The Skolkovo Foundation signed an agreement with Singapore’s Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) on Wednesday during the ASEAN-Russian summit in Singapore. Alexander Khanin (left), CEO of Skolkovo...
Group-IB , a Skolkovo resident company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, is opening new global headquarters in Singapore, it announced at CyberCrimeCon 2018 in Singapore on Monday. Ilya Sachkov, CEO of Skolkovo resident company Group-IB at...
Skolkovo resident robot-maker Promobot has landed a contract worth $56 million with a U.S. company, the Perm-based robotics company announced Tuesday. Promobot's Alexei Yuzhakov (left) shakes hands on the deal with USLG's Paul Spivak as Promobot...
The Skolkovo innovation city welcomed a large delegation from the Belgian city of Antwerp this week, at which the two sides established areas of cooperation and one Skolkovo startup won the chance to launch pilot projects at Antwerp companies. The 100...
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...
The proximity of Vladivostok to Asia is palpable throughout the port city in Russia’s Far East, from the abundance of right-hand drive cars imported from Japan – a growing number of them electric – and currency exchange points displaying rates...
Nine innovative resident startups of the Skolkovo Foundation are heading to London next week to exhibit their products at Bett , a major international EdTech trade show taking place from January 25 to January 28. The giant education trade fair is attended...
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...
When multinational corporations work with small startups, it’s always a two-way process, believes Andrej Bievetski, managing director of SAP Labs in the CIS, the local R&D arm of the German software giant. Bievetski, who has been working for SAP for...
Skolkovo is to become a testing centre for driverless buses with the setting up of a research and development centre by innovative bus-maker Volgabus . The driverless bus developed jointly by Bakulin Motors Group and Skolkovo resident KB Avrora. Photo...
The Internet of Things (IoT) – when objects such as buildings, vehicles and gadgets communicate with one another via censors and a communications network – is one of the fastest-growing trends in business right now, with more than half of U.K. businesses...
Skolkovo’s newly opened Far Eastern branch has selected its first batch of startups to acquire participant status, marking a new stage in the foundation’s mission to expand into new territories. Skolkovo senior VP Alexander Chernov, and Vasily...
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...
Leading Skolkovo IT resident Navigine is to glean its geolocation data for its indoor navigation technology from Russian provider GLONASS in a deal signed this week between the two parties. Navigine Indoor - one of four services offered by the company...
Skolkovo IT cluster resident Ingenious Team was one of a dozen startups to demonstrate their innovations to Russian President Vladimir Putin at a Kremlin meeting this month. President Vladimir Putin hosts young innovators in the Kremlin. Photo: kremlin...
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...
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...
Cloud hosting developer Jelastic announced the establishment of its European headquarters in Malaga, Spain, on Tuesday, anchoring the software company among the continent’s IT elite. Skolkovo VP Igor Bogachev, center left, with Jelastic representatives...
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...
As part of the deal that President Vladimir Putin oversaw on a trip to New Delhi in December, fifteen Skolkovo IT companies will travel to India next month to take part in IndiaSoft, a leading industry conference. The February 12-14 conference is an international...