Dhaka, March 3 -- Bangladesh's startup ecosystem experienced a significant leap in drawing investment in 2025 on the back of a major merger-and-acquisition deal of a local company with foreign one.

Local startups fetched $124 million worth of funding through 12 deals during the period, reflecting a three-fold increase over that of $42 million in 2024.

The figures were made available in a recent report titled 'Bangladesh Startup Investments Report 2025' published by LightCastle Partners, a management consulting firm.

Such a significant growth was primarily driven by a single Merger and Acquisitions (M&A) deal involving two business to business (B2B) commerce platforms-Bangladesh's ShopUp and Saudi Arabia's Sary.

They formed SILQ Group ...