14 July 2026
On 14 July we spent the afternoon at an interactive session hosted by the Southern India Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SICCI) in Chennai, with H.E. Azamat Yeskarayev, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to India, as chief guest, convened by Vinod Solomon, Secretary General of SICCI.
The conversation was about a trade corridor that does not get talked about enough here. Kazakhstan is the largest economy in Central Asia and a working gateway into the wider Eurasian market, and there is real appetite on both sides to move goods, capital, and expertise across it. The Ambassador and his delegation walked us through where the openings are: energy, critical minerals, pharmaceuticals, agriculture and food processing, logistics, and engineering among them. In our own conversations with the Kazakh colleagues, fintech and agri-technology came up repeatedly as two areas with real room to build.
A report titled "Kazakhstan: India's Gateway to Central Asia and the Eurasian Economic Union" was released during the session, and it is a useful map of where the two economies can meet. What struck us, sitting on the technology side of the table, is how much of that trade only works once the plumbing underneath it does. Cross-border business runs on systems that talk to each other: shared records, reliable email and communication, secure infrastructure, and software that keeps up as a relationship grows from a first meeting to real volume.
That is the part we care about. We were not there to sell anything. We went to listen, to meet the founders and chamber members in the room, and to understand where technology can quietly make a bridge like this easier to build and cheaper to run.
We came away with a set of new relationships across the Chennai business community and the visiting delegation, and a clearer picture of where India and Kazakhstan are heading together. If you are working on trade across this corridor and want a technology partner who understands the systems side, we would be glad to talk.
