StartupPoint

The Russian community of startups and investors, communication platform for IT entrepreneurs which allows to receive professional project appraisal, to be aware of specialized news and events, and the most important, to attract investments into the project. The community conducts active offline activity and holds regular meetings in Moscow, Sank-St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Perm and some other the cities of the country.

Strategy

"At the initial stage of the development of StartupPoint.ru, first of all, it was focused on requirements of startups which were very clear and close to us, we also are a startup. For today these tasks are already implemented, and now there came the next stage when it is necessary to focus on development of services for investors. The community site should become the convenient, transparent and flexible tool for those who analyze startups for the purpose of investments, then it will be even more productive for startups", - Vitaly Akimov, the CEO of StartupPoint noted.

History

2010

The community of startups and investors of StartupPoint announced that 51% of the company are sold by the founder of StartupPoint Vitaly Akimov to the founder of Price.ru and the former top manager Rambler of Media the Arcadia to Moreynis. Vitaly Akimov remains in the project, holding the CEO's position.

According to representatives of StartupPoint, for development of the project these investments are strategic. For Vitaly Akimov sale of a share to the experienced Internet entrepreneur not only will give a new impulse for high-quality development of community, but also will allow to attract on StartupPoint even more the interested investors from around the world.