Kazan hosted a pitch session of investment projects

Kazan hosted a pitch session of investment projects

The pitch session for the authors of investment projects was held at the II International forum of Industrial parks “Parki” 24 April 2019 in Kazan. The authors of 9 projects of the “Business Platform” presented ideas to experts in the field of investment.

Representatives of various business and economic spheres were invited to the expert Committee to consider all aspects of the projects:

Rustem Sibgatullin – first Deputy Minister of economy of the Republic of Tatarstan, Director of the Department of business development and competition,

Ruslan Khalilov – managing partner of private Equity Fund»,

Aidar Shagimardanov – President of APM of the Russian Federation, businessman, investor,

Radik Abdrakhmanov – Vice President, businessman, investor, APM,

Alexey Savraskin – investor, founder of Sprout Force Capital,

Rustam Timerbaev – head acceleration program Factory of Business of RT,

Gaukhar Nurgalieva – the head of the center for the study of Eurasian markets at SKOLKOVO business school.

The authors' projects were evaluated by voting on the following criteria:

  • product/service/solution
  • project business model/ commercialization opportunities
  • innovativeness
  • team
  • market potential.


The results of the voting leaders pitch session steel:

I place – Retail and online trade brand "PARTY21»,

II place – "Kazan plant of engineering systems of water disposal»,

III place – "Growing Atlantic Shrimp Vanama in a closed water supply system."

The winning project "Retail and Internet trade brand PARTY 21" received an additional opportunity to present its project in the mobile Studio of the business publication "Expert Tatarstan".

The great interest of the experts was the project "Growing Atlantic Shrimp Vanama in a closed water supply system." Following the pitch session, the author of the project was invited to an individual meeting with the managing partner of the "Direct Investment Fund" Ruslan Khalilov to consider the possibility of developing the project in the Republic of Tatarstan.