Top 15 Startup Investors in Uzbekistan in February 2025
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in startups based in Uzbekistan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Uzbekistan. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Startup Investors in Uzbekistan in February 2025
Investor | Uzbekistan investments |
---|---|
Sturgeon Capital | 8 |
AloqaVentures | 2 |
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development | 2 |
Tesla Capital | 1 |
TaiwanICDF | 1 |
Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative | 1 |
UzVC National Venture Capital fund | 1 |
FinSight Ventures | 1 |
Quest Ventures | 1 |
Xanara | 1 |
Le Mercier’s Capital | 1 |
Block0 | 1 |
MyAsia VC | 1 |
Battery Road Digital Holdings | 1 |
Finnfund | 1 |
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh
Portfolio highlights
- Cargon — A simple, fast and innovative industry leading service with powerful analytical tools.
- DealCart — DealCart enables users to buy their favorite products in groups by allowing users to buy in groups and sharing deals on WhatsApp and other social media platforms.
- Oasis — Oasis provide loans to small businesses and individual entrepreneurs.
AloqaVentures is corporate venture fund of Aloqabank that invests in pre-seed and seed stage startups
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Investment focus
- SaaS, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Portfolio highlights
- Didox — Didox is a leading electronic document management platform in Uzbekistan, serving a vast network of over 250,000 organizations and 200,000 self-employed people.Didox offers comprehensive services for document management, streamlined purchases, increased sales, and simplified banking operations, catering to the needs of organizations inUzbekistan.
- Delever — Delever is an automation platform for delivery that assists businesses of various sizes in efficiently managing resources, scaling up, establishing quality communications with customers, increasing profits, and delivering orders as quickly as possible right to the doors of their consumers.
- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Banking, Finance
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Dislog Group — Dislog Group is a diversified Moroccan industrial group operating in three key sectors: health, hygiene, and food.
- Cosmos Health — Cosmos Health is a healthcare group that focuses on the nutraceutical sector through its own proprietary lines of products. In addition, the group is involved in the healthcare distribution sector through its subsidiaries in Greece and the UK, which serve retail pharmacies and wholesale distributors.Cosmos Holdings is strategically focusing onthe R&D of novel patented nutraceuticals (IP) and specialized root extracts, as well as the R&D of proprietary complex generics and innovative OTC products.
- Crnogorski elektrodistributivni sistem — Crnogorski elektrodistributivni sistem is the state-owned energy distribution corporation in charge of supplying electricity to consumers through its enormous network.
Tesla Capital is an early stage venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed
- Uzbekistan
Portfolio highlights
- IMAN — One-stop shop for Halal investing
TaiwanICDF is dedicated to boosting socio-economic development, enhancing human resources, and promoting economic relations in a range of developing partner countries. We also offer humanitarian assistance and provide aid in the event of natural disasters or international refugee crises.
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Investment focus
- Debt Financing
- Uzbekistan
Portfolio highlights
- Gojo & Company — We are enabling financial inclusion for everyone by partnering with financial service providers.
- Milk Euro Food — Milk Euro Food is the producer and distributor of butter, spreads, and margarine in Central Asia.
We-Fi is collaborative partnership among government.
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Investment focus
- Banking
- Debt Financing
- Uzbekistan
Portfolio highlights
- Ipoteka Bank — Ipoteka 94% state-owned bank, is fully involved in policy reforms and state development programs in Uzbekistan.
- First City Monument Bank — First City Monument Bank (FCMB) Ltd is a full service banking group, headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria with the vision to be the Premier Financial Services Group of African origin.
UzVC is a state fund of funds to develop the local VC and a startup ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Software, Education
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Uzbekistan
Portfolio highlights
- Modme — O`quv markazlarini avtomatlashtirish platformasi
- TASS VISION — TASS VISION is an artificial intelligence tool that helps to increase by 15% revenue of retailers via providing in-store analytics. Available to any retailer, our solution helps to reduce routine tasks, optimize internal process, improve the customer experience, increase sales and profit now. In the future we are planning to provide full autonomouscheckout free technology any size of retailer.TASS VISION was founded in 2019 and it is based in Tashkent city, Uzbekistan.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
- Unify — Route your prompts to the best LLM endpoint. Get the best output and optimize for speed, latency and cost to supercharge your LLM applications!
- Superfone — Superfone is an All-in-One business phone and CRM app for SMBs. Calls, Whatsapp, Marketing, CRM everything in one powerful app made for your entire team. Track team activity, sales and get controls.
- Easy Home Finance — Easy Home Finance is a mortgage-tech startup.
Quest Ventures is a top venture capital firm in Asia. For entrepreneurs: venture capital. For enterprises: applied innovation. For ecosystems: accelerate.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Singapore, Malaysia, Kazakhstan
Portfolio highlights
- ZumVet — ZumVet provides access to affordable and convenient veterinary care through video calls and medication delivery. They are passionate about animals and want them to get the best possible care by offering video consults, referrals, home visits, and emergency services. It was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Singapore.
- Ion Mobility — Ion Mobility is a tech-driven all-electric mobility company tackling a challenging and complex space.
- Smoothly — Mobile app helping working millennials sleep better, wake up refreshed and increase energy with science-backed breathing exercises
A leading Multi-family Office building wealth and legacy for clients through strategic investment advisory in UAE and investment planning.
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Investment focus
- Software, Digital Marketing, Business Development
- Series A
- Uzbekistan
Portfolio highlights
- Uzum — Uzum is a digital services ecosystem to facilitate business growth, online shopping, convenient payments, and help with other day-to-day household tasks.
Le Mercier’s Capital is a single family office which invests both strategically and opportunistically in growth capital situations.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed
- Uzbekistan
Portfolio highlights
- IMAN — One-stop shop for Halal investing
Block0 is a Belgian IT company specialized in blockchain and decentralized technologies.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, Internet
- Seed, Series A
- India, Singapore, Uzbekistan
Portfolio highlights
- IMAN — One-stop shop for Halal investing
- Bastion — Bastion is a lending, borrowing and exchange protocol built on Aurora, the Ethereum-compatible layer of the Near blockchain.
- Infinity Exchange — Infinity is an Institutional Money Markets protocol with the most efficient market-making mechanism across DeFi.
MyAsia VC
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Deciml — Deciml is an investment app in India that enables Indians to start investing young by investing the spare change from their online transactions. Download App.
- Neem — Neem is an embedded finance platform enabling Financial Wellness for underbanked communities across emerging markets, starting in Pakistan.
- Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
Battery Road Digital Holdings is a venture capital and private equity firm that focuses on frontier and emerging markets.
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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
- IMAN — One-stop shop for Halal investing
Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Energy
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
- Kenya, India, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- AwanTunai — AwanTunai seek to reinforce Indonesian needs and productivity by providing digital loan for a better financial freedom and capability to micro-entrepreneurs
- Access Bank — Access Bank provides banking products and services to individual and business customers in Ghana. It offers standard savings and current, access advantage, solo, and premier accounts. The company also provides online banking services that include ATM, online access, and point-of-sale terminal services; and bills payment and Western Union moneytransfer services.
- Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.
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