SPbU students present their start-ups at SPIEF-2024
A student at St Petersburg University and leader of the team that developed the Lingvera and OGO GO! apps took part in the International Youth Economic Forum at SPIEF, along with other winners of the national Your Move competition.
In 2023 this student was one of the best participants of the Action track of the third season of the Your Move competition, became the winner of the 1 million rubles prize and also received an invitation to the winner’s VosHod. The club members presented the club’s activities and projects to the participants of the International Youth Economic Forum.
"We are successfully developing, working on both our own and clients’ projects," said Daniil Krivenko, SPbU student and project manager of Lingvera and OGO GO! "The VosHod delegation represents the club and its projects on the forum. We are happy to communicate with anyone on the forum who is interested in our products or the club’s activities".
Daniil Krivenko’s team won first place with the Lingvera project in the Start-up SPbU — 2022 competition of interdisciplinary projects for students and became the winner of the first wave of the Student Start-up Competition of the Foundation for the Promotion of Innovation, ranking 42nd in the top 1000 student start-ups of 2022. Last year, SPbU students participated in the 12th Annual AIM Global Annual Investment Meeting in the United Arab Emirates and presented their products at the Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum.
The Lingvera aggregator app will make it possible to quickly find interpreters and sign language interpreters in Russia. All the user has to do is select the time, language and category: for example, a tour of historical sites or the services of a sign language specialist.
The OGO GO! app creates fun routes around the city based on the user’s interests. The final destination of each route can be a conceptual museum, a quest room, a workshop, a restaurant or any other place in the city with an unusual or non-standard service. At the same time, the user does not know where the route is going until the end of the journey.
To date, the team has completed the MVPs of both applications and the developers have been tasked with bringing them to market. For more information on the Lingvera and OGO GO! projects, please visit the SPbU InDeed website.