In 2020, the world was turned upside down, and yet from the chaos, emerged opportunity. New patterns, with consumers moving to online, causing many brick and mortar businesses to close. Everything online became de rigeur, from education to healthcare, to work and entertainment. In 2021, what does it take to found and establish a successful startup? We spoke to the founders of Digital Disrupt, a quite unique investing club, which allows its members to decide on the projects to jointly invest in. Digital Disrupt is ahead of its time, in the respect of the themes it invests in. We spoke to Andrey Belozerov and Artem Ermolaev to learn more about investing in the future.
How has Covid changed the startup market?
Obviously, with the onset of the pandemic, startups that support online interaction and remote work have come to the fore. For example, the Tilli children's education platform for preparing children for school has grown 25 times in 2020.
However, the loss of position for startups providing offline services was short-lived. Now we can see the return of "offline life". Realizing this, we, for example, invest in projects such as mobile app Carusel for sharing electric scooters in Moscow and car-sharing platform The Mashin.
What are the big themes going forward into the next 5 years?
We think it's worth keeping a close eye on e-health. The pandemic has greatly accelerated the growth of the industry, which began even before it. Remote counseling, patient care, etc. Large...
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