Portfolio Re-imagining Investment in a Digital World
Since its inception, we have partnered with the most visionary and bold technology startups. We invest thematically across Fintech, Telecom, Insurtech, IndustrialTech, Consumer Tech, Digital Health, and Digital Tourism. We take pride in investing in new ways of thinking, and ideas that break barriers and borders by drawing inspiration from people and companies inside and outside the contemporary ecosystem. Our support is always with companies that challenge perceptions about their respective industry and the future.
We are inspired by our founders and their teams and incredibly proud to play a small role in each of their success stories. We fund to enable ideas that broaden access to knowledge, capital, and well-being by leveraging networks, platforms, and protocols. We are committed to the vision to acquire large networks of engaged users differentiated through user experience, through a diversified portfolio.
Some of our successful initiatives are the following:
Nagad
Nagad is the first digital money transfer platform that has implemented digital KYC (Know Your Customer) and SMTAP (Send money to any phone number) in Bangladesh. It has gained huge popularity and reached a million consumers within one year.
Another significant factor is that Nagad has facilitated peoples from the root level to big businesses who need a sustainable and flexible payment method. People who do not have any bank account or never have any banking facility can now send and receive money with a single tap.
Due to this initiative, Nagad has also been praised globally, and many South Asian countries are now following this model. The contribution of Nagad in the Bangladeshi FinTech industry has now broken all the barriers, which was a nightmare only a few years back. This revolutionary idea made Nagad one of the best companies in Bangladesh as well as the South Asian Region, and we are proud to be a part of it.
Sigma Telecom
This is Sigma Telecom Ltd, a premium International voice services provider from Bangladesh. Launched in February 2013, Sigma is acting as an International Voice Gateway to Terminate and Originate calls to and from Bangladesh.
Sigma IGW is the Telecommunication wing of the reputed and well known Sigma Group of Companies in Bangladesh. Since the license was awarded to Sigma back in April 2012, Sigma has been working thoroughly to establish a reliable and extremely stable network to provide services to its local and international clients. Quality is service is of the highest priority here in Sigma.
Keeping that in mind, this telecommunication wing of the group has ensured all kinds of redundancies, used state of the art technologies, and guaranteed stability. Sigma is already connected to the complete national network to cater to all types of incoming and outgoing traffic. With connectivity in Singapore, Sigma is already connected to the rest of the world and has been handling both traffic since February 2013.
Swap
Even a couple of years ago, buying and selling through e-commerce was a cumbersome task for a customer. There were various sites for posting, calling by various parties, meeting together, and concluding a deal was a nightmare. It was high time to simplify the process and gaining satisfaction for all customers, either buyers or sellers, and give ease to them.
With this concept, SWAP has stepped as a pioneer in its history and introduced a re-commerce concept in Bangladesh. Starting its journey with the mobile phone, in less than a year, SWAP is now executing its businesses in different products’ and services’ segments, such as smartphones, wearables, laptops, furniture, Vehicles, etc, and more than 225K registered customer base with healthy-growing turnover.
SWAP has more than 50 partners, 3000 agents, and 13 franchises nationwide, with the leverage over purchasing 7483 unit products of about 160M BDT and resold about 170M BDT in recommence part; and delivering over 8500 unit products of about 165M BDT around the country. SWAP is counting MNCs and conglomerates as JVs, and it’s not the end. So far, swap has an exclusive partnership with Samsung, Pickaboo, Oneplus, Oppo, Brothers Furniture, and so on.
SWAP is leading by a youthful workforce who are driving from the front, having groomed and acting together, to ensure SWAP’s main objective, which is “To ensure a hassle-free experience in purchasing, selling and exchanging for All.” SWAP relies on not limiting its challenges rather than challenging the limits. SWAP is optimistic about incorporating state-of-the-art technologies using AI, ML and introducing itself in the international domain in the near future.