies From FS Archive | Aarong, BRAC's Social Enterprises, and Life: An Interview With Tamara Hasan Abed, Senior Director, BRAC 12 Takeaways from Our Conversation with Atiqur Rahman Sarker Sohel Tablet Market Trends in Bangladesh: Samsung and Apple Strengthen Hold as Demand for Premium Devices Grows Reading Recs Why Can’t You Just Deal with It?