«Investing in Creative Industries» meetups

In the fall and winter of 2024, TransforNATION held a series of two «Investing in Creative Industries» meetups — in Almaty (November) and Astana (December). The format was built around a theme rarely addressed directly in Kazakhstan's creative circles: how creative entrepreneurs find financing, and what investors look for in creative-industry projects.

The meetups brought together founders of creative businesses and members of the investment community in an informal, conversational format — not a pitch session with a jury, but a space for each side to get acquainted with the other's logic: entrepreneurs learned to speak in terms investors understand, while investors learned to see the creative industries as a growing economic segment rather than a niche one.

The series continues TransforNATION's line of work strengthening ties within the creative economy — after community meetups (Almaty Creators) and regional programs (Creative Pavlodar), the focus shifted to one of the industry's tightest bottlenecks: access to capital.