Arlan Rakhmetzhanov
18, founder @ nozomio (yc s25), research @ stanford, forbes 30u30, high school junior dropout
San Francisco, California
Skills
Education
- YC
- LE
- WG
Work Experience
2025
Founder & CEO
2025
applied product lab. heads down building nia backed by CRV, YC, Paul Graham, BoxGroup, first investors in cursor, LocalGlobe, and more.
2024 - 2025
Research Assistant
2024 - 2025
Venture Capital Initiative. Work a lot with python and vc firms. A lot.
2025 - 2025
EF S25
2025 - 2025
dropped out, cool office though
2024 - 2025
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.
2024 - 2024
Founder
2024 - 2024
my high school invested in my own startup 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
2023 - 2023
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%
2023 - 2023
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.
2022 - 2022
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%.