Feelo, a Sri Lankan startup company that offers unique experiential packages, has announced its first investor partnership just four months into business. The company’s first investor, Ales Ryp, is a Czech entrepreneur and venture capitalist known for his work with Czech-based online experience platform, Slevomat. The partnership marks a significant milestone for Feelo, demonstrating investor…
Softlogic Life, Sri Lanka’s 2nd largest life insurer, recently hosted its Annual Sales Convention on the 6th of April 2023 at the Shangri-La Hotel Colombo. Resonating with this year’s theme, ‘Together as One’, the grand event brought together and felicitated top performers across the company’s three sales verticals—Agency, Alternate and Micro Channels, for their outstanding…
In honour of Unilever’s 85th year of operating in Sri Lanka and in view of appreciating the unwavering support and contributions extended by its partners in 2022, Unilever Sri Lanka recently hosted an evening of fellowship under the theme ‘Stronger Together’, with its stakeholders across the value chain. The event reinforced the importance of partnerships…
Great Place to Work® recognized Fcode Labs (www.fcodelabs.com) as one of the best workplaces in Asia. According to them, Fcode Labs ranked 35th on the list of best companies to work for in Asia in the small and medium-sized businesses category. Having become one of the top workplaces in Sri Lanka for 2022 a few…
75 years of art, architecture and ecology When the Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa set up the Geoffrey Bawa Trust 40 years ago in 1982, he made the remarkable decision of issuing a mandate that was to foster ecological and environmental sciences, art, and architecture – a visionary choice of intertwined disciplines. Perhaps as an…
Advancing its sustainability efforts, Emirates and dnata have joined the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), a voluntary global initiative that promotes responsible business practices and the advancement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman and Chief Executive, Emirates Airline and Group, said: “In the UAE’s Year of Sustainability,…
Daraz, one of South Asia’s fastest-growing online marketplaces, recently partnered with Sri Lanka’s trailblazing digital finance company Dialog Finance PLC, to provide seller credit facilities to small and medium-sized sellers on the Daraz platform. This partnership aims to facilitate the growth of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Sri Lanka by providing them with the necessary…
Contributing to the development of the national education platform, SLIIT is offering new Bachelor of Education programmes, namely the B.Ed (Hons) in Social Sciences and B.Ed (Hons) in Information Technology. These programmes enable students to obtain pathways to meaningful and fulfilling teaching careers with strong 21st-century skills. The SLIIT B.Ed programmes are four-year full-time degrees…
Building resilience and supporting economic revival by strengthening SMEs to face any unexpected eventuality, Sri Lanka’s leading private sector bank HNB PLC partnered with HNB Assurance to offer its SME customer portfolio with a key person insurance cover. The pioneering initiative was created to safeguard SMEs in its lending portfolio from financial losses in the…
Hemas Outreach Foundation recently opened its 62nd Piyawara pre-school in Wanathamulla, Colombo. Together with the Ministry of Women and Child Affairs as a strategic partner of the Piyawara initiative, this development represents Hemas’ continued support of the national agenda in developing Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) in the country. The pre-school, which marks the…
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