From Idea to product: We are live 🟢

After 8 months of hard work, 4Rize is officially live!
It’s been a wild ride for us, filled with challenges, learning, and excitement too. Here’s a glimpse into our startup journey:

Listening to the market and learning

We kicked things off by doing what any startup should do: talking to fintech product teams! We wanted to understand their needs and pain points when it came to banking and fintech solutions research. We attended many fintech events, participated in competitions, and gained all the knowledge we could.

We took 3-day Startup Instructors Program by KOICA and USAID. It was like a mini MBA for startups! Here’s what we learned:

• Get out of office and talk to potential customers.
• Keep interviewing until you truly understand the problems you’re trying to solve.
• Be flexible and willing to change your product after interview results.

Basically, build your startup on solid research, not guesswork.

Top 10 Finalist, She Loves Tech Global Competition

We were selected as a Top 10 Finalist at the She Loves Tech Global Startup Competition! Competed against 100+ amazing women (co-) founded startups from Central Asia.

The support and mentorship from Accelerate Prosperity Kyrgyzstan and Kite Mongolia were invaluable. We learned so much from industry experts at companies like Salesforce and Deliveroo.

Turning insights into action

We used all customer feedback to refine our platform and make sure it truly addressed the needs of our users. We realised that people needed a better way to understand the competitive landscape in banking and fintech.

What 4Rize offers today

• UI screenshots and videos: We’ve gathered user journeys from 30 banks in Uzbekistan and Europe, including Uzum, Paynet, Click, Monzo, N26, Barclays, and more.
• Users’ reviews: See what real users are saying about your competitors and your own app on Google Play and the App Store. We believe that listening to customers is key to building successful banking and fintech solutions.

Our future roadmap

• Expanding our database: We aim to have a library of 500 banks’ user journeys from the CIS, Europe, and the US by the end of 2025.
• Building a live banks ranking: We are working on creating a dynamic ranking of banking apps for each geographical location so you can always see who’s at the top.
• Integrating AI: We are planning to use AI to make your competitors, market and user journey analysis faster.

We’re excited to help banks and fintechs build the best banking and fintech solutions backed by data.