Ravid Chowdhury
Investment Manager @ Techstars
New York, United States
Ravid Chowdhury is an American-Bangladeshi entrepreneur and investor. He has over a decade of global investment experience across venture capital, private equity, and corporate development. He currently works at Techstars as an Investment Manager, is an active angel through his syndicate RC Ventures, and has served as a venture partner,entrepreneur in residence, and mentor for various VC funds and accelerators.He began his investing career in Private Equity in New York, then in Hong Kong. He was the CFO of Pathao, Bangladesh and Nepal's #1 ride-sharing, food delivery, courier and payments super app, where he raised several rounds of financing including a strategic Series A led by Go-Jek. Thereafter, Ravid led the seed round of Truck Lagbe, Bangladesh's #1 trucking platform, and joined the company as a board member and Head of Corporate Development. He raised several rounds of funding for Truck Lagbe including a Series A led by the IFC World Bank.He holds a BA in Economics from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and a MPA in International Finance from Columbia University in New York. He was an International Growth Centre Economic Research Fellow from 2010-2012 with the LSE and Oxford University.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 40%
Last updated:
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Industries Ravid Chowdhury invests in
Stages Ravid Chowdhury invests in
Countries Ravid Chowdhury invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $50k–$6M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Logistics 3 (30%)
- E-Commerce 3 (30%)
- Software 2 (20%)
- Music 1 (10%)
- Video 1 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (60%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (20%)
- Debt Financing 1 (10%)
Country
- Bangladesh 4 (40%)
- United States 3 (30%)
- Kenya 1 (10%)
- Mexico 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Drivana
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Drivana is peer-to-peer car rental platform that connects local car owners with people looking to rent one | $1M / Seed / Jan 28, 2025 | |
Container Deposit Fund
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CDF provides fast, reliable, and affordable short-term financing for African logistics operators. We launched in mid-2021 with our first product, which targets the over $1B in container deposits paid by Freight Forwarders in East Africa every year. Our solution reduces the container deposit cost by 90%, enabling our customers to do ten times morebusiness with the same amount of capital. | Debt Financing / May 07, 2024 | |
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Drivana
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Drivana is peer-to-peer car rental platform that connects local car owners with people looking to rent one | Seed / Oct 18, 2023 | |
Ampd
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Ampd's enterprise Adtech platform is transforming how brand and commerce teams optimize media for the modern shopper journey. With agentic routing, closed-loop attribution, and commerce optimization, Ampd empowers fragmented teams to align and drive share growth at retail. | Seed / Apr 18, 2023 | |
Basis Climate
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Basis Climate operates as a marketplace for clean energy tax credits. It provides a platform for corporations to purchase and for developers to sell these credits. The company's services include a streamlined diligence and appraisal platform, making the process of buying and selling clean energy tax credits more efficient. Basis Climate alsooffers a digital exchange, allowing transactions to take place online. The company's goal is to reduce tax liability and accelerate the energy transition, putting balance sheets to work for a cleaner environment. | Pre-Seed / Jan 31, 2023 | |
Vest
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Vest is an app-based brokerage that wants to provide Latin American savers with access to American assets that are differentiated by product, pricing, and content. Latin Americans are known for saving, but many prefer to do so in cash or in zero-interest savings accounts. | $6M / Seed / Jan 26, 2022 | |
EndingScene
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‘EndingScene’ is an animation studio provides high-end, affordable motion graphics video making services to its clients. Our story board artists, voice artists, 2D and 3D animators are always ready to turn your idea into result driven animated video. | $50K / Seed / Mar 01, 2018 | |
Pathao
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Pathao is a digital platform for entrepreneurs, based out of Dhaka, with a vision of Moving Bangladesh forward. It is the market leader in 2W/4W ride-sharing, food delivery, e-commerce and e-com fulfilment in Bangladesh and Nepal. | $825K / Seed / Nov 01, 2016 | |
KajKey
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KajKey in Bangla means "What Work?". KajKey is an online freelancing platform focused on Bangla speaking clients, employers, freelancers, and job seekers. Bangla is the 7th most spoken language in the world and the KajKey platform connects Bengali clients with freelancers that speak their language, understand their needs, can operate on alocalized budget, and receive payment with local payment solutions. In countries like Bangladesh where employment is heavily concentrated in the capital city, KajKey provides opportunity to millions in villages where unemployment is high and migrating to the city is prohibitively expensive. | Seed | |
Truck Lagbe
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Truck Lagbe is Bangladesh's shipping and freight booking and logistics platform. Shippers can book short-haul and long-haul trips from vehicles ranging from 1 ton up to 25 tons in size. The app is available on Android and iOS. | $250K / Pre-Seed |
Co-Investors
About Techstars
Techstars provides a global platform for early-stage investment and innovation through programs that support startup growth and corporate collaboration. Its services include accelerator programs, startup education initiatives, venture capital funding, and corporate innovation partnerships.The Techstars Mentorship-Driven Accelerator Program offerssupport for startups, while Techstars Startup Programs focus on entrepreneurial education and community building. The Techstars Venture Capital Fund invests in emerging companies, and its Corporate Innovation Partnerships help established brands develop new products and services through collaboration with startups.
Techstars Contacts
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Andrew Cleland
Chief Investment Officer
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Artur Hasselbach
Mentor
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Beata Puncevic
Chief Technology Officer
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Ben Liao
Managing Director
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Bob Moczydlowsky
Managing Director & Founder, Techstars Music
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FAQ
What does Ravid Chowdhury invest in?
Ravid Chowdhury invests primarily in Logistics, E-Commerce and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Bangladesh. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Ravid Chowdhury's check size?
Ravid Chowdhury typically joins rounds of $50k–$6M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ravid Chowdhury participates in.
When did Ravid Chowdhury last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ravid Chowdhury closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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