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September 2026

September 19, 2026Your startup's next market - the USA
September 18, 2026Applying to UzCombinator: how selection works, who gets in, and what the 45 days hold
September 18, 2026How startups raise investment in Uzbekistan: from idea to Demo Day
September 18, 2026What is a startup accelerator, and what does it give a startup? The Uzbekistan view
September 18, 2026Sessions continue at UzCombinator!
September 17, 2026Unexpected financial opportunities for startups!
September 16, 2026VC Party returns to Tashkent!
September 16, 2026Are you spending hours putting subtitles on your videos?
September 16, 2026UzCombinator x Speko
September 16, 2026AgroTech Demo Day - a big opportunity for agro startups!
September 15, 2026GrowMock partners with the Youth Affairs Agency's Ko‘mak project
September 15, 2026Drone Edu Train raises $40,000 from Yoshlar Ventures and Turin Polytechnic University
September 15, 2026Fonus Kids reaches the Nexus Awards 2026 final - vote now
September 15, 2026HabitKid: 19-year-old founder Abdullox builds a habit app for children
September 14, 2026Occlum raises $40,000 from United Ventures
September 14, 2026An exclusive session with Alisher Tojiev took place!
September 14, 2026Monday content pick!
September 11, 2026Towards the future of cloud technologies and artificial intelligence!
September 11, 2026AloqaVentures partner Davron Parmonov on valuation, due diligence and funding rounds
September 10, 2026Gobi Partners venture fund visits the Youth Affairs Agency and UzCombinator
September 10, 2026UzCombinator × VoiceLab.uz: a 3-month Pro subscription for Season 2 residents
September 10, 2026Central Asia's largest 1st Furniture Makers Forum!
September 9, 2026Does your startup really need "Top of Mind" marketing?
September 8, 2026UzCombinator x Sarbon University
September 7, 2026Does your startup really need venture capital?
September 7, 2026How to enter the US market the right way, and effectively?
September 7, 2026Inside Y Combinator: a master class with Sardor Rahmatulloev, the first Uzbek YC founder
September 5, 2026GrowMock founder Mehriniso: 100,000+ users and $8,000 MRR at 17
September 4, 2026The next big opportunity and investment doors for our startups!
September 4, 2026A session with Baymurat Abdimuratov, engineer at Y Combinator-backed Speko.AI
September 4, 2026Sessions with our founders are on again today!
September 3, 2026Another session took place at UzCombinator!
September 3, 2026The next exclusive meeting at UzCombinator!
September 1, 2026Milebit - one super-app for US truck drivers
September 1, 2026Dear compatriots and dear young people!

August 2026

August 30, 2026Catalyst in partnership with Yandex Uzbekistan - PITCH DAY!
August 29, 2026Founders: "From an idea to a real project"
August 28, 2026ANORBANK × Fonus Kids - a new partnership for our children's future!
August 28, 2026UzCombinator Investor Platform: the first closed meetup for venture funds
August 28, 2026Photos from today's exclusive session with UzCombinator co-founder Ulug‘bek Ismatov
August 26, 2026Meet the projects accepted into UzCombinator Season 2!
August 26, 2026New partnerships continue at UzCombinator!
August 25, 2026Moments from the “How to Get Your First 50-100 Customers?” session
August 25, 2026The UzCombinator Season 2 startups are growing their teams!
August 21, 2026UzCombinator X Mutolaa: a new reading challenge has started!
August 20, 2026Y Combinator and a16z founders at UzCombinator Season 2: meet the six guests
August 18, 2026Don't know where to start a startup?
August 18, 2026UzCombinator Season 2 officially opens with six venture funds
August 17, 2026Founders Camp in Bo‘stonliq: a week-long camp and Demo Day for 30 founders
August 15, 2026Graduates of the world-famous Y Combinator and a16z Speedrun accelerators and successful Silicon Valley founders are coming to Uzbekistan!
August 14, 2026The Day X?
August 11, 202622,000,000 SOUMS ARE WAITING FOR YOU!
August 11, 2026Photos from day 1 of the “Founders Camp” in Bo’stonliq
August 8, 2026Day 2 of the New Generation Entrepreneurs programme kept up the high tempo.
August 7, 2026Day 1 of the “New Generation Entrepreneurs” programme is under way
August 6, 2026Cornell University professors are already at UzCombinator
August 6, 2026Applications for Catalyst are open!
August 5, 2026At last! The day everyone was waiting for has come!
August 5, 2026The list of startups accepted into UzCombinator Season 2
August 5, 2026Meet our professors coming from Cornell University!
August 5, 2026Do you actually know about Cornell University?
August 4, 2026Cornell University professors to teach at UzCombinator Season 2
August 3, 2026We are on a real battleground - 175 startups competing for 30 places!
August 1, 2026HubSpot becomes a UzCombinator partner: 90% off for startups
August 1, 2026Interview stage | day 2 photo digest

July 2026

July 29, 2026Time to find out who made it to the interview stage
July 29, 2026UzCombinator's circle of partners has grown again!
July 28, 2026At last! The day everyone was waiting for has come!
July 27, 2026More good news - UzCombinator keeps growing!
July 25, 2026Another special guest for the UzCombinator Season 2 participants!
July 24, 2026Happy birthday, dear President!
July 23, 2026UzCombinator keeps opening the door to new opportunities for startups!
July 22, 2026Still waiting for the UzCombinator Season 2 results?
July 22, 2026Media Challenge results!
July 22, 2026Wheeeen are the results coming out?
July 21, 2026UzCombinator Season 2 in numbers: 3,583 applications, 0.84% acceptance
July 21, 2026An important announcement from UzCombinator
July 20, 2026Don't say "we're Uzbeks, we'll submit at the last minute anyway".
July 18, 2026Attention: an update on the site!
July 17, 2026Attention - a challenge at UzCombinator
July 16, 2026Uzbekistan ranks first in the world for venture investment growth - Dealroom report
July 16, 2026“Let's talk openly” and “Buildathon” are back!
July 14, 20268 fields where we want startups to be built
July 13, 2026What kind of founders do we need in UzCombinator Season 2?
July 12, 2026We can see your questions about the application process are piling up.
July 12, 2026ANSWERS TO FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
July 11, 2026Another productive day at UzCombinator today!
July 11, 2026UzCombinator doesn't stop bringing news!
July 11, 2026Dear Alisher Sa’dullayev Zafarovich!
July 10, 2026What exactly does it take to get into UzCombinator Season 2?
July 10, 2026UzCombinator Season 2 applications open: 45 days, a $1,000 stipend, a $1M Demo Day
July 9, 2026Season 2 of UzCombinator's 45-day acceleration programme is officially open!
July 8, 2026Long-awaited news after the month-long "Founders Camp"!!!
July 6, 2026Founders Camp wraps up: 14 regions, 2,195 applications, 1,145 founders
July 1, 2026Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Guangzhou - a great opportunity for startups aiming at the Asian market!

June 2026

June 30, 2026President Shavkat Mirziyoyev met young people at the Youth Day exhibition in the Olympic Town
June 28, 2026You set LinkedIn on fire!
June 25, 2026Otabek Nurmuhammad is with us at the Tashkent Founders' Camp today
June 23, 2026Portugal - Uzbekistan
June 21, 2026The Fergana Founders Camp results are ready!
June 20, 2026We've reached the Imom Ota park with our founders and started our hike
June 20, 202630 June - a great Youth Day gift from DeepenWell
June 20, 2026Marifat Jamal is with us today
June 19, 2026The Andijan Founders Camp results are ready!
June 18, 2026World Cup | Round 1
June 18, 2026FIFA World Cup
June 18, 2026Historic moments: Uzbekistan's first ever World Cup match!
June 17, 2026Let's hear what the Jizzakh Founders' Camp was like from our founders themselves.
June 16, 2026Farhod Furkatov is with us at the Jizzakh Founders Camp today
June 14, 2026Anyone recognise this man?
June 13, 2026Proposals from the UzCombinator founders within the Youth Affairs Agency's “Initiatives Marathon”
June 12, 2026Good news from our founders
June 12, 2026Your ideas and initiatives matter a lot to us!
June 11, 2026Our venue for the Surkhandarya Founders' Camp - Uchqizil
June 10, 2026The era of "I have a startup idea but don't know what to do" excuses is over!
June 9, 2026The Business Robots AI team, which raised $150,000, is with us in Samarkand
June 9, 2026Camp + $60,000
June 9, 2026Founders Camp is on its way to Samarkand.
June 8, 2026The results for Samarkand are ready.
June 7, 2026Our Bukhara founders on Founders Camp.
June 7, 2026TheCarGo raises $110,000 in investment
June 6, 2026No comment
June 6, 2026Attention - urgent, please share
June 3, 2026Our founders accepted into the Karakalpakstan Founders Camp have started the celebration
June 3, 2026The dates for every Founders Camp region are set!
June 2, 2026Hmm… interesting, what could this be for?
June 2, 2026We've reached the Qalajiq fortress.
June 1, 2026We're on our way to Khorezm.

May 2026

May 28, 2026Beknazar accepted into Y Combinator - the second Uzbek YC founder (Speko)
May 27, 2026Happy Eid al-Adha!
May 26, 2026TechCombinator: Uzbekistan's first hardware accelerator and $160,000 in investment
May 25, 2026The most exciting project for startup builders is starting.
May 23, 2026Someone is building an EdTech AI Agent,
May 20, 2026The university majors unicorn founders studied.
May 19, 2026“Let's talk openly” and Buildathon are open again!
May 19, 2026Uzbekistan's startup ecosystem grew 227% - StartupBlink Global Index 2026
May 15, 2026Ready to take your project to the international level?
May 15, 2026Meet the UzCombinator Buildathon judges!
May 14, 2026Who is funding the best startups right now?
May 13, 2026A 3-day Tech Festival will take place in Tashkent
May 13, 2026Every startup founder should watch this podcast
May 12, 2026You have a chance to join one of the strongest startup schools in the world.
May 9, 2026Dear founders!
May 8, 2026This workshop will help your startup grow 10x.
May 7, 2026We hope the next stop is London.
May 6, 2026Here are the UzCombinator Season 1 startups and their categories.
May 6, 2026See how many startups have come out of the top universities.
May 5, 2026Today we presented UzCombinator to our Turkish brothers.
May 3, 2026Stanbase is launching Uzbekistan Founder Portrait 2026, a study of startups in Uzbekistan
May 3, 2026If you're a game developer - this is a big opportunity for you
May 2, 2026We've hit 10K on Instagram
May 2, 2026Meet the participants and winners of UzCombinator Hackathon Week 1.
May 2, 2026Our UzCombinator Hackathon participants are presenting to the judges.
May 1, 2026Our weekly tradition continues - we're ready to hear you again.

April 2026

April 30, 2026Meet our judges at the UzCombinator Weekly Hackathon!
April 30, 2026Another of our startups has received investment.
April 30, 2026News for those who love to build
April 21, 2026Flow Chrome extension gets an $80,000 investment offer from Yoshlar Ventures
April 17, 2026Now that's news!
April 15, 2026Between influencer-marketing platform: $80,000 raised and $20,000 monthly turnover
April 14, 2026Uzbekistan's youth policy on the international stage
April 13, 2026Diip, the Central Asian logistics startup, raises $100,000
April 9, 2026Getting a $350,000 grant for your startup from trillion-dollar companies like Google, Amazon and Microsoft
April 6, 202645 days. 3 startups. 2 brothers.

March 2026

March 30, 2026Aleem is with us today…
March 30, 2026Moomkin raises $140,000 in investment
March 28, 2026UzCombinator feels empty without its founders….
March 27, 2026It was a pleasure for UzCombinator to hear the thoughts of the Powell Hacker House founder
March 26, 2026For some of our founders, “Demo Day” is still going on.
March 25, 2026We have some very big news for you?
March 24, 2026We've put the useful podcasts for startup founders in one place.
March 24, 2026If you're curious about our Season 1 founders' startups, or want to try them, here they are
March 20, 2026A live workshop with the next guest at Startup Ambassadors!
March 19, 2026A meeting with the first Uzbek founder accepted into Y Combinator!
March 18, 2026Yesterday Sardor Rahmatullaev, the first Uzbek accepted into Y Combinator, met our founders after Demo Day and broke the fast with them
March 17, 2026Business lunch
March 17, 2026UzCombinator Demo Day: startups raise $975,000 - the full list
March 17, 2026Business Robots AI - $150,000
March 17, 2026Bozorly AI - $35,000
March 17, 2026Between - $80,000
March 17, 2026Ravon Cloud - $35,000
March 17, 2026ContentCoach - $35,000
March 17, 2026Mebelim - $30,000
March 17, 2026Moomkin - $30,000
March 17, 2026Flow - $80,000
March 17, 2026Zehnly AI - $30,000
March 17, 2026diip.uz - $100,000
March 17, 2026Lumi - $30,000
March 17, 2026Converza - $35,000
March 17, 2026Oqim - $25,000
March 17, 2026FBA Flow - $50,000
March 17, 2026ttlk - $100,000
March 17, 2026The Car Go - $100,000
March 17, 2026Now we'll start introducing you, one by one, to our founders who raised investment
March 17, 2026I took part in the Demo Day of UzCombinator's first batch, where the whole ecosystem gathered
March 17, 2026$975,000 in investment has been awarded.
March 17, 2026Interesting - where else in Uzbekistan could there be networking bigger than this?
March 17, 2026We're streaming our presentations online too.
March 17, 2026Our presentations have begun.
March 17, 2026The UzCombinator founders on stage
March 17, 2026Abdulaziz Yakubov, head of Yoshlar Ventures, took the floor
March 17, 2026Mirzobek Quldoshev, head of the Youth Entrepreneurship Development Fund, took the floor
March 17, 2026Demo Day has begun!!!!!!
March 17, 2026Today this door opens not just for entry, but for millions of dollars of investment too
March 17, 2026When we were choosing a host for Demo Day, we couldn't find anyone more fitting.
March 17, 2026What can you do at 6 in the morning?
March 17, 2026The star participants of Demo Day
March 16, 2026The invitations are ready.
March 16, 202645 days…
March 16, 2026Demo Day tomorrow
March 15, 2026Does all this remind you of something?
March 15, 2026We said Demo Day was near
March 14, 2026Demo Day is near, friends
March 12, 2026Today a partnership was set up between UzCombinator and IT Park Ventures.
March 6, 2026ATTENTION, STARTUP FOUNDERS! Big changes in the ecosystem and an important open dialogue!
March 6, 2026How should startups handle legal matters?
March 6, 2026Plug and Play mentor Dea-Anne D’Amico held an exclusive workshop at UzCombinator.
March 5, 2026Today a memorandum of cooperation was signed between UzCombinator and United Ventures.
March 4, 2026Today the UzCombinator accelerator signed its first memorandum of cooperation with the AloqaVentures venture fund
March 4, 2026The next mentor at UzCombinator - Davron Parmonov.
March 4, 2026Yoshlar Ventures representatives held a mentoring session for the startups at UzCombinator

February 2026

February 25, 2026Uzbekistan's young people are stepping onto the global stage.
February 24, 2026Today was another historic day for young people
February 20, 2026Do you like qovurdoq?
February 20, 2026Haven't forgotten today's event?
February 19, 2026Late as it was, a master class from Shakhzod Umirzakov
February 19, 2026A two-day mentoring session with Otabek Suvonov took place at UzCombinator
February 17, 2026For the first time in Uzbekistan
February 14, 2026The first Uzbek accepted into Y Combinator: twolabs.ai founder Sardor
February 12, 2026What if Akmal Paiziyev cooked you a barbecue for building a startup?
February 12, 2026A workshop from the head of Domino Ventures - interested?
February 12, 2026We started today with a master class from Ozodbek Ulmasov.
February 10, 2026Sometimes the pictures speak for themselves.
February 9, 2026An office tour at Click took place today
February 6, 2026Our master classes with experts continue.
February 5, 2026For the first time in Founder’s Cafe history - a Founder’s Party.
February 2, 2026A master class on the road from attracting a customer to the purchase is under way

January 2026

January 31, 2026We have some who are “asleep”. And we need founders who are on fire.
January 30, 2026Every meeting is an opportunity for our founders.
January 30, 2026How do you build a product users genuinely love?
January 29, 2026(23:59) Think they're sleeping?
January 28, 2026Our trackers have started their work.
January 28, 2026We opened day 3 with a master class from Sardor Akhmedov, founder of Synergy Labs.
January 27, 2026Think you need a rest in the mountains?
January 26, 2026The first day of the UzCombinator programme has come to a close.
January 26, 2026You get what to do first when you arrive at UzCombinator, right?
January 25, 2026We've prepared gifts for 30 founders.
January 25, 2026Tomorrow the classes begin for the 30 winners of the UzCombinator accelerator.
January 21, 2026The final 30 participants have been selected.
January 20, 2026“So, have the 30 been picked?”
January 14, 202620:20
January 10, 2026From our creative comments
January 6, 2026From a garage to a billion-dollar company
January 3, 202610.01 - the day the results are announced.
January 3, 2026We'll soon answer the question that crossed from the old year into the new.

December 2025

December 31, 2025We share your excitement.
December 28, 2025We'll announce who has passed to the offline interview stage of the UzCombinator programme on 31 December
December 27, 2025UzCombinator Season 1 applications in numbers.
December 27, 2025Our sincere thanks to every ambitious founder who applied for UzCombinator Season 1 and showed interest in the programme
December 26, 2025From next year the “Digital Startups” programme expands, with a full support system from startup idea to export
December 25, 2025Is your startup not growing?
December 24, 2025We continue introducing you to our mentors.
December 24, 2025You'll learn CusDev from the “pros”.
December 23, 2025Another expert joins our mentors ....
December 23, 2025How are million-dollar startups built?
December 23, 2025Incubation is the process of turning your idea into a real startup.
December 22, 2025Shavkat Karimov, who had a successful career at Microsoft, will mentor you!
December 22, 2025How about learning to pitch by watching?
December 22, 2025Acceleration is a springboard for your startup.
December 21, 2025Pitching to investors will no longer be a problem for you
December 21, 2025A venture fund is a special investor fund that invests in high-risk startups and innovative projects that can bring big returns
December 20, 2025Yesterday's live stream was very lively.
December 19, 2025We continue introducing you to our “fiery” mentors!
December 19, 2025The MVP is your startup's skeleton.
December 18, 2025Tomorrow at 20:00 we're holding an online audio stream with you!
December 18, 2025If you want to raise investment for your startup, this channel will definitely help you
December 18, 2025Interested in how to raise 1 million dollars in investment too?
December 18, 2025What kind of startups are the world's top accelerators picking?
December 17, 2025"If I share my idea, they'll steal it!"
December 17, 2025Do you think so too?
December 16, 2025We're waiting for your startup in the applications!
December 16, 2025Thank you for applying to UzCombinator!
December 14, 2025This programme is for startups at every stage
December 14, 2025Registration is open!
December 14, 2025The UZ Combinator presentation is starting
December 13, 20251
December 12, 2025More than 3,000 people who want to build their own startup are ready to join our webinar
December 11, 2025You guessed right…
December 11, 2025The 3 days that changed Airbnb's fate..
December 9, 2025Many people in the comments are asking “how do we get full information?” or “how do we apply?”
December 5, 2025A new page is opening in the world of startups...

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