Как казахстанские предпринимательницы становятся драйверами tech-революции в Центральной Азии
От стартапов, созданных «с нуля», до первого в регионе женского венчурного фонда. Казахстанские предпринимательницы развеивают стереотипы, уверенно прокладывают путь в технологии и создают новую точку роста для всего региона.
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ЧИТАТЬ ДАЛЕЕ : http://ru.euronews.com/2025/11/26/kak-kazahstanskie-predprinimatelnicy-stanovyatsya-drajverami-tech-revolyucii-v-centralnoj
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00:13I'm Asim Bolajan, I'm a Chapter Director of Women in Tech Kazakhstan.
00:16When we started the Digital Kazakhstan program,
00:20I decided to be involved more in IT.
00:22And from 2015, in all this community,
00:26I was only one woman in room.
00:29If you are in this minority, it is your personal story.
00:33So that's why I decided we need to do something,
00:36to support and to involve in tech in IT more women.
00:43My name is Renata Yudubaeva.
00:45I'm a CEO of Alfa Rabi Innovation Hub Dubai.
00:47At the same time, I'm an Astana City Lead for Women in Tech Kazakhstan Chapter.
00:52And I'm also supporting Female Founders 3.
00:54Actually, I'm in the technology and IT sphere for more than eight years now.
00:58I believe I came from the international relations sphere.
01:01And I've always been a lot of competing with all of the men.
01:05Not just because of a woman, but I just was a very newcomer in the industry.
01:09My name is Agirim Nurgaliyeva.
01:16I'm a mom of two and I'm a surreal entrepreneur.
01:19For the last 12 years, I'm performing with small businesses like beauty salons.
01:23And for nowadays, I'm building my second startup.
01:26For the last five years, I'm dealing with this IT industry with no technical background.
01:30And it is a very awesome experience to develop and be the part of such a great industry.
01:37Because the industry is new, the ecosystem is new.
01:40And you have a chance to be the part of the big story.
01:43What I see during years in Kazakhstan, we do improve all of the business processes.
01:54And we do improve our technology development.
01:56And it's also improved for women.
01:58For women, it's a big challenge.
02:00Because we are in a male-dominated country, in a male-dominated region in general.
02:04One year ago, we launched the chapter Women in Tech here in Kazakhstan.
02:08Because we need to be part of some global community.
02:11Because Women in Tech globally has 65 chapters over the world.
02:15The first obstacle that I met was actually in my mind.
02:19I was really disrupted and was thinking that if you don't have a technical background, there is nothing to do.
02:26This is the main mistake that most of girls are having right now.
02:30Ecosystems like Astana Hub and Women in Trek are helping the girls and people around to change this mindset.
02:39Because if you have no technical background, even though you can do the startup.
02:44Because you can have lots of experts in different acceleration programs.
02:48And you don't have to pay for that.
02:52In general, in STEM in Kazakhstan, we have about the 25-30% of presence of women in technologies.
02:59And it is quite good, yes, because in average it is global statistics and we are good at it.
03:04But we need to pay attention on female founders.
03:09We have not so many female co-founded and founded startups.
03:13We have not so many women in the venture industry as venture capitalists in general.
03:18So that's why recently we've announced our first female venture fund.
03:23And we would like to involve more women as investors.
03:27Because mostly in VCs, in the decision maker, there are also men on the other side who are making decisions.
03:32In Women in Trek Kazakhstan, for the female founders, we are trying to build one more platform,
03:37one more space for negotiations, for fundraising, business development to support those females.
03:42Because it's not very easy.
03:43You come from work, you have a second shift, you have children, you have stuff to do, cleaning, cooking, a lot of things.
03:49And especially in Kazakhstan, we are a very traditional country.
03:52You have to have a lot of negotiations with your relatives, with your husband's relatives.
03:56At the same time, going back to work, you're a boss, you're a leader, you're a C-level decision maker.
04:01So it's very hard. It's even very hard to do mentally.
04:04My personal advice will be start today, don't wait the ideal moment, whatever you want, just test your ideas, test your hypothesis.
04:13And this is my main point to show the women that even with no technical background, even with children, even in Central Asia,
04:21you can build everything you want.
04:23So that's why it is very important to make this background and accelerate not only the startups, but also the female venture capitalist community.
04:40In three years, we can build a more strong technological community of female startups, I'm sure.
04:48So our VC and our platform from Kazakhstan will quickly develop into the central hub VC, I think.
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