Wanted.VC - digest of Russian projects seeking investment

    A week ago, with the support of Glavstart , a blog for investors was launched - Wanted Venture Capital

    Wanted.VC is a blog about Runet startups who need investments. The editors select projects for publication , here are the projects that interested the Sheriff last week:

    House under supervision
    Engineer Roman Skvirsky and marketer Nadezhda Revzyakova from St. Petersburg launched the video surveillance service “House under supervision”, investing $ 15 thousand in its creation. It is useful for those who want to know whether the nanny is managing her duties or those who are worried about the safety of property .

    We will not dissemble, there are many such services, but this one has unique features - simplicity and a guarantee of the safety of video recordings. To use the "House under supervision", just a computer with Internet access and the most ordinary webcam. Video recording is saved on the remote server. She will not be lost if the attackers climb into the house and take out the computer. +++

    Gipis
    When marketer Denis Blinov and programmer Artem Ptashnik came up with Gipis, they were inspired by the Nike + and Sport Tracker mobile services. The first was launched by Nike in conjunction with Apple, the second was a team of former Nokia employees. These services allow you to keep track of fitness training. You put a mobile phone in your pocket, run or ride a bicycle, and the device marks your route and counts calories.

    Gipis will be more complex and promises to bring more benefits than the services of mobile giants. Blinov and Ptashnik suggest taking into account not only physical activity, but also nutrition. And in its paid version, Gipis will become a cheap replacement for a personal trainer. You enter height, weight, choose, lose weight or gain weight, and the service will offer a training program and diet. +++

    Apartama
    Developers Nikita Kozhemyakin, Mikhail Sychev and Ivan Semenov are preparing a revolution in the field of furniture trade. On the website of their service Apartama, they offer users to play Sims - to place sofas in the interiors of typical Moscow apartments, to wallpaper, or to nail bookshelves.

    Unlike virtual items in the Sims game, Apartama’s website will feature real-world products. Visitors will be able to purchase them, and the creators of the service - earn on a percentage of sales. Two other ways to earn money are by selling furniture companies licenses to create virtual rooms on the Apartama website and on their own sites. +++

    HelpHunter
    Two final year students of the Higher School of Economics - Mikhail Repnikov and Kristina Vatutina undertook to make an analogue of the American project Redbeacon.com in Russia. One of the creators of this service, Ethan Anderson, was engaged in video on Google, the other - Yaron Binur led the development of Google News. And their project unexpectedly turned out to be a platform that brings together in a network of people who provide all kinds of household services, and those who use them. +++

    Classicsound
    Moscow photographer Pavel Tchannikov is still blogging on classical music, where he uploads clips, music, and stories he likes. But in the future, he wants to turn this blog into a social network for music lovers and musicians themselves. For programming, digitizing records, advertising and other needs, he needs 500 thousand rubles. In a year, Tchannikov promises, the idea will be implemented. +++

    Cookie
    Oleg Yakovenko and Andrey Ermakov from Yekaterinburg came up with a solution for those who want to post large volumes of video on the Internet. Now it’s common to upload videos on specialized sites such as Youtube, RuTube or Vimeo. But the service of Yakovenko and Ermakov called "Cookies" is cooler. It allows you to create your own Youtube, arrange it as you like, and upload videos in any format - the service itself will customize them to the desired standard. +++

    Upiter id
    Entering a password on the keyboard and immediately entering Windows is too easy. At least, this is the opinion of the development team led by Oleg Bondarenko, an engineer and manager from the Korolev Region near Moscow. Therefore, in addition to standard computer protection, they came up with a special scanner and software for it. Not only does this scanner read a fingerprint. He also takes into account humidity, temperature and checks blood capillaries for clearance. Everything is like in spy movies.

    With such a thing, connected to a computer via a USB port, you don’t have to worry that someone in your absence will go into the computer and rummage through your documents. And such concern, the creators of this product suggest, is in the personnel of the personnel department or customer service department in any company. +++

    Cloudbudget
    Cloudbudget Internet service is a modern replacement for Microsoft Excel when planning a budget for small and medium enterprises. If the company is quite small, then the good old Excel is still back and forth, but if it has several offices, it is no longer suitable, and not solid.

    The next step after Excel for entrepreneurs, as a rule, is the ERP system, but it is difficult to install and contain it is unprofitable. And Cloudbudget is simple in business and cannot be installed on computers, and is located, as it is now fashionable, on the Internet. There is no need to worry about the safety and confidentiality of the data - they are located on the servers of Salesforce. It provides the work of many remote applications and is well established in the US market, where the Cloudbudget team is tagging. +++

    Kidbox
    The creator of Vkontakte, Pavel Durov, in response to public complaints that the children, they say, post pornography on his network, answered something like this: bring up your children better! For the KidBox project team, this phrase is a guide to action. Startupers create an interactive children's world on the network, such as Smeshariki, but with elements of education.

    The sheriff knows from experience: services for children are a bonanza. For two SMS messages sent by a child from your mobile, Smesharikam will spend 2 thousand rubles. And if you gape, the child will send a third SMS message. KidBox wants to be more merciful to parents. Pay for children's pranks will be less. At the same time, children will not only play, but also learn, for example, the multiplication table. +++

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