It’s official: GROMKA.SHOW is a winner of the SportTech Skolkovo Accelerator 2026. The programme received 253 applications, 45 projects reached the final and 15 teams became winners. At demo day in the Skolkovo Technopark we took fifth place. The accelerator selects technologies for sport and sports events, and the fans’ flashlight show made the cut.
I wasn’t planning to apply. A friend sent me the link on the last day, and I submitted at 23:30, half an hour before the deadline. The project got in, even though we were at the pilot stage. Thanks to Valera (he has a startup too) for sending the link!
Lectures were given by Pavel Kolobkov, Olympic champion and former sports minister, Alexey Shlyapnikov of VSporte, Championat editor-in-chief Vyacheslav Opakhin, Kirill Tereshin of the Russian Football Union and others. They spoke as equals, and a lot of it hit exactly the problems we were facing. Special thanks to Ivan Katanaev, who built the whole accelerator.
The project page in the catalogue: GROMKA.SHOW at SportTech Skolkovo.
How the show works at stadiums is on the stadium pre-match show page, and match numbers are in fan engagement numbers.
Who is behind the project: about the GROMKA.SHOW founder. And Olympic champion Pavel Kolobkov, who lectured us, later took part in a flashlight show himself.
