Astana Hub summed up the first acceleration program

Astana Hub summed up the first acceleration program

Participants of the first phase of Astana Hub International Technological Park acceleration program completed it. Demo Day took place in Technological Park, where startup teams presented their projects and reported on the results they achieved during the acceleration program.

The acceleration program was launched in February 2018. Following the results of thorough preliminary selection, 11 teams out of 151 applications, with 14 startups were selected to participate in the program. 10 projects successfully completed the acceleration program and 8 of them obtained residency in Astana Hub. The projects are as follows: Smart Petrol Station, AI Labs, BBaby, Kompra, Eventum, Media Scanner, JayBox and Azimut. Also, KazMotors, Bbaby and Game Of Drones projects were invited to the second phase of the acceleration program, the launch of which is planned in a month.

Summarizing the program results, the startup teams demonstrated considerable results in establishing businesses. Thus, the owners of Smart Petrol Station project increased the number of users from 2000 to 2850 within a month and commenced negotiations on implementing service in KazMunayGaz LLP petrol stations; Eventum.one handled 6 sales within 3 weeks and are going to hit Uzbekistan market; Kompra increased the sales by 300% from the date of the acceleration program launch; Jaybox projection computer attracted investments for the sum of USD 30,000 and its owners are in the process of signing contract with the largest Kazakhstani distribution network and “Azimut” team of developers launched a pilot project in Digital Office and KazPost JSC branches.       

To establish business connections and international partnership, five Astana Hub startups will present their projects at the International “TIBO” ICT Forum in Belarus in May 2018, and three startup projects will visit Echelon Asia Summit under Smart Zholy program.

Astana Hub International IT Startups Technological Park was launched under Ministry of Information and Communications as part of National “Digital Kazakhstan” Program.  

For reference

The list of startup projects launched under the first phase of acceleration program:

  1. Eventum.one: cloud solution to automate tickets sales and  marketing in event-industry;
  2. AI Labs: omni-channel call center with embedded virtual assistant;
  3. Jaybox: mini-projector with laptop hardware in compact cabinet.
  4. Game Of Drones: multiuser cross-platform online game;
  5. Smart Petrol Station: mobile application which enables customers fuelling cheaper without leaving a car.
  6. KazMotors: marketplace for new and used spare car parts buying/selling.
  7. Azimut (Sabina Virtual Assistant, WellMed, K-Track): virtual assistant targeted at any business tasks;
  8. Kompra: security screening business partners within 3 minutes against 40 indicators;
  9. BBaby: marketplace of goods for children; aggregator of leisure centers and events for children.
  10. MediaScanner: service which helps press services’ and PR units’ employees in monitoring references to a company, to its management, and also to negative situations in the supervised field.