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  "markdown": "Founder and CEO.\n\nArlan Rakhmetzhanov is founder and CEO of Nozomio Labs, a Y Combinator Summer 2025 company building Folk, an AI friend that works through text messages, on its own memory and context engine, Nia. His YC profile says he built consumer apps before Nozomio.\n\n- X: https://x.com/arlanr\n\n## What Arlan builds\n\n- [folk](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/folk-nozomio.md), graded F, 20/100, in Personal assistants. folk is an AI assistant that texts its owner over iMessage, Telegram and WhatsApp to keep habits, workouts, study and money goals on track. Each user gets a cloud computer, persistent memory and connected apps. Founder and CEO, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)\n- [LocalGlobe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/localglobe/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Arlan Rakhmetzhanov?\n\nArlan Rakhmetzhanov is founder and CEO of Nozomio Labs, a Y Combinator Summer 2025 company building Folk, an AI friend that works through text messages, on its own memory and context engine, Nia. His YC profile says he built consumer apps before Nozomio.\n\n### What does Nozomio, Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists folk from Nozomio, Inc.. folk is an AI assistant that texts its owner over iMessage, Telegram and WhatsApp to keep habits, workouts, study and money goals on track. Each user gets a cloud computer, persistent memory and connected apps.\n\n### Who has invested in Nozomio, Inc.?\n\nThe sources our research read name Y Combinator and LocalGlobe.\n\n### How are Arlan's tools graded?\n\nfolk is graded F, 20 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nozomio\n- https://www.arlanrakh.com\n- https://www.folk.com/about\n- https://x.com/arlanr\n- https://www.folk.com/\n- https://www.folk.com\n- https://www.folk.com/faq\n- https://nozomio.com\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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