Our programming to inspire, educate and connect.
Everything here has a cohort, a jury or a deadline. We are a doorway for global organizations into our local markets, and for our startups into theirs.
Big Ideas Contest
A university-based innovation contest that connects students, professors and researchers with the mentorship, training and resources needed to conceptualize, present and often deploy Big Ideas that will change the world.
Early-stage. Ideas, not companies: the contest exists to get them out of the lab.
Our network of high-caliber mentors, academics, scientists, tech experts, industry leaders and investors enables participants to access the full spectrum of resources needed to conceptualize and present their ideas, and often bring them to fruition.
Runs annually: launch in winter, winners announced in spring.
The Future of the Future
A series of conversations, held monthly during the academic year, between top Russian and CIS researchers, thinkers and academics and their prominent colleagues from around the world, about the ideas, science and technology shaping humanity’s future.
Topics have included artificial intelligence, blockchain, data centers, self-driving cars, longevity and much more.
Audiences are encouraged to participate, offline and online, and come away with inspiration, new knowledge, important connections and actionable ideas.
Partnered with Stanford’s and MIT’s VLAB and Singularity University.
Startup Grind
We run the Moscow Chapter of Startup Grind, the largest global community for startups, connecting over 5M founders, investors and innovators across 125 countries.
Monthly events on important trends and topics; make friends with founders from around the world.
Join the global Startup Grind pitch competitions.
We organize the trip to the annual spring Startup Grind Global Conference in Silicon Valley, to meet investors, fellow founders and thought leaders. Next: 27-28 April 2027.
Startup World Cup
We are the Russia regional organizer of the largest global competition for startups from over 100 countries, with a $1 million investment prize.
The grand finale pitch is held annually in Silicon Valley in front of 7000+ investors, corporates and fellow founders.
The regional finalists’ trip to the Finals includes in-person meetings with funds and potential clients, to close deals and raise investment.
Access to a network of world-class mentors and advisors.
Techstars Startup Weekends
We organize Techstars Startup Weekends in Russia, along with events for Y Combinator (Investors School) and info sessions held by YC, Techstars, Alchemist, SkyDeck, StartX and other global accelerators, for top local startups preparing to enter global markets.
Friday pitch, Sunday demo: teams form, build and present in 54 hours, with mentors in the room.
Access trends and deals from Silicon Valley and other innovation hotspots.
We scout and promote top startups and trends from our local market to the world.
Startup Embassy
Our partners at Startup Embassy run co-living spaces and communities for entrepreneurs arriving in Silicon Valley and around the world. Landing pads support like-minded international founders entering new markets.
A 1-6 month hacker house and community in San Francisco and around the world: co-living and co-working soft landings to grow a business in these tech hubs.
Knowledge exchange, peer-to-peer learning, a strong emphasis on collaboration. They also offer collective funding and fractional investment themselves.
Many startups who live here attend top accelerators: Y Combinator, 500, StartX, Alchemist.
And the program you apply to: the Intensives.
Three months, in the home market, for startups, investors and corporates preparing to go global. Batch 28 launches in Moscow on 8 December.