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Catalyst x Yandex

Yandex Uzbekistan opened up its focus areas to the teams — it showed where it was looking for technology solutions, and the teams presented their products directly to the company's own team.

Winning teams

At the Catalyst x Yandex pitch day, startups presented their products directly to the Yandex Uzbekistan team. The three strongest teams secured investment.

  1. Core AI — $100K INVESTMENT

    Core AI$100K INVESTMENT

    The platform behind your AI. Core AI helps organisations choose and adapt a model, test the setup and record what works, then run it — GPU capacity on CoreAI Cloud, the Inference API, or one-click deployment that Core AI keeps running.

  2. VoiceLab — $80K INVESTMENT

    VoiceLab$80K INVESTMENT

    Speech technology for the languages the big labs skip — text to speech, speech to text, voice isolator, dubbing, meeting AI and voice agents across 33+ languages, including Uzbek. Today: 25 B2B clients, 18,000 users, 4M minutes processed.

  3. Bonu — $40K+$30K INVESTMENT

    Bonu$40K+$30K INVESTMENT

    Uzbekistan’s first custom cake constructor, delivered in three hours — hundreds of trending designs, your own cake built in 3D, and birthday reminders. 10,000+ users, all organic. Awarded $40K investment plus $30K in Yandex Plus credits.

The Best Moments of the Process

Glimpses of the meetings, hands-on workshops and shared work with our partners.