Ekaterina Petrova, Director of the GenerationS corporate innovation

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Head of the Softline Venture Partners fund Elena Volotovskaya believes that 1 million rubles is a good amount for a start-up at the earliest stages, when founders traditionally resort to FFF (Friends, Fools, Family) financing. "This is a good chance for a startup to get into the sights of investors at later stages. Since achieving romania cell phone number list technological sovereignty is not a one-year task, support is necessary for projects at all stages: what is now at the idea level, in three to five years with the proper level of financial and expert support, may well grow into a working product," says Elena Volotovskaya. In her opinion, if you approach the issue in the context of technological sovereignty, then first of all it is necessary to support projects related to cybersecurity, cloud storage, infrastructure and application software, as well as hardware. "If you look at it more broadly, then, just like in interactions with all other startups, it is worth giving priority to projects with a strong team or at least a founder who is in love with the idea and is ready to develop it even alone. Ideally, the project is within his area of ​​expertise," concluded the head of the Softline Venture Partners fund.

development platform, said that the experience of holding accelerators together with partner universities in 2022 showed that often motivated student teams, who initially entered the programs with "burning eyes" and eventually faced difficulties in finding investors and financing, subsequently faded away and did not find the resources to create and develop a company. "Therefore, the allocation of additional funds will support more student teams in their desire to make a good product that is in demand by the market. Moreover, for most students, this is the first experience of launching a startup, so a significant factor for them is accepting the risk and the fear of making a mistake when "testing out" the market. At the same time, it is important not to lose the quality of the projects being created and not to lower the requirements for the selection of participants in the program," says Ekaterina Petrova. According to her, given the increase in the number of planned university accelerators and entrepreneurial competency trainings under the federal project "University Technological Entrepreneurship Platform" for 2023 and, accordingly, the target indicators for the number of generated startup project ideas, an increase in the amount of financial support allocated to teams is necessary.