Top 20 Angel Investors in Kazakhstan in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 20 angel investors that invest in startups based in Kazakhstan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Kazakhstan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 20 Angel Investors in Kazakhstan in January 2025

Investor	Kazakhstan investments
Murat Abdrakhmanov	7
Talgat Ismail	3
Bas Godska	3
Adil Nurgozhin	2
Murat Abdrakhmanov	2
Nariman Zakirov	1
Syrym Kaireshev	1
Bakht Niyazov	1
Saltanat Kudaikulova	1
Azamat Bissenov	1
Dinmukhammed Abaidylda	1
Timur Turlov	1
Evgeny Chebatkov	1
Margulan Seissembai	1
Askar Dostiyarov	1
Marlen Shokhitbayev	1
Aman Alimbayev	1
Madiyar Tuleuov	1
Olzhas Akbayev	1
Yeldar Tolesh	1

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Murat Abdrakhmanov is a co-investor at 2C2P. Attended Fuqua Executive school of bussines.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, Kazakhstan, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Beksar — Beksar offers A flexible reporting system for business of the company from its initial days.
GoDays — AI-driven Continuous passive and active analytical tool, preventing burnout of employees. Continuous well-being based on passive collaboration data, sentiment analytics.
PLATMA — PLATMA is a workspace for developing low/no-code solutions with ready-made constructors that reduce the need for large resources and decrease time to market

Talgat Ismail

Investment focus

E-Learning, Apps, Biometrics
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Kazakhstan, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Steppix — Access well structured online dance lessons that pull you in. Discover Steppix: professional dance floors and streaming dance classes to you live and on-demand.
Clockster — We help small and medium businesses cut HR overhead by automating payroll, attendance and more at no cost
Kid Security — Kid Security is a mobile application for child safety.

General Partner & Founder Acrobator Ventures, Tech Investment Fund. Founder Acrobator.com, growth hack and marketing advisory firm. Digital Dutchman, entrepreneur-turned-investor. eCommerce expert, growth hacker and marketeer since 2000. Assisted 100+ companies worldwide as CMO, MD, board advisor, consultant. Personal angel investmentportfolio, overall company value nearing $3BN, follow-ons raised (>$150 MN) from Accel, Iconiq, Insight Ventures, EBRD, Techstars, Acrobator Ventures. Ranked #1 Foreign Angel Investor in Russia (EWDN); Top 10 Angel Investor (Firrma.ru/SLON), Crunchbase: #1 Dutch (2019) & Top 50 EU angel investor. Techcrunch / Crunchbase: "Bas Godska is one of the most prolific Western investors in Eastern Europe."Roles Europe/Russia/CIS (2003-2019): CMO lastminute.com ; Country Manager Sportingbet ; CMO Europe Ebookers.com / Orbitz.com ; MD Gogol Media. CMO / dep. CEO Ozon.ru ; VP Marketing Gloria Jeans ; CMO Lamoda.ru (Rocket Internet) ; CMO Digital KupiVIP.ru ; eCommerce Director a.i. Enter | Svyaznoi ; MD myThings.com ; Guest Lecturer Digital Marketing at Moscow School of Management MBA (3 years).Portfolio: miro.com; harver.com; travelata.ru (co-founder); Chocofamily Holding: chocotravel.kz, chocolife.me, aviata.kz, chocomart.kz (exit), lensmark.kz, rahmet.kz, chocofood.kz, iDoctor.kz, HRbot; Newzmate.com (partial exit to Piano.io); storyterrace.com, getobjectiv.com; Crossss (sold to Leadhit); clockster.com; linkpizza.com; zakaz.ua; urbandine.nl; 6nomads.com, instreamatic.ai., omdena.com, aura-aware.com, awesomic.com, memoryOS.com, VC investments: leapfunder.com; respeecher.com; letsenhance.io; studyfree.org.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Machine Learning
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, The Netherlands, Kazakhstan

Portfolio highlights

Awesomic — Get matched with the best-fit designer on a fixed budget with no stress. Place a design task and see the first results on the next business day. Start today!
SuperWorld — The Virtual World mapped on top of the real world to create, discover and monetize content.
knopka — knopka - is an advanced automated nurse calling system that ensures help is provided on time. One-hour installation. Completely wireless. Compatible with cardiac monitors, fitness trackers, and smartwatches.

Adil joined I2BF in 2012 as an Investment Director and the Head of the Kazakh office for the Russia-Kazakhstan Nanotechnology Fund. His previous experience is diverse across fields such as law, business development and financial investments. He is a serial entrepreneur and an angel investor with a deep knowledge of the Central Asian market. Priorto joining I2BF, he spent 5 years in various executive positions executing investments for the National Welfare Fund Samruk-Kazyna and the Regional Financial Center of Almaty. Adil holds a degree in International Law, he has an MBA and MPA.

Investment focus

EdTech, FinTech, Lending
Pre-Seed, Seed
Singapore, Kazakhstan, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

UvU Shuttle — UvU is a ride-sharing platform which connects parents with licensed vetted care-drivers on 4-seaters providing first-class transportation service for their kids to travel to school or extraclasses.
CTOgram — CTOgram is a Kazakhstan-Based Automotive Start-up.
Kilde — Hands-off regular income with up to 11.5% returns per year. Invest in consumer and SME loans with the leading lending firms.

Murat Abdrakhmanov is a co-investor at 2C2P. Attended Fuqua Executive school of bussines.

Investment focus

SaaS, B2B, Mobile
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Kazakhstan, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Zeely — Grow your sales with AI-powered ads, stunning content, and landing pages that work. Zeely makes it easy to attract customers and handle your orders effortlessly.
Kwaaka — Kwaaka is a subscription-based service that integrates Food Delivery services like Glovo, Wolt, Bolt Food, Deliveroo direct into restaurants’ point-of-sale systems, streamlining order taking processes and menu management through a single interface and eliminating the requirement for restaurant staff to monitor multiple devices and manually repunchorders into their existing system.
Yope — Salo is a discussion platform that erases the borders for people with diverse opinions to let anyone speak up and be heard.

Nariman Zakirov

Investment focus

Software, Information Services, Information Technology
Pre-Seed
Kazakhstan

Portfolio highlights

TrustMe — TrustMe is a trust ecosystem , including 6 services for responsible companies and conscious people: Company - Information service about companies; People - platform for recomendations and achievements; Places - search and selection of places; Contract - online contracts via SMS; Business - business owner's personal account; Coin- a bonus system for people and companies.Registered in 2019, Kazakhstan. CEO and founder - Chingiz Dauletbaev.

Syrym Kaireshev

Investment focus

Software, Information Services, Information Technology
Pre-Seed
Kazakhstan

Portfolio highlights

TrustMe — TrustMe is a trust ecosystem , including 6 services for responsible companies and conscious people: Company - Information service about companies; People - platform for recomendations and achievements; Places - search and selection of places; Contract - online contracts via SMS; Business - business owner's personal account; Coin- a bonus system for people and companies.Registered in 2019, Kazakhstan. CEO and founder - Chingiz Dauletbaev.

From 1997 through 2003 Bakht Niyazov worked in the state system of securities market regulation and was a member of Kazakhstan stock exchange board of directors.In 2004 founded Real-invest.kz, a trading company, without using any borrowed capital. 4 years later the company became one of the leaders at the securities and mutual funds market;company capitalization grew from $50k to $25 mln. Under the guidance of Niyazov, Real-invest.kz participated in the introduction of and placement of shares and bonds of 10 companies, including Gosprodkorporatsiya, ATF-Bank, Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan Engineering. The total value of transactions exceeded $500 mln.Apart from the stock market, Bakht Niyazov is experienced in private equity investments.In 2009 he founded a microloan provider – Real-Credit. Within a year the company became one of the top players in terms of portfolio yield, a number of loans and market share. In 2014 launched a VIP passenger transportation service in Moscow – CyberTransRu. In 2010 founded an investment company – DIFC – that provides financing to projects in the international market. In 2015 became a co-founder of a revolutionary project in the biotechnologies field – MeiraGTx.Over 18 years of experience in executive positions in the banking and investment sectors.