Marvelmind Robotics , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation that makes indoor GPS technology, has won the first prize of 5 million yuan ($740,000) at the Slush Shanghai pitching competition for the best seed-stage companies. Marvelmind Robotics...
There was double joy for Skolkovo resident robotics startup KB Aurora at this year’s RoboCross competition in Nizhny Novgorod – victory for its student-run affiliate in the main category, and top spot for the main company in a spinoff contest run...
ALMATY, Kazakhstan - The Kazakh stage of the Startup Tour concluded on Friday with several innovations winning a place at the Startup Village in June and, perhaps more significantly, the foundations put in place for of a new era of high-tech cooperation between...
Angel investors may earn their nickname in the noble quest to rescue cash-starved startups, but, as revealed in a recent meeting of the Skolkovo Business Angels Club, they can be positively fiendish in forcing them to justify their salvation. The business...
More than 140 startups registered an interest to take part in the Kazan stage of the Russian Startup Tour, the fourth stop on the innovations roadshow that runs Tuesday and Wednesday in the Tatarstan capital. The Kazan Kremlin. Photo: flickr The...
In the dying snow flurries of 2014, as the Vnukovo plane trails dissipate silently into the Moscow sky, the Skolkovo Foundation can look back upon an eventful, challenging and ultimately successful year from its new, permanent home. Snow settles at Skolkovo...