Arch Town: Innovation Network in Telegram

There are thousands of startups, and telling whose product is truly new is hard. Arch Town puts an innovation ranking, a tech news feed and a community of interested people in one place. 🚀

The Telegram Mini App opens the Arch Town platform. The organization calls itself a non-profit research and innovation facility and puts any surplus back into innovation research.

A ranking that measures more than money

The platform runs the World Innovation Ranking 2026. Its idea is to assess progress, market uniqueness and financial viability, which ordinary financial metrics tend to miss.

The project is crowdfunded by sponsors, and pages for companies, funds and universities get their own score and a place on the list.

Two commands inside the bot

• /rank. A check of your innovativeness, an estimate of how innovative a project or idea looks.
• /synq. A personal one-to-one meeting, as the bot describes it.

For the scoring criteria and the meeting format, check inside the app, where details get updated.

The feed: from urban tech to space

The platform's site collects articles by category. Everyone can find a topic.

• Urban tech and climate. Smart cities, transport, ecology.
• Space, robotics, drones. Industry news.
• Health and medicine. New technology for people.
• Labs. Blue ocean strategy, venture building, residency.

The feed can be sorted by popular, hot or new.

How to read any innovation ranking

Rankings are a guide, not a verdict. Each has its own method, and scores can be read in different ways.

1. Find the methodology and see what is actually measured.
2. Check who funds the ranking.
3. Compare positions with independent sources.
4. Do not make investment decisions based on a list position alone.

For a startup it is a chance to see itself from outside; for an investor it is one signal among many. ⚖️

Sponsoring and donating

The platform lets people support the project with money. Before sending a contribution, make sure you know where the funds go and what commitments the organization takes on.

Do not pay for promises of a ranking position, and verify payment details on the official page. 💳

Who should take a look

Founders looking for visibility, researchers following trends, and technology fans. Open the app with a concrete question: what competitors are doing, who is in my sector, what people are writing about now.