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Big Sky Capital: Investing in the Future of SaaS Startups

ReadWriteStart

Additionally, they prioritized investing in immigrant founders, drawing from their own experience as immigrants from Kazakhstan. Karsybaev and Nurgozhin have established a presence not only in the United States but also in Kazakhstan and Singapore. They wrote small checks, mainly for enterprise SaaS companies, to build their portfolio.

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

As we end 2012, Gust is the official, exclusive platform of virtually every national federation of business angels in the world including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Scotland, France, Portugal, Spain, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, India, even China, all in their native languages.

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More Global Innovation

deal architect

Bumper crop of innovations from various parts of the world we don’t always expect innovation from Near Cashless Society – Sweden A decade of LeWeb – France Faber-Castell – Germany Wine “Rover” – German wine country Rail Power – Kazakhstan. Innovative Business Uses of Technology'

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Why savvy investors should focus on Kazakhstan (and other frontier markets)

The Next Web

If I told you that you could travel back in time, to the end of the nineteenth century, and invest in a country that was recently war-torn, and in great transition, would you do it?

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[ADV] Young Entrepreneurs Emerge From ideas.inc Business Challenge 2011

YoungUpstarts

As you are reading this article, there is a team of cyclists on their bamboo bicycle travelling from Kazakhstan to China. Innovative and revolutionary, Bamboobee created an organic bicycle out of bamboo. For the unitiated, that happens to be the old Silk Route. Every step counts!

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5,500 miles for #BookingHacks All Women Edition

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Portugal, Germany, Australia, Kazakhstan, and USA were represented on the team. I’ve come to know that Amsterdam has some really good women in tech support groups. The video below was shown by Janneke. Now to our hack. Our team name was “The Nomads” to reflect our independent female traveler style.

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5,500 miles for #BookingHacks All Women Edition

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Portugal, Germany, Australia, Kazakhstan, and USA were represented on the team. I’ve come to know that Amsterdam has some really good women in tech support groups. The video below was shown by Janneke. Now to our hack. Our team name was “The Nomads” to reflect our independent female traveler style.