“We start every story with two Kazakh guys walked into a bar in Montana.”

That may sound like the beginning of a joke, but for Jahn Karsybaev, it was the beginning of something much greater. When he and Adil Nurgozhin met during their undergraduate studies at the University of Montana, they quickly became friends because of their shared homeland. Now, almost 20 years later, they work together as the co-founders and managing partners of Big Sky Capital, which just closed its debut fund at $20 million.