Startups and Investors at StartCamp

On April 23, during the Joint Conference “RIF + CIB”, AddVenture and DaTigra organized StartCamp - master classes, project pitches, and one-on-one communication with investors. 15 bright startups communicated with representatives of IT companies - Google, Adobe, etc., and with investors - DST, Ru-Net, Finam, etc.

In the section “Starting a project. You reap what you sow, ”made presentations:

• Who and why to take to the business, Igor Ashmanov, Ashmanov and Partners
• Phrases that can not be uttered at a meeting with an investor, Pavel Cherkashin, Head of the Representative Office of Adobe Systems in Russia and the CIS, business angel
• Harmful investor advice - how to get to the cemetery of startups in the “Death Valley”, Elena Masolova, AddVenture Fund Investment Director
• On what you can save and where to get seed money in a crisis, Sergey Eremin, Department of Strategic Technologies, Microsoft.

Presentation slides can be downloaded from us in the blog .
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In the section “Project Development. Patience and a little effort "were made:

• Innovations at Google, Sergey Burkov, head of an innovative project in Mountain View, former head of the Moscow Google Development Center
• Right and wrong money, Edward Shenderovich, Managing Director of Kite Ventures Foundation
• Trends 2009, Kirill Danilyuk, an analyst at ABRT
• How we did a startup, Alexander Dorzhiev, co-founder of Wi2Geo

During the StartupPoint section, participants made brief 2-minute presentations (“pitches”) of their projects before viewers and investors:
http://tolkona5.ru/
http://getconfiture.com/
http://moikompas.ru/
http://who.hasfiles.com/
http://song.ly/
http://gosblog.ru/
http://vselisdelal.ru/
The top 5 startups were selected, who held a 5-minute presentation, answered questions from experts and viewers, and received development tips:

http://iii.ru/
http://doroga.tv/
http://rusavtobus.ru/
http://elama.ru/
http://tarifer.ru/

Video clips of speeches of experts and projects will be posted during the week on the website of the information partner ( unova.ru ) and the website of the co-organizer of the section ( startuppoint.ru )

The final one-to-one session brought together representatives of Digital Sky Technologies, eVentures, Kite Ventures, Martinson Trigon, Ru-Net Holdings, Finam, ABRT foundations , who held a series of meetings with 10 selected startups. Constructive criticism and feedback from experts and investors often open the eyes of young entrepreneurs. A one-on-one communication format gives time for a qualitative business analysis and practical advice.

StartCamp has brought together bright startups, professional investors and has become an excellent platform for communication and exchange of ideas.

What do you think about the presented startups?