SM² provides startups with the tools they need to rapidly scale by connecting founders with mentors and investors. The programme offers guaranteed investment funding to the selected startups from the three partners, with access to their vast networks of investors, subject matter experts and startups across Asia for new opportunities to improve product offerings, and expand to new markets.

Hiruy Ephrem

William Bean

Farhan Rahman

SM² Accelerate Demo Day

SOSV is a global venture capital firm providing multi-stage investment to develop and scale our founders' big ideas for positive change.

Orbit Startups

The SM² Accelerate programme includes 3 seed-stage Bangladeshi startups. SM² is a collaboration between SBK Tech Ventures, SOSV, and Miaki.

We reimagine the way the world — and the cars that do the moving — moves for the better. In addition to giving cars a way to get from point A to point B, we're working to bring the future closer with car-driving-car technology and helping other cars order food, get gas, and directions affordably.

Guber

Ostad is the first live streaming education platform in Bangladesh founded in October 2020, that provides a rigorous online Bootcamp for in-demand job skills. We develop a day-to-day task-based curriculum for each in-demand job skills & ensure job placements for qualified Ostad Graduates by partnering with industry companies.

Abdullah Al Musabbir

Shourov Barua

fahim siddique

Mridul Khandaker

Shariful Islam Mubin

Ostad Pte. Limited

Mohammad Maaz

SOSV

SBK Tech Ventures

Miaki Media Limited

LOOX is a live video shopping marketplace that provides an interactive shopping experience for trendiest products found in retail stores but at much better prices.

Nasir Chowdhury

LOOX

Astir Ventures

Miaki

Bonton Connect is co-founded by two software engineers who are aiming to solve the internet penetration problem of Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, 112 million people which is 69% of the population, are still offline due to mobile data being expensive, limited and unstable. Therefore, Bonton is solving the problem through network infrastructure sharing that reduces the cost of broadband internet.