First projects selected for GTI Labs

The opening of GTI Labs program for the acceleration of IT start-ups at seed and pre-seed stages of development took place on September 11, 2012 and was supported by Prostor Capital and Moscow Seed Fund. The first selected projects were Black Cat and Car-Fin.ru.

Black Cat is an online service for reputation management, loyalty forming, processing the information from customers and operational response to their needs on social networks.

Car-Fin.ru is an automated online broker that offers the possibility of adapting the best foreign portals: a new way of buying cars on credit or leasing for prudent customers who values their time.

Startups meet each other as well as mentors, and representatives of the investment fund and the entire GTI Labs team at the opening of GTI Labs. Co-founders and executives of such companies as Parallels, Mail.ru, Deutsche Bank and InMobi will work on product development, technologies and business projects.

In total, the program is planned to accelerate 7 projects with the expectation that the seed funding of up to $400K from Prostor Capital and Moscow Seed Fund will be distributed among the maximum number of participants.