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About UzCombinator
What is UzCombinator?
UzCombinator is the accelerator that turns an idea into a company an investor wants to see, in 45 days. Product, first customers and funding - not theory, but mentors who have built companies, in a room that only looks at results.
The founder first
We choose the person who will do it, not the idea. The programme is built around that person.
Results on Friday
One goal a week. If there is nothing to show on Friday, the week did not happen.
One room
Side by side with the country's most determined teams. Competition, and a shoulder.
No borders
Built in Tashkent, sold to the world. The local market is the start, not the end.
UzCombinator in numbers
5,036
applications
Every dot is one application. Batch 1: 1,453, Batch 2: 3,583.
55
startups accepted
About one in every 90 applications. The teams that pass the interview enter the 45-day programme.
45
days
Six weeks. One clear goal and one mentor each week - and something that works by Friday.
$960,000
raised from investors
In Batch 1, 16 startups left the stage with funding. The largest single investment was $150,000.
Why UzCombinator?
Not a course. In 45 days your startup is in the shape an investor wants to see - money, people and a stage in one place.
- 01
$1000 stipend
For 45 days you think about the product, not the rent.
- 02
One mentor a week
Someone who has built a company, one on one. Not theory - a road already walked.
- 03
Demo Day
The room is investors who write cheques. In Batch 1, sixteen startups raised that day.
- 04
Community
55 startups, coaches and investors - still in your phone when the programme ends.
- 05
Results every week
By Friday there is something to show. Not a plan - a thing that works.
- 06
A global market
It starts in Tashkent. It does not stop at the border.
How it works
Application to Demo Day - five steps.
- 01
Apply
10 minutes
No deck - you write what you are building in your own words.
- 02
Interview
30 minutes, face to face
We back the person who will do it, not the idea.
- 03
45 days
6 weeks
One goal and one mentor a week. By Friday there has to be something to show.
- 04
Demo Day
3 minutes, investors in the room
You prepare for the stage with us.
- 05
After
For good
The programme ends; the door does not close: the community, the investors, the next round.
How the six weeks go
Every week has one clear goal.
week 01 of 06
- 01Week 1
What you're building
One sentence: for whom, what, and why you.
- 02Week 2
The first version
Not a drawing. Something a person can pick up and try.
- 03Week 3
Face to face with customers
Ten conversations. The answers that hurt are the ones worth having.
- 04Week 4
Growth
The first paying customers. Numbers choose the channel, not guesses.
- 05Week 5
The company
Equity, paperwork, the numbers. Ready in a minute when an investor asks.
- 06Week 6
The stage
A three-minute story, told a hundred times before the stage.
55 startups, two batches
See them all
Batch 1 Demo Day results
More than half of Batch 1 raised that day.
$960,000
Total raised on Demo Day
$150,000
Largest single investment
Demo Day · 17.03.2025
Who you'll be in the room with
The team, the mentors and the investors you spend the 45 days with.
Firdavs Urinov
Mentor
Sardor Umirdinov
Mentor
Murodillo Ismailov
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Safina Teshaboyeva
Mentor
Alisher Tojiyev
Mentor
Mavlonbek Murodov
Mentor
Sardor Akhmedov
Mentor
Farhod Norboyev
Mentor
Bunyodbek Jumanazarov
Mentor
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