Startup Village short-list: 20 startups

On 28th of May jury announced Startup Village short-list:

Vasily Belov, acting Senior Vice-President of the Skolkovo Foundation, executive director of the Energy Efficiency Cluster:

Those 20 finalists, which were selected today were picked not only from residents of the Skolkovo, roughly half of them are startups we found during the Russian Startup Tour. Therefore, of the 920 Skolkovo startups just about half of the finalists, given that we have a sample here of nearly two thousand start-ups from all over the country (including those invited from the mentioned Tour across Russia). And this is the key innovation asset of our country.

Today I’d like to wish these companies to keep this enthusiasm and energy they gained today, at the Startup Village, hitting the finals. I wish that they use this potential developing their core business, attracting investors into their business. And the very first thing they have to put their energy in is to communicate with customers. Traditionally, the Russian start-ups aren’t that active in their work with investors. We are great in inventing things, but it’s important to start as soon as possible to communicate with your future customers. The market always buys finished products and ready-made solutions, and our market innovation is a little different from the others, it more complicated, and this is yet another factor that confirms that you need to start communicating with your customers as soon as possible.
Appercode
mobile application development platform
Way Ray
compact WayRay Device, windshield-projecting navigation system
Novilab Security
radiation protected UAV for environment and infrastructure monitoring
SmS tenzoterm Rus
primary semiconductor converters on basis of rare-earth semiconductor SmS
e-Trike
ultra-light transforming electric car that allows to move around modern megalopolis regardless of traffic and parking issues.
4D Energitics
new, fixed, quickly rechargeable, reliable and cheap batteries to smooth out the peaks of power consumption and power generation graphics, giving significant energy savings for diesel generators
Eco catalysis
4 times cheaper heating
New gas technologies
technology of gas and methanol transforming into a mixture of aromatic hydrocarbons
Oncometrix
Prostate cancer diagnostic method
NewVac
Immunotherapy in Oncology
InsidEr Pharm
Technology of infusion of chemotherapeutic drugs into erythrocytes
PiterSoftwareHouse
software for online patients monitoring
BioStan
the development of universal endovascular implants (stents) with biodegradation function
Optimal Management
Optimization of Supply Chains and Optimal Enterprise Asset Management
Indoorgo
proprietary indoor navigation technologies using 802.11 Wi-Fi networks for positioning, navigation and short messaging in mobile devices. The system will be used for direct communication & advertising as well as behavioral data collection on exhibition and museums visitors, supermarkets customers, etc.
T8
T8 has developed and successfully commercialized optical equipment based on the wavelength division multiplexing technology (WDM) for long-haul optical networks. T8 equipment ensures 100 Gbit/s channel speed with system capacity of 8,8 Tbit/s.
Russian.Lingualeo.com
LinguaLeo is the self study platform to learn English and many other languages for active internet and mobile users worldwide
Digital Loyalty System
purchase registration service is provided by Digital Loyalty System. The service identifies and records customers by the payment cards they use.
Rustek
New thermoelectric material
Optogard
Laser-plasma metal processing
Jury:
Pekka Viljakainen, Advisor to the President of Skolkovo Foundation
Sergey Arkhipov, Chief Innovation Officer of JSC OMZ
Andrey Buravin, Deputy General Director of JSC Russian Space Systems
Vladimir Gershenzon, CEO of SCANEX R&D Center
Andrey Ivashchenko, Chairman of the Board, of the High-Tech Center ChemRar
Alexander Kuleshov, Director of the Institute for Information Transmission Problems (Kharkevich Institute)
Andrey Morozov, Chairman of VEB Innovation Fund
Igor Taber, Director of Intel Capital Russia
Yuri Udaltsov, Director for Innovative Development, Member of the Executive Board of Rusnano

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