Corporate Challenge Brief: your challenge, matched with proven technology

A challenge is simply a concrete problem in your company that you want solved: fraud on mobile payments, client paperwork that takes weeks, losses in the cold chain, irrigation that wastes water. Describe it in plain words, no technical knowledge needed. UpGrowth, the Skolkovo innovation ecosystem's partner in Algeria, screens proven Russian and CIS technologies and brings you the ones that already solve that type of problem. One submission per challenge.

  • FinTech and AgriTech focus
  • One submission per challenge
  • About 10 minutes
In partnership withSkolkovo FoundationSkolkovo Foundation

How it works

Submit your brief

Describe the pain point in plain terms. No technical specification needed at this stage.

We screen the ecosystem

UpGrowth and the Skolkovo team shortlist technologies that already solve your class of problem.

You meet the matches

Intro calls, online pitch sessions or an in-person visit, in the format you choose in the brief.

Eight priority sectors

Skolkovo's ecosystem runs deep across all of these, and every one is open for challenges. FinTech and AgriTech are the first wave.

FinTech & digital servicesFirst wave
AgriTech & food securityFirst wave
Energy, oil & gas
Industrial technologies
Logistics & smart ports
Water management
Telecommunications
Smart cities & infrastructure
1

Company profile

Who you are, so we match at the right scale.

2

The challenge

The problem itself: what is slow, expensive, failing or impossible in your company today? Say it the way you would to a colleague.

3

Russia and CIS interest

Optional but valuable: your own ambitions toward Russian and CIS markets.

4

Contact

The person we come back to with the shortlist.

Your brief is used only by the UpGrowth and Skolkovo program teams to identify matching technologies. It is not published.

Prefer to talk first?

Reach the program team directly: