17:00 – 17:05 – Registration
17:05 - 17:15 - Organizers presentation
17:15 - 18:00 - Jury introduction (During this section, Jury will have 3 minutes each to introduce themselves)
18:00 – 19:00 – Startups presentation (Each founder will have 3 minutes for a pitch, and another 3 minutes for questions, comments, and suggestions by Judges)
19:00 - 19:05 - Winners announcement
Meet the winner of the Online Unicorn Battle in Saint Petersburg:
Arcona - Social Network in Augmented Reality https://startupnetwork.ru/en/startups/412205.html
Congrats to the winner who will join the Unicorn Cup in Silicon Valley!!
We highly appreciate our Platinum sponsor Network.VC - Silicon Valley-based Seed Fund focused on investing into early-stage startups. And our global partner ICU Ventures
ICU Ventures is a Kyiv-based venture capital fund that invests in technology companies with strong ties to Ukraine and Eastern Europe making late seed and series A investments across the tech spectrum. ICU Ventures is part of the ICU Group, an independent asset management firm founded in 2006 by senior investment professionals from ING. It is one of the largest and most diversified asset managers in the CEE region.
And many thanks our Silver sponsor - Silicon Valley Syndicate Club and Local Golden Sponsor Silicon.Finance.
The second place went to:
VoiceBack - SaaS service that helps HoReCa owners, managers and administrators to instantly receive feedback from guests https://startupnetwork.ru/startups/412157.html
And the third one got:
Mobishop - a mobile platform/ marketplace for traditional retail https://startupnetwork.ru/en/startups/412728.html
To the rest of the participants, we wish good luck in the next battles! Do not give up – you are all awesome!
You can find the rating of all Startups according to the Judges' voting at the section Startups on the event page https://battle.startup.network/events/411570/#startups
We want to say thank to the Union of Business Angel Organizations - SOBA https://soba.spb.ru/
Video from the online Unicorn Battle is now available! To see it, follow the link https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/1RQVlYZZ0gb9qhuWhRTMHS7Xkir2Kajfj
Startup.Network is extremely happy that experienced and influenced VCs and Angel Investors, as well as a great number of guests, attended the Online Unicorn Battle in Saint Petersburg.
We thank all the judges for their time and active participation in the evaluation of the projects.
Please stay tuned not to miss the announcement of the next battles! https://battle.startup.network/events/
I am so happy that I have participated in Dubai Unicorn Battle. Winning the 1st place of this prestigious award is one of many excitements. As an entrepreneur I am actively raising funds and super busy scaling my startup, therefore I was looking for battles with cash prizes! but after I attended the Unicorn Battle, the benefits were more rewarding than immediate cash. All the 18 judges were active investors or consultants who help raising investment, their feedbacks and advices were impressive and helpful to scale to the next level. The organization by Lena and Kateryna was great, the networking and coffee breaks allowed me to make new connections, and we got approached by two interested investors right after the award ceremony.
Will definitely participate again in the future.
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.