Five new companies became residents of the St. Petersburg business-incubator Ingria in November 2011, innovation and venture news source UNOVA reports.

Total number of the incubator participants reached 68 companies.

The new Ingria members are:

Ariadn, with the project of creation of the universal mechanism of a recommendation system with open API, oriented at modern social networks sizes;

Plan B Media, offering an advertising product, based on the Click Per Action model;

Tulp.ru, offering a service of generating feedback in Internet;

Quickpick, offering solution client2client, when a taxi driver and a client communicate directly, engaging in the role of virtual dispatching center;

Teplocom, developing the technology of synthesis and processing of an ultra-dispersed precursor, based on the zirconium dioxide.

Some of these projects have already raised investment of over $630,000. Under plans, the new residents will try to raise a total of $5m finance with assistance from the business-incubator.

Omsk’s Tulp.ru is the first Ingria resident from outside St. Petersburg.

Two of the five new residents are the winners of the annual contest of Internet-projects Web Ready. In addition, last month one of Ingria residents – Body Nova – raised $60,000 from the Microsoft Seed Investment Fund, and the other resident – the firm DOK – was named the best project at the 12th Russian Venture Fair, held in St. Petersburg.

“Achievements of the residents of the business-incubator in November prove their high investment attractiveness. Omsk project moving here shows that the incubator and St. Petersburg are attractive from the point of view of creation and development of young startups from other Russian regions”, Dmitry Stepkin, the Ingria director, said.