Kazakhstani startup Mirai Tech has taken second place at the WT Innovation World Cup USA 2026, an international wearable technology competition held in Silicon Valley. The company is developing a system that tracks athletes’ movements during training to help identify potential injury risk factors.
Digital Business reported the result, DKNews.kz reports. The venture began as a research project at Kazakhstan’s Nazarbayev University (NU) and is now developing into an international sports technology company.
Bringing movement analysis onto the training field
Mirai Tech aims to take biomechanical analysis—the study of how the body moves—out of specialist laboratories and into everyday training.
Its system tracks changes in athletes’ movements under real training conditions. The data could help coaches monitor training loads and spot movement patterns potentially associated with a higher risk of injury.
For professional teams and individual athletes, the intended benefit is access to biomechanical insights without repeatedly arranging separate laboratory assessments. Identifying risk factors, however, does not mean the technology can reliably predict or prevent every injury.
A Nazarbayev University and Stanford graduate presented the project
Mirai Tech was represented at the competition by Tamirlan Seidakhmetov, a member of Nazarbayev University’s first graduating class and a Stanford University graduate.
Seidakhmetov holds the role of AI & Data Advisor/Head at Mirai Tech. He previously worked in Lead Data positions at Meta and Apple.
Gulnur Kalimuldina, Mirai Tech’s founder and a professor at Nazarbayev University, described the result as evidence of the international potential of research developed in Kazakhstan.
“For us, this is not just an award, but confirmation that Kazakhstani scientific developments can become global technology products,” Kalimuldina said.
She credited the university’s ecosystem, investors, partners, mentors and the international community with helping the company grow. She also highlighted support from NU Impact Foundation in taking the project from university research toward commercialization and international markets.
From university research to international competitions
The US competition adds to a series of international milestones for Mirai Tech in 2026. The startup received recognition through the WIPO Global Awards, associated with the World Intellectual Property Organization, and developed its venture through the StartX ecosystem in Silicon Valley.
It also won Startup World Cup Kazakhstan 2026, earning the right to represent the country at the competition’s global final in San Francisco. That qualification and its second-place finish at the WT Innovation World Cup USA are separate achievements.
The company’s practical goal is to make movement analysis available directly on the field or training ground, allowing sports teams to use biomechanical data when planning athletes’ workloads.
DKNews.kz previously covered Mirai Tech’s victory in Kazakhstan’s Startup World Cup competition and its opportunity to compete for a $1 million investment prize.
