Kirill Varlamov

nternet Initiatives Development Funds invests in start-ups and education, and endorses legislative initiatives. More than 150 thousand people have enrolled in our educational programs in 5 years of the Fund’s work, we have accelerated about 15 thousand projects, invested in about 400 projects,

Start-up lives in short cycles: test the hypotheses, understand customers’ needs. The agricultural sector by definition has very long sampling cycles, in addition to seasonal dependency. If you did not manage to test something this season, you can only test it in a year from now. In a start-up environment, you do not always have a chance to make it to the next year

At the Foundation for the Development of Internet Initiatives we work with start-ups. We could not but pay attention to the fact that in our country the interaction between start-ups and large corporations is rather poorly organized

“The technologies of virtual, augmented reality are very interesting, there are technologies in the sphere of the Internet of things, but of course, most implementations that we see and real breakthroughs in technologies that change the processes, increasing efficiency tenfold, sometimes even more, are the technologies of machine learning and big data,”

“The so-called opening legislation is a big task. Last year, the law on telemedicine was adopted, allowing the opportunity that the market had been waiting for 23 years, to provide medical services remotely,”

“The big challenge is the big data market. Our estimation of the market of big data trade in Russia alone, the capitalization of this market is around $40 billion,”