The Founder Institute, the World's Largest Entrepreneur Training and Startup Launch Program, is proud to announce the recent graduation of the Saint Petersburg Fall 2015 semester.
The Saint Petersburg Fall 2015 semester, which began on Sep 28, 2015 and ended on Dec 18, 2015, began with over 100 applicants and 25 enrolled Founders. After an intensive, four month program of expert training sessions, challenging company building assignments, and constant evaluation and feedback from experienced entrepreneur mentors, 11 meaningful and enduring companies were able to make it through the program to Graduation.
The Saint Petersburg Fall 2015 Graduates now have a company, business idea, product plan, and path to growth fully validated by experienced startup founders. In addition, the Graduates are part of the pretigious Shared Liquidity Pool, and gain access to the Founder Institute's Global Network of over 7,000 companies and 35,000 mentors spanning over 200 and six continents.
This semester would not have been possible without help, because it truly takes a city to raise a startup. We would first like to thank the Local Directors of the Saint Petersburg Founder Institute; Andrei Komarovski, a serial entrepreneur and Co-Founder of coffeelab.vc; and Jane Smorodnikova, CEO at LikeHack.com. Our Local Directors play an incredibly important role in building the local Founder Institute program, and creating an environment in Saint Petersburg that is conducive to building to great companies.
In addition, we would like to thank the Mentors of the Saint Petersburg Fall 2015 semester for providing expert training and feedback throughout the program. In particular, we would like to thank;
- Alexey Stepanenkov: ТОП-менеджер, Embria
- Alfiya Muhametova: CEO , IdealMachine
- Andrei Maiboroda: CEO , GreenBusiness
- Andrey Mima: Co-founder, Qbaka
- Andrey Jeglov: CMO, CoffeeLab
- Anna Kuchuganova: Сhief product officer, MailBurn
- Anton Gladkov: Founder, feasy.me
- Arkadiy Hotin: Founder, Arcadia
- Diana Sorina: Co-founder, Piligrimxxi
- Dmitry Platonov: Vice President Intellectual Property, Yota Devices
- Dmitry Dubograev: Managing Partner, Femida.us
- Ilya Chernetski: Product Executive, Fotostrana.ru
- Ilya Antipov: Co-Founder, Biomedical Modeling LLC
- Ilya Kurilin: CEO, Octopod, Inc
- Ivan Kuts: CEO , VIRTUAL FITNESS
- Jane Smorodnikova: CEO, CoffeeLab.vc
- Jan Erik Nyrövaara: Jan Erik Nyrövaara (Saint Petersburg FI)
- Konstantin Gladyshev: Business development manager
- Konstantin Kalinov: Founder, Aviasales.ru
- Kristina Stoyanova: Head of User Experience, Yandex.Money
- Luiza Alexandrova: CEO, Saint-Petersburg Business Angels Organization
- Lyubov Simonova: investment manager, RVC SeedFund
- Mark Martemianov: Creative Director, PLUS8
- Max Malyy: Analyst, IdealMachine
- Maxim Rydlev: Sales Director, Segmento.ru
- Maxim Smirnov: CEO, Aglaya.net
- Mike Fedorov: Founder, Plan B media
- Mikhail Belyaev: Regional Manager , 1C-Bitrix
- Nikolay Strakh: Трекер, ФРИИ
- Nikolay Vyatkin: Deputy CIO, Lenta
- Oleg Shchegolev: CEO, SemRush
- Olga Pavlova: Founder, Pavlova.cc
- Pavel Pravdin: Partner, CoffeeLab.vc
- Pavel Timofeev: Co-Founder & CTO, Cooper Pet Care B.V.
- Roman Polyak: BizDev, VP, Engageya
- Sasha Andreev: Founder and CEO, SoftJoys
- Sergey Galeev: CEO, AddReality
- Sergey Suchkov: СEO, Radario
- Tatyana Savelieva: General manager of the Russian branch, Wrike
- Yaroslav Pankov: CEO, Cup.Li
- Yulia Poslavskaya: PR Director, Veeam Software
- Zoya Nikitina: CEO & Founder, E-Contenta
- Валентин Домбровский: Head of Market Relations, Excursiopedia
- Григорий Петров: Технический Евангелист, Voximplant
- Даниил Павлючков: CEO, MailBurn
- Евгения Барченко: Consultant, Ingria
- Любовь Симонова: Principal , RVC SeedFund
- Михаил Зельдин: Со-основатель, Crowdhunters
- Наташа Гермогентова: UX-copywriter, Yandex.Money
- Ник Филатов: Director, Go2See.ru
- Николай Тихвинский: CPO & co-founder, Go+
- Сергей Дулин: CEO, Teslawatch
Best of luck to the Saint Petersburg Fall 2015 Semester Graduate Class... now the real work of building a meaningful and enduring technology company begins!
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