20-Year-Old Uzbek Entrepreneur Raises $500,000 for Surgent Startup

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) — Bahodir Rajabov, a 20-year-old entrepreneur from Bukhara, has raised $500,000 in funding for his startup Surgent, which was launched in San Francisco.

Surgent is a platform that enables creators and entrepreneurs with no technical background to build their own software products and generate revenue from them.

The investment was structured under standard Y Combinator SAFE terms. The funding was provided by the US-based digital product monetization platform Whop through its CEO Steven Schwartz. According to sources, investors initially considered an acqui-hire arrangement offering high annual salaries and equity stakes. However, the decision was ultimately made to develop Surgent as an independent startup, after which Whop invested directly.

Bahodir began coding at the age of 14. His early projects included Telegram bots and services for downloading videos from TikTok and Instagram, which attracted hundreds of thousands of users. His later projects included an AI-powered legal assistant and the GetIntercall platform, which provides real-time translation with multilingual transcription and speaker separation technology.

At 16, he became a developer at a Polish company, at 17 he worked remotely for a Georgian firm, and later joined the GenAI team at IBM. He subsequently left the corporate sector to focus entirely on his own startup and moved to San Francisco at the age of 20.

Surgent allows users to describe their ideas, after which the system automatically builds the product and handles hosting, payments, taxation, and legal infrastructure. The startup operates on a subscription model with transaction-based commissions and is also developing its own independent payment system.

The project’s active team currently consists of three people. The raised funds will be used to accelerate product development, expand the user base, launch proprietary payment infrastructure, and prepare for the next investment round.

In the long term, Surgent aims to help 100,000 users earn at least $1,000 per month, positioning itself as a platform for the global market.