shurjoPay

About shurjoPay

shurjoPay is widely recognized as Bangladesh's first online payment gateway, built by shurjoMukhi Limited to give the country's early e-commerce businesses a reliable way to collect payments online. Fida Haq co-founded shurjoMukhi Limited in 2010, bringing a medical background rather than a traditional finance or engineering one to how the payment gateway was designed.

His work with shurjoPay has been central to building trust in digital payments and e-commerce across Bangladesh, at a time when online transactions had almost no reliable infrastructure to route through.

A Medical Doctor's Path Into FinTech

Fida Haq trained as a Medical Doctor before shifting his career toward technology, later earning an MS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University between 1988 and 1991. That combination, medical training paired with engineering study, is an unusual background for a payments-industry founder.

It gave him a working knowledge of both structured clinical systems and technical infrastructure, a mix he later brought to building financial technology rather than practicing medicine.

Few founders in Bangladesh's payments sector share that specific combination of clinical and engineering training, and Fida Haq has pointed to the discipline required in both fields, precision, verification, and risk management, as a direct influence on how carefully shurjoPay's transaction infrastructure was built from the outset.

Founding shurjoMukhi

Fida Haq co-founded shurjoMukhi Limited in 2010, setting out to build Bangladesh's e-commerce payment infrastructure at a time when online transactions in the country had almost no reliable gateway to route through. The company launched shurjoPay as its flagship product, an online payment gateway built to collect payments from customers on behalf of e-merchants.

In January 2016, shurjoMukhi became a licensed Payment System Operator under Bangladesh Bank, formalizing its role in the country's financial infrastructure rather than operating as an unregulated intermediary, a distinction that gave merchants confidence in routing transactions through the platform.

Industry Recognition

Under Fida Haq's leadership, shurjoMukhi won the regional championship at the Seedstars World Competition in 2020, along with the Champion title at both the BASIS National ICT Awards and the APICTA Awards in 2019. That run of recognition came during a period when shurjoPay was competing against a growing field of payment gateways entering Bangladesh's e-commerce market.

Those wins gave shurjoPay credibility with merchants and partners at a point when the payment gateway category in Bangladesh had become considerably more crowded than it was at the company's 2010 founding, with newer entrants competing for the same e-commerce merchants shurjoPay had onboarded years earlier.

Building Beyond Payments

Fida Haq has also extended his fintech and technology work into agriculture, introducing adorsho praniSheba Limited, a connected-cattle network that offers insurance to farmers based on livestock health monitoring. That venture reflects a pattern in his career of applying financial technology infrastructure to sectors well outside traditional banking and e-commerce.

That willingness to apply payment and data infrastructure to entirely different sectors, from e-commerce merchants to livestock insurance, sets Fida Haq apart from founders who stay within a single vertical once they find early success.

Where shurjoPay Stands Today

Fida Haq continues to lead shurjoMukhi and shurjoPay today, working to expand the reach of a payment gateway that helped establish the trust layer much of Bangladesh's e-commerce industry now depends on. Employee reviews reflect a positive, well-regarded workplace, with career opportunities rated as a particular strength alongside consistently solid marks across culture, compensation, and outlook.

As one of the more compact fintech companies profiled in this directory, shurjoPay has maintained a focused identity around payment gateway infrastructure even as larger, more heavily funded competitors like bKash and Nagad have entered adjacent parts of Bangladesh's digital payments market.

Products

shurjoMukhi's business centers on shurjoPay, its flagship payment gateway product.

shurjoPay Payment Gateway is the company's core product, letting e-merchants collect payments from customers online, licensed as a Payment System Operator since January 2016.

Merchant Payment Infrastructure supports the gateway, giving businesses a regulated, bank-connected way to accept digital payments from customers.

Beyond payments, Fida Haq has also introduced adorsho praniSheba Limited, a connected-cattle network offering livestock insurance to farmers, a separate venture extending his fintech work into agriculture rather than a shurjoPay product itself.

Across its core payment gateway and merchant infrastructure, shurjoPay's platform reflects the trust-and-licensing-first approach that has defined shurjoMukhi since its 2010 founding, run by a compact team based in Dhaka.