Nemo Shakhverdiev

Hey everyone

Got accepted into LvlUp Labs.

300+ startups applied.
15 were selected.

I m one of them.

Hey everyone

Yesterday, we officially registered VertoX AI.

It s a small line on paper, but a big step for us, turning something that started as just an idea into a real company.

Behind this are years of thinking, building, testing, and refining what VertoX could become. And honestly, it still feels like we re just getting started.

Hey everyone

I didn t think I d get into an accelerator. I had no team, just an idea, VertoX. And then I got accepted. So I did what felt right at the time: I started building a team. That turned out to be my mistake.

I spent around 3 months trying to build a local team. Around 8 10 people joined and left during that time. Some did very little, some did nothing, and overall progress was almost zero. At the same time, the accelerator expected fast results, but VertoX is not a simple product; you don t build real-time voice AI in a few weeks.

In the end, I didn t pass the accelerator. But I learned something important from that experience. Early decisions matter much more than you think. I was limiting myself by focusing only on local hiring, and that slowed everything down.