Top 5 Startup Investors in Tajikistan in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in startups based in Tajikistan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Tajikistan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Startup Investors in Tajikistan in January 2025

Investor	Tajikistan investments
Jefferson Capital Ltd.	1
Presto Ventures	1
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development	1
Battery Road Digital Holdings	1
Green Climate Fund	1

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Jefferson Capital Ltd. provides a large scope of investment solutions to professional and institutional investors.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Finance
Funding Round, Debt Financing
Tajikistan

Portfolio highlights

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.

We're a Prague-based VC firm investing in fast growing tech companies and empowering talented startup founders from Central and Eastern Europe.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Czech Republic, Estonia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.
Bavovna AI — Bavovna Inc., a Delaware C-corp, is a dual-use tech company primarily focusing on AI-driven alternative navigation for Unmanned Vehicles operating in GPS-denied and Electronic Warfare (EW) threatened environments. Bavovna combines fully NDAA complaint modular hardware and SaaS AI software for aerial, surface, and subsurface UV platforms to addressmalicious and natural challenges to Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) systems. Bavovna has tested its solutions widely in Ukraine, EMEA, and the US for different types of UAVs, including VTOL, fixed-wing, multi-copters, and surface and underwater vehicles.
Vidar Systems — Vidar Systems is a tech company creating AI-powered acoustic systems for advanced sound analysis and solutions.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) invests in changing lives. Through our financial investments, business services and work on policy reform, we're doing more than ever before to build open, market economies across 3 continents.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, Finance
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
Turkey, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

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.
R.Power Renewables — R.Power Renewables develops renewable energy sources, which contribute to protecting the environment and supporting economic recovery.
Arab African International Bank — Arab African International Bank provides banking, credit cards, payroll, corporate finance and wealth management services.

Battery Road Digital Holdings is a venture capital and private equity firm that focuses on frontier and emerging markets.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Transportation, Payments
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, Egypt, India

Portfolio highlights

zypl.ai — zypl.ai applies 'no data' AI at scale to advance financial inclusion in emerging and frontier markets. Our SaaS solution enables banks and microfinance organizations to instantly and accurate underwrite loans, both offline and digitally, to consumers with limited or no credit history.zypl's proprietary approach includes training AImodels on synthetically generated data with simulation of 'black swan' conditions, providing stable and adaptable SaaS in spite of macro volatility in developing markets. Apart from analyzing traditional variables such as social, demographic, and professional background of clients, our SaaS reviews device metadata, psychometrics, web trace, and macroeconomic factors to arrive at credit decisions.In the process, we fully customize AI models to risk appetite of each individual enterprise partner with the goal of reflecting their competitive market advantages. Additionally, we offer complete flexibility on mode of integration through either cloud or on-premise deployment based on enterprise preference. We only deploy explainable AI models with embedded 'weight-of-evidence' interpretation of each decision made by the software, complying with emerging regulatory requirements on credit scoring.Having launched our beta last year, we have scaled presence to 10 enterprise clients in 4 markets across Central Asia. In this time, we have underwritten >$9 million in consumer and small business (services, trade, agriculture) loans to over 12 thousand consumers with staggeringly low 0.7% portfolio-at-risk rate. Since booking first revenue earlier this year, we have surpassed 25% compounded monthly growth rate and reached financial break-even this month.As a complement to credit scoring, our product team has ventured into churn prediction in telecom sector through partnerships with 3 leading telcos in Central Asia. Our rapid product iteration and development is a result of an AI Academy that we have launched to nurture talent internally.zypl.ai was ideated at Stanford University's Startup Garage and recently completed the Silkway Accelerator by Google for Startups and Astana Hub. Our startup was launched with a grant from the Islamic Development Bank as part of the Transform Fund. With our pre-seed capital raise, we plan on globalizing our AI SaaS solution by expanding to new markets in MENA, Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe.
AwanTunai — AwanTunai seek to reinforce Indonesian needs and productivity by providing digital loan for a better financial freedom and capability to micro-entrepreneurs
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GCF was created to support the efforts of developing countries in responding to the challenge of climate change. It seeks to promote a paradigm shift to low-emission and climate-resilient development, taking into account the needs of nations that are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts.