We find the coolest
startups on the market
and structure deals with them.
2200+
Applied projects
317
External experts
129
Accelerator Alumni
17
Successful cases
We have been creating deals between corporations and startups for seven years. By the word "gas pedal" we mean, first of all, forming the architecture of the deal and determining the ways a research team and a large company can work together.
Our main competence is to find technological projects "invisible" to the market, to adjust the language of communication between the startup and the big corporation, which would observe the interests of both parties, and to bring the deal to signing.
What is the purpose of the Accelerator?
Even the market leaders are not always aware of all the technologies, solutions and end products demanded by consumers today. To maintain leadership, you need to monitor and understand what is happening around you - how do other players look at the technological development of the industry, perhaps smaller players who are often not direct competitors, but are active and mobile, open to change and everything new? How do private investors risking their own money look at this future? How do independent young scientists and inventors, whose scientific achievements will set the trends tomorrow, see it?
Modern competition requires diversification of own products and services - this makes a company more stable, reduces the risks of dependence on one particular market, increases business profitability and shareholder income, including through the development of new redistribution with higher added value.
This is the main goal of the gas pedal - to find projects and technologies capable of increasing the marginality of internal production processes and to bring the company to other, new or related markets.
What tasks does it solve?
Depending on the strategy of further development, companies determine for themselves several types of tasks that they plan to solve at the expense of this work. We conventionally divide these tasks into three components:
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To find technologies and their authors together with whom and on the basis of which it is possible to develop new directions or improvement of current process stages towards increase of added value;
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To test the workability of the proposed solutions in practice and determine their real value;
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To structure joint work - which, if successful, allows you to get a technology of a much higher degree of readiness than the independent development "from scratch".
Finding.
Getting promising technology startups to apply to your gas pedal is not always a trivial task. First, you have to know who to look for. Second, it is important to understand where - depending on who you are looking for, the "where to look" strategy changes and how. Third, you have to remember that really cool projects rarely respond remotely to various mailings and targeted ads - they need a targeted individual approach and a well-crafted value proposition.
Verify.
When a company first gets acquainted with a project, it is not always possible to determine the potential of the proposed solution, as well as its performance - for this purpose, a whole range of various examinations, joint tests and other work is carried out, the results of which, among other things, allow to determine a fair price of the deal.
Structuring.
If all the previous stages ended well and the company and the startup were able to find a common language, then it remains to properly structure the joint activity. After this stage is completed, the company receives technology of a higher degree of readiness than if it had developed it itself - thus buying time to get ahead of competitors, which allows it to take the leading position in the market in the new segment.
