Founded in the region
AI-native startups built in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia or Armenia — already shipping, already earning their first users.
Eurasia
Growth Hub
Open Call for AI-native founders across Central Asia and the Caucasus.
Applications reviewed on a rolling basis
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
🇬🇪 Georgia
🇦🇲 Armenia
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan
🇹🇯 Tajikistan
🌍 The diaspora
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
🇬🇪 Georgia
🇦🇲 Armenia
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan
🇹🇯 Tajikistan
🌍 The diaspora
London
New York
Berlin
Dubai
Singapore
San Francisco
Amsterdam
Tokyo
London
New York
Berlin
Dubai
Singapore
San Francisco
Amsterdam
Tokyo
Who we backYou don’t have to
You don’t have to
already be based there.
We’re looking for AI-native startups founded in the region, teams planning to relocate there, and diaspora founders — born there, building anywhere.
Relocating here
Teams planning to land in the region and build from it. Come for the talent and the cost base; stay for the market you can reach from here.
Diaspora founders
Born there, building anywhere. If your roots are in the region and your company is in Berlin, Dubai or the Bay — you belong in this cohort.
✦ Inbound trackNot from the region?
Not from the region?
You can still apply.
If you’re a founder anywhere in the world who wants funding, customers, or a foothold in Central Asia and the Caucasus, this is your way in too. Come build with us — go global, from here.
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core markets
Uzbekistan · Kazakhstan · Azerbaijan · Georgia · Armenia
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SAFE note
Standard terms, signed inside three weeks
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weeks of market entry
Hands-on, in London, with your team
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warm intros required
The open call is genuinely open
The offerOne SAFE note.
One SAFE note.
One team working for you.
Standard terms, signed fast, with no cap-table games. Everything after that is execution — and that part we do alongside you.
Instrument
A single SAFE note — then we get to work.
No convoluted structures, no regional discount on your valuation, no fifteen side letters. One instrument, one signature, and a team in London whose job is to put your product in front of the world.
Standard paperNo side lettersSigned in 3 weeks
One team in London
Not a mentor directory. A working team on your side of the table — positioning, pipeline, fundraise narrative, warm intros.
Customer introductions
Curated routes into UK, EU and US buyers who already have budget for what you build.
Compute & model credits
The infrastructure to train, evaluate and ship without burning your runway on GPUs.
Soft landing, handled
Entity, banking, visas and first hires — the unglamorous work that otherwise eats a quarter.
The founder room
The region’s strongest AI builders, in one cohort, on the record with each other.
How it runsFrom open call
From open call
to open market.
Four steps, no dead air between them. We move at the speed a founder actually needs.
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Apply
10 minutesOne form. No warm introduction required, no deck theatre. Tell us what you’ve built, who uses it, and where you want to be a year from now.
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Deep dive
Two callsWe pressure-test the wedge with you — the market, the model, the moat. You get a straight answer either way, fast.
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Terms
Inside three weeksOne SAFE note on standard terms. No regional discount, no side letters, no six-week redline cycle with a law firm you didn’t pick.
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Go global
Twelve weeksMarket entry, run properly: first international customers, the hires that unlock them, and a fundraise narrative that travels.
QuestionsThe things founders
The things founders
ask us first.
No. We back AI-native startups founded across Central Asia and the Caucasus, teams planning to relocate there, and diaspora founders building anywhere in the world. And if you have no connection to the region but want a foothold in it, there’s an inbound track for you too.
One SAFE note on standard terms — the same paper we’d use for a company in London or San Francisco. No regional discount on your valuation, no stacked side letters, and no six-week redline cycle.
The model is the product, not a feature bolted onto something else. If removing the AI would leave a working business, you’re probably a better fit for a generalist fund than for this call.
We read everything from pre-seed upward, but we want something real in front of real users — a prototype people already argue about beats a deck that promises one.
No. Your company stays where it makes sense. But the twelve weeks work best with meaningful time on the ground, and we’ll help with the visas and logistics that make that possible.
The open call is reviewed on a rolling basis. We come back to every applicant either way — usually within two weeks of your submission.
Open callCome build with us —
Come build with us —
go global, from here.
Four fields and one sentence about what you’re building. That’s the whole first round. We read every application ourselves and reply either way.