# Arlan Rakhmetzhanov (slim)

> Arlan Rakhmetzhanov is founder and CEO. folk on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Founder and CEO.

Arlan 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.

- X: https://x.com/arlanr

## What Arlan builds

- [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.

## Backed by

- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)
- [LocalGlobe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/localglobe/)

## Questions

### Who is Arlan Rakhmetzhanov?

Arlan 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.

### What does Nozomio, Inc. make?

Anchor Terminal lists folk from Nozomio, Inc..

### Who has invested in Nozomio, Inc.?

The sources our research read name Y Combinator and LocalGlobe.

### How are Arlan's tools graded?

folk is graded F, 20 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nozomio
- https://www.arlanrakh.com
- https://www.folk.com/about
- https://x.com/arlanr
- https://www.folk.com/
- https://www.folk.com
- https://www.folk.com/faq
- https://nozomio.com

These 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.