Astana Hub has launched a program to prepare startups for scaling abroad

Last year, 94 Kazakhstani IT companies signed contracts and agreements worth $886 thousand and attracted investments worth more than $300 thousand. Such grandiose results in just 8 weeks became possible thanks to the Scalerator acceleration program from Astana Hub.

The film "Shoqan" was nominated for the prestigious LA Shorts Film Festival

Kuanysh Beisekov officially announced the participation of the short film Shoqan in the international festival "LA Shorts".

Technopark Astana Hub summed up the results of the Investor School and Invest Day

The largest technopark of IT startups in Central Asia, Astana Hub, hosted the Invest Day event.

Record number of agreements signed at the Digital Bridge 2022 Forum

Within two days, state agencies, large companies, international technoparks, and other organizations signed 29 memorandums and agreements on cooperation in developing IT innovations. In particular, the international tech park of IT startups Astana Hub signed 11 memorandums, including an agreement between technoparks of Turkic countries. As a result, Kazakhstan will be able to attract international tech companies to mass-train IT personnel.

Bicycle: "We were attracted to Kazakhstan by human potential"

Foreign IT startups willingly choose Kazakhstan as a platform for scaling and entering new markets. At the same time, company executives are increasingly turning to local IT talents.

The ninth accelerator of Astana Hub: startups attracted 42 million investments and created 78 jobs

In the international technopark Astana Hub, the reporting event of the 9th stream of the startup acceleration program - Demo Day was summed up.

PIZZA PITCH October'22: a startup application for children was recognized as a winner

Astana Hub, an International Technopark of IT Startups, hosted another Pizza Pitch, a monthly event for startups and investors, venture funds and business angels, and everyone interested in technological entrepreneurship.

Will Astana Hub finance startups?

Details soon on all platforms @astana_hub

Astana Hub Awards were presented at the Digital Bridge 2021 forum

The capital of Kazakhstan hosted the Astana Hub Awards annual award ceremony for contribution to the development of the IT industry.

Registering a car has become easy: now the service is available online through a mobile application

Overview of the main news of the past week

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Get more opportunities by joining the Astana Hub community

You can find an investor, partner, IT specialist, as well as a IT-company for an internship in the "Community" section on the astanahub.com platform. The database of IT-companies and startups is regularly updated here.

Free online bootcamp for startups from Emerge U

11 startups specializing in improving the quality of life presented themselves at Pitch Day at the Astana Hub

To determine IT solutions for the development of infrastructure and improve the population's quality of life, Astana Akimat and the international technopark organized another Pitch Day. The projects were evaluated in four areas: education, healthcare, security, and regional management.

The best nine startups got funding for promotion in TikTok.

218 startups attended an exclusive educational program, TikTok StartUp Academy, organized by the Astana Hubin in partnership with the TikTok platform. 9 startups received grants to promote their products in TikTok up to $49,000.

Bauyrzhan Shalabekov: “It's time for Kazakhstan to grow Olympic IT champions”

The hero of our interview, before coming to the IT sphere, managed to get the profession of an economist, serve in the army, work in the banking sector and the quasi-public sector. Bauyrzhan Shalabekov is the founder of 10Tech and one of the first to develop AR/VR technologies in Kazakhstan.

The 18-year-old finalist of the Idea Battle contest, organized by Astana Hub, helps to improve the computer literacy of middle-aged and elderly people in Kyzylorda

2-day training sessions on the use of the ZOOM platform, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, social networks and the E-gov platform were held for middle-aged and elderly people.

Astana Hub and Draper University launch a joint program in Silicon Valley for Tech startups.

During the Hero Training program startups will get an opportunity to pass 2-week online pre-acceleration with experienced technology entrepreneurs and experts from the USA, after which the top 20 projects will be selected to continue a 5-week intensive acceleration program at Draper University in Silicon Valley, with Co-living & Co-working spaces provided for up to 6 months.

Participants of Astana Hub saved 3.3 billion tenge on tax preferences

The number of participants in the international technopark of IT start-ups Astana Hub has reached 369 IT companies. All participants of the technopark receive tax preferences.