February 19, 2009 at 16:02Startup Rankings - February 2009
Every month, StartupIndex publishes a rating of investment attractiveness of Russian startups, which characterizes their willingness to effectively use the funds of potential investors. Rating - this is the opinion of professionals about the overall investment attractiveness of the project, the level of elaboration of goals and objectives, the project team and its ability to achieve goals.
Rating values are published in accordance with the scale : from the highest category - “AAA” to the lowest - “D”.
So, the projects: The
Country of Smeshariki - A
The largest Internet space for children’s communication in Russia is a portal based on the popular animated series Smeshariki.
Blogger - A
The system of organizing advertising campaigns in the blogosphere, which allows bloggers to earn money on their blogs, and advertisers to promote products on the Internet.
Risovaska - BBB
Technology platform for instant compact visual messaging. If you take ICQ and replace the text with images, you get “Rice”.
MoySklad - BBB
Internet service for the automation of warehouse accounting and order processing in small businesses.
Flaphone - BBB
Web service for organizing VoIP calls directly from the
Art4Art Entertainment - BBB Web page
The developer of the online games Lord of the Islands, Windrose, Legends of the Knights, War of the Presidents, as well as the Harmonious Couple Internet service and the Healthy Lifestyle portal.
All projects with StartupIndex rating
Description of the majority of the listed projects will fall into the second edition of the StartupIndex Review , which we recently wrote about on Habré. The magazine is scheduled for release in late March.
How is the rating formed?
The rating is formed on the basis of expert council estimates, which include staff analysts at StartupIndex and independent experts with knowledge in the relevant industries. Among them:
Rating values are published in accordance with the scale : from the highest category - “AAA” to the lowest - “D”.
So, the projects: The
Country of Smeshariki - A
The largest Internet space for children’s communication in Russia is a portal based on the popular animated series Smeshariki.
Blogger - A
The system of organizing advertising campaigns in the blogosphere, which allows bloggers to earn money on their blogs, and advertisers to promote products on the Internet.
Risovaska - BBB
Technology platform for instant compact visual messaging. If you take ICQ and replace the text with images, you get “Rice”.
MoySklad - BBB
Internet service for the automation of warehouse accounting and order processing in small businesses.
Flaphone - BBB
Web service for organizing VoIP calls directly from the
Art4Art Entertainment - BBB Web page
The developer of the online games Lord of the Islands, Windrose, Legends of the Knights, War of the Presidents, as well as the Harmonious Couple Internet service and the Healthy Lifestyle portal.
All projects with StartupIndex rating
Description of the majority of the listed projects will fall into the second edition of the StartupIndex Review , which we recently wrote about on Habré. The magazine is scheduled for release in late March.
How is the rating formed?
The rating is formed on the basis of expert council estimates, which include staff analysts at StartupIndex and independent experts with knowledge in the relevant industries. Among them:
- Maxim Spiridonov , Head of the Royber Production Center ;
- Maxim Krainov , entrepreneur and independent consultant;
- Roman Mandrik , CEO of XAN ;
- Dmitry Demenchuk, game producer.
- Register the project on the website startupindex.ru ;
- Attach additional materials: presentation, business plan, research results, etc. (these documents will be available only to members of the expert council and the site moderator);
- Fill out a startup application;
- Wait for a letter from a StartupIndex employee confirming the start of the examination process.