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3 June 2014
Celebrating the Winners: Cleantech Announces Ten Finalists
Between April 10 and May 15, 2013, CleanTech Russia collected more than 300 applications from teams across Russia. Finalist projects were selected using the Russian Startup Rating platform (RSR), and track judges included both industry experts and investors.
CleanTech Track’s 10 finalists are:
— NanoServ, a project to use bionanotechnology to clean heating pipes and boilers of sludge and sediment;
— WiseSoil — a revolutionary technology for recycling organic waste;
— BioMicroGels to clear water of petroleum, oils, and metallic ions;
— ECOMFM — a device to reduce harmful exhaust by vehicles;
— AXIONIT — selective ion-exchange materials for extraction of rare and precious metals;
— Safe Wind Generators — a new type of wind generator using an aerodynamic design;
— Zin-o-Ferr — an anti-corrosion compound;
— AquaAgroSorb — sorption polymers for agricultural uses;
— SpectraLaser — laser systems for engine ignition,
— AEROGREEN — turbo-aerodynamic wind generator.
Finalists received their certificates and innovation passports developed by the Moscow Center for Innovative Development. They are a universal pass to the Moscow City Hall’s unified support system that covers participation in various programs and services provided by Moscow development institutions and their partners on preferred terms, including priority access to Moscow’s innovation infrastructure (technology parks and technopolises) and to innovation hubs (API Moscow, Skolkovo).
The teams selected by experts will be admitted to the CleanTech acceleration program that will be taking place from July through October and include various events designed to help entrepreneurs acquire new skills in the areas of closing investment deals, IP protection, product development, marketing clean technologies, etc. Both Russian and international experts will participate in the program.
Interaction with mentors will have a special place in the program; mentors will work with the project teams for several months. Finalists in all four contest sector tracks will compete for the right to present their projects to investors at the Open Innovation Moscow International Forum and for RUB 5 million in prize money and special prizes from contest partners in the combined GenerationS semifinals in October. The best of CleanTech projects will enter the final of the CleanTech Open Global Forum in California — one of the most prestigious international contests for clean technology startups which will take place on November 13–14, 2014.
“The recently completed first stage of project selection has confirmed the strong potential of Russian inventors and the great demand for assistance in turning their ideas into a modern business,” Sergey Arkhipov, Head of CleanTech Russia, says. “Notably, startups founded by 25 year-old as well as 50 year-old engineers and scientists had about equal rates of success. The goal of our subsequent acceleration program is to help the selected startups to complete the route from an idea to a working prototype and on to a funded business within a very short time. New applications for this year’s program are no longer accepted; the next round of taking applications (for next year’s contest) will commence in January 2015, and before that, events will be taking place across Russia for inventors and entrepreneurs in the clean technology sector.
“The Moscow City Hall is interested innovative solutions and high technology projects which can be put into service of the city residents, making life in the city more comfortable, and management of the city’s public infrastructure and utilities more efficient,” Deputy Head of the Moscow Center for Innovative Development Ekaterina Bulycheva added. “Ideas and technologies in the field of energy efficiency and environmentally friendly solutions are of particular interest. We expect the Moscow Innovation Passport to help projects become efficient companies, manufacturers whose technologies can bring real benefits to the city.”
— NanoServ, a project to use bionanotechnology to clean heating pipes and boilers of sludge and sediment;
— WiseSoil — a revolutionary technology for recycling organic waste;
— BioMicroGels to clear water of petroleum, oils, and metallic ions;
— ECOMFM — a device to reduce harmful exhaust by vehicles;
— AXIONIT — selective ion-exchange materials for extraction of rare and precious metals;
— Safe Wind Generators — a new type of wind generator using an aerodynamic design;
— Zin-o-Ferr — an anti-corrosion compound;
— AquaAgroSorb — sorption polymers for agricultural uses;
— SpectraLaser — laser systems for engine ignition,
— AEROGREEN — turbo-aerodynamic wind generator.
Finalists received their certificates and innovation passports developed by the Moscow Center for Innovative Development. They are a universal pass to the Moscow City Hall’s unified support system that covers participation in various programs and services provided by Moscow development institutions and their partners on preferred terms, including priority access to Moscow’s innovation infrastructure (technology parks and technopolises) and to innovation hubs (API Moscow, Skolkovo).
The teams selected by experts will be admitted to the CleanTech acceleration program that will be taking place from July through October and include various events designed to help entrepreneurs acquire new skills in the areas of closing investment deals, IP protection, product development, marketing clean technologies, etc. Both Russian and international experts will participate in the program.
Interaction with mentors will have a special place in the program; mentors will work with the project teams for several months. Finalists in all four contest sector tracks will compete for the right to present their projects to investors at the Open Innovation Moscow International Forum and for RUB 5 million in prize money and special prizes from contest partners in the combined GenerationS semifinals in October. The best of CleanTech projects will enter the final of the CleanTech Open Global Forum in California — one of the most prestigious international contests for clean technology startups which will take place on November 13–14, 2014.
“The recently completed first stage of project selection has confirmed the strong potential of Russian inventors and the great demand for assistance in turning their ideas into a modern business,” Sergey Arkhipov, Head of CleanTech Russia, says. “Notably, startups founded by 25 year-old as well as 50 year-old engineers and scientists had about equal rates of success. The goal of our subsequent acceleration program is to help the selected startups to complete the route from an idea to a working prototype and on to a funded business within a very short time. New applications for this year’s program are no longer accepted; the next round of taking applications (for next year’s contest) will commence in January 2015, and before that, events will be taking place across Russia for inventors and entrepreneurs in the clean technology sector.
“The Moscow City Hall is interested innovative solutions and high technology projects which can be put into service of the city residents, making life in the city more comfortable, and management of the city’s public infrastructure and utilities more efficient,” Deputy Head of the Moscow Center for Innovative Development Ekaterina Bulycheva added. “Ideas and technologies in the field of energy efficiency and environmentally friendly solutions are of particular interest. We expect the Moscow Innovation Passport to help projects become efficient companies, manufacturers whose technologies can bring real benefits to the city.”
