On September 10, 2024, the Fund plans to hold InvestFest as part of the Kazan Digital Week forum, which will take place from September 9 to 11 in Kazan. The event will be held at the Kazan Expo Exhibition Center in both in-person and online formats.

InvestFest is a unique platform for communication and experience exchange for startups, funds, investors, and corporations on the development of investment trends in IT. Planned activities include speed dating for startups and investors, TED talks on trends in technological entrepreneurship, discussions of team search cases, expert analyses of startups, and discussions on exiting to Pre-IPO and IPO.

The InvestFest program will be available on the forum's website.

Together with the Association for the Promotion of Digital Development, the Fund will organize startup pitch sessions within the Forum for their subsequent selection into the acceleration program.

Startups in the following areas may apply:

Intelligent transport systems;

Digital technologies in public administration;

Digital Industry 4.0;

Digital technologies in education;

Digital technologies in culture;

Cybersecurity of the new age;

FinTech ecosystem;

Innovations integrated into business;

Digital technologies in healthcare and medicine;

Digital technologies in agriculture.

Participants of Kazan Digital Week can expect an exhibition of high-tech developments, software, hardware and software systems, functioning samples of machinery and equipment, as well as the "IT Leader" competition.