Anchorless Bangladesh
800 3rd Ave Ste 2800, New York City, NY, 10022, United States
Overview
Anchorless Bangladesh is an early-stage venture investment fund focused on fostering the startup ecosystem. The fund empowers founders, investors, the startup community, and other stakeholders to realize their objectives as well as strengthening the economy. In 2019, Rahat Ahmed launched the firm in New York, New York.
- Total investments
- 6
- Lead investments
- 5
- Investments · 12mo
- 1
- Active investors
- 4
Sector focus
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Revora (MyAlice)
Participated · Seed · Jun 2026
Revora provides an AI-native operating layer designed to help e-commerce merchants acquire, convert, support, and retain customers across conversational channels. The company has grown approximately 10x over the past 12–18 months and serves users in more than 21 countries, with a primary market focus in Saudi Arabia and additional focus in the UAE and Pakistan. Its founding team includes Shuvo Rahman and Daniyal Baig and it maintains a tech team in Bangladesh. Investors have described the business as having an "impressive bottom line." Post-raise, Revora plans to double down on expansion in Saudi Arabia and across the MENAP region and continue investing in its AI "brain" to power merchant workflows.
- Agroshift
Led · Seed · Oct 2022
Agroshift is a B2B agri-marketplace that connects farmers to businesses and consumers through a technology-enabled supply chain. The company uses a “phy‑gital” business model that merges physical and digital operations to handle demand aggregation, sourcing, and delivery. Its stated goal is to transform the fresh food supply chain and improve the lives of farmers, small businesses, and consumers by helping farmers secure better and fair prices and consumers receive fresher, safer products. Agroshift was founded in 2022 and is based in Dhaka. The company recently completed a fundraising round, indicating early-stage financing activity. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article.
- Shikho
Led · Seed · Jul 2021
Shikho creates curriculum-aligned learning content for Bangladeshi students, focusing on grades 9–12 with plans to expand into grades 6 through university and continuous education. Its product mix includes short animated videos (~6 minutes), smart notes to replace guidebooks, and practice questions with detailed solutions. The platform uses gamification (points, leaderboards, badges) to drive engagement and plans to add live classes to its existing pre-recorded content. The app is offered with a seven-day free trial and a freemium strategy intended to convert parents (the paying customers). Paying users show high engagement, typically spending about 45–50 minutes daily in the app. New funding is earmarked to scale content production, build an app for parents, and expand user acquisition channels including offline sales teams.
- Maya
Led · Seed · Feb 2021
Maya operates a telehealth platform centered on sensitive reproductive and mental health issues, pairing a machine-learning digital assistant with a network of licensed clinicians. Its digital assistant uses natural language processing to answer basic health questions in Bengali (and is being developed for Urdu, Hindi and Arabic), providing automated answers across roughly 50 topics at about 95% accuracy. The platform has handled about four million queries to date, with roughly half answered by AI, and reports about 10 million unique users and more than 300 licensed healthcare providers. Maya delivers end-to-end encrypted consultations and routes urgent or complex queries to human experts; it currently handles about one consultation every 10 seconds. The company is pursuing multiple monetization paths including B2B SaaS for employers (clients include Marks & Spencer, Primark and BGMEA), partnerships with insurers, and direct-to-consumer premium services such as in-app video consultations and prescription delivery. Maya has expanded regionally—recently launching in Sri Lanka and testing services in India, Pakistan and Middle Eastern countries—and plans to enter Southeast Asia.
- Gaze
Led · Seed · Jun 2020
Gaze is an artificial intelligence startup headquartered in Singapore and Bangladesh. The company completed a seed funding round totaling $830,000. The round was led by Anchorless Bangladesh. Existing angel investor Mohammad Maaz also participated in the financing. The article includes no product details, operating metrics, or stated use of proceeds. No additional financial terms, past rounds, founders, or founding year were reported in the article.