What Risingbd.com does

Risingbd.com is a Bangladeshi online news portal operated by Skyroute Media Limited, headquartered at 198-199, Mazar Road, Mirpur-1, Dhaka. Founded in 2013, the platform delivers 24/7 Bengali-language news, information, and entertainment content across 25+ categories, including national, international, politics, economics, stock market, sports, entertainment, lifestyle, science and technology, campus, regional divisions, and lifestyle verticals. The portal serves a general Bengali-speaking audience as its primary segment, with secondary reach into business professionals seeking economics and stock-market coverage and youth/students via dedicated campus news from major Bangladeshi universities.

The core product is a digital news portal accessible via the risingbd.com website and dedicated iOS/Android mobile applications offering offline reading. The platform operates a Bengali-language content management system across national, regional, and topical verticals, supported by add-on modules including a Risingbd Video Gallery for multimedia content and an interactive Risingbd Quiz feature. Publisher Md. Liakat Ali leads the organization, with Taposh Roy serving as Executive Editor. The company is privately held with no disclosed venture capital or institutional investment.

The business model is digital advertising: display ads, sponsored content, and promotional articles. The only named commercial partnership is with Walton Television, which sponsors the Risingbd Quiz engagement feature. The company is not subscription-based and does not operate a paywall; all content is free to general readers. There is no disclosed pricing structure, no public API, and no technology products sold to enterprises.

Name

Risingbd.com

Legal name

Skyroute Media Limited

Website

https://risingbd.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Risingbd.com, operated by Skyroute Media Limited, is a Bangladeshi online news portal delivering 24/7 Bengali-language news across 25+ categories to general readers, business professionals, and students across Bangladesh and the Bengali-speaking diaspora.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Mirpur

HQ country

Bangladesh

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Digital advertising: The portal generates revenue through display advertising, sponsored content, and promotional articles on its news platform

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Risingbd.com operates an online Bangla news portal that delivers free 24/7 news, information, and entertainment content across 25+ categories — national, politics, economics, stock market, sports, entertainment, international, science and technology, lifestyle, education, health, campus, and regional divisions. It is complemented by a mobile app for offline access and a video gallery for multimedia content.

Product overview

Risingbd.com is a single-platform online Bangla news portal offering comprehensive 24/7 news coverage across multiple content categories including national, politics, economics, stock market, sports, entertainment, international, science and technology, lifestyle, and regional news from all 8 divisions of Bangladesh. The platform includes a mobile application for on-the-go access, a video gallery section for multimedia content, and interactive features such as quizzes. The service is operated by Skyroute Media Limited and serves as a general news and media platform rather than a technology product company.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Risingbd.com Online News Portal

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Walton TelevisionminorGTM or Marketing PartnerRisingbd.com partnered with Walton Television for quiz campaigns, promoting brand engagement through the Risingbd Quiz initiative featuring Walton Television branding

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• The Daily Star: Bangladesh's leading English-language daily with a strong online portal covering national news, business, sports, and opinion — competes for the same advertiser budgets and overlapping (educated, urban) Bangladeshi audience as Risingbd.com.
• Jugantor: Major Bangla-language national daily newspaper with a substantial online portal spanning politics, economics, sports, and entertainment — directly comparable to Risingbd.com in language, market, and coverage breadth.
• Samakal: Established Bangla-language daily newspaper with a digital portal serving Bangladeshi readers across politics, business, sports, and lifestyle — a direct competitor for ad revenue and audience in the same Bangla news space.
• Kaler Kantho: Popular Bangla-language national daily with a large digital audience, covering similar categories to Risingbd.com (politics, economics, sports, entertainment). Operates a web portal and mobile presence in the same Bangladeshi market.
• BDNews24: One of Bangladesh's leading digital-first news portals covering politics, business, sports, and entertainment in Bangla and English — directly comparable to Risingbd.com in editorial scope, ad-based monetization, and 24/7 digital distribution.
• Ittefaq: One of Bangladesh's oldest and most widely read Bangla dailies with a digital portal covering national, politics, sports, and entertainment — competes in the same Bangla-language online news market as Risingbd.com.
• Naya Diganta: Long-running Bangla-language newspaper with online presence covering national, political, and economic news in Bangladesh. Comparable to Risingbd.com in language, audience, and ad-driven online news model.
• Bangla Tribune: Bangla-language online news outlet covering national, international, sports, and entertainment topics — directly comparable in language, audience, and digital-first ad-supported news model.
• Dhaka Tribune: Digital-first English-language Bangladeshi news outlet covering national, international, business, and lifestyle topics. Operates a comparable ad-supported portal model and competes for audience attention in Bangladesh.
• Prothom Alo: Bangladesh's largest newspaper and most-visited Bangla online news portal, offering multi-category news coverage in Bengali across web and mobile — the dominant direct competitor to Risingbd.com in the same language and market.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/risingbd-com

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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