# AK Capital

> AK Capital is a venture advisory and founder-education firm based in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, founded and led by Azizbek Kurbonov (Азизбек Курбонов). It designs and runs incubation, acceleration and investment-readiness programmes for universities, donors and international organisations, venture funds and corporate clients. Legal entity: AZARI TS IMPEX LLC. AK Capital is an advisory firm, not a venture fund, and is not affiliated with companies named AK Capital in other countries.

## Key facts
- Founder and CEO: Azizbek Kurbonov
- Location: Tashkent, Uzbekistan; serves Uzbekistan and Central Asia
- Team: 10+ coaches and mentors
- Languages: Uzbek, Russian, English
- Track record: 500+ founders trained through The Art of The Pitch; 100 founders from the Taqdimot accelerator (with Aloqa Ventures) raised USD 2M+; pre-acceleration with Turin Polytechnic University in Tashkent and Yoshlar Ventures led to investment in 4 startups (about USD 160K, university co-invested)

## About Azizbek Kurbonov
- Founder and CEO of AK Capital; advisor to Yoshlar Ventures
- CEO of United Ventures (2025), a USD 40.5M venture fund founded by seven state-owned banks of Uzbekistan
- Co-founder and Co-CEO of Sug'urta Bozor (2021-2025), the first insurance marketplace in Uzbekistan
- Author of the course The Art of The Pitch; teaches the 12-week university course "Launching a Venture"
- BSc Economics, Westminster International University in Tashkent; Cornell Venture Growth Program; Yale SOM Strategy Executive Program
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azizbek-kurbonov/

## Services
- Universities: incubation and acceleration programmes, startup-as-thesis tracks, credit courses, Training of Trainers
- Donors, IFIs, government: venture ecosystem programmes (with UNDP), investment readiness, founder materials in Uzbek
- Venture funds: deal-flow scouting, investment readiness, positioning for funds entering Central Asia
- Corporates: executive education, corporate trainings, pitch coaching

## Pages
- [Home](https://akcapital.uz/): services, projects, biography, articles, media, FAQ, contact

## Articles by Azizbek Kurbonov
- [Venture money is there, founders are not: why venture education must start at university](https://the-tech.kz/venchurnye-dengi-est-ne-hvataet-faunderov-pochemu-venchurnoe-obrazovanie-dolzhno-nachinatsya-v-universitete/) (2026-09-14, The Tech, in Russian)
- [The innovation dilemma of Uzbek business: what stops companies from adopting new processes](https://the-tech.kz/innovaczionnaya-dilemma-uzbekskogo-biznesa-chto-meshaet-vnedryat-proczessy/) (2025-08-04, The Tech, in Russian)
- [Being a strategist means being at the point of maximum leverage, not everywhere](https://the-tech.kz/byt-strategom-znachit-byt-ne-vezde-a-byt-v-tochke-maksimalnogo-rychaga/) (2025-05-24, The Tech, in Russian)
- [How to get the most out of an accelerator programme: seven ways](https://the-tech.kz/kak-vyzhit-iz-akseleraczionnoj-programmy-maksimum/) (2024-11-09, The Tech, in Russian)
- [Grant or investment: the pros and cons of each type of funding](https://the-tech.kz/grant-ili-investiczii-plyusy-i-minusy-finansirovaniya-ot-azizbeka-kurbonova/) (2024-08-10, The Tech, in Russian)

## Contact
- Email: az.kurbonov@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azizbek-kurbonov/
- Telegram channel: https://t.me/praktikAzizbek
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/az.kurbonov/