139 Startup Battle in Minsk, 21 March, 2019
Startups
Judges
Сергей Гаврилко
Кирилл Волошин
Даниэль Крутцинна
Виталий Никуленко
Антон Куличкин
Андрей Юранов
Валерий Остринский
Александр Алешин
Александр Шляев
Speakers
Сергей Гаврилко
About:
The winner of the 139th Startup Battle, Minsk is Skinive!
Startup.Network conducted the 139th Startup Battle in Minsk with the support of Imaguru: Бизнес-Клуб/Startup Hub.
There was Panel Discussion in the first block on the topic: “Does it make sense to enter Accelerators? Experience of our Startups Accelerated in Europe and America”. The Discussion was moderated by Sergey Gavrilko, Representative of Startup.Network in Belarus.
Speakers:
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Яков Бута (Yakau Buta), CEO at @Stringers Hub Stringershub.com. Passed Starta Accelerator;
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Александр Агейчик (Aliaksandr Aheichyk), CEO/CoFounder at iDiscount. Passed StartupWiseGuys;
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Павел Литвинко (Pavel Litvinko), CEO Botscape. Passed: Yandex Tolstoy Startup Camp (Moscow) - 2015, TechMinsk - 2016, Starta Accelerator (New York) - 2018;
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Alexander Astafiev, Founder CEO, Synpatic Audio Analytics. Take part in such accelerators: Stardust DTU (Denmark), TechMinsk, HTP incubator, SWG, StartUp Chile, Акселератор ВТБ, Inspired by FTh.by.
Eight selected startups were presented in second block of the 139th Startup Battle.
The Judges of the 139nd Battle of Startups, Minsk included:
· Кирилл Волошин (Kirill Voloshin), Co-Founder/Owner/ex-CEO at TUT.BY, Ha-humble Member at Belarus Business Angels Network,Expert at Start-up School.
· Роман Корнев (Roman Korneu), Partner at Nemera Capital Group;
· Сергей Гаврилко - Representative of Startup.Network in Belarus;
· Валерий Остринский (Valery Astrynski), Investor, Member of the board at Angels BAND. Founder of Telvel Group (Telvel.eu);
· Sergey Sinkevich, Director of the Development at EPAM Systems;
· Виталий Никуленко (Vitali Nikulenka), Supervisory Director at Belarus inter-bank settlement center;
· Дмитрий Матвеев (Dmitry Matveyev), Partner at Aleinikov&Partners Law Firm;
· Alexander Shlyaev, IT Enterprenour, Member of the Association of Business Cooperation of Belarus;
· Антон Куличкин (Anton Kulichkin), Business angel at Angels Band , Member of board of Experts at at Distributed Registries Technology;
· Александр Алешин, Director of the Development at Future Fintech. Business angel.
The voting results are as follows:
The leader in terms of votes received was Skinive with an average score of 4.
Skinive helps monitor the skin health with the help of smart phone’s camera.
The second place took Everis Technologies with score of 3.9
Everis Technologies is SaaS platform for managing service company.
Third place: ETHERIZE - 3.7
Fourth place: FastServe - 3.6
Fifth place: LIBER4U - 3.3
Sixth place was shared between SpotVision and NLP&Q - 3.1
Seventh place: GMoney - 2.1
Forms of all presented startups can be viewed on the event page:
https://battle.startup.network/events/387965/#startups
We congratulate the winner of the 139th Startup Battle, Minsk - Skinive!
We express special gratitude to our partner Imaguru: Business Club/Startup Hub for supporting the organization and cozy atmosphere at the event.
We are thankful to our Guests and Experts for being with us at the 139th Startup Battle, Minsk.
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Testimonials
Ok, yes I'm excited that we won the Startup Battle this week. But mostly I want to let my other entrepreneur friends out there know that this event is really great. The Judges were all very impressive active investors - and all super engaged with Q&A and feedback - the programming beforehand was excellent, and all the companies that pitched were outstanding. If you have an opportunity to participate in one of these events, do it!
The main thing I would like to share is the event went beyond our expectations.
The venue was really full of interested people and even overcrowded, and that created the right emotional state for the pitching startups and for the audience. We met a few potential investors and made very valuable connections during networking.
After 1 month we are still in connection with the attendees of that Startup Battle. We are working on the Third Opinion Care development together.
We will definitely consider participating in the next events organized by the same team.
Thank you Startup Network for giving Fanalyze the opportunity to pitch at your event! I met some awesome founders and was able to network with several investors. I enjoyed pitching and learning about the other startups in different industries.
After participating in the Startup Battle, which was held by Startup.Network in the Silicon Valley, we gained tremendous amount of experience on how to build the startup and attract investments. Especially it was very cool to talk with MS. He gave us a lot of advice. If it were no it for this event, we would not be able to get such advice. Then we actively worked on searching for investors which we did. We began due diligence but we realised that we did not want to take any investments on the early stage. Again, useful advice from Mike Sandler, his criticism to be precise, helped us to find the way. At this point, we have several investors from among the surgeons, but for now, we are managing on our own.
Now we have an MVP that is not just a set of tools but a surgical robot. The manufacturing of the primary product is taking place in Taiwan. At this point, it is on the stage of being certified.
If somebody asks me whether I need any investments in the early stages, I will say no. It is significantly more important to develop the right network and to get proper advice.
Everything that happened is the credit to Startup.Network!
I want to thank Statup.Network for precious experience and help we've got during startup battles in USA and Berlin.
Mentors your team chooses for jury on battles are always very professional and ready to help.
We got valuable feedback and a good quantity of insights.
Raccoon.World team continues communication and builds relationships with several investors we met on the battles.
Hello!
We took part in several Startup Battles, organised by Startup.Network, in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Minsk, Almaty, Kharkov and attended Startup Battle in San Francisco.
I believe that it helped us to be selected from more than 1000 competitors for acceleration program in the Netherlands, where we were the only startup from Eastern Europe.
Attending the Startup Battles is very beneficial for expending networking and gaining useful feedback. In particular, the feedback, what we got on Startup Battle, from the investor form the Silicon Valley helped us to find new and more perspective niche and make the pivot. We would be glad to collaborate with the Startup.Network team again.
We took part in two Startup.Network events: Startup Battle in Moscow and Startup BAttle in Silicon Valley.
We won the 1st place in Moscow and got a lot of attention from the media and investors. After that event, we received lots of useful pieces of advice and attended meetings with investors.
And we won the 3d place in Silicon Valley, and right after the pitch Marvin Liao
(Partner 500 Startups) offered us to join 500 Startups accelerator. Being acquainted with Marwin helped us one more time in Moscow in some time.
We would be glad to pitch at Startup Battles again!
Thank you.
