RUSSIAN STARTUPS GO GLOBAL 2016
Moscow, December 3
Where Russian founders meet international VCs for global opportunities
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Startups
Building a great IT company with the potential to go global? Make your dream come true — come to see speakers, apply for a one-on-one with VCs and do your network!
VCs
We gather VCs from EU, Asia, US, and Russia to connect with our best companies and share experience at speaking sessions.
Ecosystem contributors
We invite accelerators, incubators, community builders, and other contributors to figure out how it’s going on international markets.
About the organizer
IIDF stands for Internet Initiatives Development Fund. According to Dow Jones, we are the most active early-stage venture fund in Russia and Europe.
Since 2013 we have invested and accelerated more than 250 startups.
We know Russian founders make great stuff and we want them to bring their experience to the world. That’s why we make RUSSIAN STARTUPS GO GLOBAL.
Special guests and speakers
More to be confirmed...
Marvin Liao
Partner at 500 startups
Dave Haynes
Business development at Seedcamp
Dmitry Kalaev
Managing director of IIDF Accelerator
Irina Bagriantseva
Senior Inward Investment Adviser, Team Leader at British Embassy Moscow, Department for International Trade
Anastasia Malysheva
British Embassy Moscow, Department for International Trade
Patrick Ryan
Joint Economic Commission Officer at Enterprise Ireland, Embassy of Ireland
Anastasiya Makeenok
Emerging Audiences Lead at Microsoft
Gerard Michael MacCarthy
The head of the commercial arm of the Irish Embassy and director of Enterprise Ireland in Russia & the CIS
Sergey Fradkov
General Partner at venture fund and startup accelerator iDealMachine
Dr. Ricardo Schäfer
Venture Partner at Cherry Ventures
Liubov Markova
Senior Manager at Germany Trade & Invest
Alexander Lazarev
Partner at Maxfield Capital
Stéphanie Morley
Head of department of New technologies & Services, Business France in Russia
Boris Tawakkoli
Managing Partner at MosFirst
Mr. Yasuaki Yamada
Director of Editorial Innovation Center at Nikkei Inc.
Konstantin Goldstein
Principal Technical Evangelist,Microsoft
Ekaterina Karpushenkova
Head of representative office Economic Development Agency of the German State North Rhine-Westphalia NRW.Russia / Moscow
Founders' stories
More to be confirmed...
Daniil Brodovich
CEO at Cookstream and CPO at Just LLC
How we made 4 pivots at the US market and made the company bring money.
Mike Melanin
CBDO and Co-founder at Statsbot
How to work with the US investors, or why I do not laugh while watching Silicon Valley.
Sergey Suchkov
CEO at Radario
How we figured out our own way to scale a business abroad.
Dmitry Stepanenko
CEO&Founder at Hot WiFi
Partnership program as the way to expand worldwide.
Dmitriy Zaruta
CEO&Founder at Easy ten
Is there life on Mars outside US?
Konstantin Dubinin
Founder&CEO at CountBOX
The Buying Journey. Where is your customer at now and how can you help them to complete a procurement?
Sergey Klimentyev
Co-Founder, BizDev at Texel
Ballet dancer and a 3D scanner or how to scale hardware business.
Mikhail Marchenko
Founder at StickerRide
How to hire employees abroad. Life hacks and pitfalls.
Apply for one-on-one meetings with VCs!
Launching a tech product? Ready to pitch to investors? Apply for one-on-one meetings with VCs! We’ll select best applications and let you know if you’re approved.
Unfortunately, we’ll have to be picky as the number of slots is limited. Some of the applicants will get a refusal :(
The program
10:00–11:00
Registration + Welcome coffee
11:00–13:00
Time for speakers (international VCs and contributors)
13:00–14:00
Lunch time
14:00–15:00
Panel discussion: International scaling — what are the opportunities and critical challenges? + Q&A
15:00–15:40
Intro session of special guests
15:40–16:00
Coffee break
16:00–18:00
Two tracks for founders and VCs:
- Track 1: Russian startups & Global investors, one-on-one meetings (pre-selection)
- Track 2: Founder’s story: 20-minute inspiring successful stories from Russian founders who scaled a company abroad.
- Track 3: Russian startups & Special guests network.
18:00–19:30
Network
How to join
It’s a free event, but you’re required to sign up.