Top 5 Startup Investors in Tajikistan in May 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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• 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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• 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.
• The New Era® of Shopping — The New Era® of Shopping helps merchants make their catalogues discoverable and shoppable inside AI assistants. Key features of the platform include two-way catalog syncing with PIMs/ERPs, SKU-level intelligence to measure AI visibility and ranking of products inside LLM responses, user prompts analysis for trends and volume insights, andautomated content optimization to improve how products rank in conversational answers. The product is already integrated with all major eCommerce platforms like Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, Wix, etc, as well as main AI discovery platforms: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Google AI Mode, and Perplexity.

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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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• Akbank — Akbank is a commercial bank providing financing to cotton producers.
• Preply — Looking for a tutor? Preply is the best platform for private online lessons with a flexible payment system and affordable prices. Book your first lesson.
• Bank Of Africa — BMCE Bank of Africa offers banking products for individuals, professionals, Moroccans living abroad.A confirmed upward trend, such is the result of the 2014 financial year, bringing out the consolidation of the financial base of BMCE Bank of Africa Group, with its earning power growing stronger year by year.This was recently againdemonstrated by the record reached by the Net Income Attributable to the Parent, standing at MAD 1.944 billion, just under the bar of MAD 2 billion, accounting for more than the double of the amount of 2011, thus providing proof of concept for the Group’s strategic policy orientations, both in Morocco and abroad.Combined with the broader diversification of the business sectors, this performance further reflect the rising power of the Group, which is gaining a firmer foothold in Subsaharan Africa, inter alia through, the launch this year of the African Entrepreneurship Award, a competition with strong economic and social impact.Today, we have reached a new milestone in the development of BMCE Bank, which is gathering further strength as a continental Group, leveraging this powerful « Bank of Africa » brand name by coupling it with our prestigious BMCE Bank brand. « BMCE Bank of Africa » reflects our desire to extend our continental reach by setting up new establishments more especially in English-speaking and Portuguesespeaking parts of Africa.As a Maghrebian and Pan-African Group, our corporate responsibility is evidenced by all the commitments of our subsidiaries, acting as the operational and efficient vehicle. Whether this relates to financing of developmental projects or to community-based actions geared to promote financial inclusion, the Group, in its African dimension, has managed to position itself as a key player, highly involved in the economic, social and environmental development of the 30 countries where we are doing business.As part of 60th anniversary of the Independence of Morocco, 2015 will see the celebration of the 55th anniversary of the creation of Banque Marocaine du Commerce Extérieur, as well as the 20th anniversary of its privatization. We are confident that on these auspicious occasions, the accomplishments made by BMCE Bank and its subsidiaries will be far more striking, living up to the expectations of their shareholders, in line with the stature and the national and international outreach of BMCE Bank of Africa Group.