Author: Eileen Trenkmann

partners:
Garage48 jointly with GroundZero has conducted a 
hackathon for start-ups in Tashkent. 
Techstars in collaboration with GroundZero 
conducted the Startup Weekend Tashkent. 
In September 2019, Seedstars will host 
SSWTashkent19 jointly with GroundZero. The winning 
team will have the chance to participate in the 
regional Seedstars Summit at the end of 2019 in 
Kazakhstan.
StartupFactory.uz in cooperation with several 
organisations among others the Union of Youth and 
the Center for Advanced Technologies, is conducting 
the Technovation Challenge in Uzbekistan, that was 
initiated by Technovation, a global NGO empowering 
girls and families.
SartupFactory.uz with ClimateLaunchpad, a global 
competition for green businesses, have conducted 
the program in Tashkent in 2019. The winners from 
Uzbekistan will participate in the Global Grand Final 
in Amsterdam in November 2019.
IT Park jointly with Unbound held an elimination 
round for an international IT contest in Tashkent.
Not only have the number of events with global
partners surged, there are also many local events
coming up. Examples of larger local events are the
Startup Mix Conference, the Inno Week and the
Central Asia Women in Tech & Science Week
Conference. Startup Grind, a global startup
community, actively educating, inspiring and 
connecting entrepreneurs through events, was 
recently established in Tashkent. Many universities 
have also started conducting smaller scale 
competitions or start-up events to encourage 
entrepreneurship among their students. Given the
increase in events, Tashkent ranks on a par with 
other Asian cities that are significantly bigger than
Tashkent. 
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Kuala Lumpur
Hanoi
Jakarta
Bangkok
Chennai
Tashkent
Ho Chi Min City
17
15
15
14
14
13
11
Number of events per year
A growing number of events involving global 
startup support organisations

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5.5 Infrastructure
Startup Ecosystem Report Tashkent
INFRASTRUCTURE -
domain
TRANSPORT - subdomain
Overall Quality
Roads Quality
Railroad Quality
Ports Quality
Air Transport Quality
Air Transport Capacity
UTILITIES - subdomain
Water Supply Quality
Electricity Access
Electrical Outages
Pollution Index
Coworking Space Cost
Cost of Living
Electricity Quality
Utilities' Cost
ICT - subdomain
Internet Cost
Mobile Internet Cost
Mobile Subscription Cost
Mobile Broadband
Penetration
Internet Speed (Down)
Internet Speed (Upload)
Smartphone Penetration
Internet Penetration
Prepaid Subscriptions
Mobile Subscriptions
54,82
41,08
37,79
51,49
69,05
36,83
48,36
2,94
86,14
100,00
93,89
98,26
91,58
75,52
93,29
47,91
88,71
37,23
43,28
90,11
96,97
41,43
11,66
7,97
18,62
52,11
5,00
5,21
High quality infrastructure, from basic necessities such 
as roads and consistent access to water and electricity, 
to ICT and internet penetration, is an important 
foundation from which startups can build. The 
infrastructure domain is assessed by analysing a city’s 
quality of transportation, utilities, and IT factors such as 
the spread of internet and smartphone penetration. In