Exactly one week remains before the launch of Startup Village Livestream'20 , which the organizers call “one of the first virtual conferences in Russia and the major free technology event of the year”. In the year of the 10 th anniversary of...
Skolkovo resident startup ExoAtlet , which makes rehabilitation exoskeletons that help disabled people to walk again, has raised $5 million in investment to expand its business to Europe and beyond. The funding is being provided by the Korean company Cosmo...
Skolkovo resident ExoAtlet , the inventor of rehabilitation exoskeletons that help disabled people to walk again, has set its sights for expansion on Japan, where it is setting up a joint venture with its South Korean partners and investors. Dennis Ahn...
Representatives of French corporate giants Michelin and Auchan visited the Skolkovo innovation centre on Tuesday to meet with Russian startups that could help them to keep their businesses innovative in an event organised together with French Tech Moscow and...
HELSINKI — Marvelmind Robotics , a Skolkovo resident startup that makes high-precision indoor navigation systems, has made it through to the semifinals of the Slush 100 Pitching Competition in Helsinki. Maxim Tretyakov, CEO of Marvelmind Robotics...
HELSINKI — Slush , the biggest event for tech startups in northern Europe, opened Wednesday in the Finnish capital Helsinki with the unmistakable strains of Finnish cello metal music, a pyrotechnics show and a record 17,000 participants, including many...
An armada of Skolkovo startups will head to Helsinki next week for Slush , one of the biggest events in Europe for tech entrepreneurs. Slush attracts thousands of tech entrepreneurs and investors from around the world. Photo: Affe Tavasti / Slush. ...
On April 30, 1975, the Vietnam War ended when tanks from Communist North Vietnam burst through the wrought-iron gates of Saigon’s Independence Palace, the home and seat of the president of capitalist South Vietnam. Forty-one years later, Vietnam is still...
The MAKS air show has proved to be a significant driver of business for the Skolkovo Foundation, which has overseen deals for several resident companies and announced the completion of construction of a Boeing pilot training facility at the Innovation Center...
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says Skolkovo is starting to produce tangible results, despite being less than five years old. From left: Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg, his advisor Pekka Viljakainen, and Prime Minister Medvedev. Photo: sk.ru ...
Improvements in this version of Startup Village: Record crowds, new setting, creative catering. Like the leading smartphone apps, Startup Village is constantly evolving. The third edition of Russia and Eastern Europe’s biggest startup event is no...
Less than a week after opening a branch in Vladivostok, Skolkovo wrapped up its Scientific Advisory Council meeting in the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad on Friday, illustrating the foundation’s geographical reach domestically. Just days after the Vladivostok...
The third Skolkovo Robotics International Conference was a runaway success, attracting a wide array of participants from all corners of the planet and, critically, encouraging the discipline to flourish domestically. The March 20-22 event at the Skolkovo...
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...
A key message that Skolkovo transmits its startups is the need to expand into new territories. Now it is leading by example: This week, Russia’s biggest innovations roadshow ventures abroad for the first time in its five-year history. Almaty - the...
On March 20-22, the Hypercube will host Russia’s biggest robotics event, the Skolkovo International Robotics Conference. Photo: sk.ru Around 1,800 people are registered for the three-day bonanza, which brings robot developers, company CEOs...
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...