Hero’s Journey and WEDEVX: Central Asian startups that recently attracted significant investments

We are sharing with you a selection of startups from Central Asia that have managed to attract investors and raise significant rounds of funding.

WEDEVX raised $500,000

IT company WEDEVX raised pre-seed investments from Antler and Silicon Valley venture capital.

The startup, founded in 2019 by Kyrgyzstani Adina Tilek and Askar Musakunov, helps individuals acquire IT skills and training to secure desired positions in top companies in the industry. Currently, WEDEVX is valued at $8,000,000.

KPI.com raised $200,000 in investments

KPI.com is a startup for automating business processes: accounting and finance, human resources management, sales and marketing, payroll calculation, project management, as well as business analytics on international markets. The venture fund AloqaVentures invested $200,000 in the startup.

Hero’s Journey raised $900,000 in investments

Hero’s Journey is the world’s first gamified fitness studio, helping people train more effectively and quickly develop a habit of exercising.

The investors included the international venture fund Big Sky Capital and the Kazakhstani investment holding EA Group Holding.

ProsperPay raised $250,000 in investments

A technological service for providing daily salary advances. The startup successfully completed an investment round at a valuation of $3,000,000 from Kazakhstani super-angels.

Murat Abdrakhmanov invested $150,000, and Askar Dostiyarov invested $100,000 in the development of the service.