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Nazerke is a venture investor, ex-Googler, and exited founder with a background in algorithms, applied AI, and building things that scale. She cut her teeth in global coding competitions and research labs, winning gold at the Eurasian Coding Contest and reaching the ICPC World Semifinals, and has published ML and robotics research through IEEE across the US, Japan, and Singapore. After building and selling her own startup, she now backs early-stage founders in emerging markets at Sturgeon Capital, drawn to those who ask "why not?" and mean it. Fluent in C++, pitch decks, and pattern recognition — human or algorithmic.