Unicraft's online employee learning management platform wins at Winter Island

Unicraft, which provides IT services and e-learning solutions for employees, has been recognised as the best project at the Export Track at Winter Island, which took place in Sochi in December 2019.

A total of around 200 startups with ready-made strategies and solutions to enter the international market participated in the Export Track, which is part of the event's programme. Only 15 best teams were selected out of the announced participants.

Based on the results of the track, the participants of the event signed 236 agreements, in particular with foreign companies and investors, thanks to which Russian organizations will be able to gain access to markets in Europe, Asia, the USA, the Middle East and Africa.

The first such agreement was signed by Unicraft team and Global Inc. on joint cooperation and collaboration on the Indian market, during which an online training platform for company's employees will be developed. The final product will be completely customized for Indian market with the company's specifics. The platform implies quick adaptation of new employees, improvement of their performance and efficiency of the company.

"Winter Island 2019

"Winter Island" is a work intensive that aims to develop effective solutions for companies ready to enter the global market.

The event includes project laboratories, expert sessions, master classes, panel discussions, workshops, keynote speakers.

The target audience of the Intensive includes commercial organizations, HR-agencies, managers of large enterprises, educational organizations, and state authorities. A total of 1,500 specialists of Russian companies participated in the event.

The intensive consists of three tracks - export, human resources, and ecosystem.

The objectives of the export track are:

• preparation of enterprises for export;
• selecting countries for export and product adaptation;
• Negotiations with potential customers, operational and financial planning.

The aim of the human resources track is:

• Training and development of human resources in the digital economy;
• interaction on the creation of an end-to-end system for the exchange of data on human resources between businesses;
• exchange of experience in the field of accelerated training / retraining of workers in the digital economy.

The ecosystem track sets objectives for:

• Accelerating EdTech projects;
• Creation of new formats of startup development.

About Company

Unicraft, founded in 2016, provides IT services and employee distance learning solutions. The goal of the company is to help entrepreneurs effectively manage technology and realize their vision through employee training.

Unicraft provides a full range of distance learning start-up services: an audit of the current training system, a catalog of ready-made courses for each business function, custom training course development, and a comprehensive corporate training implementation project.

In addition, Unicraft includes a research center that works with the largest companies in the Russian Federation. Unicraft's team of specialists conducts research in the field of neurophysiology and the principles of the human brain, which eventually allowed the company to develop a unique technology for developing training materials.

The main segments the company is focused on are the corporate training for small and medium-sized businesses. These are the companies that do not have a lot of time and financial resources, respectively, do not have the ability to engage outside companies for the implementation of an online platform and organization of internal training.

The main Unicraft product is the Learning Management System (LMS) for employee training, which is oriented to SMBs. It allows the LMS to create training courses, manage employee training, automatically reviews tests and records how much time each user has studied. This system allows to save all knowledge about company's business technologies and quickly distribute it, training new employees in the first place, as well as quickly adapt new employees, improve the skills of current staff and conduct regular appraisals.

Customers and Partners

Unicraft is an international company that currently has over 50,000 customers in Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus, the United States, United Arab Emirates and China. During the last year, the total number of client companies has increased on average by 2.5-3 times.

Unicraft works with companies from different business areas: manufacturing, finance, retail, IT, business, logistics, engineering, entertainment and consulting.

Some of the biggest Russian companies are Sberbank, Rostelecom, MTS and Ingosstrakh.

Unicraft cooperates with several accelerator programs that support and accelerate startups in IT and digital education - the Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF) and EdTech Accelerator ED2.