100 Startup Stories of Kazakhstan

At just 21 years old, Akezahn Umarov has already gained significant business experience. During his 10th-grade year, he joined a marketing agency. Subsequently, he established the “Beyond Borders” anti-motivational forum, featuring renowned entrepreneurs such as Oskar Hartmann, Nurlan Smagulov, Evgeniy Chernyak as speakers. Concurrently, he and his friends created a mobile application offering training courses, […]

Purchasing a pre-owned car in Kazakhstan can be both enjoyable and challenging. This is due to the fact that numerous vehicles come with legal and technical issues that sellers often omit from their advertisements. CheckAuto, a startup, has created a tool that allows individuals to uncover the genuine history of a car before making a […]

Aibolat Kulatay and his partner, after establishing a prosperous outsourcing company focused on mobile development, opted to launch a startup subsequent to Kantar. Even though the project took six months instead of the initially anticipated one, the game began generating profits immediately upon its release. In an interview with Digital Business for the collaborative project […]

Python RPA is the sole entity in Central Asia crafting platforms for the automation of routine business tasks. The firm creates robot assistants for BI Group, Otbasy Bank, Air Astana, and RG Brands. These assistants ensure the accurate and timely execution of repetitive accounting and HR tasks, eliminating the risks associated with human error or […]

Bauyrzhan Rustemov, the founder and CEO of Relog startup, characterizes himself as a «Black belt in delivery optimization.» The logistics automation project he leads aids businesses in minimizing delivery time and cutting down on transportation costs. With a valuation of $20 million, Relog has secured investments from Timur Turlov and Margulan Seisenbay. The startup boasts […]

Cleek is a platform dedicated to job and side work searches for blue-collar workers. The startup, in operation in Kazakhstan since 2022, has already facilitated connections between over 170 thousand candidates and 2.5 thousand employers. In the near future, the project aims to launch a new initiative, aiming to enhance transparency and safety in the […]

Ablay Yussupov embarked on his entrepreneurial journey while studying as a marketologist at Almaty Management University. Initially, he and his friends launched a vine project named Queex, creating humorous videos. Following this venture, Ablay transitioned to establishing a language center. Upon completing his university studies, he founded Upgrade School, specializing in marketing, management, and SMM […]

Baglan Ayazbayev and Lana Dikanchieva, a married couple, have dedicated two years to developing the educational application for children called Smart Zebra (formerly OILA). Initially, their goal was to create a product that could steer children towards studying anatomy or history instead of simply watching cartoons. However, their current aim is more ambitious: to overcome […]

After completing college, Alan Ibraim pursued university studies in Marketing but did not complete the degree. Unfortunately, his education was interrupted when his father passed away unexpectedly. Alan took on the responsibility of providing for his mother, who was a housewife, and his two younger sisters. At the age of 18, he commenced his career […]

GoatChat.ai isn’t a typical startup. While it doesn’t address obvious pain points, it achieved profitability within its first months and quickly rose to the top of App Store downloads in multiple countries. The GoatChat application operates on the foundation of large language models (LLM), akin to Chat GPT. This enables the creation of digital twins, […]

This year, the startup Mystory was awarded USD 25 thousand in the Best AI Startup category at the Astana Hub Battle. Its founders conceived an intriguing idea: to publish tangible paper books with the assistance of AI, featuring any person as the main hero—whether it be your child, wife, girlfriend, or colleague. As part of […]

The startup Networks Energy from Kazakhstan developed a service that has nearly fully digitized railway freight operations in the country. With this innovation, companies no longer have to gather numerous paper documents for shipping goods from point A to B. Instead, they simply input the data into the system, which then generates the necessary waybills […]