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A hub for startup news, trends, and insights, covering the global startup ecosystem for founders, investors, and innovators. Community: @startupdis Buy Ads: @strategy (this is our only account).
Show more📈 Analytical overview of Telegram channel Startups & Ventures
Channel Startups & Ventures (@tech) in the English language segment is an active participant. Currently, the community unites 2 691 134 subscribers, ranking 22 in the Technologies & Applications category and 49 in the International region.
📊 Audience metrics and dynamics
Since its creation on невідомо, the project has demonstrated rapid growth, gathering an audience of 2 691 134 subscribers.
According to the latest data from 28 June, 2026, the channel demonstrates stable activity. Although there has been a change in the number of participants by -178 556 over the last 30 days and by -5 928 over the last 24 hours, overall reach remains high.
- Verification status: Verified (Officially confirmed by Telegram)
- Engagement rate (ER): The average audience engagement rate is 0.22%. Within the first 24 hours after publication, content typically collects 0.11% reactions from the total number of subscribers.
- Post reach: On average, each post receives 5 868 views. Within the first day, a publication typically gains 3 063 views.
- Reactions and interaction: The audience actively supports content: the average number of reactions per post is 566.
- Thematic interests: Content is focused on key topics such as claude, openai, gemini, insider, developer.
📝 Description and content policy
The author describes the resource as a platform for expressing subjective opinions:
“A hub for startup news, trends, and insights, covering the global startup ecosystem for founders, investors, and innovators.
Community: @startupdis
Buy Ads: @strategy (this is our only account).”
Thanks to the high frequency of updates (latest data received on 29 June, 2026), the channel maintains relevance and a high level of publication reach. Analytics show that the audience actively interacts with content, making it an important point of influence in the Technologies & Applications category.
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Telegram channels catalog
Problem: there are many small catalogs with groups and channels, but no one universal big catalog with channels by categories, posts frequency, other filters + analytics. Also, it would be great to have an option to request an advertisement in a specific channel as a advertiser. And to receive ad requests and be paid as a channel's owner. The catalog could be a layer between advertisers and authors.
Possible solution: one universal platform which is a huge catalog of Telegram channels/groups/bots. It's a go-to service to submit a channel as an owner and a go-to service to search channels as a user.
Such a platform should increase channels visibility on the Internet. As a channel owner, you don't need to worry much about giving your channel a visibility in other 100+ catalogs, social networks, etc.
One more idea: mirror a channel's posts to the web to make them visible for search engines. I know one such service, but it lacks optimisations in terms of SEO, i.e. anyway it's difficult to find a channel following this way. A solution should be well SEO optimized, so it will look like your posts in Telegram are similar to regular online articles.
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Trip helper
Problem: I forget to gather all things I need when I'm going somewhere. Whenever it's a small or big trip, it's a bit hard to keep track on things to bring with me.
Also, another problem is that I can forget to do chores before going somewhere. E.g. to turn off electricity and water.
Possible solution: an app where you make a list of things to do before going somewhere, and the list of things to bring with you. It could be a bot that reminds you about such stuff.
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Ideas rewind time!
Newsletter of other newsletters
It includes the links and descriptions to other interesting to you newsletters. You can subscribe to what interest you and receive daily\weekly new\popular newsletters.
Cafe queue checker
Sometimes you want to go to a cafe/restaurant, but don't know if a big queue of people there. The app allows you to figure out what the traffic there, will you be able to make order quickly.
Car recognizer
Take a car photo and the app will tell you related info: model, year, average car's cost, etc.
Curated YouTube playlists
I didn't find any good app that provides me YouTube playlists for something. Especially for music. It could be an app where you can like YouTube videos and the system choose playlists for you based on others likes.
Travel stuff reminder
Reminds you to do not forget stuff to take when you travel or even going to work. It gather info based on what other people forget often and gives you recommendations.
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Quiz: what is the most popular shopping category worldwide in 2018?
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PC/smartphone/laptop picker
A tool that helps you to find the best proposition on the market based on your preferences. So there is no need to compare prices/parts manually on a hundred of websites.
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Audio messages transcribed
A feature to include in the popular messengers to transcribe voice messages. Sometimes people don't want to listen them or don't have an ability to.
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Movies picker
An app collects movies or series to watch for you on weekends. Based on your preferences. Thus, you don't need to spend time to search for new movies, or old ones based on a genre and plot you like.
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Color palette generator
But where you type a word or mood, e.g. "ocean", "happiness". The tool could combine properly "ocean" with "forest". A problem with current color palette generators is it's hard to pick good colors by non-designers. It is much easier to describe a palette you want with words.
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Journey notes
An app allows you to take notes, attach media to places you visit on a map. Kind of a visualized travel diary.
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Podcasts discovery
A place where users share their podcasts they listen. You can follow other people and track their updates. The app allows people to discover new podcasts, authors. There are genres\categories.
Frontend tips and tricks
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How to validate ideas
As the poll above suggests, many people believe that asking people about an idea helps to understand if it is valuable. ~40% say that doing market research helps to know if it'll be a profitable business. Congrats to those who chose there is no correct answer.
It's not about ideas
The question in the poll isn't correct. It's not about ideas. A business solves a pain. Ideas are everywhere. Understanding the problem is better.
Problem defined, the solution created
Say, we know a problem. And we know how to create a solution for it based on people's needs. We want to turn it out to a business. Will it work? Should we ask our target customers will they pay for the solution? We shouldn't.
Opinions about the future in terms of "will you pay for that?" are worthless. People can tell you anything because of kindness or they think they'll pay, maybe. Or they will not pay definitely, but they say the opposite for some reason. Maybe to avoid unwanted discussions "why". There are other reasons.
Ask for the actual money. If they pay you, only then you know it works.
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How to know if an idea will be a profitable business? Choose an option which gives the best result.
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Trend: Online education
In times of pandemic, some people understand that it's more efficient for them to study online. The trend was obvious before the pandemic as well. Most prolific teachers go online to sell courses. Create once and sell many times, not "I study a group of 20 students at a time".
Examples of services that are becoming popular: online platforms for courses, podcast hosting and managing, services to learn online, online mentorship.
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Competitors pricing tracking
A tool to help me, a SaaS owner, keep track on competitors' pricing and other changes. For example, I have a list of 50 known to me companies, and I go to their websites to know the actual pricing. Maybe I keep an Excel doc with companies' names and pricing, but that's a lot of routine work I should do.
Instead, the tool scans those websites automatically and grab the actual info, then show me statistics. E.g. how the monthly pricing of company A changed from March to October this year.
Technology leadership and entrepreneurship program
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Performance monitoring
A service that monitors a list of websites to analyze theirs performance metrics. Such as page loading time, size of bundle files, API stability, etc. This kind of data can be accumulated to keep track on competitors, for example.
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🔸We are inviting everyone who is interested in becoming a Master of Science (MSc) specializing in science and technology startups. You can now take part in Open Selection for an international program “Technology leadership and entrepreneurship” offered by Peter the Great Polytechnic University in partnership with other European Universities.
Benefits of international program “Technology leadership and entrepreneurship”:
🔸 expert support instead of conservative teaching;
🔸 an exchange semester in one of our partner universities in Germany, Austria, France or Finland;
🔸 as a part of the program, students work on their own startups or research projects;
🔸 the program is conducted in St. Petersburg and is taught entirely in English
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Scents on photos
An AI technology that analyzes a photo and provide an associated smell to it. Then, the photo is printed.
