# Nurzhas Makishev

> Nurzhas Makishev is a seed investor at NKM Capital (Boston) backing Software and Transportation. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [NKM Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nkm-capital)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Nov 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nurzhas
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/nurzhas
- Website: https://x.com/nurzhas

Nurzhas Makishev is a seed investor at NKM Capital in Boston focused on Software and Transportation. Nurzhas Makishev - Founder @ NKM Capital

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$6M |
| Series A | $6.9M–$28M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 31% |
| Transportation | 4 | 31% |
| Robotics | 3 | 23% |
| Logistics | 3 | 23% |
| Blockchain | 3 | 23% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 38% |
| Series A | 4 | 31% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 23% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 62% |
| India | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Archy | SaaS Practice Management Software for Dental Practices | $6M | Seed | Nov 07, 2022 |  |
| Numerai | 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 |  | Apr 06, 2016 |  |
| Numerai | 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. | $1.5M | Seed | Apr 06, 2016 |  |
| Cruise | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Skydrop | 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 |  |
| Ripple | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Zillionize](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zillionize) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Amasia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amasia) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [CME Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cme-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Blockchain Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crypto-currency-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Digital Currency Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-currency-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Felicis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/felicis-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About NKM Capital

VC Fund · New York, United States

NKM Capital is a thesis-driven early stage venture capital firm. NKM Capital invests in extraordinary entrepreneurs who are building revolutionary technologies to solve the world's most difficult problems.

2 contacts available at NKM Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nurzhas Makishev | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nurzhas-makishev |
| Amro Messaoudi | Summer Associate - Venture Capital | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amro-messaoudi |

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## FAQ

### What does Nurzhas Makishev invest in?

Nurzhas Makishev invests primarily in Software, Transportation and Robotics 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 is Nurzhas Makishev's check size?

Nurzhas Makishev typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$6M at Seed and $6.9M–$28M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Nurzhas Makishev participates in.

### 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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