Founder Profile Chapter 02 · Building Antor Issue No. 16 · May '26

● ABOUT

the longer version 🪧

Hi, I'm Antor.
I build companies.

Founder of NextBangla Ltd. Currently building 10 AI startups in parallel, working with global founders from Nilphamari, Bangladesh — and I'd rather build with you than for you.

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📍 Nilphamari

EST.
2011

Founder ID Card · № 16

Md. Ersaduzzaman Antor

Born

Dec 15, 1997

Building since

2011 — age 13

Founded NB

2011 — age 20

Based

🇧🇩 BD · 🇬🇧 UK · 🇱🇺 LU

Currently

10 AI startups in motion

🌐 Global ops

Three countries,
one family.

🇧🇩 HQ🇬🇧 UK🇱🇺 LU

✦ Receipts so far

16+ ventures.
500+ projects.

14 yrs20+ countries50+ people

The longer version Born 1997 · Building since 2011 From Nilphamari to NextBangla 500+ projects · 16+ ventures 10 AI startups in active build Built from scratch, together ❤️

★ Chapter 01 · Origin

From Nilphamari
to NextBangla.

Born in a town that mostly shows up in maps when there's a flood. Now shipping with founders in 20+ countries.

📍 BORN '97

✦ SELF-TAUGHT

portrait · chapter 01

Md. Ersaduzzaman Antor

№ 016

✦ The origin

One dial-up line,
a hand-me-down PC,
and five hundred taka.

I grew up in Nilphamari — a small town in northern Bangladesh that mostly shows up in maps when there's a flood. No startups, no incubators, no LinkedIn. Just a hand-me-down PC and a dial-up line that worked when it felt like it.

I built my first paid project at 15: a Bangla wedding-invitation site for a neighbor. Charged five hundred taka. And was hooked.

"In 2011 I formalized the work as NextBangla Ltd. Same person at the desk on day one — still here on day 5,000-something."

Over the next 14 years what started as a one-person shop became a 50+ person operation across Bangladesh, the UK, and Luxembourg. 16+ ventures. 500+ projects. 10 AI startups in active development.

⌚ The long arc · 2008 → today

15 years, five marks
worth showing.

Most years didn't make the cut. These are the ones where the company became something different by year-end.

2008

First paid project, age 15

Bangla wedding-invitation site. Taught myself web design over dial-up. Charged 500 taka.

2011

Founded NextBangla Ltd

Formal incorporation at 20. One laptop, zero clients, a back-room office in Nilphamari.

2018

First UK clients

European operations kick off. Bangladesh-priced, London-grade — the model that still works.

2022

Sister concerns spin up

Promo Content Studio, NB IT Institute, Karu Bazaar — four shops under one roof.

2024 ↗ today

Pivot to AI-first product work

Launched 10 AI startups in parallel. Orbix live in 3 markets. Kothalipi + Pannakhata in beta.

⚡ Brand pillars · what you're hiring

Four reasons
this works differently.

Most agencies sell hours. I sell founder pattern-matching — and the receipts to back it up. These are the four pillars I'd put on a contract.

Pillar 01

Founder-to-Founder

I've sat in your chair. When I evaluate scope, pricing, or trade-offs — it's from someone who's shipped 15+ companies, not someone optimizing billable hours.

✦ Skin in the game

Pillar 02

Receipts, not promises

16+ ventures, 500+ projects, 10 AI startups in active development. The proof is in products you can use today — don't take my word for it, go try them.

★ Try the live builds

Pillar 03

AI-native operator

I'm building 10 AI startups right now — not learning AI on your project. When I integrate AI into your product, it's because I just shipped the same pattern in mine last week.

⚡ Patterns over pitches

Pillar 04

Honest about the journey

Joya, family, seven cats, ventures that didn't work. The story's in the open. You're hiring a person, not a logo — and the person matters.

💗 No glossy bio

🌍 Three countries, one family

NextBangla operates across
three time zones.

Headquartered in Nilphamari. We've shipped client work from Dhaka, kept production schedules with London teams, and run video projects out of Luxembourg. Same person owns the outcome from kickoff to delivery — me.

🇧🇩 Bangladesh — HQ 🇬🇧 London, UK 🇱🇺 Luxembourg 🇺🇸 USA 🇨🇦 Canada 🇩🇪 Germany 🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy 🇦🇺 Australia 🇦🇪 UAE 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇮🇳 India 🇸🇬 Singapore 🇲🇾 Malaysia 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇪🇸 Spain 🇯🇵 Japan 🇩🇰 Denmark

📍 From Nilphamari to the World · 20+ countries served

💗 The family behind the brand

She's not the team.
She's the reason
there is one.

The single biggest reason this brand sounds human. Meet Joya — managing director, co-founder, and the operational backbone of everything in this ecosystem.

Antor and Joya — Built from scratch, together

💖 Joya & Antor

❤️

built with love

"She doesn't just run NextBangla — she's the reason I get to build."

Meet Joya

Joya is the Managing Director of NextBangla Ltd. and the operational backbone of every venture in this ecosystem. We met before NextBangla existed. While I'm dreaming up the next 16, she's making the current 15 actually run.

Strength, sacrifice, and leading with heart — when this brand says "Built from scratch, together," it isn't a tagline. It's literal.

Read her story →

👥 Team · the people behind the work

Antor + Joya,
plus six rotating chairs.

Antor and Joya are the founding pair. The six roles below are active engagement slots — disclosed once an NDA is in place. Real names and photos land after Phase 12 content load.

Founder · Lead architect

Md. Ersaduzzaman (Antor)

Strategy, AI products, founder-grade builds

★ FOUNDER

Managing Director · NextBangla

Joya

Operations, delivery, the reason this runs

★ CO-FOUNDER

Engineering

[Senior engineer — name on contract]

Full-stack, Next.js · Python · LLM stacks

⌛ NDA only

Design direction

[Senior designer — name on contract]

Brand systems, product UI, motion direction

⌛ NDA only

Project management

[Senior PM — name on contract]

Cross-zone delivery, founder reporting

⌛ NDA only

Brand strategy

[Brand strategist — name on contract]

Positioning, story, founder messaging

⌛ NDA only

Video production

[Video producer — name on contract]

Founder films, product demos, brand video

⌛ NDA only

Operations

[Operations lead — name on contract]

Finance, vendor, multi-country compliance

⌛ NDA only

✓ Verified entity since 2011

BASIS Member

Bangladesh Assoc. of Software & Information Services

e-CAB Member

e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh

Chamber Member

Nilphamari Chamber of Commerce & Industry

Accountable to three independent industry bodies since day one ✨

⚡ FAST

🚀 SHIPPED

✨ AI-NATIVE

💸 BD-PRICED

⭐ Ready to build

Let's build
#16 together.

If you're a founder ready to ship an AI-first product, I want to hear what you're building. Discovery calls are free — and yes, I take the calls myself.

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