BloodBridge, a student-led initiative at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) that aims to connect blood donors with recipients using technology, has secured BDT 40,000 in pre-seed government funding. The award was granted on March 15, 2025, at the final pitch session of the University Innovation Hub Program (UIHP) at United International University (UIU).

They received the funding from UIHP – an initiative of the government’s ICT Division implemented through the Digital Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystem Development Project, led by the Bangladesh High-Tech Park Authority and funded by the World Bank. The cohort-based program started in November 2024 and concluded in March 2025.

The final pitch session featured student teams from universities across Bangladesh presenting business solutions for funding and institutional support. BloodBridge participated in the 15-week hybrid mentorship program under UHIP from 8 November 2024 to 8 March 2025. The program included business strategy development, prototype refinement, and venture-building guidance through structured mentorship sessions.

The BloodBridge team dedicated over 160 hours to the program, including 80 hours of intensive mentorship, refining its operational framework and innovation strategies. Under the mentorship of Mohammad Fayadan Hossain, Co-Founder and COO of Hishab Technologies Limited, a startup focusing on telephony-driven conversational engines powered by generative AI, BloodBridge strengthened its model for scaling a technology-driven blood donation platform. The funding will support the development of a mobile app to improve access to voluntary blood donation.

K.M. Ferdous Hasan Foysal, founder of BloodBridge and a Biochemistry and Biotechnology student at IUB, stated, “With this fund, our plan is to scale up BloodBridge into a sustainable company and move forward with developing our mobile app. We want to integrate technology to make voluntary blood donation faster, more efficient, and accessible for everyone in Bangladesh.”

BloodBridge is a location-based platform designed to connect blood donors and recipients. Unlike traditional methods that require extensive and tedious manual searching, the platform enables real-time donor-recipient matching. Since August 2024, it has been facilitating daily blood donations. As of January 2025, they have built a database of over 2,000 registered donors in Dhaka.

For more details and to become a member of BloodBridge:

Web: www.bloodbridge.org

Email: bloodbridge.org@gmail.com

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