Then we moved to St. Petersburg. I met the startup community Silicon Pravda SPb, where it became clear how to look for an idea for a business: you need to constantly communicate with potential clients.
Service and started moving towards a service for transcribing video calls, which became incredibly numerous in 2020. Emotion analysis faded into the background, and we focused on speech recognition and analysis of the content of this speech. At the moment, we are still a startup, but we already have more than 2,500 users and we continue to grow.
Sources of funding
At the start, you will never video processing understand exactly how much money you will need. The simple answer is: the more, the better. If we consider our experience, then this is money for a minimum existence for a year and a reliable technical partner in the team. In general, the team decides, so start by finding a team, and then look for funding.
At the end of 2020, we received special database a grant for software development from the Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises for 3,000,000 rubles. This was enough for a team of 5 people for 12 months. Here we need to say a big thank you to Vlad, Nikita, Roma, Kostya, another Vlad and Roma for making teamlogs with us throughout 2021. Yes, in total it comes out to more than five people: some were with us at the start, some joined recently.
I recommend that everyone
WQho is starting a video processing startup look at the website of the Foundation for Assistance to Innovations. Pay attention to the afb directory Start-1 competition, where you can get a grant of up to 3 million rubles for development. Yes, there is a large application, yes, there vadim bortnik founder of the freshline sandwich bar chain is reporting, but if you know how to write text and draw, then you will succeed. A big plus of the grant is that the fund does not ask for a share in the company.