Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, a Forbes Kazakhstan “30 Under 30” alumnus, has become one of Kazakhstan’s most prominent young founders in San Francisco. His company Nozomio joined Y Combinator’s Summer 2025 batch and closed a funding round of more than $6 million, with participation from YC co-founder Paul Graham and Silicon Valley angel investors.
Context for AI Agents: Why It Is an Industry Bottleneck
The main technological challenge for today’s autonomous AI agents, such as Devin, Cursor and SWE-agent, lies in context, rather than the power of their underlying language models. Faced with repositories containing hundreds of thousands of lines of code or fragmented corporate documentation, an agent can lose its reasoning thread, hallucinate and waste millions of tokens.
Nozomio’s flagship product is Nia (trynia.ai), which acts as an intermediate search and indexing layer: 1. It quickly indexes complex dependency graphs in code and knowledge bases. 2. It supplies the agent with the precise context needed for a particular task. 3. It reduces latency and computing costs by an order of magnitude.
From Almaty to Silicon Valley
Arlan became interested in programming while attending Almaty International School. By 15, he was launching mobile apps and conducting research at Stanford. He later decided to leave conventional academic education and focus fully on technology entrepreneurship in London and San Francisco.
Beyond the Nia infrastructure layer, Nozomio is experimenting with consumer agents, including Folk, a personal AI companion for everyday tasks. The investment will go towards hiring senior researchers in San Francisco and scaling enterprise integrations in the US.
