The results of Startup Tour in Almaty are summed up!

On March 30-31, 2016 in Almaty was organized Startup Tour "Skolkov Foundation" where gathered more than 600 participants from all over the Kazakhstan. Co-organizers of the Kazakhstan stage became Almaty TechGarden and Almaty Management University, on the base of which the event have passed for the second time. By the results of the event, 19 projects have received the recognition of experts and investors of innovative market.

Teams that have been pre-selected presented today their projects to the jury - authoritative experts and venture investors. Igor Karavaev, Vice-President, Executive Director of the cluster of nuclear technologies "Skolkovo" Foundation admonished participants.

Igor Karavaev, vice president, executive director of the cluster of nuclear technologies "Skolkovo" Foundation: "Compared with the pilot Startup Tour visit to Kazakhstan last year, the number and quality of projects submitted to the competition has increased several times. One of the main objectives of Startup Tour - inform the innovators and entrepreneurs in the regions of the support mechanisms and opportunities that "Skolkovo" Fund provides, including in Kazakhstan. "

Sanzhar Kattebekov, the General Director of the Autonomous Cluster "Park of innovative technologies" Foundation (Almaty Tech Garden): «Almaty Tech Garden - an open platform, which will be a source of innovation development of the region. Today, at the permanent site passes competitions, educational seminars, programs of technological improvement. We see an opportunity to join a global enterprise networking, which is essential in a globalized world competition in cooperation with Almaty Tech Garden and "Skolkovo Foundation.” Innovative development acts as the driver of world economy today, and all attendees here certainly make the contribution to formation qualitatively of the best technological environment which in the future will define our economic and social development".

Assylbek Kozhakhmetov, president of Almaty Management University: "There is one more problem connected with the wrong understanding of such phenomenon as a startup. Kazakhstan believes that startups come up with and implement by the youth, but it is not. The main thing – that the spirit is young, and it doesn't depend on what is written in the passport therefore in Startup Tour of Skolkovo Foundation there are no age limits, happens that people open business, having only retired".

Andrey Egorov, the executive director of Open University Skolkovo, have made selection to the SMARTAGRO Summer international school: "Within Startup Tour the Open university Skolkovo carries out the special program of selection on experimental summer school for the countries of BRICS and the CIS. Specialization subject this year – agrotechnologies. This is a very topical issue for both Russia and the CIS countries and the BRICS. The best projects of today's selection will automatically become participants of the summer school."

Following the results of selection, the invitation to summer school of Open University Skolkovo received:

Romaniko Maxim (Kazakhstan), project: InfraSeed. The analyzer of structure of forages and grain based on the spectral analysis.

Toktogaziyev Tilek (Kyrgyzstan), project: Agro Vision KG – technology of control of temperature and humidity of greenhouses for agriculture

Kokimova Aynur (Kazakhstan), the project is aimed at improvement of the layout scheme of small hydroelectric power station with replacement of the known settlers of hydroelectric power station with hydroclone knot of water supply. The purified water can be used for an irrigation in agriculture.

Among the presented during the pitch - project sessions, the jury selected 19 winners.

Informational Technologies direction:

1 place – Ruslan Barmashev, Online Kazrender render-farm

2 place – Adil Nursan, KazMotors

3 place – was divided between Baurzhan Rustemov with the ReactDelivery project and the Emir Kaseev, VTM

"Power and Power Effective Technologies" direction:

1 place – Gainur Toktarov, "Design and manufacture of pressure systems for small HPP"

2 place – Petr Nesterenkov, "Autonomous hybrid installation with concentration of sunlight"

3 place – Nataliya Vykhrest, "About a possibility of laser activation in oil industry"

"Biological and Medical Technologies" direction:

1 place – Ilya Blohin, Unison: devices of sleep normalization and brain stimulation devices

2 place - Dinara Moldagaliyeva, "Development of the Nano web controlling sugar level in blood"

3 place – Alim Haimtov, GlucoWays

"Industrial Technologies and Materials" direction:

1 place – Andrey Mahotin, "Deactivation of metal and oil equipment"

2 place – Makhsot Kasymbayev, "Microtubules of cytoskeleton as new material of a nan electronics and fiber-optical technologies"

3 place – Maxim Nikonov, "Kraudworking"

"Biotechnologies in Agriculture and Industry" direction:

1 place - Arman Toskanbaev, Hydroponic installation of rearing feed

2 place – Zharlykasyn Sadykov, Production and introduction of an electromagnetic stimulator grain "EMS-1"

3 place – The organization of production of the revitalized landing material of berry cultures with use of innovative technologies in Kazakhstan

In the special category by the Autonomous Cluster Foundation "Innovation Park» (Almaty Tech Garden) winners were the following participants:

Skobelev Dmitry with the Prometheus project

 Gainur Toktarov, "Design and manufacture of pressure systems for small HPP"

Mahotin Andrey with the project "Production of Final Antioxidant Diphenol — 5"

Arman Kasymov with the project "Industrial automation systems and fuel storage release"

The Skolkovo Foundation has handed to all finalists invitation cards on Startup Village – the largest in Russia annual a startup conference, which will be held on June 2-3, 2016 in the Innovative, center "Skolkovo". Winners of tracks have acquired the right to participate in the competition Startup Village without passing of additional examination.

The fund of infrastructure and educational programs of RUSNANO has handed the invitation to NanoWeekend to Mukhit Kulmagaubetov who has submitted the project of an eye endoscopic chamber.

The partner of Startup Tour in Almaty the EFFKO Company has awarded a special prize to Maxim Nikonov with the Kraudworking project.

Sponsors of the event in Almaty were the most innovative bank of Kazakhstan - Capital Bank Kazakhstan and Pizza Hut - the largest pizza chain in the world.

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