Nurzhas Makishev
Angel Investor
Boston, United States
Nurzhas Makishev is a seed investor in Boston focused on Transportation and Robotics. Nurzhas Makishev - Founder @ NKM Capital
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Nurzhas Makishev invests in
Stages Nurzhas Makishev invests in
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$6M
- Series A
- $6.9M–$28M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Transportation 4 (31%)
- Robotics 3 (23%)
- Software 3 (23%)
- Logistics 3 (23%)
- Blockchain 3 (23%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (38%)
- Series A 4 (31%)
- Funding Round 3 (23%)
Country
- United States 8 (62%)
- India 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| SaaS Practice Management Software for Dental Practices | $6M / Seed / Nov 07, 2022 | ||
| Numerai is a new kind of hedge fund built by a network of data scientists. It uses its cryptocurrency to incentivize tens of thousands of anonymous data scientists around the world to collaborate to create predictive models in history. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $7.5M / Seed / Apr 06, 2016 | ||
| Cruise is building the world’s most advanced self-driving vehicles to safely connect people with places, things, and experiences they care about. Cruise autonomous vehicles are on the road in San Francisco navigating some of the most challenging and unpredictable driving environments, because the best way to bring self-driving technology to theworld is to expose it to the same unique and complex traffic scenarios human drivers face every day. | $12.5M / Series A / Sep 18, 2015 | ||
| Abra is the digital cash, peer-to-peer money transfer network. Buy, sell, and hold bitcoin or send bitcoin or fiat to any bitcoin wallet or any other Abra user instantly and securely. Abra uses bitcoin and blockchain technology to enable users to transact in over 50 currencies, including bitcoin.Founded in 2014 by Bill Barhydt, serialentrepreneur and global mobile-banking veteran, their team is based in Silicon Valley and committed to forever changing how the world moves money. | $12.6M / Series A / Sep 10, 2015 | ||
| Flirtey provides drone delivery service of retail and e-commerce items to consumer homes. It is driven by a mission to improve lifestyles by making delivery instant for everyone.The company was the first to conduct an FAA-approved drone delivery in the U.S., the first to perform a fully autonomous drone delivery to a home and the first to launcha commercial drone delivery service.Flirtey was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada. | Sep 07, 2015 | ||
| Flirtey provides drone delivery service of retail and e-commerce items to consumer homes. It is driven by a mission to improve lifestyles by making delivery instant for everyone.The company was the first to conduct an FAA-approved drone delivery in the U.S., the first to perform a fully autonomous drone delivery to a home and the first to launcha commercial drone delivery service.Flirtey was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada. | Sep 07, 2015 | ||
| Flirtey provides drone delivery service of retail and e-commerce items to consumer homes. It is driven by a mission to improve lifestyles by making delivery instant for everyone.The company was the first to conduct an FAA-approved drone delivery in the U.S., the first to perform a fully autonomous drone delivery to a home and the first to launcha commercial drone delivery service.Flirtey was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada. | $120K / Seed / Aug 18, 2015 | ||
| Ripple provides one frictionless experience to send money globally using the power of blockchain. It offers a global real-time payment system that enables banks and financial institutions around the world to directly transact with each other without the need for a central correspondent. The company also offers FX Market Making, a solution enablingenterprises to gain access to cross-currency liquidity through a distributed network that allows foreign exchange to be externally sourced from a competitive FX marketplace or an internal FX trading desk. This minimizes FX exposure thereby lowering the volatility and counter-party risk of trades. Ripple Insights features industry updates, insider perspectives, and in-depth market analysis. | Series A / May 19, 2015 | ||
| Ripple provides one frictionless experience to send money globally using the power of blockchain. It offers a global real-time payment system that enables banks and financial institutions around the world to directly transact with each other without the need for a central correspondent. The company also offers FX Market Making, a solution enablingenterprises to gain access to cross-currency liquidity through a distributed network that allows foreign exchange to be externally sourced from a competitive FX marketplace or an internal FX trading desk. This minimizes FX exposure thereby lowering the volatility and counter-party risk of trades. Ripple Insights features industry updates, insider perspectives, and in-depth market analysis. | $28M / Series A / May 19, 2015 | ||
| Smarking is a group of MIT PhDs, stellar software engineers, and seasoned business professionals who set out on a journey to bring cutting edge solutions to the parking world. Frustrated that unlike many other industries, the $100 billion park industry (worldwide) still doesn’t have state of the art data analytics or yield management technologies,they are passionate about pushing the industry forward. In a short eighteen-month period, Smarking has attracted a tremendous amount of customers and grown their team into one with experts from both parking and tech. With great passion and continuous innovation, they are working on the frontier of the parking industry, shaping a bright future together with their customers. | $3M / Seed / May 13, 2015 | ||
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FAQ
What does Nurzhas Makishev invest in?
Nurzhas Makishev invests primarily in Transportation, Robotics and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Nurzhas Makishev invest in?
Nurzhas Makishev typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$6M at Seed and $6.9M–$28M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Nurzhas Makishev's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Nurzhas Makishev took part in.
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When did Nurzhas Makishev last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Nurzhas Makishev closed in Nov 2022. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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