Business case competition · since 2025

A real company. A real case. Your strategy.

A company hands over its problem, your team builds the strategy and defends it in front of the company's managers.

Next: Tashkent, 4 October, a case from KFC

14rounds

Past cases

Real problems, solved by students.

Every round so far, newest first. A company hands over a real problem, teams build a strategy, and the company's own people judge it.

Case 145 September 2026
Mondelux · Samarkand
Mondelux
Mondelux Group Companies set the official case and sent its professional judges.
1stYuksalish
The case Report
Case 1330 August 2026
Mega House · Bukhara
Mega House
A case from Mega House, published two days before the round.
1stPioneers
The case Report
Case 1229 August 2026
Feed Up · Tashkent
Feed Up: five cases, one on the day
Feed Up published five cases; teams prepared for all five, and one was set on the day. Forty-five minutes to build the team's presentation, references required, no AI.
1stFASA
The case Report
Case 11August 2026
Navoiy, Gulistan, Fergana, Dushanbe
Regional round
Beyond the border: Navoiy, Syrdarya, Fergana and Dushanbe in Tajikistan.
Report
Case 1028 and 29 March 2026
Fergana, Jizzakh
Regional round
Two cities on two days: more than fifty participants in Fergana, more than twenty-five in Jizzakh.
Report
Case 0915 February 2026
Karshi
Regional round
A hundred participants in Karshi, and an internship for the winners.
Report

Past judges

The founders and managers who judged the pitches or spoke to the participants, as the channel introduced them.

Gazeta.uz
Guest speakerFounder of Feed Up
Umid Ergashev
Spoke at the Tashkent round built on his company's cases and took the participants' questions; Feed Up's directors and top managers judged it.
Tashkent, 29 August 2026Post
From the round's poster
Guest speakerGuest speaker in Bukhara
Rayxon Pulatova
Spoke to the participants of the Mega House round in Bukhara.
Bukhara, 30 August 2026Post
A photograph from the round
JudgeJudge in Fergana
Karim
Joined the jury of the first regional tour in Fergana. The channel names him Karim aka.
Fergana, August 2025Post
From the round's poster
JudgeChief Audit Executive, Crafers
Sunnat Makhmudkhonov
Oversees finance, risk and internal control at one of Uzbekistan's leading confectioners. Judged the Crafers round.
Tashkent, 27 April 2025Post
From the round's poster
Guest speakerFounder of SATMakon
Asilbek Ashurov
The first student from Uzbekistan to win a full $420,000 scholarship to the University of Chicago. Spoke at the first two rounds and gave an online workshop on the business portfolio.
Tashkent, March and April 2025Post
From the round's poster
JudgeFounder and CEO of Texnomart
Ahror Abdukarimov
Built Texnomart into one of the biggest electronics retailers in Uzbekistan. Judged the first Vericase, on his own company's case, and later met the community at an evening of its own.
Tashkent, 23 March 2025Post

Photo gallery

The photographs of every round, newest first. Open one for the full story, the facts and the album.

Statistics

Only what the reports printed. Where a report gave no number, none is counted.

Sums of the figures in the channel's reports.

Organisations and hosts

The universities, hotels, centres and administrations that hosted the rounds or signed the certificates.

British Management University
Hosted the first two rounds, in March and April 2025.
Kapital Bank Academy
Opened its academy for the IT hackathon.
Frankfort Hotel
Hosted the Tashkent round with Pyramids Resorts.
Yoshlar Markazi
The youth centres where the winter tour ran, with the Fund.
Courtyard by Marriott Tashkent
Hosted the eight-hour Tashkent round with Feed Up.
Mirobod tumani hokimligi
Signed the participants' certificates in Tashkent.
Abu Hafs
Hosted the Bukhara round.
Buxoro hokimligi
Signed the participants' certificates in Bukhara.
SamDTU
Samarkand State Technical University, host of the Mondelux round.
Central Asian University
Next round
Host of the KFC round in Tashkent, 4 October 2026.

Partners

The companies that set the cases, judged, sponsored and invested.

Long-term partners

The partners who came back.