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• Help the Dark Store: Winners of Hackathon by ITMO and VkusVill Grocery Chain

  100 students from Moscow and St. Petersburg took part in the recent hackathon Help the Dark Store, organized by ITMO and VkusVill, a chain of grocery stores. Over three days, they analyzed the operations of the company’s dark stores to suggest ways to improve product storage, assembly of orders, and stock-taking. The best projects will be implemented at the company.

  26.09.2024

• 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

• New Opportunities at ITMO Accelerator: 400,000-ruble Grants and More Partners

  ITMO Accelerator helps young entrepreneurs develop their projects from ideas to first revenue through courses on business strategy and marketing, mentorship, and opportunities to communicate with potential investors. This year, the Accelerator expanded its partner network, adding Uralsib, Investment and Venture Fund of the Republic of Tatarstan, Gazprom Neft, and Netology. Thanks to these partners, participating projects can be reviewed by major players on the market, as well as get a chance for financial support.

  26.02.2024

• AI Teaches Sberbank Employees To Speak in Public

  A team of developers helmed by ITMO graduate Yulia Khlyupina has created a virtual coach that offers personalized public speaking courses. The team received a grant of 1 million rubles from Sberbank and 12 million rubles in funding at the Demo Day of the SberStudent accelerator for students and university staff. The robot is currently being trained to offer test services for the company’s employees.

  12.02.2024

• A 7 Million Ruble Idea: Diana Duglas Talks New Pregnancy Fitness App

  Diana Duglas is a graduate of ITMO Accelerator and the author of MotherFit, an app for yoga, fitness, and gymnastics for the pregnant. Recently, the startup became one of the winners of VK Start Apps, an accelerator for VK Mini Apps developers, and was shortlisted for a Skolkovo grant of up to 7 million rubles. In this interview, Diana Duglas shares her story of making an app without any prior experience and building a team from scratch.

  19.01.2024

• ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #38

  The new academic year is here! In today’s recap of science-themed reports from ITMO.NEWS, we focus on learning in all its forms: from developments on the awaited ITMO Highpark campus to insights into the Russian higher education system and opportunities for ITMO students. Pens ready, notebooks open? Let’s begin!

  04.09.2023

• ITMO Accelerator Launches TechNet Track

  ITMO Accelerator is introducing TechNet – a new track for startups in photonics, wireless technologies, the Internet of Things, energy transfer, and smart distributed energy systems. The program will introduce participants to entrepreneurship and assist them through all stages of project development – from ideas to first sales.

  21.08.2023

• 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

• Yandex Cloud Boost Approved: Top Projects of ITMO Accelerator Demo Day 2023

  Every year, around 50 projects go through the ITMO Accelerator before presenting their results at Demo Day. From last year on, the creators of the best projects receive a 400,000-ruble grant and a free subscription to Yandex services from Yandex Cloud Boost. More on this year’s winners below.

  04.08.2023

• A Greenhouse for Startups: ITMO Accelerator Opens Applications

  The ITMO Accelerator is an initiative that helps young entrepreneurs take their startups through all stages of development, from mere ideas to first sales. Having updated its format three years ago, the project has nurtured over 190 startups. In that time, over 3,700 teams from universities across Russia have applied to join the accelerator – and now is your chance to join, too. Learn more about the project’s opportunities in this article.

  16.03.2023