"Smart" pen, AI for medicine and marketing: Digital Qazaqstan Battle winners announced

20 startups competed for the main prize of 10 million tenge

Translated with AI from the Russian original.

The jury of Digital Qazaqstan Battle summed up the results of the competition and named the best technological startups in Kazakhstan. Out of 20 teams, 3 winners were selected, according to the press service of the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry of the Republic.

Developers in the field of AI, "smart city", business process automation, and educational technologies competed for a prize fund of 19 million tenge. The expert jury included representatives of the state, investors, and the technological community.

How the places were distributed:

  • 10 million tenge went to Gro.now (1st place, Almaty)
  • 5 million tenge was won by Cortex AI (2nd place, Kyzylorda)
  • 3 million tenge was received by AR Sana (3rd place, Astana)

The audience award and 1 million tenge were taken by the developers of Qalam AI (Shymkent).

Gro.now is a platform for conducting marketing research and market analysis. Cortex AI is an AI tool that predicts the risk of transplant rejection. AR Sana is a program for developing children's speech. Qalam AI is a "smart" pen that recognizes text on paper and sends it to a mobile application.

We hope that our project will make significant changes in the development of the industry and help find new partners for scaling.
 Ainur Nuradil, CEO of AR Sana 

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