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Category: Startup Ecosystem
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Seven years on: Travel Massive Almaty and the Central Asian tourism community that grew out of a 2016 KG Labs hackathon
In December 2016, KG Labs Public Foundation ran a hackathon focused on the tourism sector of Kyrgyzstan. We brought in mentors from Estonia, Russia,…
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$30M vs $140M: what a South-East Asian venture investor’s questions revealed about Kyrgyzstan’s IT strategy
In 2022, Uzbekistan’s IT Park — founded mid-2019, so three full years of operation — produced revenue of one hundred and forty million US…
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$74,300 in six weeks: what the 2022 KG Labs × PEAK e-commerce acceleration cohort actually produced
The Russian-language project summary from August 2022 — at /2022/08/08/second-ecommerce-accelerator/ — covers the structural results of the second KG Labs × PEAK Kyrgyzstan e-commerce…
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ABACA Opens: The Business Angels Association of Central Asia, June 2022
On June 23, 2022, the Association of Business Angels of Central Asia — ABACA — held its first official event at OloloErkindik in…
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Will a New Entrepreneurial Class Drive CAMCA Economies? — eCAMCA 2021, Panel 4
On 24 June 2021 the American Foreign Policy Council convened Panel 4 of eCAMCA — the virtual edition of the CAMCA Regional Forum —…
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Startup Kyrgyzstan: The First National Competition, 320 Applications, 30 Teams
In August 2019, Kyrgyzpatent — the State Service for Intellectual Property and Innovations under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic — announced a national…
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Ecommerce and FinTech Hackathon 2019: Three Pre-Events, Three Days, Two Winners
By the time the 2019 E-Commerce and FinTech Hackathon opened on the evening of Friday, June 14, in the State Patent-Technical Library in central…
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KG Labs Submits Recommendations to Kyrgyzpatent on IP Registration and Digital Access, April 2019
In April 2019, KG Labs submitted a formal letter of recommendations to the leadership of Kyrgyzpatent — the State Agency on Intellectual Property…
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An Industry of Individuals: What the ICT Enterprise Registry Reveals About Kyrgyzstan’s Digital Economy
As of January 2018, the Kyrgyzstan National Statistics Committee registry counted 7,522 entities engaged in ICT-related activity across the country. That number — extracted…
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KG Labs Ecosystem Tour, September 2018: Paul Bragiel on Founders, Obstacles, and Attracting Investment
In September 2018, KG Labs hosted Paul Bragiel for a series of meetings as part of the Ecosystem Tour programme — a recurring format…
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Startup Nations Summit 2017, Tallinn: Policy Levers for New Businesses
On November 20–22, 2017, KG Labs founder Aziz Soltobaev attended the sixth Startup Nations Summit in Tallinn, Estonia. The Startup Nations Summit is…