Hey, I’m Damir.
Founder / AI researcher
Recently I hit pause to take a gap year, which sounds chill, yet it became the busiest year of my life. At 19, I built a $8M AI company, Vetra. It’s your personal secretary that saves a full workday every week by taking over your planning.
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Vetra AI
Founder & CEO
Built a full stack AI secretary integrating Telegram, WhatsApp, Gmail, Outlook, Asana, and Slack; recognized as a Top 100 Startup in Central Asia and Top 15 of 300+ at the Astana Hub accelerator.
Secured $200K in tech credits and a $600K pre-seed investment offer; formed partnerships with ISSAI and Runa (valued at $200M).
Recognized as one of the 10 people under 20 promoting Kazakhstan internationally; Vetra AI is also highlighted as a key AI-building project in Kazakhstan.
Transformed OyLab Startup Battles into Seven Studio, a 7-week incubator + accelerator combining startup mentorship with college admissions guidance
Admission mentors from: Stanford, Ivy League, Duke, Cambridge, and HKU advisors.
Startup mentors from: Stanford Central Asia Hub, unicorns, YC companies, KPMG.
Building Central Asia's largest youth startup ecosystem, expected to launch Spring 2026 with 2,800+ high school participants and elite mentorship network spanning Silicon Valley to Asia.
nFactorial
Mentor/Speaker
Led the nFactorial Solo track for AI solo founders, guiding participants from idea validation to interviews, MVP design, go to market strategy, and first sales.
Led the Generative AI track, teaching image and video generation plus no code workflows in n8n with integrations into core business tools.
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Victora AI (acq. by AVC Group)
Founder/CTO
Victora AI is a multi-agent document intelligence platform for finance, legal, and project management teams that turns internal files into a searchable knowledge layer with citation-backed answers.
The system reached 94% accuracy across 10,000+ queries, validated on held-out document sets and measured on retrieval quality plus answer correctness, using query rewriting and reranking to keep outputs grounded.
After winning the competition, the project was acquired by AVC Group for internal deployment, integrated with Outlook and internal repositories, and shipped with access control and logging for safe rollout.
BlueBots
Growth & Innovation Lead
Integrated Yale and Duke dining plus NetNutrition data into an AI chatbot, added course-based chats aligned with no cheat student policy, and refined AI visuals through iterative testing.
Secured VC and partner relationships and built traction through strategic pilots that positioned the startup for growth.
BCC Invest JSC & Veritas AI
SWE Intern & Research Scholar
Completed a selective global research program (4–6% acceptance rate) on full financial aid; mentored by Stanford and Harvard alumni while building an ML model for credit card fraud detection.
Applied research at BCC Invest (Top 3 Kazakhstan bank subsidiary) serving 380K+ users; first high school intern, shipping fraud alerts and analytics that improved decision accuracy and investment safety.
Let’s build something useful
My calendar is open. In the past few months I’ve met 200+ new builders and students — sometimes for a quick nudge, sometimes to stay on as a strategic advisor. If you’re building something meaningful, I’d love to hear from you.
