Applications Now Open for New Educational Robotics Accelerator
Over the course of 12 weeks, participants of the HSE Business Incubator’s programme will finalise their startups under the leadership of renowned market experts and attract grant funding for their projects. The programme will be held both online and in person. Applications for the accelerator are open until May 28, 2022.
Projects must meet the following requirements: at least two people in a team, 35 hours of programme participation per week, startups must be at the seed stage and involve the use of robotics, and there must be an MVP or innovative technology.
The accelerator has partnered with the AFK Sistema investment holding (whose portfolio includes MTS, Segezha Group, MEDSI, and OZON), HSE Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (MIEM), top experts from the HSE Business Incubator, and the ‘Kruzhok Movement’ National Technology Initiative.
Benefits for programme participants include:
— Project packaging
— Selection of a suitable grant
— Assistance filling out applications
— 30 hours of communication with renowned entrepreneurs and experts in robotics
— Piloting on a partner basis
— Group workshops for exchanging experience
— Gaining recognition in their niche
— 8 free services for work
— Resources that will help save up to 2 million roubles on development
The Business Incubator plans to hold mastermind sessions, meetings with investors, lectures and office hours with experts every week. The programme will culminate in a demo day featuring presentations of projects for private investors and venture funds with feedback and investment proposals.
The accelerator programme covers individual development trajectories, customer development, calculating the market volume, PAM/TAM/SAM/SOM, competitor analysis, calculating financial models and development options using unit economics, and drawing up legal documents—from the charter and NDA to registering intellectual property rights. Upon completion of the programme, graduates of the Business Incubator will receive support for attracting investments.
Top experts, entrepreneurs and lawyers will help the participants develop their projects:
Nina Feodosiadi, Head of HSE Inc
Nina has more than 20 years of business experience. Since March 2021, she has headed the HSE Business Incubator. She engages in technological entrepreneurship, acceleration programmes, interaction with venture funds, and the creation of a startup studio.
Svetlana Alexandrova, product manager of Yandex.Practicum
Svetlana has advised more than 1,000 teams on early-stage development, research, and presentation packaging. She has prepared HSE Inc, Filtech, and SberUP accelerator teams for their final presentations to investors and customers.
Daniil Khanin, Tracker
Daniil specialises in launching e-commerce and big-data projects. He has implemented numerous projects, including Crossss and the MeKha group of companies, and is the founder of MRRly.io.
Ivan Terekhin, serial entrepreneur, investor
Ivan is a Venture Partner at Starta Ventures (New York), co-founder of the startup BINO, and has attracted $1.5 million in investments. He is Independent Director at Rebotica (an educational project created by HSE Inc graduates that achieved a revenue growth of 120% per year) and a mentor of the Van Love startup (who won Sberbank's SberUP corporate acceleration programme organised by HSE Inc).
Lyudmila Bulavkina, Business Angel
Lyudmila has been working in IT marketing since 2000. She has worked as Marketing Director at ABBYY and Odnoklassniki, as well as Partner and Marketing Director of YouDo. She is the co-founder of the Rentmania rental service and the Angels Ch angel investment fund, and is a mentor for Private Sale, SeaMarmelad, Looks.Rent, and Wonderobe.
Olga Elina, IIDF tracker
Olga tracks 200+ teams in the corporate accelerators of VTB, Russian Railways, the Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Netology accelerator, the Moscow Accelerator of the Moscow Innovation Agency, SberUP, and Terricon Valley (Kazakhstan). She has been a speaker at PRObusiness, Archipelago 2121, and the KROKIT accelerator (Minsk). She is also a coach for PitchMe Moscow, VC Kuhnya, The Garage, and X5 Pitch Day (2021).
Nina Feodosiadi
Laboratory Head, HSE Business Incubator
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