3 Years of Moving Bangladesh

Founded in 2015 with the dream of making lives better, Pathao was founded by Hussain M. Elius and Shifat Adnan. One of the fastest growing tech startups in Bangladesh today started its journey three years ago as a logistics service provider with just bicycles.

The popularity of their e-commerce service was on the rise as the company's promise of delivering products to clients in a comparatively quicker pace was kept intact by the usage of bikes and cycles for delivery to shorten commute times. This popularity helped the founders in coming up with an even better utilisation of the service, that is, ride sharing. The CEO of the company, Hussain M Elius still recalls the day when Pathao Rides functioned through a Facebook group where the operations were manually handled via an Excel sheet, his very own cell phone number and just 5 bikes.

The Pathao app was launched in December 2016 which as of March 2018 had amassed a user base of over three million across Bangladesh. Undoubtedly, at the forefront of Bangladesh's digital revolution, the startup has dedicated itself to solving infrastructural problems of the country and has its operations in multiple cities. One of its significant expansions is in the fact that Pathao has its car service available in both Chittagong and Sylhet besides Dhaka. As much as it may surprise you, secret behind the successful story of Pathao is in the fact that, by 2017 the company had launched ride-sharing cars in Dhaka and on January 2018, they launched Pathao Food which in three months since its inception became one of the leading food delivery services of the country. While one would think slowly expanding within the national borders would be enough, Pathao with its admirable ambition became the first Bangladeshi ride sharing company in September 2018 to launch its operations overseas — in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Pathao also provides a parcel service that offers on-demand emergency deliveries. Tong is yet another one of Pathao's well-received services that delivers your essentials be it beverages, school supplies or female hygiene products just to name a few. The platform has enabled countless people with the opportunity to earn independently including the youth. This tech platform has kept the digital Bangladesh dream alive with the goal of providing all sorts of services in one platform by harnessing the power of technology. This is startup success story as of 2018, just 3 years into operation, has become a national pride and they're just getting started.