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Arlan Rakhmetzhanov

founder of Nozomio (YC S25), research @ stanford, forbes 30u30, high school dropout

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Arlan Rakhmetzhanov is the founder of Nozomio, a startup that was part of Y Combinator's S25 batch, and a research assistant at Stanford University. Notable achievements include being recognized in Forbes 30 Under 30 and having a successful career trajectory despite being a high school dropout.

Work Experience 

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Nozomio

  • Founder & CEO

    2025 - Current

    applied product lab. heads down building nia backed by Y Combinator, LocalGlobe, first investor in cursor, and others.

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Stanford University

  • Research Assistant

    2024 - 2025

    Venture Capital Initiative. Work a lot with python and vc firms. A lot.

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Entrepreneurs First

  • EF S25

    2025 - 2025

    dropped out, cool office though

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Foundity

  • Co-Founder

    2024 - 2025

    Part of LaunchX's summer batch at UC Berkeley Built a networking database designed to support young founders by facilitating connections, collaborations, and access to free learning resources.

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Hanlan Tech

  • Founder

    2024 - 2024

    backed by QSI (sophomore year of hs) 20K+ users (Extracurrify); 85K+ page visits (Extracurrify); 7,000+ iOS app downloads (Extracurrify); Ranked #10 in Kazakhstan's App Store (Education); Featured in DigitalBusiness KZ (>1M readers); Highlighted by @alga.kazakhstan (400K+ YouTube, 300K+ TikTok); 1.5M+ social media views; Partnered with 2 Palo Alto based startups

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KAZ Minerals

  • Software Engineer Intern

    2023 - 2023

    first experience at IPOed company worked on Optimus AI, a tool designed to identify and simplify the mining and copper extraction processes, as well as optimize plants for copper extraction. Trained their AI model, improved accuracy by 27%

Self Published

  • Author

    2023 - 2023

    I am a self-published author on Amazon KDP, Google Books, and Rakuten Books. I released an introductory book about venture capital for youth and I want to expand and release new books in both VC and computer science fields in the future.

Code of Samsara

  • Junior Customer Service Manager

    2022 - 2022

    adapted PR strategies and content based on relevant media trends for the company's social networks with 570K+ followers and the main website, increasing user reach and engagement by 23%.

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