- IOFFE-LUT ACCELERATOR, Saint-Petersburg, Politekhnicheskaya st., 26
Ioffe-LUT
Accelerator
Innovative startups from Russia and Finland, get your business on the next level and join us in building a strong cross-border collaboration.
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NEWS and EVENTS
Accelerator results
- Support of innovative, including international, projects;
- Support in obtaining funding and investments for innovative projects;
- Participation in implementation of Russian and Finnish state and regional economic and social development strategies by straightening communications between R&D institutions, hi-tech business and civil society.
Accelerator activities
- Innovative projects consulting;
- Training in innovative management for entrepreneurs and technologies developers;
- Regular pre-acceleration and acceleration programmes;
- Industry representatives familiarization with advanced R&D applications;
- Provision of industry request to R&D teams and researchers;
- Experts and entrepreneurs network development under accelerator;
- Training courses, materials and manuals, popular science articles and lectures publication and dissemination.
Free for startup projects and teams
Do you have an innovative project? Do you need access to investors? Are you looking for international markets? Our accelerator will help you!
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Professional coaching and networks
- Acceleration programme
- Individual support for the each project
- Feedback from specialized experts
- Assistance in attracting investments
- Access to the investors from Russia, EU and North America
- Contacts with development institutions and corporations
International contacts and business opportunities
- All acceleration participants will present the project to Russian investors
- Up to 10 best projects will receive grants for a presentation trip to investors in Finland
Extensive assistance in the following fields
- Information Technology (BigData, AI, VR/AR, Digital Economy)
- LifeScience
- Robotics and sensors
- Green Technology
- Smart City
- New Materials
- New Industrial Technology
Requirements
- Intention to do international business
- Available prototype
- Ambitious team
- Accomplished sales are an advantage
Ioffe-LUT Accelerator
We will consider the application
within 5 working days
We will call you back
If the application interested - we will make an appointment, if the application did not interest - we will explain the reason.
Meeting with the candidate for transfer
SPb, Politekhnicheskaya St. 26, FTI of Ioffe, an entrance from Kurchatov Street.
Transfer in the Accelerator
by results of a meeting
Pre-Accelerator
Pre-acceleration programme. Acquaintance of participants with Accelerator methods and document system, agreement on a plan of action.
Acceleration programme
3 months intensive training of innovative project development, which includes 10 educational modules, online and offline seminars, support from mentors.
Projects benchmarking
4 week benchmarking session to improve and polish project business model, pitch for investors training.
DemoDay
Acceleration track final event, project presentations for invetors and experts
Delivery of certificates of the Accelerator
to the projects which gained recognition of investors, experts, enterprise community.
Post acceleration support
individual expert support,assistance in investment applications preparation for development institutions and innovation supporting funds, project piloting on the base of corporate partners.
IOFFE-LUT Accelerator
NPBSF project
Ioffe-LUT Accelerator is established by Ioffe Institute (St.Petersburg, Russia) and Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT (Lappeenranta, Finland) under the Cross-Border Cooperation Programme the "South-East Finland-Russia CBC Programme 2014-2020". Territory of activity: Finland-South Karelia, Russia-City of Saint Petersburg. Duration: from 1 of june 2019 till 31 of May 2022.
Erkki Lähderanta
LUT University
erkki.lahderanta@lut.fi

Dmitry Muzaev
Manager
mdm@cbc4inno.com

Alexey Tolmachev
Head of Acceleration Program
tolm@cbc4inno.com
