Scouting

Marat Shaken

IT columnist, has 12 years of experience in IT and startups, author of the @ShakenLive Telegram channel, founder of the @thetechkz Telegram channel, former vc.ru columnist in Kazakhstan, worked in the Astana Hub team for more than 4 years. Columnist of the-steppe, the-village, esquire, weproject and other publications in different years.

Nurzhan Kulshebaev

A graduate of the Yerzhan Tatishev Foundation, he has extensive experience as a financial analyst in companies such as KazGerMunai, TCO and Kusto Group. As a financial consultant, he has developed more than 50 financial models, 30 accounting systems for businesses, helped to raise more than $3 million and $450 million in loans.

Sholpan Dosmakhanbet

Sholpan has 8 years of experience in venture capital and startups, more than 5 years of experience in marketing and communications at Qaztech Ventures and Qazaqstan Investment Corporation. She maintains a blog about technological entrepreneurship on bluescreen.kz. She has implemented a series of projects aimed at popularizing startup culture in Kazakhstan.

Botagoz Gabdullina

MSc Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship at Manchester Business School, Investment Analyst, VC Ecosystem builder and fundraiser, helping CA startups to get global investors outreach, stock trader, financial modeller.

Eugene Godov

IT entrepreneur, venture scout, and partner at ActivatVC in Northern Europe. An expert in artificial intelligence (AI), information retrieval, and SaaS product development.

Daniel Abdyldaev

Daniel Abdyldaev is the Investment Director of Accelerate Prosperity, the largest startup accelerator in Central Asia, Managing Partner of ADVentures venture fund supporting Central Eurasian founders and co-founder of leading angel organization chANGELS. Daniel is also the author of the ADVentures Telegram channel.