TEXDRIVE

High-tech mentor-led business acceleration programme targeting Russia, CIS and Eastern Europe. Located in Moscow, Russia. First in CIS & Eastern Europe member of Techstars Network. TexDrive works with any technology projects, not only IT/Internet, and offers a very unique proposition for hi-tech entrepreneurs of the region: - international experience (creating multi-billion global companies, technological expertise, business building, successful investments at idea stage in more than 1000 c... ompanies); - fast investment in 3 stages: $25К + >$100К + >$1M (including best angels, venture funds and companies in the world); - access to global markets (via networks of the team, partners and mentors); - real connections around the world (>250 thousand senior level contacts in CIS, Europe and USA); - infrastructure: discounts, support, office, etc. The programme boasts an impressive list of over 100 known entrepreneurs and venture capitalists from 12 countries, including Russia, Europe and USA, who have built successful Russian and global high-tech companies as its mentors. This list features, to name just a few, people behind such companies as IBS Group Holding (the largest Russian system integrator), Mail.ru Group (largest mail portal in Russia, IPO on LSE in 2010), Qiwi (a widely spread payments operator service), Headhunter (the №1 CIS Internet recruitment site acquired by DST), Tobii (leader in eye tracking), Forward Internet Group (the company behind uSwitch), Openbravo (the leading open source ERP provider), Techhub, practitioners from Skolkovo Foundation (Russian Silicon Valley) and others.More