BOSTON, Aug. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Today at the Demo Showcase for Autodesk Executives, Zet Universe announced closing of pre-seed round of financing from 3 VC firms: MSU Business Incubator, LETA Capital and Altair.VC. The investment would help the company to complete its first visual collaborative and sharing app for Intel-powered ultrabooks and tablets running Windows 8.

Being the finalist of MassChallenge 2013, Zet Universe currently works on its first version of the product by tailoring the research prototype into the market-acceptable application. With experience from the leading high-technology companies, the team came together to create Zet Universe. Aspiration of the team is to change the way people use Intel-powered ultrabooks and Windows 8 touch devices (primarily slates).

Eight companies in IT and biologically-inspired branches became graduates of Lomonosov Moscow State University business incubator. Within the limits of “incubation” program residents took a course on business basis study, garnered instructional and consultative support. Besides, becoming a resident, each company received initial funds on development from investing partners Leta Capital and investing company AltaIR.


Kirill Klokov, chief of MSU business incubator direction on projects development and cooperation with investors, added: “Current intake is significantly clever. Among graduated there are people with great working experience in Google, Microsoft, Innova, Wargaming and other reputable companies. Almost all residents for the whole working period in incubator managed to issue its first product, and some of them – make first sales. There are prizewinners both of Russian and International contests, for example, resident Zet Universe came through to the final in International contest Masschallenge.

Last week, MassChallenge announced the names of the 128 teams that were selected to participate in the 2013 Accelerator Program. There were over 1,200 applicants this year from over 39 countries. Of those applicants, 54 came from Russia, making Russia the country with the second highest number of applicants after the US. RVC USA, a two-time sponsor of MassChallenge, is proud to present the four Russian teams that were chosen to join the MassChallenge class of 2013 to compete for over $1 million in prizes:


Zet Universe: Zet Universe helps analysts and businesses capture, organize and retrieve information by providing an integrated information platform to visually organize data.