#Fintech
The region's best startups speak every language but English
Central Eurasian venture funding hit a record $320 million in 2025. The opportunity is not the money — it is that almost no one is telling the story to the people who could fund its next chapter.
Uzbekistan's first unicorn is just getting started
Uzum crossed a $2.3bn valuation in 2026 — the high-velocity second pillar after Kazakhstan.
Why Kaspi rewrote distribution economics
A single super-app changed how an entire country pays, borrows and shops — and the global payments lobby is still adjusting.
Georgia's sandbox and the open-banking race
Tbilisi's central bank has become the region's most legible fintech regulator. Founders are noticing.
A day inside Tashkent's fastest startup
Field notes from the office, the product and the funding reality of Uzum.
Open banking, Caucasus edition
Three central banks, three timelines, one shared idea: that the rails belong to whoever serves the consumer best.
Inside Uzum's super-app playbook
A walkthrough of every product line, ranked by contribution margin — and the one nobody outside Tashkent is paying enough attention to.
Stablecoins, but for utilities
A pilot in Astana is the first serious attempt to use stablecoin rails for cross-border B2B settlement at meaningful volume.
Why Tbilisi is the only city building real fintech infrastructure
Georgia's regulator is not the loudest in the region. It is, by a wide margin, the most useful.