13 March 2018

Finalists of the TechNet Track of GenerationS Accelerator by RVC are known

A Demo Day of the TechNet track of the federal start-up GenerationS accelerator by RVC was held at St. Petersburg Polytechnic University named after Peter the Great. Three leaders from Perm, Yekaterinburg and Obninsk shared a prize fund worth RUB 1M and received an invitation to the final of GenerationS-2017.

The first place was taken by the team from Perm - FDM project ver. 2.0 under the guidance of Evgeny Matveev developed a smart extruder for a 3D printer which can be used to print products from composite materials and refractory thermoplastics. The start-up received financing in the amount of 500 thousand roubles for project development.

The second place and a prize of 300 thousand roubles were granted to a project from Yekaterinburg – an innovative SEMA dehumidifer, which, unlike silica gel, is easily disposed of. A product presented by the team of Anastasia Melnikova and Sergey Kokshakov ensures protection of various cargoes from moisture, condensation and so-called container rain, bacterial damage and corrosion during transportation.

The project called ‘New Generation Polymer Supplements’ by Sergey Losev became the third prize winner of the TechNet track and received 200 thousand roubles. Among the key characteristics of the new polymers – enhanced thermal stability, a significant improvement in the performance characteristics of finished products, reduced toxicity in heating and combustion as well as decreased fullness of polymer compositions due to polyfunctional properties.

The top five projects also included a software package for 3D modelling VR Concept (4th place) from the Moscow Region and A.A.C. Polymers technology of heat-conducting polymer composites (5th place) from Volgograd. All five finalists will present their innovations to investors at the GenerationS-2017 Superfinal where they will be competing for a prize fund worth RUB 16M.

In addition, five participants in the accelerator - a system of robotic warehouse Cybersklad, SaaS-service of preparation and maintenance of documents for industrial safety testing laboratories Lab365, SEMA, Stimul Group and FDM ver. 2.0 - signed an agreement of intent with Sberinvest UK, whose representatives offered the projects opportunities for further cooperation and fundraising.

In total, 12 projects related to additive technologies, 3D printing and other promising areas of industrial production passed through acceleration within this track. Within three months of the educational program, the teams have developed business models and drafted development plans for projects jointly with experts of the industrial partner - ODK-Saturn PJSC and the working group Technet NTI.

‘Compared to last year, we managed to make serious changes not only to the educational unit, but also to the approach to team training. It is not possible to teach a company to do business within such short period of time, but we managed to open a horizon for them and show available opportunities. And this is the most important thing - to demonstrate to the project what else can be done in a rapidly changing market and how to adapt to these changes’, said Dmitry Ivanov, Director for Innovations at ODK-Saturn PJSC.

‘Together with ODK-Saturn, we have selected projects that not only correspond to the corporate customer tasks, but also are attractive to investors. In the future, the accelerator participants can become part of the Factory of the Future, which will help attract novice technology entrepreneurs and further develop innovation infrastructure’, noted Ekaterina Petrova, the Head of the accelerator GenerationS.

‘I was pleasantly surprised by the high quality of the projects; I watched them during the selection stage in the accelerator, and now I noticed that great progress was made. What I like about the TechNet track is the development of the project from different sides: teams work not only on the product itself, but also elaborate on production issues, including those related to implementation. The accelerator team has done a great job, I see several companies at the end that are potentially interesting to us, and we will negotiate on possible financing’, emphasized Natalia Podsosonnaya, General Director and Member of the Board of Directors of Sberinvest CJSC.

REFERENCE INFORMATION

About GenerationS

GenerationS - the largest start-up accelerator in Russia and Eastern Europe, the federal platform to develop corporate acceleration tools. It has been held by RVC since 2013. Over 20 Russian corporations interested in selecting and accelerating start-ups, become industrial partners to GenerationS every year. As a result of the multi-stage examination, the GenerationS participants receive ample opportunities for business development and investment promotion as well as access to resources and infrastructure of accelerator partners. In 2017, 3,470 applications from 13 countries were submitted to participate in GenerationS.
www.generation-startup.ru

About RVC

RVC JSC is a governmental fund of funds, the Institute of Development of the Venture Industry in the Russian Federation. The main objectives of RVC JSC: stimulate creation of Russia's own venture capital industry and execute functions of the Project Office of the National Technology Initiative (NTI). The authorized capital of RVC is more than RUB 30 bln. One hundred per cent of the RVC capital is owned by the Russian Federation represented by the Federal Agency for Management of State Property of the Russian Federation (Rosimushchestvo). The total number of funds formed by RVC JSC has reached 26; their total size is 35.5 billion roubles. The share of RVC JSC is 22.6 billion roubles. The number of innovative companies approved for investment by RVC funds has reached 218. The total amount of monetary funds approved for investment is 17.9 billion roubles.
www.rvc.ru

ABOUT UEC-SATURN PJSC

Scientific-Production Association Saturn, PJSC is an engine-building company specializing in development, production and after-sales services of gas-turbine engines for military and civil aviation, power generation and gas pumping units, ships and vessels. UEK-Saturn PJSC is a part of United Engine Corporation JSC and is the head enterprise of the division ‘Engines for Civil Aviation’, which is a business unit of the United Engine Corporation.
UEK Saturn PJSC is a member of the All-Russian Industrial Association of Employers Russian Engineering Union, the Yaroslavl regional branch of the All-Russian public organization Russian Engineering Union headed by V. A. Polyakov, managing director of UEK Saturn, PJSC.
www.npo-saturn.ru

ABOUT TECHNET NTI

The Technet NTI Working Group is a working group established to develop and implement the Technet road map (advanced production technologies) of the National Technological Initiative approved on February 14, 2017 by the Presidium of the Council for the Modernization of the Economy and Innovative Development of Russia. The working group includes executives and top managers of state corporations Rostec, Rosatom, Roscosmos, USC, UAC, laureates of the ‘Industry’ national industry award CompMechLab and Datadvance, MSU named after M.V. Lomonosov, RFNC VNIIEF, Skoltech and Skolkovo Foundation, and TSSR North-West. The co-owners of the working group are Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation V.S. Osmakov and the pro-rector of SPbPU (Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University) on promising projects A.I. Borovkov (as leader of the working group).
www.nti2035.ru