Weeks 01—03
Ideate
A thesis gets written up against a market we already know, with the three things that must be true stated on one page.
GATE — Signed thesis + kill criteria
VENTURE STUDIO — TASHKENT EST. 2024, UK ENTITY IN LONDON
We start the companies we want to exist.
Startup Garage builds ventures in-house on a twenty-week clock — thesis to incorporation — then recruits the founding CEO and writes the first cheque.
The studio model
Twenty weeks from whiteboard to a company with a CEO.
Four gates. Most theses never clear the second — that is the point.
Weeks 04—08
Validate
Twenty-plus conversations with the exact buyer named in the thesis. We look for the fastest disproof, not encouragement.
GATE — Paying pilot, or the venture dies
Weeks 09—16
Build
The studio bench ships the narrowest product a customer will pay for — product, design, and engineering in-house.
GATE — Second and third customer
Weeks 17—20
Spin out
The venture is incorporated, a founding CEO is recruited in, and our first cheque lands on their first day.
GATE — Company, CEO, capital
Why a studio
Great companies rarely start with a lone genius —they start with a system. We run every idea through the same pipeline, kill most of them early, and put real capital behind the few that survive.
5
Startups built
20+
Products shipped
$1.7M+
Follow-on capital raised
10+
Founders recruited
What a founding CEO inherits on day one
CapitalPre-seed at spin-out, follow-on through Series A
ProductA shipped v1, not a prototype
CustomersSigned pilots that already pay
TeamFounding CEO recruited, first hires briefed
BoardStudio partner in the room through Series A
NetworkCorporate partners, LPs, and operators on call
Companies that did not exist before we started them
All venturesMohirdev
Pulse EV
Humocommerce
Ish.uz
Magicbot
Education
Platforms that turn training into employable engineering and management skill.
Energy
Charging and grid infrastructure built for the region it actually runs in.
Applied AI
Software that removes entire back-office workflows across industries.
Marketplaces
Digitizing fragmented supply chains and labour markets where trust is the product.
Spotlight — founded 2021
Mohirdev
EDUCATION · SEED
THE VENTURE
Mohirdev teaches engineering and management online, and has grown into Uzbekistan's largest IT education platform by student count. Founded in 2021, it now serves more than 50,000 students from a team of around fifty in Tashkent.
BACKING
It raised $750K from Seedstars, AloqaVentures and UzVC, the national venture fund — one of eight companies backed out of UzVC's first $1M fund.
RESULT
50,000+
students enrolled
$750K
raised to date
~50
people in Tashkent
The bench
Who actually
builds them.
Product, design, engineering, and capital sit in the same room. Ventures borrow the bench until they can hire their own.
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Meet the benchMuhammad Xalil
Co-founder
Dilnoza Karimova
Studio Lead
Aziz Rahimov
Head of Build
Shahzod Yusupov
Investments
Nilufar Abdullayeva
Founder Recruiting
Kamola Saidova
Operations
Bekzod Nazarov
Validation
Malika Ergasheva
Design
Playbooks, post-mortems, and studio math — written from inside the garage.
All notes
Contact
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something.
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