IT Park through the eyes of a resident

"IT Park" in Naberezhnye Chelny is the largest and one of the first IT-technoparks in Russia. For some reason many of my fellow professionals have never even heard of it, and the opportunities that it gives the startup teams.

A year ago, I lived in Ufa and planning to create the software (online designer of real and virtual quests). Today our company is the resident of IT-Park in Naberezhnye Chelny, we have developed a prototype application and made it to the finals of several national and international contests, winning 800 thousand rubles for research at the program START. Moreover, our partners are already making money using our app. A large proportion of our present small success obtained thanks to the Titanic work of the guys from Kazan and Chelny, which made the IT-Park project a reality.



Lots of photos!

2 years ago for a short time (and in Tatarstan are able to build quickly) in Kazan, the only one Technopark in Russia, specializing exclusively in information technology.
Video travel guide to Kazan IT-Park
the former Director of IT-Park and is now development Director at Runa Capital, Ramil Ibragimov:


A year after the opening of the IT-Park was Packed on the brim, and began construction of a second site of Kazan IT-Park, which is bigger and cooler. IT-Park in Naberezhny Chelny a former long-term construction, which was the location of the computing center of JSC "KAMAZ". By the way, a huge plant is right behind IT Park, and nearby is a helipad.



In 2012 the expedition of the Startup-Sabantuy drove through the major cities of the Volga region to conduct master classes within the framework of the startup school.







Later, the winners and finalists of a Startup-Sabantuy became the first residents of IT-Park in Naberezhny Chelny. And I was one of them.





IT Park has repeatedly called the best Technopark in Russia. Today there are more than 130 representatives of small and medium IT-business and residents of the business incubator of the 18 cities of Russia. The number of resident companies operating on a global level. For example, “OCTOPUS” — the developer of systems of automation of production. Their main product — SprutCAM — used in 45 countries.

Within the IT-Park Chelny little different from his older brother from Kazan. The main hall looks magnificent: led pillars, videomusica of the projectors on the glass, behind which is seen the server.



Control system access control is centralized, each door equipped with NFC and fingerprint scanner. Guests are given a card that you want to throw into the turnstile when you exit. Each input and output is a factor, so quietly miss someone on your pass or the print will fail.



The view from the panoramic Elevator in the atrium with a glass roof:





The leased offices is already a familiar open space.





The main pride of IT-Park is a huge business incubator and coworking for 240 jobs!




Informal peregovory with Ottomans, plasma and Xbox.





Each cube, as we call the offices of the incubator is given by 2 project. Some guys can unite and work together a large team on multiple projects.



Now the incubator is mostly filled, but not all new residents are ready to immediately drop everything and come to a strange city for the development of your startup.

At the other end of the incubator we have a bar and table tennis, where every day there are small tournaments.



And on a special white wall famous and successful people write their message to residents



In building B are:

Dining room



Meeting room



Press-center



Meeting rooms (by the way, is free for residents of the incubator)



IT-Park is not giving away money, as acceleratory and, moreover, is not given a share in the company. For services of business-incubation, the resident pays 6000 rubles per month, and receives accounting, human resources and legal services, assistance to project managers, regular visits of investors and experts and 3 fully equipped workstations. It is worth noting its own mini stock exchange of freelancers in coworking spaces on the floor below (you can personally go down and kick the contractor for rughooputh) and free for residents of server in the data center of Kazan it-Park.



But for me, perhaps the most important was the party where every project is struggling to stop being a startup and become a real business. The experience of Kazan IT-Park to say that many succeed! Now the residents of the incubator IT-Park Chelny drew in the aggregate $ 2.2 million. investment from venture capital funds and private investors and has won grants worth more than 12 million rubles from Federal and Republican funds.

Our project has made over the past six months more than 20 applications and more than 30 performances before the first time we have achieved the first serious results: 2nd place at the international competition Aeroflot – for the entertainment system on Board (joint development of several projects of IT-Park) and 800 thousand rubles from the Bortnik Fund.

I wish all who are still only dreaming or have already started their work in the field of information technology, to be persistent and realize their dream. You can also try to become residents of the business incubator IT-Park, so maybe your goal has become closer.

Soon IT Park holds a new Startup-Sabantuy in the cities



This is a great opportunity to develop your startup, find partners, mentors, investors, to join our friendly company and “shoot.”



To.eChi!
Article based on information from habrahabr.ru

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