Startups from Central Asia and the Caucasus that attracted investments in June 2026

June 2026 was a busy month for the Central Asian venture market: a major round from Armenia, several early-stage investments in Uzbekistan, and growth stories from Kazakhstan and Tajikistan demonstrated how regional startups are expanding internationally. We have compiled all the deals of the month in one article.

Azerbaijan

Spark Student Innovation Program
The digital ecosystem Bir concluded its Spark Student Innovation Program. The winning team, KəndYol, received 4,000 manats. The second place went to AEVIC Esports with a prize of 2,000 manats, and the third place was taken by the Booker team, which received 1,000 manats.

Armenia

Netris
Armenian startup Netris raised $15 million in a Series A round led by the venture fund Andreessen Horowitz. The company develops networking software for AI infrastructure, enabling large GPU clusters to operate stably in complex network environments. Over the past 12 months, the company's ARR grew by 800%. To date, more than 35 production deployments have been implemented.

Kazakhstan

BookEat
Kazakh startup BookEat, which develops a platform for the restaurant industry that combines table reservations, pre-ordering meals, guest flow management, and analytics in a single app, raised $200,000 in investment following the Demo Day of the first cohort of the Almaty 2026 Investment Readiness Accelerator. Of this amount, $100,000 was invested by business angel Askhat Sagdiev, Chairman of the Board of Directors of MOST Holding.

Rolab
EdTech project Rolab, founded by Sabirzhan Mustafin and developing STEAM education in robotics and programming, raised $200,000 from startup Shanyraq Study, which acquired a stake in the company. The deal will allow the Rolab program, previously used by students from Haileybury Astana, Nurorda, RFMSh, and NIS, to reach the mass market, making the course directly available to parents.

ORDO
The startup raised $100,000 from CS Angels Club in a Pre-Seed round. The company's valuation was $2 million. The deal closed following the startup's participation in the Investment Readiness Accelerator Tashkent 2.0. ORDO develops an ERP SaaS platform with an AI assistant for preschool organizations, automating daily kindergarten processes and improving communication with parents.

Uzbekistan

Joymee
The startup raised $150,000 in an investment show called Taqdimot on Zo'r TV. Participants in the round included IT Park Ventures, AloqaVentures, and a group of business angels from Nexus Club. Joymee develops a digital platform for finding and posting real estate listings with an interactive map of properties. Currently, the platform hosts more than 130,000 listings nationwide.

Fonus Kids
EdTech startup Fonus Kids raised $55,000 in Pre-Seed investment from AloqaVentures. The company creates safe digital content for children, including cartoons, educational videos, interactive tasks, and audio materials filtered by the child's age.

Between
The startup raised $130,000 in a Pre-Seed round from AloqaVentures and Yoshlar Ventures. The company is developing a SaaS platform that connects influencers and content creators with businesses on a barter basis, opening up a new direction in marketing.

TheCarGo
Uzbek startup TheCarGo raised $110,000 in a Seed round: $80,000 was invested by Yoshlar Ventures, $10,000 by a16z venture scout Yasin Ehsan, and $20,000 by a local private investor. The company is developing an AI platform to automate automotive logistics processes in the United States. The solution is integrated with Central Dispatch and Super Dispatch systems; to date, the platform is used by ten brokerage companies in the US market.

Avtomato.uz
The business process automation platform Avtomato.uz for retail and installment sales enterprises raised $100,000 in investment from Imkon Ventures. Currently, the service serves more than 100 corporate clients, and by the end of 2026, the company plans to increase this number to 500.

Ayan Capital
British Islamic FinTech startup Ayan Capital, founded by serial entrepreneurs Abdullo Kurbanov, Firdevs Mirzoyev, and Zuxursho Rahmatulloev—creators of Alif, one of the largest FinTech projects in Central Asia—raised $1 million in investment from IT Park Ventures as part of a $4 million ASA round.

Tajikistan

Startup Battle Female Founders Forum Tajikistan 2026
As part of the forum, an international startup battle was held in collaboration with Founders School and Ilmhona. The competition involved 16 startups in the fields of AI, AgriTech, FinTech, and EdTech.

Startup Solomon AML, founded by Sultansho Nazarshoev, won the startup battle and received a grant of 6,000 somoni. Fieldron, a project by Nigora Jabborova in the field of agrotechnology, took second place and received 4,000 somoni for development. Third place was taken by the startup InTech-Forecast, founded by Aruzhan Mominbaeva. The project team received training under the Founders School Pro program.