The Internet Initiatives Development Foundation (IIDF) announced the list of participants for its 17th accelerator: out of 755 applications, 13 startups were selected. This year, the recruitment included many regional projects -  startups from Chelyabinsk, Tomsk, Krasnodar, Khabarovsk and other cities.

      12 of the 13 companies that passed the selection will receive 2.5 million rubles each in exchange for a 7% share; another project attracted 1.1 million rubles for a share of 3%. Four projects will also participate in acceleration paying  independently.

      Bbsit (Moscow), Bartello (Moscow), SweetClub (Moscow), TOscan (Moscow), Insurewesell (St. Petersburg), Hello World (St. Petersburg), “Joint Case” (Krasnodar),“The Genius of Online Negotiations” (Krasnoyarsk), “ART-MOST” (Samara), Worker (Tomsk), GetSmart (Khabarovsk), “Rustrans.info” (Chelyabinsk) and BID (Yaroslavl) passed  the selection. The Fund for the Development of Online Education (Moscow), HOMMYN (Moscow), Fitstarter (Moscow) and DeskAlerts (Novosibirsk) will take part in the accelerator without investment from the foundation.

      To participate in the selection, companies had to have a prospective sales market,  their MVP, a team of at least two people and a registered LLC.

Sources: http://mbgazeta.ru