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What does the Skolkovo member status give
Skolkovo member status does not provide guaranteessurvival or prosperity. But tax breaks, access to grants, support for clusters and serious endorsement of a startup (especially in the Russian market) will play a big role in the development of companies.
In addition, the Skolkovo icon dramatically increasesthe number of potential partners willing to cooperate. It is easier for fund participants to find clients, as well as partners for pilot projects and sources of funding.
The creators of the world's most popular web serverFirst of all, Nginx became members of Skolkovo: this gave the company tax exemption and active growth. Last year, the company, whose product is used by Netflix, Instagram, Yandex, VKontakte and others, was eventually sold for $ 670 million.
Portrait photo editor basedneural networks (remember the marathon of "aged" photos on social networks?) FaceApp was at the center of a personal data scandal in the United States. But the surety of Skolkovo helped to quickly settle it. Result: 150 million downloads and $ 5 million in revenue in 2019.
In 2015, STC TPT (Scientific and Technical Centerthin-film technologies) launched the country's first full-cycle solar module plant. The Skolkovo grant in the amount of RUB 387 million played a key role in the project. Five years, one plant and 13 patents later, the company's revenue reached a level comparable to the grant (hundreds of millions of rubles).
In preparation for international expansionof the educational platform Uchi.ru, it was Skolkovo with the Agency for Strategic Initiatives that helped the company find investments. A few days ago, the service with offices in all BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) and 110 million monthly audience received about 4 billion investments from Mail.ru Group.
In 2016, Skolkovo issueda drug for HIV, the Viriom company a grant of 150 million rubles for scaling. The Foundation's services helped to register patents, find partners among the pharma giants, and bring the drug to market. A year later, the company registered the first version of the drug and at the end of 2019 has a revenue of about $ 300 million.
Not all of the listed startups were located in the Innovation Center, but physical stay at Skolkovo has its additional advantages.
What does work on the territory of the innovation center give
To quickly launch a project, accelerate its development and scale without losses, participants in the innovation center use the Skolkovo ecosystem.
Ideas of inventors and innovative startups foundationSkolkovo provides R&D infrastructure for hypothesis testing and pilot development. The companies can use 1,500 units of high-tech equipment from 81 suppliers.
Startups with a business plan immediately get access toto the community of investors and business angels AdVentureLand: they have several pitching formats and individualized search for investors. In 2019, participants in community events attracted 100 million rubles of investment. Every fifth ruble of them was received directly as a result of pitching at Skolkovo.
More than 300 mentors help with the launch of the brandSkolkovo. At the stage of an industrial design, you can use the scouting program of the technopark, take part in an accelerator / competition commissioned by one of the fund's 139 industrial partners. At each moment, at least one of these operates, more often 2-3, launched in partnership with companies of the level of Visa, Enel, Bayer, S7 Group, Rosseti, Rosatom, AstraZeneca, etc.
Startups experiencing staff hunger duringscaling, enter the HR-community of the technopark: here they will be helped to strengthen the HR-brand, find candidates of the desired profile and keep them in competition with major players.
Finally, at any stage of development, the inhabitantsSkolkovo exchanges best practices, contacts and, in general, any ideas with a community of thousands of businessmen, developers of innovative technologies, qualified specialists from various fields working side by side.
“The main thing in Skolkovo is good neighbors:the same high-tech startups that are also growing rapidly. There is something to compete with, but there is even more to discuss, - says CEO of Technopark Renat Batyrov. - In such an environment, you will find employees, mentors, investors, partners, clients faster than anywhere else. It is free of charge, irrevocably, without conditions to share a share in your business and claims for the intellectual property created here. "
Technopark's resources are possibly the largest inRussia. 10 thousand tenants of the innovation center can freely communicate, both at professional events: lectures, trainings, master classes, and informal: from yoga in the morning to a Friday pint in a pub. In addition, in a typical (non-pandemic) year, there are over 600 business and technology conferences, attended by a total of half a million guests, including representatives of large corporations and entrepreneurs interested in cutting edge research.
What residents are trying to achieve with the help of the Skolkovo ecosystem
In the 11th year of Skolkovo operation, the ecosystem effect is quite tangible. Survival and success rates here significantly exceed the standard venture capital.
Innovation Center residents grow fastermarket - by an order of magnitude faster than companies from RBC 500 - significantly and even faster than Skolkovo participants located outside the IC. In the period 2017-2018, the revenue of the median resident tripled, and in the three years that have passed since the launch of the technopark, by 40: from 400 thousand rubles in 2016 to more than 17 million in 2019.
75% of Skolkovo residents in 2019 earned the same or more than in 2018. A year earlier, this figure was similar. International revenue growth in 2018–2019 was 40%.
Investors tend to trust residentsinnovation center. Private investments in them are growing by an average of 34% per year. Tellingly, only a fifth of the Skolkovo participants are located here, but their share, for example, in 2019 accounted for half (49.3%) of gross investments attracted by Skolkovo companies.
The stunning futuristic architecture of the Innovation Center inspires technological breakthroughs. In 2019, Skolkovo residents registered three times more patents than in 2018.
How to get into the ecosystem: what is Super All In
An important detail: until recently, all the listed "delights of life" of the innovation center were available exclusively to companies that received the status of a Skolkovo participant.
But participant status is obtained through passingexpertise of independent specialists from several countries. This requires additional efforts and, more importantly, additional time, which is worth its weight in gold in the venture capital market.
On the Internet you can find advertisements of differentorganizations offering guaranteed Skolkovo member status. They are all scammers. Nobody can guarantee the status. Independent experts involved in evaluating a startup can reject it for any of the parameters.
To help startups who have too much timeno, the Skolkovo Technopark launched the Super All In program. The examination must be carried out on a general basis, but with Super All In, you can make a physical move as soon as possible, and only then, sitting in the Innovation Center, fully prepare, apply and obtain the status of a participant, including using the advice of neighbors who have already passed this way.
Everything you need to take advantage of Super AllIn, - decide how many employees it would be advisable to place here, and choose a suitable tariff. The Skolkovo tenant will receive modern premises for work, a developed transport infrastructure, meeting rooms and other amenities. This powerful driver of innovative business growth is called residency at Skolkovo.
All information on how to locate an office in the Skolkovo Technopark can be found here.
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