Business Desk :
Speakers at a national dialogue called for taking necessary steps to empower young entrepreneurs for achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Empowering the young entrepreneurs and innovators can help achieve the SDGs, they said, addressing the event under the banner of Youth Co: Lab titled “Accelerator Bangladesh 3.0: National Dialogue on Bangladesh startup ecosystem into the next decade” in the capital.
Amid Corona, capital crisis has become the main challenge in creating start-ups. Many young entrepreneurs have entered the market with new ideas, but they failed to sustain due to lack of capital, they said. The virtual event was organized jointly by UNDP and Citi Foundation in association with Startup Bangladesh Limited and LightCastle Partners, a business consultancy firm, on Saturday.
Youth Co:Lab is created by UNDP in association with Citi Foundation, as a platform to empower and invest for young entrepreneurs and innovators to achieve SDGs.
Shams Zaman, Director and Head of Banking, Capital Markets and Advisory, Citibank, said, “Citi is excited to support platforms like Youth Co-Lab to enable young people to take the lead in finding and developing new solutions for social and environmental problems in their respective communities.”
Speakers at a national dialogue called for taking necessary steps to empower young entrepreneurs for achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Empowering the young entrepreneurs and innovators can help achieve the SDGs, they said, addressing the event under the banner of Youth Co: Lab titled “Accelerator Bangladesh 3.0: National Dialogue on Bangladesh startup ecosystem into the next decade” in the capital.
Amid Corona, capital crisis has become the main challenge in creating start-ups. Many young entrepreneurs have entered the market with new ideas, but they failed to sustain due to lack of capital, they said. The virtual event was organized jointly by UNDP and Citi Foundation in association with Startup Bangladesh Limited and LightCastle Partners, a business consultancy firm, on Saturday.
Youth Co:Lab is created by UNDP in association with Citi Foundation, as a platform to empower and invest for young entrepreneurs and innovators to achieve SDGs.
Shams Zaman, Director and Head of Banking, Capital Markets and Advisory, Citibank, said, “Citi is excited to support platforms like Youth Co-Lab to enable young people to take the lead in finding and developing new solutions for social and environmental problems in their respective communities.”
