Astana Hub — Kazakhstan's Tax-Free Technopark for Scaling Tech Companies

Astana Hub is Kazakhstan's national 'international technopark of IT start-ups', created by Government Resolution No. 644 and officially opened on 6 November 2018. Resident companies receive a package of state incentives: a ten-year corporate-tax exemption, simplified work-visa rules for foreign specialists, and access to acceleration, incubation and export-promotion services.

The technopark admits IT companies as residents and provides tax and visa incentives alongside acceleration and export-promotion support intended to grow them from early-stage ventures into exporters.

Resident companies rose from roughly 1,100 to over 1,600 by the end of 2024 (500+ new joiners that year, including 425+ with foreign participation), while tech-sector revenue reached $1.3 billion, IT-service exports hit $481.5 million and residents attracted $177 million in investment. By the end of 2025, resident revenue exceeded $1.7 billion, exports reached $633.8 million to 111 countries, and cumulative jobs passed 32,000. Over its first five years the state invested roughly 15 billion tenge (~$28.9 million) against tech-industry revenues it credits at 1.5 trillion tenge (~$2.9 billion).

The growth trajectory is well documented across multiple outlets, but the model depends on continued state tax subsidy -- a sustainability question the available sources do not address -- and no source discloses how benefits are distributed by region, company size or founder demographics.