Maliha M Quadir

Maliha M Quadir is a Bangladeshi-American technology entrepreneur, best known as the Founder and former Managing Director of Shohoz, Bangladesh's consumer tech super-app. 🚀 She is an alumnus of Smith College (BA in Computer Science and Economics) and Harvard Business School (MBA), and has worked at some of the world's top organizations including Morgan Stanley, Standard Chartered, Nokia, and Vistaprint. 🎓

🌍 From Wall Street to Dhaka

📊 Before founding Shohoz, Maliha built a career spanning 20+ years across venture-backed company building and financial services. She worked in M&A and finance roles across multiple countries — the United States, Singapore, India, and Indonesia — gaining experience at top-tier global institutions. 💼

🎯 Toward the end of 2013, she decided she was finally ready to pursue her lifelong dream: starting her own technology company in Bangladesh. She left her job, raised seed investment, and moved back to Dhaka. As she told TechCrunch: "It's in my mind but there's so much to do in Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, you can really make an impact — it's a green field." 🌱

🚌 Building Shohoz — Bangladesh's Super App

📦 Shohoz was born in 2014 as an online ticketing platform for bus, events, movie, and launch tickets. For the first three years, it focused solely on ticketing and built a widely recognizable brand for online ticketing in Bangladesh. 🎫

📈 Under Maliha's leadership, Shohoz expanded into multiple verticals:

• 🛵 Ride-hailing — launched March 2018, quickly reaching 1.5 million rides per month
• 🍔 Food delivery — launched October 2018
• 🏥 Digital healthcare (Shohoz Health) — launched May 2020 during COVID-19

💰 In September 2018, Shohoz raised $15 million in funding led by Golden Gate Ventures (Singapore) — also an investor in Go-Jek (Indonesia). This was the largest funding round in any Bangladeshi early-stage company at the time. The platform grew to 50,000+ drivers and was registering one million completed rides per month. 📊

🏆 Recognition & Awards

🌟 Maliha's achievements include:

• 🌍 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (2017) — recognized for her contributions to technology and entrepreneurship
• 👩‍💼 Top Bangladeshi Female Founder — recognized by UK-based research publications (2020)
• 🏆 Best ICT Woman Entrepreneur Award — from the Government of Bangladesh

🎯 Maliha's vision for Shohoz was ambitious: "Shohoz is anything necessary." The platform aimed to be Bangladesh's comprehensive super-app, covering transportation, food, healthcare, and more. Her journey from Wall Street to building one of Bangladesh's most recognized consumer tech brands represents the growing potential of Bangladesh's digital economy. 📈