Name: Raising Pains Founder Panel (PitchRoom Tashkent)
Start: 2026-10-17T16:00:00.000+05:00
End: 2026-10-17T18:30:00.000+05:00
Location: Founders Hub

ROOMS is where real-world communities begin. Build recurring Rooms around your expertise, your people and your point of view, then turn them into relationships, opportunities and assets that compound.

ROOMS

, bringing together founders who have navigated accelerators, Seed fundraising, Series A growth and international expansion.

The conversation is designed for founders actively asking questions like:

Uzbekistan's startup ecosystem is expanding quickly. Official figures reported 

$329 million of startup investment in 2025, more than five times the prior year's level

, while new local and international venture funds continue entering the ecosystem. Uzbekistan also has government-backed venture infrastructure through 

, alongside IT Park Ventures and other local funds.

The fundraising playbook is still being written.

PitchRoom Tashkent is being built as a room where founders can write it together.

Founder & Principal · Asymmetric Ventures

He will be joined by a native panel of founders that are navigating various stages of the fundraising process:

Together, they will examine the strategic, financial and emotional realities behind the capital decisions founders make.

Private arrival, founder introductions and networking

Opening remarks and introduction to PitchRoom Tashkent

Founder networking, investor conversations and curated introductions

not intended to be a broad startup networking event.

Attendance will be curated around founders actively building, fundraising and scaling companies.

PitchRoom Tashkent builds on the private founder conversations we have been hosting in New York City through Asymmetric Ventures.

Our recent programming has brought venture-backed founders together for focused conversations around fundraising, growth, ownership and exits, including our private 

 founder panel and subsequent founder programming designed around the decisions that become increasingly important as companies scale.

That gathering followed our flagship New York Tech Week event, which assembled 

345 startups representing more than $1.15 billion in venture backing

, alongside venture investors, family offices and founders across multiple stages of growth.

Uzbekistan is investing heavily in the infrastructure required to develop its startup and venture ecosystem. UzVC operates as a government-backed fund of funds under the Ministry of Economy and Finance, while IT Park Ventures and international venture initiatives are adding additional capital and connectivity to the market.

But ecosystems are not built by capital alone.

They are built when founders can sit in the same room and discuss:

And how do we make the path easier for the next founder?

A recurring private founder community around the conversations that matter while companies are actually being built.