MTS PJSC (MOEX: MTSS), a digital ecosystem, held the final pitch session for mature stage technology startups MTS Pitch Day. Finalists will be able to receive investments from $500,000 to $5 million (in one project), as well as a commercial partnership offer and the opportunity to become part of the MTS ecosystem.
In addition, the partnership with MTS implies the opportunity to promote the product among the company’s 80 million audience, as well as receive subsidies for the preferential launch of an advertising campaign in MTS Marketer and clouds in #CloudMTS.
The presentation session took place as part of the anniversary meeting of the MTS StartUp Hub venture club. The finalists presented their products to senior managers of MTS and major investors of the closed venture club MTS StartUp Hub.
A total of 180 solutions were selected and went through a multi-stage selection process, and six of them presented their projects to commercial clients (including senior managers) from MTS verticals and from external venture funds and business angels.
Among the finalists:
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Picvario is a platform for working with multimedia content, including a system for storing, searching and managing photo, video, audio and presentation content in large digital files;
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Angry.Space is a platform that aggregates all social media accounts in a single window, with the ability to use various tools for communicating with customers, monitoring and analysis;
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Mobidriven – a toolkit for the full cycle of programmatic buying (purchasing personalized online ad impressions) for advertisers;
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FitStars: subscription-based online training service;
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YOURTUNES – music distributor for streaming platforms and online stores;
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“Kvant” – CRM for monitoring task completion.
“The latest meeting of the MTS StartUp Hub venture club is especially important for us for several reasons. First of all, we turned one year old. During all this time, we discussed with market leaders the potential of various industries and business models, and became a place of attraction for major venture players. We again gathered experts and discussed with them what was successful this year and predicted how to improve next year.
Secondly, we prepared not only a content program, but also an investment program: we selected six startups finalists of the MTS Pitch Day, which presented their projects to the best Russian investors who will be able to strengthen their portfolio. The potential synergy between market players is the best reward for us this holiday season.”says MTS Innovation and Investment Director Dmitry Kurin.
Author:
Irina Pecherskaya
Source: RB
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