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Russian Tech Accelerators and Incubators
There are dozens of business incubators and accelerators in Russia. Here is the list of the most powerful and valuable ones that can bring early stage tech businesses to the next level of development. Almost all of them provide a standard list of services: free office space, meeting rooms, assistant in establishing contacts with potential investors as well as clients and partners. Some of them provide funding.
Type: Incubator/Center of the Tech Entrepreneurship
About: Education, conferences and events (including TechCrunch Moscow). Among others funded by The Michael Abyzov (Bright Capital).
Key Facts: Mostly provide educational and organizational support, don't invest money, help with connections. Sort of business club.
Visited by Mark Zuckerberg (Video) and Steve Balmer (Video). Held Knowledge Stream (free distance-learning lectures with tech experts). Created the Russian Startup Rating, Partnership with the Tomorrow Ventures (Eric Schmidt fund).
Location: Moscow
Type: Accelerator (branch of the US Plug and Play)
About: $25K seed funding, 3 month paid internship in Silicon Valley, education, mentorship, connection with VCs and angels, workspace. (Program details). Google, PayPal, Dropbox took part in the US Plug&Play accelerator.
Key Facts: $25K investments, 10% equity, huge partnership list
Location: Moscow
Type: Accelerator
About: High-tech mentor-led business acceleration programme targeting Russia, CIS and Eastern Europe.
Fast investment in 3 stages: $25K + >$100K + >$1M (including t angels, venture funds), networking, mentorship, workspace. Crunchbase info
Key Facts: Member of Techstars Network, 10% equity.
Location: Moscow
Moscow High School of Economics
Type: Incubator of all businesses including tech
About: Education, office space, events, network.
Key Facts: Organizes several educational events as well as the "Startup of the Year" competition.
Location: Moscow
Type: Pre-seed organization
About: Sponsored by the Russian Venture Company amongst others. Its founders Renat Garipov, Mikhael Korneev and Peter Tatischev organize free educational seminars, networking events. Greenfield Project has become a platform to share business ideas, develop them into the real projects and even put together a team. Over the past 2 years Greenfield has enabled creation of 250 startups.
Key Facts: Partners with the Incube accelerator.
Location: Moscow
Type: Accelerator/startup academy/incubator
About: Mentorship, DemoDay, workspace and Macs.
Key Facts: Offers up to $150K for the project execution for 40% equity.
Location: Moscow
Type: Startup consulting agency
About: What they do: Help establish and maintain a working dialogue and knowledge transfer among entrepreneurs worldwide. Provide educational and mentoring opportunities in the U.S. for Russian entrepreneurs. Showcase early-stage companies locally and nationally.
Key Facts: In May (12 to 24th) 2013, “Start Up Access”- the next overseas business-incubator program will be held in Boston, USA. (Info).
Location: Moscow, Boston
Type: Educational and consulting agency
About: Organizers of the three startup programs: Deep Dive - tour and education in Silicon Valley, Start in Garage and Win the Market (educational 2 days worshop in Moscow for the early stage startups.
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Location: Moscow
Type: Incubator
About: The "Ingria" Business Incubator is a project by the Ingria Technopark, an unique platform for supporting promising high tech project and beginning entrepreneurs, tasked with helped startups to develop to the stage of receiving financing and entering the market.
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Location: St. Petersburg
Type: Accelerator
About: Provides "smart money", education, demo day.
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Location: Moscow
