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  • Application security company Wallarm raises $8 million in U.S.

    Wallarm , a Skolkovo resident company that provides AI-powered application security, announced Monday that it had closed an $8 million series A financing round in San Francisco, bringing the company’s total funding raised to $10.8 million. Members...

    23 October, 14:00 Collinson Shura
  • ExoAtlet raises funding to expand to Europe, U.S. and China

    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...

    02 April, 16:50 Collinson Shura
  • How to navigate the mine(field)s of cryptocurrencies

    There is one topic that seems guaranteed to create a traffic jam along the usually uncongested road leading to the Skolkovo innovation centre, and that topic is blockchain and cryptocurrencies. This week, bitcoin approached a value per coin of $10,000, and...

    28 November, 17:17 Collinson Shura
  • How to invest: 10 tips from Skolkovo’s fintech guru

    We all want to get the most out of our money, but most of us can’t afford to take large risks with our savings, and many have no savings at all, or are in the red. An estimated 40 million Russians are in debt , having borrowed 11 trillion rubles ($184...

    28 July, 15:17 Collinson Shura
  • Russian exoskeleton ExoAtlet raises $2 million in South Korea

    ExoAtlet , a Skolkovo resident startup that makes exoskeletons that help disabled people to walk again , has raised $2 million in private investment and state grants in South Korea. The funding, raised with the help of senior managers at major Korean corporations...

    04 July, 17:41 Collinson Shura
  • Michelin, Auchan hunt for Russian tech talent at Skolkovo

    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...

    07 December, 13:40 Collinson Shura
  • Vekselberg announces plans for VC funds, regional expansion of Skolkovo

    The Skolkovo Foundation will set up three venture capital funds to provide additional sources of investment for startups, the foundation’s president Victor Vekselberg said Friday at the Open Innovations forum. Skolkovo Foundation president Victor...

    31 October, 12:14 Collinson Shura
  • Кролики против единорогов

    «В Кремниевой долине началось похмелье», - объявила на днях газета The Wall Street Journal. Венчурные инвесторы все реже готовы вкладываться в технологические стартапы. Речь идет не просто об очевидном тренде – меняется сама модель Кремниевой...

    29 February, 10:14 Baklanov Mikhail
  • Инвесторы увлеклись робототехникой

    В рамках третьей международной конференции Skolkovo Robotics прошла инвестиционная питч-сессия робототехнических проектов, организованная Инвестиционной службой Фонда «Сколково» совместно с Робоцентром «Сколково». Послушать презентации...

    02 April, 8:02 Efendieva Marina
  • Startup Tour opens door to Skolkovo ecosystem in Kazakhstan

    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...

    20 March, 17:17 Nowak David
  • Business angels brandish tridents at pitch session

    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...

    17 March, 13:28 Nowak David
  • Russian Startup Tour reaches Kazan

    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...

    02 March, 10:43 Nowak David