September Podcasts: 10 Episodes on AI, Startups, and Education in the Age of AI

The Untold Story of Higgsfield: $1B ARR in 18 Months
In this 20VC episode, Higgsfield founder and CEO Alex Mashrabov discusses the company's creation and its rapid growth. He also talks about finding product-market fit, working with AI models, startup economics, fundraising, competition with Silicon Valley, and the company's international expansion.

How to Raise Over $400,000 in Investment: The ApartX Case
In this episode of The Tech, ApartX founder Kanat Keldibekov talks about raising investment for his startup. He shares his experience in finding investors, initial contacts and pitches, discusses project valuation, the use of raised funds, scaling into new markets, and the role of artificial intelligence in product development.

A $1 Billion Startup from Kyrgyzstan? Talai Jumabaev on the Future of Education
MurasTalks guest Talai Jumabaev is an engineer, entrepreneur, and founder of the educational project LUWO. He discusses what happens when you achieve what is commonly considered success: a high salary, an international career, and financial freedom. He also shares his perspective on the future of education and the ambitions of his project.

Akbar Nurlibaev, CentML — The Kazakh Who Sold His Startup to NVIDIA
In this episode of nFactorial Podcast, Akbar Nurlibaev, founder of the startup CentML and technical lead at NVIDIA, explains how AI infrastructure is built. He shares insights into the corporate culture and internal processes at one of the most influential technology companies in the world.

AI and a Group of Mathematicians Solved a Millennium Problem — The Navier-Stokes Equations
Episode 19 of nFactorial Intelligence — a weekly review of news from the startup and AI worlds. The hosts discuss how artificial intelligence, together with a group of mathematicians, solved one of the millennium problems, and analyze other major industry events of the week.

How to Raise Over $3 Million in Investment: The Clockster Experience
In this episode of The Tech, they discuss how Clockster managed to raise over $3 million in investment, what approaches helped in working with investors, and how the startup developed in international markets.

On Security Technologies That Businesses Are Closer To Than We Think
In this episode of xChief Podcast, Ruslan Omarov talks about business cybersecurity. He explains why cyber threats often begin long before the first warning appears on the screen and how companies can timely detect processes that are already unfolding within their infrastructure.

Umed Rakhimov: How Venture Capital Works in Central Asia
In the second episode of Oyna Podcast, Umed Rakhimov, founder of Stanbase — a platform providing data on startups, investors, and funding rounds across eight countries in the region — breaks down the Central Asian venture market. He discusses who funds startups, on what terms, and who eventually acquires these startups.

From Tashkent to Working with Mark Zuckerberg at Meta
The guest of this Alter Ego episode is Kristina Kurbanova. At the age of 15, she moved from Tashkent to the United States, received a strong education, and over twenty years worked at Nike, Instagram, and Meta. Kristina talks about the difficulties of relocation, her career at global tech giants, and why she decided to leave corporate jobs.

Are Universities Needed in the Age of AI?
In the ARMETA KZ podcast, Altair Akhmetov, Rector of Astana IT University, reflects on what a university should look like in the era of artificial intelligence. He explains how higher education is changing, why universities need AI, and how soon the traditional learning model will cease to work.