🐍 Python+AI Microsoft Reacter live translation (Oct 21) at 10pm (UTC+5)
developer.microsoft.com/en-us/reactor/events/26298/?&utm_source=startup.vg

Prepare for the Microsoft Imagine Cup competition
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🦄 Pivot Talk with Higgsfield AI: Featuring the Founder of Kazakhstan’s unicorn!

🔹 The next guest of Pivot Talk is Alex Mashrabov, the founder of Higgsfield — the creator of Kazakhstan’s first billion-dollar startup.

⚡️ He will share his real-world experience in building a global startup, developing an AI-powered business model, and raising investments at scale. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to learn directly from a world-class founder!

❓ What you’ll learn in this masterclass:

- Real insights on how to reach “unicorn” status;
- How to effectively leverage AI in business;
- Strategies that attract top investors;
- Lessons from Kazakhstan’s journey to global markets.

📅 Date: October 22, 2025 | 8:00 PM (Tashkent/Almaty time)
🗣 Language: English
🎤 Format: Online
🔗 Register sgfounders.school/?&utm_source=startup.vg

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💰 Debt Funding for Central Asian Startups: A Practical Guide for Founders

Most Central Asian founders only think about raising equity, but that means giving up ownership every time you need capital. Debt lets you fund growth, extend runway, and scale without dilution - if you know how to use it. Understanding when and how to raise debt is fundamental to your fundraising strategy and strengthens your position with equity investors.

Wednesday, November 26
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM GMT+5
Virtual ONLINE

LIVE by Helicap, ​ALMA, ​Sturgeon Capital VC

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🏆 Microsoft Imagine Cup 2026 Is Live — Build with AI, Learn from Experts, Compete Globally

January 9 Submission Deadline

Here’s what to do this week:

1. Register. Your registration unlocks everything you need to take your idea further:
aka.ms/2026ImagineCupRegistration

2. Activate your FREE Azure credits (up to $5,000 USD) portal.startups.microsoft.com/
These credits are designed to help you build, test, and scale your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) faster with Microsoft AI.

3. Stay focused on your January 9th submission.
Your project doesn’t need to be perfect, but it does need to be real.
Show us your build, your progress, your thinking, and your impact.
This is where student ideas turn into products that matter.

Featured Story: Helping Students Turn Their Builds into Breakthroughs

For more than two decades, Imagine Cup has been the space where student founders transform late-night ideas into companies with real traction.

Highlight alumni who started exactly where you are and built solutions that now reach industries from healthcare to agriculture to space:

Opaque Media: classroom project → used by NASA
SmartArm: AI prosthetic nearing FDA approval
From Your Eyes: 98%-accurate AI support for low-vision users
ProTag: raised $1M+ in agritech funding
Hollo: $1.8M HKD supporting youth mental health

These teams didn’t wait for permission. They built, tested, iterated…and Imagine Cup helped them accelerate what was already taking shape.

Read the full story and see what’s possible when students build boldly techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/studentdeveloperblog/20-years-of-student-innovation-helping-students-turn-builds-into-breakthroughs/4474237

Imagine Cup x GitHub x Replit: A Power Combo for Student Founders
Equipping student founders with enterprise-grade AI tools, meaningful mentorship, and visibility. Together, we are helping teams prototype faster, iterate with intention, and build solutions that are good for business and good for the world techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/studentdeveloperblog/imagine-cup-x-github-x-replit-the-power-combo-helping-student-founders-build-wha/4476611
Because when great platforms come together, student-built solutions can change industries and shape what’s next.

Apply until 08.01.2026
Register imaginecup.microsoft.com/?&utm_source=startup.vg

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