Abakar Saidov — entrepreneur with roots in the Russia
Abakar Saidov is a British-Dagestani entrepreneur who co-founded Beamery alongside Sultan Saidov — an AI-powered talent management platform valued at over $800 million. Born in Dagestan, Russia, he spent his early childhood in the USSR/CIS before his parents — a theoretical physicist father and neurologist mother — emigrated to Britain in the mid-1990s.
Tracing the roots — Dagestan (Russia)
Born in Dagestan (Russia) and raised in the post-Soviet CIS before emigrating to the UK, Saidov carries the intellectual tradition of a family of Soviet scientists into the world of AI entrepreneurship. His Dagestani roots — the mountainous North Caucasian republic with a deeply distinct culture within the Russian sphere — give him one of the most culturally specific post-Soviet identities in British tech.
Dagestan (Russia). Today, the former Soviet space comprises fifteen sovereign independent states.