Technologies of plant protection, seed treatment and DNA analysis of products have become the best in agro-direction Agrobiotech-food accelerator GenerationS 2016 from RVK. The total grant support of the Innovation Support Fund was 10 million rubles.
The winners of corporate tracks were projects on the creation of safe organic biologics for plant protection, reduction of seed damage during their processing by means of protection, DNA test systems for the food industry.
"Innovations in agro- and biotechnologies have a great investment potential. GenerationS-2017 allows projects to reach the stage of introducing technologies into real production," says Dmitry Algazin, head of Omsky Biocluster's StartUpAcademia.
Information. GenerationS is the largest start-accelerator in Russia and Eastern Europe, it is the federal platform for the development of tools for corporate acceleration, is being carried out by the RVC since 2013. More than 20 Russian corporations are becoming industrial partners of GenerationS annually, in the interests of which the startups are selected and accelerated. Expertise GenerationS members receive ample opportunities for business development and investment attraction, access to resources and infrastructure partners of the accelerator. 4237 applications from 30 countries are submitted for participation in GenerationS in 2016. The prize fund GenerationS-2016 amounted to 15 million rubles, the total value of prizes from partners exceeded 100 million rubles. RVC is the Russian government’s fund of funds and the development institute of the Russian Federation, one of country’s key tools to create and expand the national innovation system. The company has a wide range of programs to develop Russia’s venture investment market establish educational and organizational services for market players, as well as increase the ability of Russian technology companies to compete in the global marketplace. RVC’s main objectives are to promote Russia’s venture investment industry, and to take on the role as the project office for the National Technology Initiative (NTI). Web-site: http://www.rvc.ru/en/.
