The Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IDIF) invests 5 million rubles each in seven startups from its 19th set of accelerators. A representative of the IIDF told RB.RU.
Therefore, the total investment amount will be 35 million rubles. The IIDF will invest 5 million rubles in six startups in exchange for a 7% stake in the business, another team will receive 5 million rubles for 5% of the business.
The valuation of six of the funded companies exceeds 71.4 million rubles and one of 100 million rubles.
Who will receive pre-launch investments from IIDF:
- SalesAI (Moscow) is a call quality monitoring service using artificial intelligence. The neural network will analyze each call, flag errors, collect statistics, summarize, and populate each cell in checklists and CRMs.
- Stylebox (Moscow) is an online clothing selection service from a stylist with home delivery.
- ServiceGuru (Moscow) is a mobile training platform for small and medium-sized businesses, for those companies that need adaptation and training of a large number of line personnel.
- Finaks (Moscow) is a bank guarantee aggregator and banking products platform based on the white label model. IIDF invests in this project in exchange for a 5% stake.
- SuperApp (Izhevsk, no website) – aggregator of child and animal care services.
- Art Gluck Education (St. Petersburg) is a subscription-based online design and architecture school.
- Jaky (Moscow) is a service for creating websites and digital ecosystems designed for car service stations.
When choosing companies for investment, the IIDF focuses on the following criteria: IT sector (software, hardware, web, mobile), there is a finished product and there are customers, a proven business model with recurring revenues of 5 million rubles per year, company is registered in Russia, at least 25% of the companies are owned by Russian citizens.
Author:
Anastasia Marina
Source: RB

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