Women Entrepreneurs
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Stories about Women Entrepreneurs
Bangladeshi Women Founders Have Two Days Left to Compete for Tara’s Circle’s €100,000 Award Pool
Tara’s Circle 2026 is open worldwide to women founders and co-founders leading seed-stage or MVP-stage impact ventures. Fifteen projects will share €100,000 across health, technology, sustainability, social innovation and creative industries. Applications close 17 September at 12:00 CEST.
Women Entrepreneurs in Chattogram Get a Route Into Alibaba’s Global Marketplace. Listing Products Is Only the Beginning
Chittagong Women Chamber and Springfield Corporation, Alibaba.com’s Bangladesh channel partner, have signed an agreement to connect women entrepreneurs with international buyers and digital-export tools. The opportunity is real—but exporting requires logistics, compliance, pricing and buyer trust beyond simply opening an online account.
Paisano Marma Started With Tk500. Four Months Later, Her Food Business Had Sold More Than Tk10,000
Indigenous women in Khagrachhari are moving from irregular day labour into small businesses through training, market links and storage facilities. Paisano Marma’s Tk500 start shows why the crucial ingredient is not training alone—it is giving women somewhere to sell afterwards.
Bangladesh’s Women Have Saved Seeds for Generations. Could Orange Bonds Help Them Build Businesses?
More than 3,000 Bangladeshi women farmers have established community seed enterprises and seed banks through IRRI-supported programmes, but many remain too small to scale. A new analysis asks whether gender-focused Orange Bond financing could help women-led seed businesses access the working capital they need.
Deadline Tomorrow: BRAC University Programme Offers Women Entrepreneurs Training and Seed-Money Opportunity
Bangladeshi women entrepreneurs have until August 31 to apply for Venture Maestras — Udyomi Ami, a BRAC University programme offering business training, mentoring, an industry visit and a boot camp, with seed-money opportunities of up to Tk100,000 for top participants.
In Jashore, Small Livelihood Grants Put Economic Tools Directly in Women’s Hands
A local support programme in Jashore has provided sewing machines to economically disadvantaged women from ethnic-minority communities, while women entrepreneurs received agricultural processing equipment and students gained scholarships and bicycles—small interventions aimed at expanding both income and education opportunities.
Bangladeshi Women Founders Have Hours Left to Apply for a Nine-Week Regional Leadership Programme
SHELeads is accepting women entrepreneurs from South and Southeast Asia—including eligible founders in Bangladesh—for a virtual programme covering leadership, fundraising, investment readiness and peer learning. Applications close on August 30.
New Women Entrepreneurs Association Leadership Plans Expansion Beyond Bangladesh’s Major Cities
Newly elected WEA president Yasmeen Ahmed says the organisation will focus on young entrepreneurs, skills, business networks and women-led businesses outside Bangladesh’s major urban centres.