One of the largest accelerator projects in the IT field has started its work in October 2014 in St. Petersburg. ABRT-Mangrove CEO Camp 2.0 is carried out at the ITMO University; the venture capital funds ABRT Venture Fund and Mangrove Capital Partners act as organizers, supported by Veeam Software and EURECA program.
SEO Camp offers to participants an intensive 9-week educational session in St. Petersburg and the Silicon Valley, with a view to restructuring and scaling of business projects, significant increase the number of sales, attraction new world-class customers and partners. Ambitious CEOs and founders of IT companies from Russia, CIS countries and Europe are invited to participate.
"Do you want to see your project with a new look? Or have you maybe decided to scale the results, but do not know how? If you are the founder of a startup or technology project and dream of conquering new markets, welcome to the second selection of the best accelerator programs in Russia, the CEO Camp 2.0! Here you will be able to look at the project differently and achieve incredible results in a short time!" Oksana Dergach, the project manager of the CEO Camp, says.
The basic part of CEO Camp 2.0 involves intensive elaboration of the current situation and strategies of participating projects. For this purpose, weekly meetings with mentors and representatives of investment funds will be held. Their task is to develop recommendations to accelerate the growth and increase the value of companies.
In the future, the best team-members will be able to go to Silicon Valley for continuation working with the Advisory Board, acquisition the key contacts and negotiations with representatives of IT companies and venture capital funds such as Accel Partners and Sequoia Capital (investors of Facebook and Google).
Thanks to the program, participants will be able to work side by side with such a guru of IT businesses, as Ratmir Timashev and David Waroquier for more than two months, and to get practical advice from well-known entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley - Steve Blank and Kamran Elahian.
According to the results of SEO Camp 2.0, there is a unique opportunity before finalist teams to receive funding from more than 20 venture capital funds, including the world-famous ABRT Venture Fond and Mangrove Capital Partners.
"If you want to grow your business on the basis of your scientific research or to enter global markets, and your company does business in industries such as Infrastructure Software, Cloud Computing, Internet & Mobile, Saas or Nealthcare, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Alternative Energy Sources, Optoelectronic Technology, Ecology, or you have a technology project with a scientific component, than CEO Camp is for you! All that's left to do - to apply online www.abrtcamp.com”, Anna Keush, the head of the educational program of the project CEO Camp, says.
Number of participants is limited; applications will only be accepted until October 10. Read more about the conditions and the cost of participation on the website of the organizers.
By the end of the application period ABRT Fund and the ITMO University in the framework of the EURECA program of the USRF Fund will select the best projects to be granted funding to cover participation in the CEO Camp 2.0. There are special conditions for participation for students, undergraduates, graduate students and employees at the ITMO University.
Holding such events and educational programs became the hallmark of ITMO University, striving to create the region's largest platform for acceleration activities in the field of high-tech entrepreneurship. Participation in the project CEO Camp 2.0 allows the university to promote dialogue between the scientific and business community in order to organize the mechanism of commercialization of scientific results.