April 9, 2009 at 09:28Startup competition announced. Winner will receive $ 100,000
The venture company Softline Venture Partners, with the support of Softline IT Academy, has announced the first in Russia contest of ideas in the field of software development and Internet applications among youth Dev Generation 2009 . The winner will receive investments from Softline Venture Partners (SVP) for the implementation of his project in the amount of $ 100,000. The information partner of the competition is the Habrahabr site .
The competition accepts unique project ideas (as well as startups at the prototype stage) in the field of software development and Internet applications, without limiting the subject. Students, graduate students, as well as development teams are invited to participate, which include at least one student or graduate student from Russia, the CIS or the Baltic countries.
You can apply here .
The competition will be held in three stages: from April 6 to May 19, 2009 applications from participants are accepted, from May 20 to May 27, the jury will evaluate the ideas sent and choose the winners, on May 29 the awarding ceremony will be held as part of the event “Days of Russian Small and Medium Business 2009 "(Moscow, VVC).
In addition to the main prize, gifts are provided from SVP partners and sponsors: Microsoft , Adobe , Embarcadero Technologies , as well as the Investment and Technology Alliance ( IT Alliance) The Alliance will help prepare the authors of the three selected jury of IT projects for communication with venture investors, these projects will be presented at the presentation session of the Investment and Technology Alliance. Microsoft will provide the company’s best-looking development team with the opportunity to participate in the unique Start In Garage software entrepreneurship education program . Embarcadero Technologies will present to the author of one of the projects submitted for the contest, a set of products for the developers of Embarcadero All-Access Silver.
Update Colleagues, I’ll clarify in response to the assumptions of some members of the community: $ 100 thousand is the prize fund for this particular competition, projects outside this competition are still funded up to $ 1 million.
The competition accepts unique project ideas (as well as startups at the prototype stage) in the field of software development and Internet applications, without limiting the subject. Students, graduate students, as well as development teams are invited to participate, which include at least one student or graduate student from Russia, the CIS or the Baltic countries.
You can apply here .
The competition will be held in three stages: from April 6 to May 19, 2009 applications from participants are accepted, from May 20 to May 27, the jury will evaluate the ideas sent and choose the winners, on May 29 the awarding ceremony will be held as part of the event “Days of Russian Small and Medium Business 2009 "(Moscow, VVC).
In addition to the main prize, gifts are provided from SVP partners and sponsors: Microsoft , Adobe , Embarcadero Technologies , as well as the Investment and Technology Alliance ( IT Alliance) The Alliance will help prepare the authors of the three selected jury of IT projects for communication with venture investors, these projects will be presented at the presentation session of the Investment and Technology Alliance. Microsoft will provide the company’s best-looking development team with the opportunity to participate in the unique Start In Garage software entrepreneurship education program . Embarcadero Technologies will present to the author of one of the projects submitted for the contest, a set of products for the developers of Embarcadero All-Access Silver.
Update Colleagues, I’ll clarify in response to the assumptions of some members of the community: $ 100 thousand is the prize fund for this particular competition, projects outside this competition are still funded up to $ 1 million.