Top 25 Startup Investors in Kazakhstan
A list of 25 angel investors and VC funds 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 25 Startup Investors in Kazakhstan
Quest Ventures is a top venture capital firm in Asia. For entrepreneurs: venture capital. For enterprises: applied innovation. For ecosystems: accelerate.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Singapore, Malaysia, Kazakhstan
Portfolio highlights
- ZumVet — ZumVet provides access to affordable and convenient veterinary care through video calls and medication delivery. They are passionate about animals and want them to get the best possible care by offering video consults, referrals, home visits, and emergency services. It was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Singapore.
- Ion Mobility — Ion Mobility is a tech-driven all-electric mobility company tackling a challenging and complex space.
- Smoothly — Mobile app helping working millennials sleep better, wake up refreshed and increase energy with science-backed breathing exercises
Murat Abdrakhmanov is a co-investor at 2C2P. Attended Fuqua Executive school of bussines.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, B2B
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Kazakhstan, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Zeely — Zeely is a website development platform designed to assist businesses in marketing their web pages. The company's platform allows businesses to create and promote websites without using codes or UI/UX designs, and these codes can be linked with Google Ads or other social media platforms to increase reach, allowing businesses to create awebpage based on AI and expand their audience network.
- Beksar — Beksar offers A flexible reporting system for business of the company from its initial days.
- 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.
Talgat Ismail
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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.
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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.
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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.
I2BF Global Ventures is an international venture capital firm with a global investment mandate. Established in 2005, I2BF Global Ventures has $400M+ under managment and it is currently investing from its fifth fund.The mission of I2BF Global Ventures is to seek out innovative and competitive companies across SaaS, Hardware Enabled B2B solutions(AI, IoT, AR, VR, robotics, RPA & automation), Digital Healthcare, and New Media, which it believes can lead the path to a brighter future. Since the first investment in 2006, I2BF Global Ventures has successfully backed 60+ startups and exited 12 companies.In keeping with its worldwide investment focus, I2BF Global Ventures retains a team of technology and sector experts in New York, London, and Los Angeles. This impressive team ensures a truly global venture capital strategy and a hands-on management approach.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
- Intento — Machine Translation and multilingual Generative AI platform for global businesses. We deliver immediate, tailored, and personalized language experience in all the software systems your customers and teammates already use, supporting over 650 languages.
- SquareDash — Claim funding, online invoicing, and collections process automation to help roofers get paid faster.
Private Venture Capital
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, B2B
- Pre-Seed
- Kazakhstan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Beksar — Beksar offers A flexible reporting system for business of the company from its initial days.
- 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.
- 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
Murat Abdrakhmanov is a co-investor at 2C2P. Attended Fuqua Executive school of bussines.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Information Technology, Advertising
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Kazakhstan, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Zeely — Zeely is a website development platform designed to assist businesses in marketing their web pages. The company's platform allows businesses to create and promote websites without using codes or UI/UX designs, and these codes can be linked with Google Ads or other social media platforms to increase reach, allowing businesses to create awebpage based on AI and expand their audience network.
- 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.
Sawiris Family Office operates as an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Lending, CleanTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Egypt, Germany, Kazakhstan
Portfolio highlights
- Nawy — The ultimate real estate broker in Egypt. Browse areas, compounds, and properties by price, location, and amenities to find the perfect place.
- Solva — Solva operates in the financial services sector, offering a range of solutions to its customers. The company provides online applications for financial assistance, with the potential to receive up to 4 million tenge based on an instant decision. Solva also offers a digital card service, with the possibility of receiving up to 300,000 tenge. Thecompany is committed to raising financial awareness, regularly publishing useful articles and video courses on its website. Solva also provides various methods for the repayment of personal loans, including online, cash, and even bank transfers.
- Hawa Dawa — Hawa Dawa manufactures and develops air quality monitoring systems. Karim Tarraf, Matthew Fullerton, Yvonne Rusche, Jannai Falschberger, and Birgit Fullerton founded it in 2016, with its headquarters in Munich in Germany.
Syrym Kaireshev
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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.
Baring Vostok Capital Partners Limited is a venture capital and private equity firm based in Russia. It invests on early venture, acquisitions, buy-outs, growth capital, later-stage, mid-market, and medium-sized enterprises that operate in sectors such as natural resource extraction, particularly oil and gas; competitive industrial companiesthat operate in local or export markets; mass media and telecommunications; utilities; construction materials; specialty manufacturing; real estate development; residential real estate development; internet; software; retail; and service management. Baring Vostok Capital Partners was founded in 1994 and is based in Moscow, Russia with additional offices in Limassol, Cyprus and Gernsi, Channel Islands.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Series B
- Russian Federation, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Kodland — We teach children a practical skill that will be useful in the future: computer literacy creation of sites and games, programming. Classes are held online, and instead of boring tests, children create real projects.
- Mindbox — Innovative platform for collecting, analyzing, and managing customer data from various sources, boosting marketing efficiency and increasing revenue.
- Jiffy Grocery — Grow your business with Jiffy SaaS platform which includes app/website, picking, delivery, supply chain & replenishment services
Timur Turlov is the chief executive officer and director at Freedom Holding.
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Investment focus
- Logistics, Transportation, Information Technology
- Seed
- Kazakhstan
Portfolio highlights
- Relog — Relog is a Kazakhstani company that provides services to optimize logistics processes. Its software is suitable for all companies that have their own logistics. Its service helps companies reduce their transportation costs and manage all logistics. Currently, Relog works with companies such as Post Express, Daas, METRO, and Spark Logistics. It wasfounded in 2015.
Investment, Consulting
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Investment focus
- Software, Logistics, Automotive
- Series A
- Kazakhstan
Portfolio highlights
- AUTO.KZ — AUTO.KZ – Ecosystem of car ownership Our group of Companies has two main divisions — Software Development and Online agregator of automotive products. We Aggregate and processes offers from hundreds of suppliers from all over the world with a full cycle of customer service: online payment, delivery, technical support, returns, etc.
At Big Sky Capital, we invest in exceptional founders in emerging markets building disruptive SaaS solutions for enterprise. Our firm is based on core set of principles with Founder First mentality. As serial entrepreneurs ourselves, we understand the intricacies of early stage company growth and our goal is to build a VC firm that supports thefounders with action.Our Fund I size is $20M.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Kazakhstan
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Azamat Bissenov
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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.
Saltanat Kudaikulova
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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.
MOST Ventures serves Venture Capitals and startups with business and law consulting.
The team is also looking to deploy capital for our clients in Europe as well as connect startups with investors in Europa and USA.
They are based in Amsterdam and Warsaw. Please free to contact us with any question.
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Investment focus
- Automotive
- Seed
- Kazakhstan
Portfolio highlights
- CTOgram — CTOgram is a Kazakhstan-Based Automotive Start-up.
Yeldar Tolesh is a angel investor.
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Investment focus
- Software, Business Process Automation (BPA)
- Pre-Seed
- Kazakhstan
Portfolio highlights
- Beksar — Beksar offers A flexible reporting system for business of the company from its initial days.
Nariman Zakirov
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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.
Marlen Shokhitbayev
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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.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) invests in changing lives. Through our financial investments, business services and work on policy reform, we're doing more than ever before to build open, market economies across 3 continents.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Banking, Finance
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
- Turkey, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- PL-SUN — PL-SUN is a holding company of UAB Atsinaujinančios Energetikos Investicijos (AEI).
- Rohlik — Rohlik is an innovative grocery delivery startup that offers a 90-minute same-day delivery service. Since its inception, Rohlik has been growing and is on track to EUR 300 mil. revenues in 2020. Rohlík was founded in 2014 by Marek Sacha and Tomas Cupr and is headquartered in Karlín, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic.
- Ipoteka Bank — Ipoteka 94% state-owned bank, is fully involved in policy reforms and state development programs in Uzbekistan.
Evgeny Chebatkov is a blogger and co-founder of Fabula.
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Investment focus
- Video, Creative Agency, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- Kazakhstan
Portfolio highlights
- Fabula — Fabula AI is a versatile software that utilizes neural networks to create and edit images across multiple platforms.
ABC-I2BF is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Computer, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Kazakhstan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Clockster — We help small and medium businesses cut HR overhead by automating payroll, attendance and more at no cost
- ElectroNeek — Unlock unlimited efficiency gains for your repetitive business processes with AI-powered Robotic Process Automation and Intelligent Document Processing Platform
- Aeroexam by Essential Technologies LLC — Best SaaS solution for emerging markets that does not allow cheating on any exam.
Dinmukhammed Abaidylda
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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.
TMT Investments PLC invests in high-growth technology companies across a number of core specialist sectors and has a significant number of Silicon Valley investments in its portfolio. Founded in 2010, TMT has invested in over 65 companies to date. The Company’s objective is to generate an attractive rate of return for shareholders,predominantly through capital appreciation. The Company is traded on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. www.tmtinvestments.com.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Social Media
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Feel — We make the cleanest, potent supplements in the world. Delivered straight to your door. Designed by nutritionists for energy, sleep, stress and hair, skin & nails.
- Whizz — My Device is a subscription-based rental service provider for devices like electric scooters, bicycles, home sports equipment, etc.
- Mobilo Card — Share your contact details with a tap. The best digital business card for teams. This is a real business card, no app. The best and cheapest digital business card.
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