Skoltech Triple Point is the condition of particular heat and outside pressure when the team tends to coexist simultaneously in three states of Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship
invented by Semyon Fast, Skoltech Alumnus
Energy&ESG PITCH
The Energy track is related to solving present difficulties faced by the oil and gas industry. The main goals are to reduce pollutants, increase the efficiency of applied technologies, and incorporate new innovative solutions.
Your project should to be directly related to the following topics or at least have the same direction:
1. Chemical technologies
2. ESG (Environmental, social and corporate government) and energy transition
3. Capital construction
4. New production technologies
5. New materials and coating technologies
6. Electronics (including -micro), instrumentation and industrial technologies
On the ACCELERATE stage your project should have an MVP.
Prize fund:
- 1 place - 200k rubles
- 2 place - 150k rubles
- 3 place - 100k rubles
- Prize award - 30k rubles
Submissions open: 30 January, 2024
Deadline for submission: 12 February, 2024
Finalists will be selected before: 22 February, 2024
The date of the finals: 27 February, 2024
You can find more info about Pitch here
Social tech track
Social tech touches a major human-faces problems, which can be solved or significantly decreased with the introduction of new technologies.
Your project should to be directly related to the following topics or at least have the same direction.
The main directions of the track:
1.DEI-tech (Divergency-equity-inclusion)
—Assistive tech
— Accessibility
— Technologies for representation (in equity meaning)
2.WLB-tech (Well-being)
— Ecology safety
— Economy safety
— Mental health
— Healthfulness
3.Anti-crisis-tech
—prevention and liquidation in case of emergency, humanitarian crisis, environmental disasters, first aid, etc.
Prize fund:
- 1 place - 200k rubles
- 2 place - 150k rubles
- 3 place - 100k rubles
- Prize award - 30k rubles
Submissions open: January 30, 2024
Deadline for submission: February 24, 2024
Finalists will be selected before: March 8, 2024
The date of the finals: March 13, 2024
You can find more info about Accelerate here
IT/AI TRACK
The IT/AI track focuses on utilizing technology to solve complex problems and improve efficiency in various industries.
Your project should to be directly related to the following topics or at least have the same direction.
The main directions of the track:
1. Cybersecurity-tech
—Data/network/cloud protection and security
2. AI-tech
—Machine learning
—Natural language processing
—Computer vision
3. Blockchain-tech
—Cryptocurrency
—Smart contracts
—Supply chain management
4. IoT-tech
—Smart home/city/etc
—Industrial IoT
5. Cloud-tech
—Cloud computing/storage/security
6. Virtual Reality-tech
—Gaming and entertainment
—Education and training
—Healthcare and therapy
7. Robotics-tech
—Industrial automation
—Healthcare robotics
—Service robots.
On the PITCH stage it is enough to have just an idea and be able to pitch it!
Prize fund: Right now there is no financial support for IT/AI Track, but we are looking for sponsors for IT/AI Track 2024! By the way, you will talk to our industrial partners on demo-day, recieve feedback and get useful contacts!
Format: IT/AI track will be hold in online format
Submissions open: December, 2023
Deadline for submission: December, 2023
The date of the finals: 14 December, 2023
ACCELERATE is organized for startups, which have entered (or are ready to enter) the business model validation process with an MVP version of a product.
LAUNCH is intended to support Seed-level startups, i.e., which are ready to enter the market with almost functional products and validated (at least, partly) their business model.
2023 PITCH prizes:
1st place — 110k ₽
2nd place — 90k ₽
3rd place — 60k ₽
Audience award — 20k ₽
- A 90-second video about your startup idea to apply for participation
- No slides, videos, charts, or any other visual materials. Just you and your pitch.
- A product may be in the form of a prototype, description, or any other form of an MVP.
- Firstly, applications get a quality assessment by the organizing committee
- Secondly, they are assessed by the external jury members, and from 10 to 20 finalists are selected
- Thirdly, finalists present their ideas to the panel of judges at the public live (online or offline) event and answer their questions
- The applications are assessed according to the pitch quality, clarity of a problem, clarity of a solution and value, potential viability.
- The application should comply with the general program rules
- Deadlines for submission: 16-26 November, 2023
- Finalists will be selected before: End of November, 2023
- The date of the finals: 30 November, 2023 - Energy&ESG Track, 7 December, 2023 - Social Tech Track, 14 December, 2023 - IT/AI Track
- A 3-min showcase presentation (video+presentation, here is the example) about your startup to apply for participation
- A product should be partly functional and may be tested among potential users
- Firstly, applications get a quality assessment by the organizing committee
- Secondly, they are assessed by the external jury members, and from 5 to 10 finalists are selected. The finalists get assigned a business development mentor to accelerate the business model creation and validation
- Thirdly, finalists present their showcases to the panel of jury at the public live (online or offline) event and answer to their questions
- The applications are assessed according to the clarity of the problem, clarity and potential viability of the solution (MVP), clarity of the business model, and commercial potential. During the finals, the judges will also assess the traction you made during the acceleration part of the competition
- The application should comply with the general program rules
- Submissions open: TBC
- Deadline for submission: TBC
- Finalists will be selected before: TBC
- The date of the finals: TBC
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- A business presentation describing key business model aspects and traction of a startup (5 minutes oral presentation with slides)
- A product should be mainly functional and ready to be distributed among potential customers
- Firstly, the applications get a quality assessment by the organizing committee
- Secondly, they are assessed by the external jury members, and from 5 to 8 finalists are selected
- Thirdly, finalists present their startups to the panel of jury at the public live (online or offline) event and answer to their questions kmk
- The applications are assessed according to the presentation quality, level of business model validation, and the level of a product readiness
- The application should comply with the general program rules
- Submissions open: April, 2024
- Deadline for submission:1 May, 2024
- Finalists will be selected before: May, 2024
- The date of the finals:May, 2024
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plans
Also we plan to concentrate more on attraction of students from other universities to strengthen startup projects and make our contests even competitive!
Recruitment of new members to our Team
Social enterpreneurship lecture
Mixer: networking event
30 November - Energy and ESG PITCH
14 December - IT/AI PITCH
Mixer: networking event
IT/AI, Social Tech and Energy lectures
Mixer: networking event
IT/AI Demo-Day
