Mahmud Rahman

About Mahmud Rahman

Mahmudur Rahman is the Co-Founder and CEO of WeGro, an agri-fintech company built to give Bangladeshi smallholder farmers access to credit, agricultural inputs, and markets through a single technology platform. Unlike many fintech founders, his connection to agriculture is personal rather than purely analytical.

A Childhood Rooted in Farming

Rahman grew up in a farming family and was shaped by traditional agricultural practices he observed during childhood visits to Feni. That early exposure to how smallholder farmers actually worked, and the constraints they operated under, stayed with him well into a corporate career that had little to do with agriculture at first.

He completed his Bachelor of Business Administration at East West University in Dhaka, graduating in 2015.

Six Years Learning Business Before Farming

Before returning to agriculture as a founder, Rahman spent roughly six years working across a range of companies, including Robi, ACI, Reckitt Benckiser, British American Tobacco, and Sindabad.com, along with a stint at the agri-focused startup Khaas Food. Those roles gave him experience in business development, territory management, and trade marketing across very different industries.

That corporate grounding, particularly the time at Khaas Food, put him back in direct contact with Bangladesh's agriculture sector and eventually connected him with his future co-founder.

A First Attempt That Didn't Survive the Pandemic

Rahman's first direct venture into agriculture was investing in a cattle farm, followed by launching a startup called Goshat in 2019. Goshat ran into serious operational hurdles once the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted supply chains and market access, an early setback that shaped how he approached his next venture.

Rather than walking away from agriculture after that setback, Rahman used the experience to sharpen his understanding of exactly where smallholder farmers needed the most support.

Founding WeGro

In 2021, Rahman partnered with Alvi Rahman, whom he had met at Khaas Food, to co-found WeGro. The company set out to solve a specific, persistent problem for Bangladeshi farmers: unreliable access to affordable credit, quality inputs, and stable markets, all bundled into a single platform rather than solved piecemeal.

Under Rahman's leadership, WeGro has grown to serve more than 20,000 farmers across Bangladesh, providing credit, agricultural inputs, and insurance solutions built specifically around smallholder needs rather than adapted from urban lending models.

Building Toward Scale

Rahman continues to lead WeGro's expansion, drawing on both his own farming-family background and the operational lessons of an earlier failed venture to shape a company built for resilience in a sector where market shocks, like the pandemic disruption that ended Goshat, remain a constant risk.