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Start fellows

Start Fellows is a grant program for technology entrepreneurs . Until May 2014 - the initiative of Pavel Durov and Yuri Milner [1] [2] . After - the VKontakte project to support startups using integration with a social network [3] . The program has been working since 2011 . In September 2012 , the British edition of Wired placed Start Fellows in third place in the list of the hottest events in the Russian start-up industry [4] . From February 2013 to January 2015 SF was supervised by former Roem.ru editor Lyudmila Kudryavtseva [5] [6] .

Start fellows
StartFellows.png
Type ofGrant program
Base2011
FoundersPavel Durov , Yuri Milner
Location Russia : St. Petersburg , Nevsky Prospect , 28
Key figuresLyudmila Kudryavtseva, curator of the program in 2012-2014
Parent company"In contact with"
Websitevk.com/startfellows

Content

  • 1 Grant program of Durov and Milner
  • 2 Grant program “VKontakte”
  • 3 notes
  • 4 References

Grant program of Durov and Milner

Initially, Start Fellows was one of the patronage projects of Pavel Durov [7] and investor Yuri Milner [8] . His inspiration was the Y Combinator venture capital fund , which invests small amounts in the earliest stages.

As part of Start Fellows, startups competed for a cash grant of $ 25,000 for the further development of the project, the ability to use the resources of companies owned by the founders of the grant [9] , and presentation to experts and organizations significant on the Russian Internet market [10] . The program accepted several thousand applications and formed an active community in the social network, which has become a platform for discussion, improvement and selection of grant applications [11] .

The finalists of the competition were mainly social projects [12] . At the time of receiving the grant, some of them did not have a earnings model [13] [14] .

Among the projects that received the grant are the Stampsy blog platform, the Budist social alarm clock, the TJournal.ru online publication, the Planner 5D room planning service, the Surfingbird recommendation system , the Rosalind educational resource and the DonorSearch.ru blood donor search service [15] [ 16] . In total, 24 startups received a grant.

In April 2013 , Pavel Durov in an interview said that he was launching a cloud cluster in the USA for Start Fellows projects - Digital Fortress [17] . Subsequently, Telegram messenger was launched on its base [18] .

VKontakte Grant Program

After May 2014, VKontakte took over Start Fellows [19] . The approach to rewarding has become systemic: three companies receive a grant every month [20] . The social network advises projects and gives them an equivalent advertising budget [21] .

In October 2014, the partners of the program became the hosting provider Selectel and coworking "Zone of Action". Selectel provides Start Fellows finalists with a grant for the development of technological infrastructure based on their own data centers [22] . The “Action Zone” gives them space for work [23] .

The winners of Start Fellows in a new format in 2014 were the University Schedule application, LiveCamDroid mobile online broadcast service , HTML Academy educational project, UniusLearning online learning platform , Shuffle Reader , an application for reading unrecognized text, an application for searching for drivers and passengers “ Fellow traveler ” , Orbios cloud operating system, Oneindex social network recruitment service, Smartia training materials aggregator , Promeo professional music advisory service, Online social activity monitoring service r , the Internet content filter Good.media , a platform for posting and viewing paid educational materials Besmart [23] [24] [25] [26] . DonorSearch.ru , which participated in the grant program in 2012, received a new grant in December 2014 [27] .

Notes

  1. ↑ Nikolai Kononov . ““ We will not hand out grants blindly, but I am ready to invest in a high-quality project ”” (neopr.) . Zuckerberg will call (December 8, 2011). Date of treatment November 6, 2014.
  2. ↑ “There will be no more grants from Durov-Milner - both are not interested in .ru” (neopr.) . Roem.ru (May 2, 2014). Date of treatment November 6, 2014.
  3. ↑ Elina Asfaganova. “Start Fellows restarts:“ These are not grants, this is better ”” (unspecified) . Rusbase.vc (May 27, 2014). Date of treatment November 6, 2014.
  4. ↑ Madhumita Venkataramaran. Europe's 100 hottest startups 2012: Moscow (neopr.) . Wired (August 15, 2012). Date of treatment November 6, 2014.
  5. ↑ Anton Osipov. “Lyudmila Kudryavtseva will be responsible for the grants of Milner and Durov” (neopr.) . Vedomosti (February 5, 2013). Date of treatment February 7, 2015.
  6. ↑ Daniel Plenin. “Lyudmila Kudryavtseva left Start Fellows” (neopr.) . Firrma.ru (January 19, 2015). Date of treatment January 19, 2015.
  7. ↑ Zlata Nikolaeva. “This is not okay! Or the loneliness of Durov ” (unopened) . Slon (April 19, 2013). Date of treatment November 6, 2014.
  8. ↑ Natasha Starkell. Milner in Russia: are StartFellows grants too small to attract good projects? (unspecified) . Slon (February 11, 2012). Date of treatment November 6, 2014.
  9. ↑ “In what projects does the founder of VKontakte Pavel Durov invest his money” (neopr.) . Business TV (March 20, 2012). Date of treatment November 6, 2014.
  10. ↑ "Vesti.net: promising IT projects will receive $ 25 thousand each" (neopr.) . News (December 8, 2011). Date of treatment November 6, 2014.
  11. ↑ Evgeny Trifonov. "Start Fellows and the Dark Side" (neopr.) . Zuckerberg will call (February 5, 2013). Date of treatment November 6, 2014.
  12. ↑ Zlata Nikolaeva, Svetlana Romanova. “Milner + Durov: $ 25,000 for a hug” (neopr.) . Slon (December 29, 2011). Date of treatment November 6, 2014.
  13. ↑ Daria Cherkudinova. “Milner and Durov make Russia: 12 start-ups that received money from StartFellows” (neopr.) . The Village (March 14, 2013). Date of treatment November 6, 2014.
  14. ↑ “Vesti.net: VKontakte wants to become the Russian analogue of Kickstarter” (neopr.) . News (March 14, 2013). Date of treatment November 6, 2014.
  15. ↑ “Monetized captcha, testers exchange, mobile dating and three more projects received grants from Milner and Durov” (neopr.) . Roem.ru (March 18, 2012). Date of treatment November 6, 2014.
  16. ↑ Anton the Annunciation. “Milner and Durov invested 300 thousand dollars in Russian startups” (neopr.) . Russian Newspaper (March 15, 2013). Date of treatment November 6, 2014.
  17. ↑ “P. Durov invents a cloud hosting, not a new social network” (unopened) (inaccessible link) . RBC (April 22, 2013). Date of treatment November 6, 2014. Archived December 10, 2014.
  18. ↑ Roman Dorokhov. "The American company Pavel Durov launched the messenger for Telegram smartphones" (neopr.) . Vedomosti (August 15, 2013). Date of treatment October 8, 2014.
  19. ↑ Sultan Suleimanov. “VKontakte will support startups from the Durov-Milner project Start Fellows” (neopr.) . TJournal.ru (May 27, 2014). Date of treatment November 6, 2014.
  20. ↑ “The winners of the Start Fellows startup contest have been named” (unopened) (inaccessible link) . Business Environment (August 21, 2014). Date of treatment November 6, 2014. Archived on November 8, 2014.
  21. ↑ Konstantin Panfilov. “The past and the future of the Start Fellows startup support program from VKontakte” (neopr.) . Zuckerberg will call (June 6, 2014). Date of treatment November 6, 2014.
  22. ↑ “Selectel will provide IT infrastructure to startups for free” (Neopr.) . ITSZ.ru (October 17, 2014). Date of treatment November 6, 2014.
  23. ↑ 1 2 Konstantin Panfilov. “The winners of the Start Fellows startup contest from Vkontakte are HTML Academy and Fellow Traveler” (unspecified) . Zuckerberg will call (October 16, 2014). Date of treatment November 6, 2014.
  24. ↑ "VKontakte will support promising Internet projects by advertising" (neopr.) . Ferra.ru (July 15, 2014). Date of treatment November 6, 2014.
  25. ↑ “Vkontakte” will give the best startup $ 25 thousand for advertising on the social network ” (neopr.) . Lenta.ru (August 21, 2014). Date of treatment November 6, 2014.
  26. ↑ Konstantin Panfilov. “The winner of the Start Fellows startup contest from VKontakte was the Smartia project” (neopr.) . Zuckerberg will call (November 18, 2014). Date of treatment November 18, 2014.
  27. ↑ “The DonorSearch project became the winner of the Start Fellows startup contest from VKontakte” (neopr.) . Zuckerberg will call (December 18, 2014). Date of treatment January 31, 2015.

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