I-Free Ventures Venture Fund participates in TechCrunch Disrupt 2013 conference
September 9, 2013
– St. Petersburg, Russia – The i-Free Ventures Venture Fund, part of the i-Free group of companies, is taking part in TechCrunch Disrupt, one of the most authoritative conferences in the field of high–tech startups, which is currently taking place in San Francisco (USA). Two mobile applications created by i-Free – "Voice Assistant" and "Interlocutor" - will be presented at the conference.
TechCrunch Disrupt annually gathers more than three thousand professionals from around the world: representatives of the largest IT companies and the most promising startups. This year's conference speakers include top managers from Anki, CrunchFund, Dropbox, Eventbrite, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Pebble, SoftTech VC, Twitter, Y Combinator, Yahoo and many others.
The central event of the conference will be the Startup Battlefield competition, during which the best projects will be selected.
The i-Free company is represented at TechCrunch Disrupt by the i-Free Ventures venture fund: Georgy Zamyshlyaev and Anastasia Lazibnaya, investment directors of i–Free Ventures, are taking part in the conference.
Virtual voice–controlled assistants designed for mobile devices - "Assistant in Russian" and "Interlocutor" - will be demonstrated in the TechCrunch Disrupt startup zone. A distinctive feature of the applications is a unique AI technology developed by i-Free and capable of successfully solving several tasks simultaneously: recognizing and processing a user's request made in an ordinary, spoken language, as well as performing the functions of a chatbot.
Virtual assistants created by i-Free have already won high marks from experts and consumers, and the AI technology used in them was awarded the Grand Prix at the Turing 100 AI Machines Competition, the most prestigious international competition for artificial intelligence systems.
Commenting on the participation in TechCrunch Disrupt, Georgy Zamyshlyaev said: "The brightest and most promising projects of the industry will be presented at the conference, and we are glad that we can demonstrate products created by Russian developers here. We have no doubt that the "Assistant in Russian" and "Interlocutor" will arouse the interest of professionals, and we hope that the conference will help us expand the circle of partners who are interested in Russian developments based on mobile technologies."
TechCrunch Disrupt takes place from September 7 to 11 in San Francisco (USA). More detailed information can be found on the official website of the conference.
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i-Free Ventures is a venture fund of the i–Free group of companies, the purpose of which is to diversify the company's portfolio and finance promising digital developments and teams, as well as the subsequent involvement of large industry partners interested in new innovative technologies.
i-Free is an innovative company that has been operating in the CIS market since 2001 and in the international market since 2006. Specializes in the creation and implementation of innovative projects in the field of mobile and NFC technologies, electronic finance, digital content distribution, electronic payment systems and micropayments, the development of applications for smartphones and new network devices, as well as the promotion of digital products in the B2C market and the implementation of B2B projects in the field of mobile marketing.
The company is represented and successfully operates in international markets: i-Free offices are located in Kiev (Ukraine), Minsk (Belarus), Almaty (Kazakhstan), Mumbai (India), Beijing (China), Sao Paolo (Brazil). I-Free products and services are delivered today to more than 100 countries around the world.
The headquarters of i-Free is located in St. Petersburg, the representative office is in Moscow. Currently, the company employs more than 750 people.
i-Free cooperates with leading mobile operators in Russia and the CIS countries, global mobile equipment vendors, banks, multinational brands and trademarks, major media holdings, publishing houses and Internet resources.
More detailed information about the company is available on the website www.i-free.com
For more information, please contact:
Aelita Davydova,
e-mail: pr@i-free.com
