GoTech team has been working with startups for more than 10 years. If you want to run a corporate accelerator, prepare to hold a contest, conference, hackathon, pitch-session or any other event, where it comes to startups and technologies – let’s get acquainted, we will be glad to help.
We Power the Innovation
GoTech is a consulting firm that connects technology companies with investors and corporations since 2009. Key competencies: scouting around the world, corporate acceleration programs.
GoTech is a leader in the field of technology scouting. Our funnel numbers more than 12 000 startups from 50 countries and is constantly updated. Experienced team and international partner network allow finding solutions for corporate tasks and startups for investment in Russia, CIS, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
We use our own TechScout platform to work with startups. Now it is available for wide use. With the help of TechScout, you will be able to collect applications from startups on your website, manage the pipeline, organize the work of experts and monitor the results of the assessment.
A variety of case studies
For more than 10 years, the GoTech Innovation team has been providing corporations with services for the preparation and implementation of programs for working with technological projects. There are more than 12,000 startups in our pipeline, and in the portfolio, there are more than 50 joint startup programs with partners in Russia, Finland, the Baltic States, France, Austria, Germany, and Latin America. Also we held the largest independent startup contest GoTech and the GoTech Arena forum in Russia and Eastern Europe.
Co-Founders
GoTech Innovation is a professional team that helps innovation creators and consumers find each other and start collaborating. Our portfolio includes GoTech and Web Ready contests, the launch and development of the most successful business Incubator in St. Petersburg, the GoTech Arena forum, TechScout platform, over 300 events and programs for startups, investors and corporations.
CEO
Irina is engaged in general management of the company, has more than 15 years of experience in marketing, product development, and team management. She has worked in financial and consulting spheres, corporations and small companies since its inception and knows how to turn the idea into a business. Graduated from St. Petersburg State University.
COO
Eugenia is a high-level professional who has experience in managing business processes of the development of high-tech products. With over 10 years of experience in managerial positions in industrial and IT companies, she is a mentor of a number of promising startups. In the team, she is responsible for the development of corporate acceleration programs.
We love tech world
We like working with technology companies, introducing new products and solutions. Each year along with partners we launch several startup programs, hold the largest in Eastern Europe independent startup contest and forum GoTech Arena that is dedicated to technology business. If your company is already working or planning to work with startups – there is something to discuss, write to us!
Irina Kalashnikova,
Co-founder & CEO
Our clients and partners
Leading corporations and venture funds, international programs and development agencies from Russia, Finland, Estonia, France, Austria, Lithuania, Germany, USA, and Japan.
Hoff is in the midst of digital transformation; innovation has always been and is in the focus of attention for us. Thanks to scouting of technology companies by the GoTech Innovation team, we were able to find innovative solutions for further cooperation to improve the customer experience through digitalization and increase internal efficiency through process automation. I was impressed by the TechScout platform – a convenient tool for collecting applications from startups and the subsequent work of experts. Ahead is the launch of joint pilots with the teams we have chosen.
Programs for innovative teams within the framework of RITA are a completely new format for large business cooperation. We were not only able to select many technological solutions for implementation, but also got a unique opportunity to exchange experience and expertise between partners in the process. GoTech Innovation managed to collect almost 600 technological solutions applicable to the business processes of the alliance partners. We were pleased with the high level of most of the participants, it was difficult to choose the finalists, in the end, we were able to select solutions that meet our strategic objectives in the development of a seamless online and in-store shopping experience. We are now preparing to launch several pilots with startups that we found thanks to GoTech – for example, in the field of financial services and expanding value-added services for our customers. To improve the experience of our customers in physical stores, eliminating the need to waste time in lines, we began working with a startup that developed a solution to scan and pay for goods using a smartphone without cashiers.
The GoTech Innovation team carried out a large-scale scouting, providing us with a funnel of technological solutions from more than 700 ready-made projects. Now we have already held several effective individual meetings with the finalists and are planning to develop our further cooperation.
Despite the different level of projects, the finalists turned out to be strong. We chose the really best ones and did not select according to the residual principle.
I was pleased with the positive attitude of foreign startups to the Russian market. Those who have already worked in our country described their experience as positive, the rest mentioned that they were ready to adapt and did not see this as a problem.
We’ve always taken GoTech as a two-way channel through which you can access interesting projects, and deliver them information about our opportunities. In 2017, just six months after the launch of FunCubator, we got access to dozens of companies of our technological focus and stage. FunCubator nomination the following year was no less effective. We recommend this event to all colleagues who are starting to build a startup pipeline!
We have been cooperating with GoTech Innovation for more than 5 years and each time we remain very satisfied with the results. Thanks to GoTech, a large flow of prospective companies gathers, many of them eventually manage to start piloting their solutions in Finland. Every year the quality of startups is increasing, the GoTech team always completes tasks in time, works flexibly and finds mutually beneficial solutions in any situation
The quality of startups selected by GoTech really stands out. I’m very much impressed.
GoTech Arena is the best startup conference in Russia. The atmosphere is as always turbulent as a startup world itself.
GoTech brings together investors and startups from the idea stage to the growth stage, from apps to very deep tech. GoTech Arena – very vibrant, lots of interested people.
Due to our partnership with GoTech in 2018 Rostelecom has started negotiation with 25 startups!
New technologies can be successfully implemented into the work of your company
A 10-years experience of holding GoTech – the largest independent contest of startups in Eastern Europe
3 years of organization of GoTech Arena – the forum on global business and technologies, where more than 1200 people take part, 100 best startups are pitching, annually signed investment deals and pilots are being launched
30 industry competitions, pitch-sessions, and acceleration programs were held along with partners
The TechScout platform for creating and automating the pipeline of startups for contests, acceleration programs, pitch-sessions, and other events
International partner network for global scouting and support of startups in entering new markets
Information channel on entrepreneurs (20 000 subscribers) and investors (400 + subscribers)
Blog
The next stop on our technological journey to China is to explore the country’s innovation ecosystem. Here we will not touch on the topic of venture capital investments, as we discussed it in the previous article. However, we will find out the exact number of unicorns in China, their main habitats and study the activities of the Chinese government in the development of innovations.
MoreGoTech Innovation initiates a series of articles delving into the success stories of GoTech Arena international startup contest winners from 2009 to 2019. We aim to track the evolution of startups pre and post winning the contest, exploring their journey to the present day.
MoreA two-week New Year celebration is starting in China, and we at GoTech Innovation decided it was time to take a look at the landscape of investments in the country’s technology companies.
MoreRetail Innovation Tech Alliance (RITA) has completed the sixth selection of startups to implement joint projects with the largest retail and technology corporations in Russia and Kazakhstan.
MoreThere are 3 days left until the end of the selection of startups conducted by Retail Innovation Tech Alliance (RITA).
MoreOctober 20, 2021 Moscow – The Retail Innovation Tech Alliance (RITA) announces the sixth selection of startups to implement joint projects with the largest retail and technology corporations in Russia and Kazakhstan.
MoreOn October 14, the pitch sessions of the finalists of the Finlanding took place. 12 companies presented their projects to the experts of Helsinki Centre, NewCo Helsinki and Helsinki Business Hub.
More2020 was a record year for investments in startups in Finland. 10 years ago, the amount of financing for young companies was 8 times less.
MoreOn September 20, the acceptance of applications for technological projects within the Finlanding program ended. We would like to share its results with you.
MoreFinlanding, a program to support technology companies, continues to accept applications. Representatives of the program organizers – the Helsinki Center in St. Petersburg and the Helsinki Business Hub – talked to Evgenia Barchenko, the chief of operating officer of GoTech Innovation consulting company, about what helps Russian startups to develop in Finland, and how to successfully pass the current selection.
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