Ideas Lab: How to get half a million dollars for startup? Senstone’s Experience

How to turn your idea into a product? How to find money for your own startup and correctly build a marketing strategy? On November 21 during the Ideas Lab at Lviv Business School of UCU (LvBS) the Senstone company co-founder and manufacturing director Markiian Matsekh and the marketing manager Dara Burko, whose product converts audio notes into text, will share their experience.

Being 26 years old Markiian has tried himself in the role of a musician, a programmer, a marketing expert, a sales manager, and now – an entrepreneur.He led the project Tesla Apple Watch app – the world’s first Apple Watch Connected Car App; won a number of awards for the work at Wearables, participated at the world conferences; has been working in outsourcing for 7 years (Eleks Company), closed a multimillion dollar projects as a sales manager; together with the team got $ 380,000 through Kickstarter&Indiegogo for his own startup, now is intensively working on developing this product.

Dara Burko, a marketing manager at Senstone Company, has 8 years of experience in this sphere. An author and a consultant of business plans – winners of programs for the development and support of entrepreneurship from the European Union. Co-founder of the petadvisor.in.ua service, editor of Happy muzzles public.

The cost of participation is 200 UAH. All raised funds will be transferred to the All-Ukrainian charity action “Nicholas will not forget about you!”.

To the point, the team of Lviv and Kyiv programmers created the device Senstone, which records voice notes and converts them into text. The recordings are stored as audio files, which are then processed, noisesare taken away, the recording is analyzed and the text is created. The device recognizes 12 languages, including Ukrainian and English. The device has the form of a pendant which can be attached to clothing or worn on a neck or an arm. Specialists have been workingon the invention for about two years.

Ideas Lab: is a unique comfortable and inspiring environment where in discussions with like-minded people, experienced entrepreneurs and mentors the ideas of new innovative startups are born.