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• ITMO Student Wins GSEA Russia Competition of Young Entrepreneurs

  Mikhail Shperling, a first-year student at the Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations, has designed a platform that helps businesses automate tasks, integrate IT systems, and prevent data leaks. This solution brought him victory in the category Future Unicorn at GSEA Russia 2025, a competition of young entrepreneurs. Next for Mikhail is a presentation of his project at GSEA grand finals in Berlin, where he will compete for a $100,000 prize fund.

  10.02.2025

• MVP and Launch Sales: Finalists of ITMO’s FoodTech Accelerator Present Their Projects at Demo Day

  Over the course of three months, more than 300 entrepreneurs from all over Russia worked to create market-ready products assisted by business trackers from ITMO University. As a result, the 13 most successful teams pitched their startups to potential investors and partners at Demo Day.

  18.12.2024

• Stable Influx of New Startups: How ITMO Accelerator Supports New Projects

  At ITMO Accelerator, budding entrepreneurs learn to grow their projects from ideas to their first income. Here, you can not only improve an existing project but also launch a startup from scratch: novices get mentors and help when assembling their teams. At the end of the program, the best projects get 400,000 rubles to be spent on cloud infrastructure and subscriptions from Yandex Cloud Boost, as well as other prizes from the program’s partners, such as MTS StartUp Hub and ITMO’s Technology Transfer Center. Learn more about the work of ITMO Accelerator and the opportunities it offers in this ITMO.NEWS story.

  31.07.2024

• Business-Turned-Thesis: How To Defend a Startup as a Thesis and Make Your First Money

  It often happens that students start looking for a job after graduation: first, they are too busy writing their papers and then, once they graduate, they are unsure about where and how to apply their newly-acquired competencies. There is, however, an alternative scenario. Instead of writing a conventional thesis, ITMO students can launch their own startups and defend them as part of the Business Project as Thesis initiative. The program welcomed 385 students over the past five years, and the most successful ones even received their first investments. Read on to find out why and how to join the initiative below.

  28.06.2024

• Risks and How To Manage Them: Advice From Sberbank VP Dzhangir Dzhangirov

  What does alpine skiing have in common with high-tech investments? Risks! An unfortunate combination of factors may lead to an injury (in the former case) or loss of profit (in the latter). For that reason, it’s important to know how to assess risks and manage them. Dzhangir Dzhangirov, the Senior VP and Chief Risk Officer at Sberbank, shared crucial insights into the subject during a lecture at ITMO University.

  03.04.2024

• ITMO PhD Student Wins Entrepreneur Contest GSEA Russia 2024

  Daudi Dauddin, a PhD student at ITMO’s Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations, ranked highest in the category Breakthrough of the Year at GSEA Russia 2024, a contest for young entrepreneurs. At the contest, he presented an AI-driven service for patent registration and monitoring that will now receive support from international business communities.

  14.02.2024

• AI Beauty Advisor, Text Encryptor, and Noise-Canceling Materials: Results of the Latest Demo Day at ITMO Accelerator

  Twice a year, around 60 student teams pitch their ideas at Demo Day after taking a three-month training course at ITMO Accelerator. For the second year running, the creators of the best startups are granted a 400,000-ruble grant and a free subscription to Yandex services from Yandex Cloud Boost. See below which projects won this year. 

  18.12.2023

• Putting Scientific Ideas Into Business Suits: Lecturer Meriç Biçakçioğlu On Turning Research Into Business Projects

  Meriç Biçakçioğlu, an entrepreneur and academician, has spent several years working with startups and supporting corporate innovation efforts. He helps commercialize and scale ideas – and teaches students and employees of companies to do the same. For four years now, he has been a lecturer in the course International Research Management Essentials at ITMO, where he talks all about turning research ideas into business projects that are accessible to their respective audiences. In this interview, we discussed his area of expertise and the opportunities for future scientists that can be found at ITMO’s soft skills courses. 

  04.12.2023

• Student Spotlight: Siraj Farhan, India

  Step into the world of Siraj Farhan, an international student from India who is currently pursuing a Master's degree in entrepreneurship at ITMO. Farhan is a captivating individual with an insatiable passion for computers and AI. An adventurer at heart, he's tried his hand at a multitude of pursuits, including building his very own startup. Join us as we delve into his inspiring journey.

  26.10.2023

• Preaccelerator Programs for UMNIK Winners To Be Held at ITMO University

  As a winner of the competition organized by the Foundation For Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises (FASIE), ITMO University is now authorized to conduct preaccelerator programs for recipients of the UMNIK grants. This will allow the university to encourage innovation and support young scientists and entrepreneurs more actively.

  15.08.2023