NEW EAST TECH AWARDS

Nominations
Criteria
Prizes
Judges
Contacts

APPLY

NEW
TECH AWARDS

powered by EMERGE

Recognition for the startups with traction and investors from the New East region across 15 nominations

YEAR

EAST

APPLY

EAST

NEW
TECH AWARDS

powered by EMERGE

Recognition for startups that are originally from the New East region and already have traction.

Deadline: 17 December

YEAR

EAST

Watch awards on 22 dec

NEW
TECH AWARDS

powered by EMERGE

Recognition for startups that are originally from the New East region and already have traction.

YEAR

EAST

OUR WINNERS

Deeptech

Composite Vision
Healthtech & Wellbeing

amma pregnancy tracker
HR Tech

inapp
Martech

LOOQME
Meta tech

It's Alive Lab
Retail tech

QVALON
Cybersecurity

MySafeTrade
Fintech

Raison App
Smart City

CupLoop
Impact tech

Endangered Wildlife OU
The most global startup

FIXAR

All nomination winners will receive tickets for EMERGE 2022 which will take place offline!

All applied startups will get credits from our partners Amazon Web Services and Miro.

SHORTLISTED STARTUPS

Deeptech

BroadMind
Ant Robotics
Composite Vision
Healthtech & Wellbeing

amma pregnancy tracker
Cerebra
Therappy
HR Tech

Robot Albert
Jenz
inapp
Martech

Somin.ai
LOOQME
POSTOPLAN
Meta tech

It's Alive Lab
Gravity The Studio
iDos Games
Retail tech

QVALON
Paycon
Arbrowser
Cybersecurity

WebTotem
PingOcean
MySafeTrade
Fintech

Bankoff
Raison App
Tap2Pay
Smart City

CupLoop
Edge Vision
Inclusio
Impact tech

AKO Technical
Endangered Wildlife OU
The Street Dog App
The most global startup

FIXAR
Volee
OctaZone

NEW EAST STARTUPS

➞ FinTech

(MOBILE BANKING, MOBILE PAYMENTS, CRYPTOCURRENCY, BLOCKCHAIN, INSURANCE, TRADING)

➞ HRTech

(Hardware and software for human processes function automation and wellbeing at the workplace)

➞ MarTech & Retail

(Hardware and software for marketing and/
or retail processes automation)

➞ HealthTech & Wellbeing

(Mobile health apps, electronic health records, electronic medical records, wearable devices, telehealth and telemedicine, personalized medicine, mental health apps)

➞ Cybersecurity

(Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, Network Security,
Cloud Security,Internet of Things Security, Application Security)

➞ DeepTech

(Advanced Materials, Biotechnologies, Robotics,
Quantum computing)

➞ SmartCity

(Smart Waste Management Systems, Gunshot Detection Technology, Smart Traffic Control Systems, Smart Air Quality Sensors, Smart Street Lighting, Increased Mobility)

➞ IMPACTTech

(Improvement of environmental sustainability,
Waste Management Systems, Energy storage, Alternative protein, Sustainable tourism)

➞ MetaTech

(VR, AR, NFT, Worklife integration, Hive)

➞ The Most Global Startup

(Clients presence in more than 2 geo markets)

NEW EAST INVESTORS

APPLY FOR THE NEW EAST TECH AWARD

➞ PROMISING NEW INVESTOR

➞ Most active accelerator

➞ DIVERSITY-FOCUSED VC

➞ IMPACT-FOCUSED VC

➞ EXIT OF THE YEAR (FOR INVESTOR)

(You have launched less than a year ago and already have deals that show amazing growth)

(You invest in startups with different cultural background)

(You actively invest in companies which tackle environmental, social problems)

(You have programms running the whole year and 50+ startups finishing those programms)

(You have exited from the startup with a high growth at a valuation that is bigger than 10M)

Watch awards on 22 dec

TIMELINE

November 22

Start for accepting applications

December 9

Deadline for accepting applications

December 11

Announcement
of shortlisted startups

December 23

Online New East
Tech Awards Ceremony,
Announcement of the winners

TIMELINE

1

22 November

Start for accepting applications

2

17 December

Deadline for accepting applications

3

20 December

Announcement of shortlisted startups

4

22 December

Online New East Tech Awards Ceremony,
Announcement of the winners

* Startups will be evaluated by professional investors, business angels, experts from top corporations

CRITERIA TO BE SHORTLISTED

➞ Compliance with one of the Awards
➞ The product itself
➞ Traction and business-model
➞ Market size and competitors
➞ Team experience and skills
➞ Originally from the New East region (Eastern Europe, Baltics, Balkans and Central Asia)

AWARD - WINNING CRITERIA

➞ The highest score in the rating
➞ Victory in the jury voting at the shortlist stage

CRITERIA TO BE SHORTLISTED

➞ Compliance with one of the Awards
➞ Startup portfolio
➞ Originally from the New East region (Eastern Europe, Baltics, Balkans and Central Asia)

AWARD - WINNING CRITERIA

➞ The highest score in the rating
➞ Victory in the jury voting at the shortlist stage

PRIZES

➞ Attention of Investors. Getting into the mailing list for investors
➞ Attention of corporate customers. Getting into the mailing list for corporations
➞ Tickets for EMERGE 2022
➞ Amazon grant to use AWS services
➞ MIRO grant to use services of MIRO

PRIZES

➞ Venture Community recognition
➞ Startup base from the New East region
➞ Tickets for the conference and private dinner EMERGE 2022
➞ Amazon grant to use AWS services for your portfolio startups
➞ MIRO grant to use services of MIRO for the operation of your fund or for your portfolio startups

OUR JUDGES

KONSTANTIN SINIUSHIN

Managing Partner at
The Untitled
DENIS EFREMOV

PhD Principal at
Fort Ross Ventures
MIKHAIL TURETSKIY

Founder of Family.Space
Partner at Latham & Watkins
ALEXANDRA GOVORUKHA

Head of International PR at Sigma Software
Founder of
UTEW Tech Tribe
SERGEY DASHKOV

Founder at JointJourney
Co-Founder at Angelsdeck
ALEXANDER CHEKAN

Chief of Staff
Palta
ASYA KUZNETSOVA

Head of Product, English by Yandex
ex-PwC Corporate Finance,
ex-Cointelegraph
KIRILL GOLUB

Board Member
IT Entrepreneur
Angelsdeck
OLEG KRYUKOVSKIY

Co-founder at
Kilde Financial Technologies
ELENA MAZHUHA

Investment & PR Director
Flyer One Ventures
MAX ZAGREBIN

VP of Search
Yandex
DARIA REUTOVICH

Operations Director at
Rockstart
ALEX POSPEKHOV

Co-founder of
Missiontech.co
PAVEL HEGAI

LikeVR
Heg.ai
JANE KLEPA

Executive Director
1991 Open Data Incubator
YERVAND SARKISYAN

Co-founder and partner at
Granatus Ventures
SOFYA SANNIKOVA

Startup Analyst
Baltic Sandbox
KONSTANTIN GNYP

Senior Associate at
Runa
ZAURE ROZMAT

Founder of
Steppe
MATVEY KUKUY

In charge of OnCall
at Grafana Labs
ILYA LESUN

CEO & Founder
VOCHI Video Effects
OXANA POGODAEVA

Managing partner of
HR&ED-tech VC
BORYS MUSIELAK

Managing Partner
SMOK
DARYA KUK

Head of Investors&Startups
SOLYANKA
ANNA SHOLINA

Co-founder
SOLYANKA
ALINA NILSSON

Co-founder
SOLYANKA
Valeriya Verkhovykh

Implementation & Growth Team Lead
Yandex Self-Driving Group