StartUp Mafia in SKOLKOVO

Retail & Fashion Accelerator became a partner of StartUp Mafia, a joint project of Technopark "SKOLKOVO" and the International club "Maf club Val&Jee", which is a new kind of interaction between startups with partners and investors – pitching the format of the famous game "Mafia".

26 Oct Retail&Fashion Accelerator in conjunction with the International club of intellectual games "Maf club Val&Jee" at the site of Technopark "SKOLKOVO" will hold a StartUp Mafia game for representatives of startups, investors and corporate partners in the creative industry. StartUp Mafia is an adapted version of the game "mafia", the singularity that each participant of a startup talks about himself and his project in the format of "one minute pitch" and thus indicate their areas of interest.

"Partners in this format of communication will be able to quickly assess which startups from their strategic directions can be of value, to choose those of them with whom I would like to continue to communicate in a larger format and to get acquainted with the possibilities of Retail&Fashion Accelerator on the selection of projects. For startups a chance to meet with investors and future partners in the business form of communication," – said Maria Tikhonova, project Manager Retail&Fashion Accelerator.

After short pitches from startups, partners and investors will also communicate in the format of “One On One”.

In the StartUp Mafia will take part to 20 projects of the residents of Technopark SKOLKOVO and from the portfolio of Retail&FashionAccelerator. Investors and partners will play GK the Russian Investment, Publicis Media Publicis and Communication, as well as a number of corporate partners in the areas of Retail & Fashion, AdTech, FinTech and NewMedia.

On the official website of Technopark "SKOLKOVO" will be held live broadcast of the event, and recording the first game in the StartUp Mafia is available at the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvU04r0JVHU.

To register for the event at: https://technopark-sk.timepad.ru/event/580513/

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Retail and Fashion Accelerator is an acceleration program for innovative projects, which aims to help large companies to communicate effectively with startups, and startups to effectively integrate its technology and tailor solutions for the needs of the market and corporate customers. The team accelerator financial and marketing experts, a team of it professionals, developers, contributing to team projects with their competencies for rapid growth and integration of the project in the target market. A key priority of the accelerator is to focus on the applicability of the developed technologies and focus on implementing the corporate order of innovation from partner companies. The total volume of the projects under consideration is at least 200, at the prototype stage at least 150, of which the phase of the selected preaccelerator 30-50, and at the stage of accelerator – 10. The winners get the opportunity to get investment and to develop its project in conjunction with partners.