Startup- this is the name of both the company that they plan to create, and the existing enterprise in the development stage. Usually this is a project with an original idea that has not yet been brought to life.
Business angel- a private investor, often investing personal funds in risky projects.
"Writing in the Sand"
An online service that allows you to order as a gift some kind of commemorative inscription on the sand of any of the beaches in the world.
Start-up capital: $100
The idea for the startup came to 23-year-old Anton Velikanov when he moved to Costa Rica. Financial investments were minimal. Anton completely developed the site in four days and personally wrote all the popular Russian names on his beach. After a couple of months of work on the project, users had the opportunity to order confessions and wishes. There were photographers who were ready to fulfill the individual requests of clients. During the first year of work, several joint promotions were held with coupon sites, which brought recognition to the project. Also, the startup Inscription in the Sand was one of the first to receive a StartFellows grant.
"Social Alarm"
A free service with which you can order a wake-up call or wake someone up yourself.
Start-up capital: $100 000
Hrachik Ajamyan, a student and owner of a small website development company, struggled to get up in the morning. But when they called him from unknown numbers, he immediately got up, thinking that it was new client. So the idea was born that calls from strangers are effective alarm clocks.
At the very beginning, the startup team consisted of five people. The development of the service was carried out almost 24 hours a day, the guys were so passionate that they hardly slept. The starting capital was the team's own funds. They were spent mainly on the salaries of employees and on telecom. Not a single ruble was spent on advertising the startup. After it was decided to participate in the startup competition, the first business angel appeared. He invested $500,000 in the project.
"Each other"
This project helps to correctly realize other people's desires and find good performers of their own.
Start-up capital: $50 000
The authors of the original idea were four graduates of St. Petersburg State University. They decided that they would choose the desire of a particular person and fulfill it themselves. But then the idea was transformed: now the users themselves bring each other's dreams to life. Before participating in the Startup Weekend, not a penny was invested in the project. Then the creators sent an application to the Glavstart company and received the first investment. In addition, this idea received a $25,000 grant from StartFellows. The first version of the site was developed for three months and turned out to be not very successful. The second option was done in one and a half. A new version will be released soon: the startup involves constant improvements and moderation.
"Button of Life"
Mobile system for calling for help for the elderly, as well as for anyone who needs it.
Start-up capital: $10 000
Dmitry Yurchenko and Irina Linnik decided to start a mobile assistance system, invested money, bought equipment. Then they found an investor, participated in startup competitions. Without even launching sales, they won the competitions "BIT", "Telecom Idea", and "Business Success". The company has many problems. The main one is sales, because many do not know what a medical alarm is. Despite this, the creators plan to enter the regions and develop their own unique equipment.
Here are ideas from abroad:
Super marmite, super-marmite.com, "Super bowler".
It's simple: you cook a dish at home, upload its photo to this site, set a price, indicate the address and wait for hungry customers.
HighScore House, highscorehouse.com - Model House.
A chance to turn routine household chores into a game for children. Parents themselves set what prize the child will receive for the completed task.
Never Liked It Anyway, neverlikeditanyway.com - "I didn't like him anyway."
Here you can sell some gift from the ex, and at the same time tell how bad this ex is, and get comments from sympathetic users.
What's new for
If you have a startup or an idea, you can:
Get advice or initial investment by participating in StartupWeekend, or contact the organizer, Glavstart, to get a grant.
russia.startupweekend.org, glavstart.ru;
Participate in the entrepreneurial competition "BIT", which is held almost throughout Russia.
bit-konkurs.ru
Submit a startup to the Telecom-Idea contest.
telecomideas.ru;
Get a startup grant from StartFellows.
milnerdurov.com;
Nominate a project from any field of activity for the "Best Startup" nomination in the "Business Success" competition.
support-credit.ru/conference;
Take part in the Harvest working weekend and turn your idea into a startup.
greenfield-project.ru/harvest;
Nominate your company for the Startups of the Year nomination of the Runet award.
premiaruneta.ru;
Fill out the application form for participation in the Technovation Cup project competition.
technocup.ru
Prepared by Anna Grineva
A startup is not only a great opportunity to fulfill the dream of a life without bosses and alarm clocks, but also a way to realize your natural desires, skills, and also help people
Successful startups help their owners to live a full life after the first 100 meters has been completed: the development of an idea, or offline, the launch of a project. Sometimes, it turns out to be difficult, but the brightest startups of 2016 in Russia definitely deserve attention and are worth learning about and, perhaps, taking an example of successfully implemented business ideas.
Moreover, in order to implement the most daring ideas, their authors do not always need to have their own "financial parachute" behind them, they are helped by projects to collect sponsorship, which themselves are, in fact, successfully implemented in practice start-ups.
Sofa? No, the bivan is furniture out of thin air!
Nikolai Belousov, a startup from Omsk, came up with an alternative to a bedspread, a deck chair, a sun lounger, a log in the forest, a hammock, an air bed, a mattress, a sofa. The idea and design of the product, which is called "bivan", was developed by him in January 2016.
A bivan is an inflatable sofa that does not require any additional devices to fill with air, be it a pump or inflate with your own mouth. Everything is simpler: you can inflate the bivan in 15 seconds by simply opening and waving it, taking a few steps, first in one direction, then in the other direction.
The bivan is an inflatable product made of parachute fabric, consisting of two sections sewn together, inside there is a polyethylene insert folded in half, which is filled with air when swung. After that, the edges of the product are tucked up and fastened with straps with a plastic carabiner.
The useful area of the inflated bivan is 2 meters long and 90 centimeters wide. When folded, the product fits into a small backpack 35 cm long and 15 cm wide, which is included in the kit, and weighs no more than 1.5 kg.
You can lie on the bivan, sit, sleep, relax, sunbathe, look at the stars, not only alone, but even together, the product can withstand a load of up to 300 kg, and holds air from one inflation for more than 12 hours.
Nikolay Belousov, placing the idea of a startup on the BoomStarter crowdfunding platform in April 2016, planned to raise 1 million rubles to start production, but the sponsors liked the idea so much that the project managed to raise 3 million 890 thousand 140 rubles, and the startup itself became a record holder sites.
In early May, production was launched, and at the end of the month, the first sales had already begun.
Flash safe or infinite flash drive
An infinite amount of information from the network, as well as photos, films, games, documents need to be stored somewhere. Yes, you can download all this to your home computer, but you won’t carry it with you forever, and ordinary flash drives are limited in terms of the amount of information they can hold.
This problem was solved by startupper Alexey Churkin, head of Flashsafe. He invented endless flash drives. These are flash drives through which information is uploaded to cloud storage on the Internet. You can use them anonymously and completely safe. The data stored in the cloud is encrypted and is not associated with a specific user. The flash safe has a built-in software, which allows you to connect to the saved information from any device and is a kind of key, saving the user from having to go to the mail, enter a login, password.
Sales of the device in Russia began at the end of August 2016, the cost of an endless flash drive is 4,199 rubles per Russian Federation and $79.99 overseas.
Not all Russian startups related to information technology go through the process of their formation and development smoothly. So, in August 2016, media reports appeared about a startup from Novosibirsk, NeuroMama, whose total share price on the American Stock Exchange amounted to $35 billion (!) and overtook such companies as Airbnb and Tesla Motors, after which it was removed from trading by the American Commission on securities.
NeuroMama is the world's first intelligent search engine based on neurotechnologies without the use of ranking algorithms, that is, it is a search engine that is able to learn itself in the process of work. The startup was accused of a fiction of inflating the capitalization of shares, not providing financial statements, when in fact the value of the company tends to zero. However, a refutation and explanation of the reasons for the fabulous increase in the value of shares immediately appeared on the NeuroMama website, as well as information that an explanatory letter was being prepared to the Securities Commission.
Cube with cartoons
Another successful startup is MULTIKUBIK, a mini projector that can be used to watch cartoons, fairy tales, photos on any surface, ceiling, and even outdoors, for example, on the wall of a high-rise building.
The creators position the product as an excellent alternative to tablets that can cause certain harm to a child: posture and vision deteriorate, the child withdraws into himself, it is difficult to control what he does while sitting at the tablet. A completely different matter is a multicube. With it, you can watch your favorite fairy tales and cartoons just like in a movie theater. The picture is not too bright, so as not to harm the child's eyesight. An excellent opportunity to spend time with the whole family watching fairy tales, cartoons, photos and videos from your home collection in the evenings, which can be easily loaded into a multicube.
The founders of the startup conducted a successful crowdfunding campaign through the Indiegogo platform, where they raised $150,000 to launch sales with an initial goal of $75,000, and also became the finalists of the competition innovative projects Startup Village in 2016 with the main prize of 3 million rubles for its development.
Prisma mobile app
In June 2016, a new application appeared in the App Store, developed by Alexey Moiseenkov, an employee of the Russian technology company Mail.Ru Group. Later, in July, a version for devices running on Android was published, the number of downloads in the Play Market for the week amounted to more than 10 million.
The highlight of the Prisma application is that with it you can process photos in the style of paintings by famous artists: Kandinsky, Munch, Chagall and others. It would seem that there is no wonder, now there are many programs for processing photos!
The fundamental novelty of the application is as follows: the photo is analyzed by a self-learning neural network, which is located on the server, after which the image is completely redrawn. Other photo processing programs simply overlay a set of filters on top of the picture. As of early August, Prisma has processed over 1 billion photos.
The creator of the project quit the Mail.Ru Group, and Servers.com became the investor of the startup, providing its servers around the world for the Moisenkov project.
FootyBall - football club for preschoolers
People who have small children know firsthand how excited outdoor games are for kids. Of course, developing children's centers, studios and kindergartens are great ideas for business. But three-year-old kids are not taken to the sports sections. This niche was occupied by startups - the creators of the FootyBall project. And they didn't fail. FootyBall is a chain of football clubs for kids from three to seven years old.
Since the beginning of 2016, the founders of the startup have attracted more than 10 million rubles of sponsorship money with the help of the StartTrack crowdfunding platform.
Kids from the age of three are happy to play football, learn the right serves from a professional coach. Who knows, maybe the little students of the FootyBall club will grow into real champions, for whom you won’t have to blush at the championships. After all, every month the club conducts a selection of capable students with a penchant for a professional football career.
Before joining the club, you can come to a trial workout for free.
MoyGrafik - time tracking and solving problems with late employees
A startup participant in the 9th Accelerator from the Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF) is the MoyGrafik cloud service - an assistant to businesses in the fight against lateness and accounting for employees' working hours.
The creators of the service calculated that an employee's delay by 15 minutes costs the business 300,000 rubles for every 10 million wage fund, and a shift delay for every 15 minutes is a loss of 300,000 rubles for every 10 million turnover.
MoyGrafik is a service that helps to solve the problems of absenteeism and lateness of employees in retail business. Installation of the program on a personal PC is not required, the service is available 24 hours a day and helps: maintain a work schedule, register arrivals, departures, presence of employees at the workplace using mobile phones, create reports to evaluate and motivate staff.
The benefits of the service are obvious for: grocery stores, as well as others retail chains, services, networks fast food, restaurants, cafes, nightclubs. MoyGrafik allows you to manage the work schedule of shift personnel, simplifies time tracking, reduces time and labor costs for scheduling.
All that is required to get started is the presence of a Wi-Fi network, to which employees connect when they come to work, their data is entered into a common interface, and the service automatically collects information about the time of arrival and departure.
Shoe factory "Tibozh" and the project "Pair for a Pair"
Our list of startups in 2016 in Russia is completed by the Pair for a Pair project. shoe factory Tibozh, which attracted the attention of 1254 sponsors and investments in the amount of more than 2 million rubles, with the goal of raising 1.7 million rubles to launch a startup.
Why did a seemingly ordinary business like shoes make it to our list? The fact is that this is not an ordinary factory:
- the first feature is that the factory employs people with 2-3 disability groups, they produce shoes using direct casting technology;
- and the second is the implementation of the Pair for a Pair charity event, which means that for each pair of shoes sold, the founders of the startup donate a pair of shoes to those who need it and are unable to purchase it.
The factory produces slippers, bags, sneakers. The creators of the project actively cooperate with foundations social protection: A child's smile and the Good City of Petersburg. Startup author Stanislav Sorokin believes that the goal of any entrepreneurship is not money. Money is the result and reward for Good work. And the goal is the transformation of the world in which we live, and it is for the sake of this goal that one wants to wake up in the morning.
A platform for learning to program in English, with 16 million registered users (!). In 2012, the creators of Codecademy announced the launch of the Russian-language version, but they never finalized it: only a few menu items and tasks were translated.
There are no video lectures on Codecademy. Each lesson consists of a short funny text and a small task. The student enters the resulting code in a special field and proceeds to the next module.
Doesn't exist in Russia educational projects, similar to Codecademy. Creating its analogue is not an easy task, but the result will be worth it: in 2016, the company attracted $42.5 million in investments.
When a developer launches an English-language application, he knows exactly where to start promotion: on the site. It's an incredibly authoritative resource for finding apps and services: 100-200 votes on Product Hunt can bring in thousands of new users. In addition, Product Hunt is an important source of information for foreign media.
When a developer launches a Russian-language application, the issue of promotion remains open. The Product Hunt community is in English and is not interested in local projects. So why not open a similar platform for Russian-language services and applications?
We all made mistakes of varying severity on the Internet: photos of 18+ from parties, obscene comments on Facebook. How to find and hide all compromising evidence?
For example, with the help of - a tool for managing personal reputation on the Internet. The service helps you keep track of mentions of your name on the Web and shows you a step-by-step strategy to improve search results.
The problem is that the service does not track content in Russian and does not take into account search results in Yandex. If these gaps are closed, BrandYourself can be used to create a new useful product for Russian-speaking users.
This is Uber for hairdressers and makeup artists. Instead of calling salons or looking for a master on the Internet, US residents can now order makeup and styling at home through the application.
Investors of the famous Y Combinator believed in StyleBee, and the company received $1.2 million from them.
Women in Russia face the same problems when looking for hairdressers and makeup artists as American women. And we need the help of Russian developers.
5. Eden
Imagine that all computer masters from the ads near the entrance are collected on one site. They will not only fix your appliances, but they will also bring friends with them to clean the floor and paint the ceiling. This is exactly what Eden offers - a service for ordering technical support, cleaning and minor repairs to offices.
Eden is focused on offices and is based in San Francisco. But nothing prevents adapting such a service for apartments, commercial premises, cottages or warehouses in any region of our country. Dare!
New business ideas are the engine of progress. But there are advantages to using the experience of other projects: someone definitely needs an existing product and you can find a monetization model for it. In addition, the team can focus on development, rather than thinking about the idea. After all, the main thing is not to brag new concept, but to create a product in demand and develop it in the direction that is interesting to users.
Apple, Facebook, Google, SpaceX - all these projects started as simple experiments - these ideas seemed just crazy, but they tried to bring them to life anyway. Here are 20 more successful projects that their founders were engaged in in addition to their core business.
For many people, changing course is also a sign of weakness. This is tantamount to admitting that you don't know what you are doing. This seems especially strange to me. I believe that a person who cannot change his point of view is dangerous. Steve Jobs often changed his views depending on the situation, and I do not know anyone who considered him weak, ”writes Ed Catmull in his book Genius Inc. How to manage a team of creative people.
The founder of Apple (and 20 other people, which we will discuss below) were not afraid to go after their ideas. Even Y Combinator - the most successful business incubator in the world - asks candidates to submit their side project idea when applying (and many are chosen to implement their idea, instead of the company's idea).
Product Hunt
Do I need to have technical knowledge to open a business in this area? How about a business that is in the business of discovering new tech products? For Ryan Hoover, founder and CEO of ProductHunt, this has never been a problem. ProductHunt is a platform and community that helps people discover new tech products and interact with their team. Instead of agonizing over the technical aspects of his side project, he simply decided to do what he knew how to do:
“I wasn't an engineer, so I wasn't going to invest the time or money into building an entire site from scratch, but I could easily make a list of email addresses. So I did. Through the mailing list, I invited several hundred investors, founders and my friends who, in my opinion, would like my project and who had a nose for technical products.
Within a few years of launching the startup, ProductHunt had grown into a community of hundreds of thousands of users. AngelList recently acquired ProductHunt for $20 million.
groupon
How did a social network for activists evolve into a $1 billion collective discount service for 45 countries? And all this happened in just two years after the launch. Groupon's path to success is a bit strange and winding. However, it defines the spirit of this startup.
Initially, the project was called The Point. The platform was aimed at bringing people together around a certain action. One day, the founder of the platform, Eric Lefkofsky, saw how users came together in a large group to buy a product and get a discount. After that, the company began to develop as Groupon. The economic crisis of 2008 prompted Lefkofsky to launch Groupon in Chicago, and we already know the rest.
Now almost everyone has it. Previously, Twitter was a small side project of Odeo. Initially, it was used as an SMS service for a small group of employees. The project did not seem interesting to the press and investors then, despite the support of CEO Evan Williams. Here's what TechCrunch wrote about him ten years ago:
“What is this company doing to make their offer attractive? How do their shareholders feel about side projects like Twttr when their main product is a total bore? Only the design is good."
Then they could not even imagine what the founders of Odeo built new business that has changed the way we communicate online.
Craigslist
Craigslist (American counterpart to Avito) is immortal. Although it cannot be attributed to the list of top tech companies, it is still worth saying a few words about the platform, which has been very successful in the US market for 20 years. But where and when did it all start? In the early 1990s, Craig Newmark, an IBM employee who had just moved to San Francisco, compiled an email list for local events (Craig's list, you know?). Craig thought the list would help him meet new people. The idea was picked up, the list became popular. People began to use it not only for meetings. In the future, this inspired Craig, and he left his job and took up the development of Craigslist. Today this company is worth $1 billion.
Unsplash
What do you do with the leftover photos from the landing page photo shoot? Create storage for royalty-free photos, of course. When the Canadian startup Crew hired a professional photographer to shoot, the photos turned out to be more than necessary. But instead of letting the photos get lost somewhere on the hard drive, the employees posted them on the site and gave them away for free. Then one HackerNews post went viral all over the internet and the photo was downloaded more than 50,000 times. Today, Unsplash has tens of thousands of amazing photos available for free download. Unsplash has become the place to go for free images.
AppSumo
You don't need a lot of money to create your own side project. Check out AppSumo, a site for daily deals in digital goods and services. The site was launched for a small amount - $50. Noah Kagan, the founder of AppSumo, in an interview shared a story about how he learned about the need to create a discount site for online companies. Then he was doing marketing for mint.com. He invested his own money (plus $20 in cash from his mom) to create a landing page and collect email addresses. In the first year, the company's value reached $1 million.
Oculus
There are many stories about how famous companies started their journey in garages: Apple, Google, Amazon, HP. And Oculus. After a long day at the California State University Mixed Reality (MXR) Lab, founder Palmer Luckey walked into the garage to try to build the future. virtual reality. After one of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns, Luckey quit his job, dropped out of school, and sold Oculus to Facebook for $2.4 billion, $400 million in real money, $2 billion in Facebook stock (before they even had a product).
Houzz
If you're looking for something related to home renovation or decorating, you'll most likely come across a listing on Houzz. The community serves over 40 million monthly users and employs approximately 1,000 employees worldwide. However, they started very modestly. One day, the founders of the company, the family of Adi Tatarko and Alon Cohen, while doing repairs, faced a lack of resources for home improvement. This prompted them to create their own. Their first users were twenty parents from the school where the children of Adi and Alon went, several architects and designers. Today the company is worth $4 billion.
Khan Academy
While teaching his relatives, Salman Khan, the founder of the educational platform Khan Academy, received a slightly ambiguous compliment: his students suggested that he meet online rather than in person. Khan did not ignore this remark, it only stuck in his head. So he started making ten-minute Youtube videos on subjects ranging from biology to art. At the same time, he worked as a hedge fund analyst. As the Youtube activity began to take off, Khan left his job and now has over 100 employees under his leadership.
gumroad
How do you know you've got a killer side project idea? If you dropped out of college, somehow became the fourth employee at Pinterest, then quit your job to make this idea a reality, this is definitely it. The same thing happened to Sahil Lavigna. While working as a designer at Pinterest, he realized that selling digital products online was unnecessarily difficult. He tweeted his idea for approval and then created his side project Gumroad over the weekend. Now the platform for the sale of digital products (from mailing lists to generating discount coupons) in the West is used by everyone - from Eminem to Tim Ferris.
GitHub
"It all started with a domain, a cheap server from Slicehost, and some stock art." Before GitHub became a $1 billion company, founders Chris Vanstrass and PJ Hiett built websites for computer technology portal CNET. They didn't like the fact that it was so difficult to make changes to open source codes. So they created their own repository while working nights and weekends. To date, their side project has hundreds of millions in venture capital and approximately 20 million users.
We Work
One of the most important startups in the world may not have come into being at all. Before founding WeWork, Adam Newman sold children's clothing with knee patches in a small building in Brooklyn. According to Newman himself, at that time he "was mistaken and directed his energy in the wrong direction."
As an additional income, Newman and his partner rented space in the same building for little money and opened a “green” coworking space there. With the proceeds from the sale of their stake in Green Desk (the original co-working company), they founded a new co-working space. Today it is worth $20 billion and is coming to Russia this year.
Udemy
How many happy IT consultants do you know? Most likely, in your circle, they either do not exist at all, or they are all unhappy. When Gagan Biani wanted to leave the consulting company Accenture, he took up a part-time job - Udemy, where he was one of the founders. This is a platform where anyone can create and sell their online course. Today, he's probably happy, because Udemy offers 42,000 courses and is worth over $170 million.
Remember Slack, which created its own messenger within the company, because nothing that existed on the market suited them. Or about the Houzz founding family who built their network because they couldn't find necessary resources for repair. Whatever you choose, in any case, there will be a few people who will think the same way as you. Don't dismiss the idea of a side project just because you feel like you're the only one who needs it.
2. Listen to the market
When Twitch first started, it never prioritized the gaming community. But when the founders saw more and more people streaming their games every day, they realized that this is what people want. At the very beginning, Groupon, then The Point, never set itself the goal of making money. He only wanted to unite for the sake of some social action. But once users banded together to get a discount on a product, the creators of Groupon saw the full potential.
3. Don't be afraid to get your hands dirty
WeWork, Buffer, HubSpot, Imgur and Oculus - their founders weren't 100% sure what they were doing, but they took the risk anyway.
The truth is that you should just try - then any startup mistake can be prevented. Start small and see if your idea works. Create, for example, a landing page or a blog, send out cold letters 100 potential buyers and see if they like your idea. Side projects are a great way to test the waters before getting serious about your next idea.
4. Colleagues and partners can validate ideas in the same way as users
Startup founders are often advised to get their ideas approved by real users. This, of course, is important. But when you're looking for ideas for side projects or just want to know if you're on the right track, it's important to listen to the inside as well. Talk to the team, employees or partners about the problems they are facing, even if those problems are not related to your company.
As a company that creates a project management tool, it is very important for Planio to be even more productive and efficient. Therefore, they made it a rule to seek confirmation within the company before developing and releasing new features.
5. Moment matters
What's great about side projects is that there's usually no outside pressure. They can be launched at any convenient time. But this does not mean that you can just sit and wait for the “right moment”.
Side projects are a chance to explore the future. This is a chance to take advantage modern instruments to create such applications and products, the need for which, perhaps, no one has yet guessed. Think of Instagram, which was created solely because of the hype around location-based services like Foursquare. Subsequently, Instagram became the most popular social network for sharing photos.
Or even Oculus. Taking advantage of advances in technology and the imagination of people, they restarted an entire industry. All this happened because the founders looked to the future. At the same time, they did not forget to follow the course of events. It was important for them to know that they were directing their energy to the right side project, that it would not be wasted.
So what does it all mean?
Side projects are an incredible source of inspiration, a way to experiment. Often the business ideas at the heart of side projects are better and more interesting than your current activity. Why not try?
International publishing project " Russian newspaper» Russia Beyond The Headlines (RBTH) ranked the TOP-50 most ambitious Russian startups in 2015. This year the ranking includes young Russian companies with development potential abroad.
RBTH has been ranking new startups since 2012. The main goal of the project is to inform foreign investors and consumers about the potential and services of Russian technology companies. Traditionally, the rating includes companies that would like to enter or are already entering foreign markets, and startups with Russian participation abroad.
Startups included in the ranking were selected according to the following criteria: the interest of foreign investors, the uniqueness of the idea, the demand of foreign consumers for the products and services offered, the potential for commercialization, and social significance, that is, the desire to improve people's lives with the help of technology. TOP-50 was made up of more than 200 Russian startups that met the requirements of the project authors.
The rating includes the Russian-Ukrainian startup 2for1, aimed at the US market. The project was founded by businessman Alexei Romanenko, who lives in San Francisco. 2for1 is a service that brings together best offers of the 15 most visited online stores in the US and Europe.
The application is designed for fashionistas and fashionistas from the middle class, who will be able to see the goods selected by the service with discounts of more than 50%. At the same time, 2for1 does not position itself as a retailer, calling itself a "filter" for buyers.
Another participant in the rating was the technological project "3D Bioprinting Solutions", which was founded by the Chairman of the Board, Director of INVITRO Group Alexander Ostrovsky and biologist Yusef Khesuani. The project is a biotechnology research laboratory that explores the topic of 3D organ bioprinting and creates its own products.
For example, 3D Bioprinting Solutions created the first Russian 3D bioprinter FABION, a software and hardware system designed to print living functional three-dimensional tissue and organ constructs.
The project in the field of ecology invites users around the world to monitor the air quality in their region of interest. A startup called AeroState uses a simple Web API technology - an application programming interface - to do this.
The rating includes the AstroDigital project, a platform for accessing satellite data that provides fast and convenient search, as well as the integration of satellite photos on the Internet and mobile applications.
Another participant in the rating is a service for yachtsmen or those who wish to join this culture. In other words, with the help of the Anchor.Travel portal, anyone can rent a boat, boat or yacht, as well as offer someone their own water transport. The service works by analogy with Airbnb and provides for direct communication between users and yacht owners.
Russian scientists have made a breakthrough in medicine by launching the AntioncoRAN-M project, a gene therapy anticancer drug designed to treat head and neck cancer. According to the results of preclinical studies, the drug increases the effectiveness of radiation therapy by 63%.
Another drug that has taken a place in the Rossiyskaya Gazeta rating is Ivix, also known as women's Viagra. CA drugs - women with sexual dysfunction. While Ivix is at the testing stage, however, it has proven itself well in animals.
The TOP-50 includes the Сardberry project, which will help people save space in their wallets. Engineers are working on an electronic card that can replace a whole stack of discount cards, synchronizing with the app of the same name via Bluetooth. The project received 800 pre-orders for 2016 and is currently in the funding phase.
Contactless payment provider CardsMobile has teamed up with British startup Tedipay to develop an open platform for secure transactions. With the help of the technology, it will be possible to make any payments, including payment for transport, meals, etc. To do this, you only need a smartphone, which the authors of the idea call a “wallet”.
An online auction for selling cars called Caprice is an analogue of the foreign portals Webuyanycar, WirKaufenDeinAuto and Al wataneya. The creators of the domestic auction promise that with the help of the service you can sell a car in half an hour.
In 2015, a Siberian startup raised $1.4 million to create the first batch of 3D pens called CreoPop. The pens contain a new photopolymer ink that cures under UV light.
The rating includes the CrocoTime project, a program for HR professionals that tracks up to 10,000 users simultaneously. The service offers automated employee monitoring for fees ranging from $14 to $50.
Among the most ambitious startups is the Russian private space satellite manufacturer Dauria Aerospace. In 2015, the Chinese investment fund Cybernaut invested in the development of the project, which gave the company $70 million, pursuing ultimate goal track the life of one of the largest cities in the world.
Institute of Catalysis G.K. Boreskov SB RAS developed the EcoCat technology. The project helps to reduce the cost of heating industrial premises by 4 times.
A project called Ecwid can change the e-commerce industry: it is an AJAX-powered online store platform that allows you to develop a site for an online store for free in a few minutes.
Another member of Elbi is an application created by supermodel Natalia Vodianova. The mobile service allows you to send donations of £1 or $1 to charity organisations around the world.
The rating also includes the Russian analogue of numerous instant messengers and social networks FireChat; in 2015, the number of registered users exceeded 5 million. The new version allows users to exchange private messages and group chats.
The authors of the rating also attracted the attention of the Russian version of virtual reality from FIBRUM. Engineers have created a headset in which the main element is not expensive materials, but an ordinary smartphone.
The list of the best startups included the IBOX project, an innovative solution that allows customers to accept cash and non-cash payments without cash register equipment and terminals.
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iBuildApp is a platform that allows businesses to build mobile applications for iOS and Android in minutes. This service already has 1.3 million users, including the US Department of State.
One of the participants in the rating was the startup Intersoft Eurasia, which develops cross-platform devices for monitoring human radiation exposure. The company offers several options for devices and their integration: a compact device-addition to a mobile device, a processor built into the mobile phone circuit, and watch-dosimeters.
Intui.Travel travel service helps travelers book a hotel and find an airport transfer. With the application, users can create a route to any place.
cloud service video surveillance Ivideon designed to work with installed cameras, including personal computers and laptops.
Kribrum has developed a monitoring system social media. The project is a tool for analyzing various references in the media. In 2015, the startup raised generous investments — more than $600,000. The system is aimed primarily at PR and marketing services.
Another participant in the rating is the Kuznech visual image search system, which allows you to track brands in the media stream, filter "adult" content, control offline merchandising, etc. The project supports video recognition and is adapted for smartphones.
The list of the best includes the well-known project LinguaLeo, an online service for learning languages. Now the portal has about 12 million registered users who study English language. The service is available to Russians, Brazil and residents of Turkey.
The Forest Watch project is a security system that allows you to prevent and track forest fires. The startup covers 33 regions of Russia and Bulgaria.
The Luka app provides recommendations for over 2,000 restaurants in San Francisco. With the help of an SMS conversation, the service finds out whether you are a vegetarian or a fan of cheese, after which it issues a list of establishments that suit your tastes.
Startup Mailburn proposes to turn the standard of business correspondence with ambiguous templates. Almost 80% of the app users work outside of Russia, and the majority of the audience comes from the United States.
One of the TOP-50 participants was the MarketMixe project - a platform for trading from suppliers' warehouses with individual data processing for online stores and trading floors online. MarketMixer automatically processes the price lists of suppliers and prepares a selection of goods for sending to the online store showcase
Startup Nanosemantics is a developer of a natural programming language that should be used on websites in chats with its representatives. The main key of the project is the laid-back human language in which bots communicate with site visitors.
Optograd Nanotech company, which is working on strengthening products. The technology of nanostructural modification of the surface of materials and alloys using a laser was recognized as one of the best startups.
The N-tech.lab project, created at the University of Washington, allows face recognition, surpassing other systems in terms of quality and speed of work.
Another payment system that will make life easier for users is PayQR. With this online banking and QR codes, you can make purchases in seconds.
A product that may replace architects and designers in the future is the Planner 5 D app. It allows you to design a house and interior even before construction begins, from walls to furniture.
Startup Prixel will give anyone the opportunity to become a collector of the most famous paintings for symbolic money. To create paintings, the company uses a 3D scanning technique that allows you to create exact copies. Prixel already has customers in the US, Mexico, Europe, Canada, South Korea and other countries.
One of the most positive startups in the rating is the Panda Money service, which is essentially online banking. However, it differs from other projects in the presence of a small character - a panda, which "feeds" at the expense of user payments.
Promobot is a robot designed for retail, which has to identify people's speech and recognize them appearance. Thus, the robot can help existing customers and find new ones.
Online cleaning service Qlean has raised over $327,000 in investments and plans to expand into the Asian market.
Relap is a B2B service aimed at increasing the time visitors spend on the site. The system recommends them using built-in widgets. The creators of the project promise that they will be able to increase the number of clicks up to 30-50%.