Top 5 Startup Investors in Tajikistan in January 2026

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• Alif — Alif was founded in 2014 by Abdullo Kurbanov, Zuhursho Rahmatulloev, and Firdavs Mirzoev shortly after their return to Tajikistan after years of educational and professional activities abroad. Over the past five years, the company has developed into one of the leading fintech companies in the country, offering its clients a system of technologicaland financial solutions. Alif is the market leader in POS (Point-of-Sale) financing with its installment cards and overdrafts without commission. It is also the largest online B2C platform (alif.shop), the most widely used mobile wallet (alif.mobi) in the country, and an exclusive integrator with the country's largest advertisement website.These services are supported by several internal development programs: core banking, customer relationship management (CRM), mobile wallet, card processing, and an HR and recruitment system developed by Alif's team of more than 50 software engineers.Building on strengths, Alif also goes international by opening its first office in Uzbekistan. As an objective of the company, Alif is also focusing on making remittances cheaper and faster in Tajikistan and beyond.

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• zypl.ai — We help financial institutions, government entities make more accurate decisions
• AwanTunai — AwanTunai seek to reinforce Indonesian needs and productivity by providing digital loan for a better financial freedom and capability to micro-entrepreneurs
• IMAN — One-stop shop for Halal investing

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• Maib — Moldova Agroindbank is a universal bank.
• Banque du Caire — Banque du Caire is a banking company that specializes in providing BDC online banking, phone banking, and mobile banking app. The company was founded in 1952 and headquartered in Al Qahirah, Egypt.
• Yapı ve Kredi Bankası — Yapi Kredi Bankasi, established in 1944, is one of the first nationwide private banks in Turkey. It is engaged in credit cards, assets management, non-cash loans, leasing, factoring, private pension funds and non-life insurance. It is 80% owned by Koc Finansal Hizmetler (KFH), whose combined financial services network consists of over 13 millioncustomers and 835 branches in Turkey.Yapi Kredi was acquired by Mehmet Emin Karamehmet's Çukurova Holding in 1984. In 2003, Çukurova Holding reached an agreement with the Turkish bank regulator to sell the majority of its shares in Yapi Kredi within two years. In 2005, the majority of shares in Yapi Kredi was acquired by the owners of Koçbank. Koç Finansal Hizmetler (KFH) was an equal partnership between Koç Holding and Italian banking giant, Unicredit. In 2006, Koçbank was merged into Yapı Kredi, leaving 80% of Yapi Kredi owned by KFS.

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• Vertelo — Learn how Vertelo is helping to redefine transportation for a more sustainable India through our tailored fleet electrification solutions.
• ACWA Power — ACWA Power is a developer, investor, co-owner and operator of a portfolio of power generation, renewable energy and desalinated water production plants.
• IMON International — “IMON is one of the leading microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the region, and this investment provides an ideal opportunity for the Bank to support its transformation into a specialised bank,” said Ulf Hindstrom, Head of the EBRD’s Resident Office in Dushanbe. “IMON has already received a deposit-taking licence and is working towards becoming adedicated microfinance bank, able to offer banking services in a severely under-serviced market.”

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• BlueQubit — BlueQubit is on a mission to democratize Quantum Computing and make it accessible to everyone. Through our BQ platform users can develop, test and run programs on Quantum Computers.
• Corn — Corn is a new Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to be the best platform for utilizing Bitcoin.
• PilotGo — Developer platform for secure data sharing with multiple partners powered by Digital Twins.