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Startup Accelerator Ƶ presented to investors
11 October

Startups of the Ƶ participating in the university acceleration program "PromTechDesign" presented their projects to investors at the All-Russian Educational Forum "Cadres decide everything".

Investors were particularly interested in a startup for the design and creation of school uniforms with ethnic elements and the use of augmented reality (AR). The project is called "Ethno". The first collection of Nika Savitskaya and Vasilisa Vinokurova, students of the Department of Costume Design and Accessories of Ƶ, is based on the culture of the Veps — the indigenous peoples of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. Having studied the traditional embroidery of veps, the authors manually apply an ornament to the products in the stamping technique. The team is working on introducing AR technologies into the project: when pointing the phone at the school uniform, virtual design elements and general information about the student will be displayed on the gadget screen.

The startup of Alexandra Mikhailidi, associate Professor of the Department of Printing Production Technology at Ƶ, "Hydrogels for Agriculture", presented a high-tech product that will help optimize the costs of farmers specializing in growing vegetables. Cellulose hydrogel allows you to deliver water and mineral fertilizers directly to the roots of plants, contributing to the environmental and economic sustainability of the economy.

The startup "OLen" by Marina Kontar, a student of the Department of Technology and Design of Textiles of Ƶ, who has already successfully started sales, presented plans to scale the business and launch a showroom with equipment for 3D scanning and individual tailoring of natural fabrics. The company is at the stage of registration of industrial designs and applications for the development of 3D scanning technology. Evgeny Petrushak, a student of the Department of Economics and Finance of Ƶ, winner of the Student Startup grant competition from the Innovation Promotion Foundation, shared his achievements in the framework of the grant. Evgeny has created an electronic document management system and is making plans to bring the startup to the international market. The program is designed for the exchange of electronic documents between individual entrepreneurs, legal entities and individuals of different fields of activity. It is implemented as a web service that can be integrated with different accounting systems. The technological product being developed in its final form is capable of performing several functions at once: registration and authorization by electronic signature and email / password; creation, editing, signing, sending and receiving electronic documents; formation of operational reports and notifications; transparency of supply and increased efficiency of the management system.

The startup "NIB" of students of the Department of Economics and Finance Nikita Agapov, Bogdan Bondar and Ilya Sinitsin offered real and virtual excursions to enterprises for students of the city and proved its high qualification in the field of marketing. A startup has, among other things, a socially significant effect, since it brings students closer to the market and real production, thereby increasing the pragmatics of research projects.

"Such events are a chance for startups to receive investments and feedback from experts. Of particular value is the opportunity to get acquainted with startups of other universities and find potential partners and customers. The methodology of preparation of startups of the Accelerator of the PROMTECHDESIGN University is based on a deep understanding and research of the market, solving problems and meeting the needs of society and business. Our graduates deeply understand their target audience, create products that are really in demand, and investment requests are well calculated and real," comments Ksenia Kaisheva, head of the Accelerator of Ƶ.

Reference: you can sign up for a program to create and market high-tech products as part of the acceleration program of the Ƶ . Participation will allow you to get additional points when applying for grants from the Innovation Assistance Fund, the necessary knowledge to protect the WRC in the form of a startup project. All Accelerator activities are implemented in a hybrid format with access to an online course, a digital startup teacher and include individual project support.