Zaya Kadyrova

Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Aspire11

📍 London, England, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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2026
Inference is everything. Baseten is an AI infrastructure platform giving you the tooling, expertise, and hardware needed to bring great AI products to market - fast. Our proprietary Inference Stack utilizes the cutting-edge of performance research combined with highly performant and reliable infrastructure to give you out-of-the-box global availability with 99.99% of uptime.
Investor
2026
ElevenLabs is transforming human-technology interaction with AI research and products. ElevenAgents enables businesses to deliver seamless and intelligent customer experiences, with the integrations, testing, monitoring, and reliability necessary to deploy voice and chat agents at scale. ElevenCreative empowers creators and marketers to generate and edit speech, music, image, and video across 70+ languages. ElevenAPI gives developers access to our leading AI audio foundational models. These platforms are powered by our leading AI research. We developed the first human-like AI voice model, then expanded into dubbing, transcription, music, sound effects, and speech-to-speech. We serve millions of users and thousands of businesses from the fastest growing startups to the largest enterprises like Harvey, Deutsche Telekom and Meta.
Investor
2026
The Operating System for the Thinking Machine. VAST delivers the first AI Operating System, natively unifying and orchestrating storage, database, and compute to unleash the true power of agentic computing and data-intensive applications.​
Investor
2026
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on Databricks to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified Data Intelligence Platform that includes Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, Lakebase and Unity Catalog. --- Databricks applicants Please apply through our official Careers page at databricks.com/company/careers. All official communication from Databricks will come from email addresses ending with @databricks.com or @goodtime.io (our meeting tool).
Investor
2025
People deserve more from their money. More visibility, more control, and more freedom. Since 2015, Revolut has been on a mission to deliver just that. Our powerhouse of products help our 70+ million customers get more from their money every day. As we continue our lightning-fast growth,‌ 2 things are essential to our success: our people and our culture. In recognition of our outstanding employee experience, weve been certified as a Great Place to Work™. So far, we have 10,000+ people working around the world, from our offices and remotely, to help us achieve our mission. And were looking for more brilliant people. People who love building great products, redefining success, and turning the complexity of a chaotic world into the simplicity of a beautiful solution.
Investor
May 2024
DeepL is a global communications platform powered by Language AI. Since 2017, we’ve been on a mission to break down language barriers. Our human-sounding translations and intelligent writing suggestions are designed with enterprise security in mind. Today, they enable over 200,000 businesses to transform communications, reach new markets, and improve productivity. And, empower millions of individuals around the world to make sense of the world and express their ideas. Join us in exploring the possibilities of Language AI!
Board Member
2024
Taxfix is Europe’s leading financial platform for digital tax solutions, with over 8 million tax returns submitted and more than 4,5 billion euros in refunds facilitated for our customers. Taxfix’s mission is to empower people to take control of their finances and fix finance for all. The platform, with its brands Taxfix, Steuerbot and TaxScouts, offers a broad range of innovative tax filing solutions tailored to diverse user needs and preferences, from intuitive self-filing apps using a simple Q&A flow to the expert-service, where certified tax advisors manage the entire tax return process. Headquartered in Berlin, Taxfix operates in Germany, Spain, and the UK, and employs over 400 professionals from more than 50 nationalities. The company is backed by leading investors including Index Ventures, Valar Ventures, Creandum, Redalpine, and Teachers’ Venture Growth (OTPP). Interested in becoming a Taxfixer? Explore our open roles: https://taxfix.de/en/careers/ And learn more about us here: https://medium.com/taxfix https://www.instagram.com/teamtaxfix/ https://www.facebook.com/taxfix.de/ https://github.com/taxfix
Investor
2022
Puzzle Ventures is a €21.5M early-stage venture fund that partners with exceptional European entrepreneurs building transformational B2B software businesses.
Investor and Board Observer
Nov 2019
Our mission at Causaly is to redefine the boundaries of human discovery by harnessing transformative AI technologies. Founded in 2018, Causaly’s unique AI platform is a powerful catalyst for the modern Life Science research organization, reshaping how data is found, analyzed and applied in critical decision-making processes in drug discovery and development. Supporting a broad range of complex knowledge workflows, our platform accelerates the journey from bench research and laboratory insights to the launch of life-changing therapies.
Investor
Jun 2019
Hey there! Were the world’s largest digital creation platform on a mission to empower the creator in everyone, everywhere. We offer AI-powered tools and a massive open-source content library, featuring stickers, templates and more, that enable creators of all levels to design, edit, draw and share content anywhere. Founded in 2011, Picsart was born out of the need for accessible yet powerful creative tools that anyone could use. This was something our founder wanted for both his daughter and the world, and it’s what continues to be at the heart of the platform. We want everyone to be able to create at the speed of culture, no matter their skill level or experience. To turn their inspiration into action and have fun doing it. Available in 30+ languages on mobile and web, we’re used for both personal and professional design — from consumers and content creators to businesses and enterprises. We’re headquartered in Miami with offices around the world, and backed by SoftBank, Sequoia Capital, DCM Ventures, Insight Partners and others.
Non Executive Board Observer
Jun 2017
We are the leading off-price fashion retailer. Every day we offer great value on ever-changing selections of brands and designer products at prices up to 90% Off retail values. We call this a smart fashion shopping experience. For our brand partners we are the key channel to manage excess inventories in a very effective and brand protecting format, as well as a service provider offering a range of ecommerce and retail turn key solutions through our retail platform.
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2026
Investor
2026
Inference is everything. Baseten is an AI infrastructure platform giving you the tooling, expertise, and hardware needed to bring great AI products to market - fast. Our proprietary Inference Stack utilizes the cutting-edge of performance research combined with highly performant and reliable infrastructure to give you out-of-the-box global availability with 99.99% of uptime.
Investor
2026
Our mission is to make second-hand the first choice, and were looking for people who want to help us get there. Every day, we work together to help our members buy and sell pre-loved clothing and lifestyle items, giving each piece a second life – or even a third. The Vinted Group is made up of three business units that support this mission: Vinted Marketplace is Europe’s leading platform for second-hand fashion and a go-to destination for all kinds of pre-loved items, with a growing range of categories. Our platform connects millions of members across 20+ markets, helping great items find a new life. Vinted Go enhances the shipping experience with a vast network of over 500,000 pick-up and drop-off points, partnering with more than 60 carriers across Europe, with added services like item verification for peace of mind on high-value pieces. Vinted Pay is the newest part of the Vinted Group, dedicated to bringing secure, reliable payments to buyers and sellers across Europe. Seamlessly integrated into the Vinted app, it helps keep every transaction safe, efficient, and easy for our members. Founded in 2008 in Lithuania, Vinted began as a way for friends to find new homes for clothes they no longer needed. In 2019, we became Lithuanias first unicorn! Today, our headquarters remain in Vilnius, and weve grown with offices across Europe, supported by a team of over 2,000 people.
Investor
2026
ElevenLabs is transforming human-technology interaction with AI research and products. ElevenAgents enables businesses to deliver seamless and intelligent customer experiences, with the integrations, testing, monitoring, and reliability necessary to deploy voice and chat agents at scale. ElevenCreative empowers creators and marketers to generate and edit speech, music, image, and video across 70+ languages. ElevenAPI gives developers access to our leading AI audio foundational models. These platforms are powered by our leading AI research. We developed the first human-like AI voice model, then expanded into dubbing, transcription, music, sound effects, and speech-to-speech. We serve millions of users and thousands of businesses from the fastest growing startups to the largest enterprises like Harvey, Deutsche Telekom and Meta.
Investor
2026
The Operating System for the Thinking Machine. VAST delivers the first AI Operating System, natively unifying and orchestrating storage, database, and compute to unleash the true power of agentic computing and data-intensive applications.​
Managing Partner and Co-founder of Eternals
2026
Aspire11 is an inaugural €500M vehicle backing founders and VC investors with patient capital designed to last decades. We invest directly in: Growth companies (Series B onwards or via secondaries) with €10–30M tickets. Early VC funds led by high-conviction investors building the next frontier. Our mission is simple: make pensions stronger while fuelling innovation that endures for generations. You can find us in around the globe - team members are based in Prague and Luxembourg. And we are working on adding London in 2026. On a scale of 1 to 10, we Aspire11.
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