� 19-year-old founder from Tajikistan gets into Y Combinator with a solo startup

� Y Combinator accepted Wayco into its Winter 2026 batch. The founder is 19-year-old Iqbol Temirkhojaev from Tajikistan. He is building an AI assistant for law firms that handles client intake around the clock.

� Wayco raised $1.5M in a single week. Investor demand reached $3.5M. Backers include Inovo, the Sequoia Scout Fund, the founder of Kayak, and early investors from ElevenLabs and Groq.

� Temirkhojaev has been building early. He started competitive programming at 11, launched his first startup at 13, sold it at 14, and received a state medal at 16.

A rare YC solo founder story, coming from far outside the usual startup hubs.

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