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Nurzhas Makishev

Managing Partner at NKM Capital

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Nurzhas Makishev is the Founder & Managing Partner at NKM Capital, based in San Francisco, California. With a background in investments, he has successfully invested in a range of companies such as Robinhood, Carta, and Relativity, focusing on sectors like TransportationTech, Gaming/eSports, and Web3/Crypto. Makishev holds Bachelor's degrees from MIT, an MBA from The Wharton School, and has made significant investments in companies like Cruise and Flexport, showcasing his expertise in identifying and supporting successful ventures across various sectors and stages of growth.

Work Experience 

  • Founder & Managing Partner

    2015 - Current

    Decentralization, networks, and frontier infrastructures

  • Investor

    2015

Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission.

Raised $6,234,466,886.00 from Emergent Fidelity Technologies.

  • Investor

    2015

Carta is a global ownership management platform that helps companies, investors, and employees manage equity and ownership.

Raised $1,157,600,000.00 from 8090 Partners, Unanimous Capital, Sand Hill Angels, Vetamer, GS Growth, Step Ahead Capital, Massive, Silver Lake, Moonshots Capital and Launchbay Capital.

  • Investor

    2016

Relativity Space is an aerospace company that designs, develops, and builds 3D printed rockets.

Raised $1,355,719,978.00 from K5 Global and Arvin Bhangu.

  • Investor

    2016

Astranis is a space startup that builds small and low-cost telecommunications satellites to provide internet access in remote regions.

Raised $753,499,998.00 from PWV/RedwoodJS, Uncorrelated Ventures, Refactor, Jeff Dean, Trinity Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Haystack, SV Angel, Fidelity and Y Combinator.

  • Investor

    2016

Boom Supersonic is redefining commercial air travel by bringing sustainable, supersonic flight to the skies

  • Investor

    2016

Power your apps with real-time voice AI by Deepgram

Raised $85,920,000.00 from SAP.iO, Wing Venture Capital, NVIDIA, Tiger Global Management, BlackRock, Citi Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Madrona, Alkeon Capital and Y Combinator.

  • Investor

    2015

Eight Sleep develops sleep fitness products that feature hydro-powered cooling technology and a health tracker.

Raised $162,066,621.00 from Jesse Robbins, Kris Bryant, Anthony Pompliano, Sophia Amoruso, Jaws Ventures, SoftBank, J.D. Martinez, Khosla Ventures, Kevin Hart and General Catalyst.

  • Investor

    2016 - 2021

  • Investor

    2014 - 2019

Lyft’s Atlanta driver service center is a high quality, fairly-priced vehicle services.

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