The second season of the “Business Battle” contest has launched in Mordovia
In Saransk, the second season of the startup contest “Business Battle” has kicked off. The project is being implemented with the support of the Development Corporation of the Republic of Mordovia.
As Fatima Gatiyeva, Deputy General Director of the Corporation, noted, interest in the contest turned out to be high: 147 applications were received. However, each mentor could select only four projects. As a result, 20 projects made it into the second season and will continue to compete for the main prize — two million rubles for business development.
The mentors for the second season are:
- Evir Boksimer, Deputy General Director for Management, Innovation and Investment Activities at Opticenergo Group of Companies;
- Anna Matytsina, Director of Saranskkabel LLC;
- Evgeny Sidorov, General Director of the MordovAlkoProm holding;
- Alexey Steshin, Head of the Hotel Division at Koshelev Corporation and General Director of Koshelev Congress Hotels Management Company;
- Sergey Shishikin, Manager of VTB in the Republic of Mordovia.
The mentors have already formed their teams. For example, Sergey Shishikin selected the following projects: “YUMISKAY” (Roman Kenchadze), “Monopoly Republic of Mordovia” (Ekaterina Kiseleva), “This Will Be Built by Children” (Elena Alekseeva), and “The First School for Phygital Football” (Anton Kozlov).
Alexey Steshin included in his team: “AI Agency: Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Business Processes” (Alexey Liger), the networked tourist travel route “Tales of Mardariki” (Marina Perfilieva), “Shield” (Yuri Mashkov), and “Creating a Gastronomic Souvenir of the Republic of Mordovia Based on the ‘Home Smoking’ Brand” (Yulia Karabanova).
Evgeny Sidorov’s selections are: “Natural Cosmeceuticals VERBA / Cosmetics Production” (Olesya Kirdyashkina), “VetImpulse” (Natalia Batrachenko), “Establishing a Workshop for the Production of Frame‑Modular Structures” (Alexey Shcherbo), and “Ethnogastromerch ‘Mordovia’” (Olga Kudimova).
Anna Matytsina’s team includes: “WORKSHOP” (Alexander Sinitsyn), “Shumbrat, China” (Maria Vakhromeeva), “Gastronomic Brand ‘Erzya/Moksha’” (Elena Krupnova), and “Dozor” (Vladimir Solovyov).
Evir Boksimer’s choices are: “Strawberry Village” (Mikhail Ovchinnikov), “Clean Entrance” (Tatyana Devyatova), “MedCompass” (Vitaly Zelenov), and “Additive Technologies Studio” (Bogdan Malukhin).
Ahead, the participants will go through several stages. Together with their mentors, they will conduct market analysis, develop a marketing strategy, a business plan, and a financial model. In the final, the projects will be evaluated by a jury.
It is worth recalling that in the first season of the contest, Ivan Kurbakov won with the project “Laservision: a Predictive Analytics System for Rotary Machines.” Irina Tyabina took second place with the project “A Reason to Visit Russia,” and Lev Krupnov took third place with the project “Lev and the Bee.”