What is Venture Capital?
VC’s Provide Risk Capital for High-Growth Businesses
Venture capital firms are professional, institutional managers of risk capital that enable and support the most innovative and promising companies. Venture capital supports new ideas that:
– Could not be financed with traditional bank financing;
– Threaten established products and services in a corporation or industry; and
– Typically require five to eight years to reach maturity.
Our mission
Uzbekistan venture capital assoсiation has a mission to support to the development of the venture ecosystem in Uzbekistan, attraction of international venture capital into Uzbek startup ecosystem by building a bridge between local and global ecosystems to facilitate the motion of knowledge, technology and capital.
OUR TASKS
Our activities have an objective to support the establishment and
development of the venture capital market in Uzbekistan
development of the venture capital market in Uzbekistan
Promotion and networking
- highlighting the importance of venture capital to the economy in support of entrepreneurship, innovation and overall economic development
- building local and international market awareness about the venture capital industry in Uzbekistan
- promoting Uzbekistan venture capital investment opportunities to foreign VC investors
- organizing roadshows for internationals VC investors
- encouraging angel and syndicated investments
Lobbying and protecting
- advocating for public policy that supports the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Uzbekistan.
- lobbying for creating new investment vehicles and schemes to expand investment opportunities
- supporting investors in every aspect, from providing reliable information to establishing connections at the industry and government levels.
- protecting VC investors rights
Educating and informing
- developing an education and training system of venture capital specialists in Uzbekistan
- collecting and spreading the most relevant data on industry from the world
- sharing news, modern trends and best practices
Conducting research
- doing industry overviews by gathering and analyzing venture capital and startup ecosystem activity in Uzbekistan
- providing international investors, associations, research institutes and others with information on Uzbek market
Our Advisory Board
Uzbekistan Venture Capital Association’s Advisory Board made up of well-known personalities from the venture capital and private equity sector and its related fields. Board’s mandate is to consult the UZVCA team on the development of the venture ecosystem in Uzbekistan.
Bakhrom Ibragimov
Head of EBRD
Venture Capital
Eduard Fiyaksel
President of the Start
Investment Business
Angel Association
Ruslan Akhmetov
Advisor InfraFund
Russian Venture Company
Anvar Irchaev
CEO
Orient Capital
Management
Zafar Malikov
Partner
Centil Law Firm
Timur Nasirov
Founder
Gourmet Concept
Botir Arifdjanov
Founder LeBazar.uz
Farkhod Mukhiddinov
Private Equity
M&A, Asset Management at UzOmanCapital
Adil Nurgozhin
Venture Investor
Chairman of the Board of Directors QazTechVentures
Our team
Dilshod Zufarov
CEO
Amir Maksad
Business Development & Strategy
Diyora Xalilova
PR-manager
Our members
Why become a Member?
We connect our members and partners with the main players of the global VC market. UZVCA plays the role of a bridge between Uzbek and foreign VC ecosystems.
