when: 6 March 2024
where: Sochi, settlement "Sirius"
Pitching
factory.
Attract investments to fund your project!
Artemy Lebedev
Pitching
factory.
Artemy Lebedev
Attract investments to fund your project!
Headliner
when: 6 March 2024
where: Sochi, settlement "Sirius"
Project overview.
Pitching Factory is a project that unites startups, investors and top speakers in order to promote entrepreneurship among young people and to support youth initiatives fulfilment at both Russian and international levels.
ㅤㅤㅤIt is a unique international platform that allows you to unlock your business potential, to begin your journey in business development, to find partners, mentors, investments and, above all, to receive financial support from investors.
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤIn the modern world, it is quite easy to come up with a business idea. It may come from an experienced businessman of 35 years old or a young girl of 14 years old. However, every single person with a start-up project idea faces the very same questions:
- Designer
- Blogger
- Founder "Artemy Lebedev Studio"
- Design Director "VKontakte"
Event headliner.
Artemy Lebedev
Investors.
Артемий
Лебедев
Российский дизайнер, предприниматель, основатель
и владелец «Студии Артемия Лебедева»
Timur Khafizov
Investment Manager of the Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF)
Andrey Taburinsky
Ex-Vice President of "Mail.ru", founder of the venture fund "Daily Challenge"
Artem
Androsov
Androsov
Is the CEO of the investment club "Dome Foundation" and an expert in attracting investments to projects
Nikita Pestov
Founder of three federal companies such as "Own Business", "Business Club" and "MBS"
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Mechanism of selection for the Pitching Session.
ㅤㅤㅤSelection and project preparing for the "Pitching Factory" takes place from January to March 2024.
Collection of online project applications
1
2
Online interview with each candidate
3
Selection of 10 applicants for tracking and preparation for pitching at the World Festival of Youth
5
Preliminary online projects pitching for organizers
4
Drafting of selected projects
Criteria and stages of selection for the pitching session.
prove yourself
if not you, then who?
ㅤㅤㅤParticipation in the "Pitching Factory" is open to projects (teams) that have passed 3 stages of selection before the acceleration, based on the assessment of 6 criteria.
act!
- Priority of the project scope
- Design development phase
- Novelty assessment
- Product sales outlook (revenue volume in the Russian Federation for the next 5 years)
- Presence of a business project, implementation plan, payback period
- Competitive advantages over existing peers
- Team evaluation
Event program.
The event program will consist of 3 blocks:
Pitching session
10 pre-selected startups will present their ideas to the invited expert jury and festival guests. The best project according to the experts' opinion will be awarded with an MBA course by Synergy Business School.
Investor’s Hub
The second stage will be an active speed-dating: the participants registered for Investor’s Hub, will be divided by sectors and will present their startups to the invited investors in a 5-minute speed-dating format.
Headliner's speech
Our event culminates with a performance by the headliner, a successful entrepreneur who will share his tips and insights on how to start and develop your own business.
Program timing.
11:20‒13:10
Time:
Subject:
Pitching session
Description:
Startup project defence to large Russian investors and guests of the festival.
13:10‒13:30
Time:
Break
13:30‒14:30
Time:
Subject:
Investor’s Hub
Description:
"Invest Speed Dating": participants will present their startups to investors in a 5-minute speed-dating format.
14:30‒14:50
Time:
Break
14:50‒15:30
Time:
Subject:
Headliner speech
Description:
The event culminates with a performance by the headliner, a successful entrepreneur Artemy Lebedev
Organizers.
The School of Business was founded in 1988 and became the first business school in Russia and the CIS.
Synergy Business School
ㅤㅤㅤThe school offers MBA and professional retraining programmes, workshops and trainings by leading Russian and international experts.
of business education
30 years
prestigious AMBA accreditations
7
professional business development programmes
500+
successful alumni
50+ thousand
The flagship project of the Education Corporation, one of the leading Russian universities.
ㅤㅤㅤThe University offers professional training of students in the programs of college, higher, second higher and additional education. For over 30 years, the university has been preparing professionals with comprehensive knowledge and skills to launch and develop their own businesses and to work at management level in large companies.
Synergy University
students in Russia and abroad
120+ thousand
in the rating of educational programmes of management of "Expert" analytical center
1st place
alumni who have successfully completed educational programmes
200+ thousand
branches in Russia and abroad
140
departments
38
when: 6 March 2024
where: Sochi, settlement "Sirius"
Pitching
factory.
Attract investments to fund your project!
Artemy Lebedev
Pitching
factory.
Artemy Lebedev
Attract investments to fund your project!
Headliner
when: 6 March 2024
where: Sochi, settlement "Sirius"
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