Michael Savuskan participated in the IDCEE 2013 Panel "Rising tech stars from the East: What makes them shine?" Michael Savuskan is the COO of LinguaLeo.com, the largest language learning platform in Russia and FSU states, that also launched this year in Brazil. With over 5 million users, learning English with the help of various content )movies, videos, books, music, etc.) and 15,000 registrations per day, LinguaLeo is growing by leaps and bounds and is poised to go to the next level of international expansion. Its major investors include Runa Capital. Michael, originally from Moscow, Russia, joined LinguaLeo earlier this year. Before that, for 20 years he worked as an executive in Russia and the USA, in consumer electronics, telecom and IT industries. He graduated from Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY, USA with degree in International Relations. His profile on Linkedin: http://ru.linkedin.com/pub/michael-savuskan/2/a44/8a2 Pic's are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/idcee/sets/ More @ http://idcee.org Follow us on: YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialIDCEEChannel Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IDCEE Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/IDCEE-3940138 Twitter: https://twitter.com/idcee_eu Google+: http://gplus.to/idcee Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/idcee/collections/

1. Engaging Gamified
Language Learning
web / mobile / +++

2. How LinguaLeo works?
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The user chooses current level, targets and
media content he likes
news, audiobooks, videos to listen, comprehends & imitate
wordlists & phraselists by topics, grammar courses, thematic
courses, courses on skills
The gamified scenario leads him on the way
Leo gives advice, feels hunger, gets XP points & levels, eats
meatballs, lives in the Jungle (where the content is)
Feels real-time progress, enjoys social sharing
Daily progress, ratings, sharing, following learning activity

3. LinguaLeo Today (Oct ’13)
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 >5.000.000 users (>14,000 daily regs). Leader in Russia
and CIS. >300.000 users in Brasil
 Great engagement & retention
 iPhone, Android, Windows Phone apps
are in Top Education
 TNW Russian Startup Awards 2013 ☆
Russian Startup Rating 2012 ☆ BIT 2011 ☆ Cloud 2012
 50+ talented team ☆ Runa Capital $3 mln

4. LinguaLeo Key Team members
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Aynur Abdulnasyrov, CEO and Founder.
Ex-CEO and Founder of nativespeakers.ru,
Co-founder of treda.ru, ImageStars.net
Ramil Ibragimov, Business Development Director
at VC Runa Capital. Ex-CEO of IT-parks in Kazan
and Chelny (the best Russian technoparks in
2011-2013 according to the official rankings)
Great help and support by Serguei Beloussov,
founder and senior partner at VC Runa Capital,
founder of Parallels and Acronis

5. New branch for today:
Russian.LinguaLeo.ru
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Located on:
11 languages in the world (English,
Spanish,
Italian, German, Chinese, etc.)
7 languages in CIS (Kazakh, Kirghiz, Turkmen,
Armenian, Tadjik, Uzbek, Azerbaijani)
140 mln people in 100(!) countries
learn
Russian as a foreign language
15 mln immigrants enter Russia annually
13 mln pupils in Russia learn Russian
Great opportunity for the Russian tourist-oriented
countries
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17. Why LinguaLeo is better?
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18. The Future of LinguaLeo (2016)
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The most popular and convenient platform for
language learners and educators worldwide
100+ mln users worldwide
20+ languages, 40+ countries
4+ platforms (web, mobile, desktop, browsers
and more).
$200+ mln recurrent revenue