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Dear Startups, do you want to launch a pilot and increase profits together with Kaspersky Lab? Today GoTech Innovation and Kaspersky Innovation Hub have announced the start of a new B2C Future Solutions program!

It is incredibly important for corporations to conduct regular innovation activities: develop new ideas and technologies, test and implement them within their business model, constantly optimize these activities and increase their efficiency. Without all this, the corporation runs the risk of losing its position in the market, losing even loyal customers and, as a result, being out of business.

GoTech Innovation analysts have carefully studied 5 RetailTech studies at the end of 2020 and prepared for you a selection of the most curious and significant conclusions and forecasts.

Friends, we have recently read a study “Startup-Corporate Experiments: Finding Success with Proof-of-Concepts” from 500 Startups and would like to share some interesting information with you.

Since 2017, venture capital investment firm ARK has been publishing its annual Big Ideas survey of current trends in disruptive innovation that have great market potential and have a major impact on the global innovation market. We have studied the research report for 2021 and are ready to share with you the most impressive findings and the most daring predictions from it. Which of this will come true and which will not – time will tell!

The remote format of work during the pandemic has opened new opportunities for Russian startups to enter the external market – through video communication, they can quickly reach international investors, accelerators and corporations. Competition for innovative teams in Russia has intensified.

Today we will tell you more about what hackathons are and why corporations need them. Hackathons are events in which developers, designers and product managers unite in teams and try to find the optimal solution to a corporation’s problem in a short period of time (usually hackathons last 36-48 hours).

Initially, corporate business accelerators appeared as an investment instrument, but today this is far from the only (and sometimes not the main) reason for creating your own acceleration program. Many corporations organizing accelerators do not even apply for stakes in participating startups. Why then do they need it?

Many startup founders take a close look at the success stories of mature companies and often seek mentoring from peers who are already known for their business achievements. But is there something successful companies can learn from aspiring entrepreneurs? Of course, below we will analyze one excellent example that confirms this.

Seed-investing company NFX has released the results of a large survey of venture capitalists and founders on the impact and consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. We would like to share with you some interesting conclusions reached by the study authors.