The face recognition algorithm of Vocord , a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster, has been named the world’s most effective in its category, beating competitors including Google. In the ranking to test various facial recognition...
The Skolkovo Foundation is on the hunt for promising virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) projects and has launched a search that will culminate in St. Petersburg next month. The competition will be held as part of Unreal Fest , an international open-air...
Following the success of the annual Startup Village in Moscow in June, the Skolkovo Foundation is planning a spinoff event – Startup Village by the Sea – to be held on September 8 in Russia’s Far Eastern port of Vladivostok. The Startup...
Прием заявок на конкурс проектов сферы информационной безопасности (ИБ) Skolkovo Cybersecurity Challenge стартовал сегодня, 1 августа. Конкурс пройдет во второй раз, его организаторами в этом году выступают кластер информационных технологий «Фонда Сколково»...
The Skolkovo Foundation is hunting for the country’s best innovative IT projects via the GoTech competition, and plans to reward them with up to 5 million rubles ($79,000), mentoring and expert advice from the foundation’s IT cluster. Skolkovo’s...
В рамках конференции FinTech Lab 2016 состоялась битва питчей финтех-стартапов, по итогам которой сервис Cashoff, разработанный резидентом «Сколково» « Кэшофф Лаб », набрал наибольшее число голосов от представителей банковского сообщества...
Dnevnik.ru , an educational social network made by a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster, is among the winners of the EdTechXGlobal All Stars Rise 20 awards for education technology. The winners of the EdTechXEurope All Stars Awards...
Российский проект «Дневник.ру» , созданный резидентом IT-кластера Фонда «Сколково», стал победителем международного конкурса образовательных проектов 2016 EdTechXGlobal All Stars Awards в номинации The EdTech Rise 20. Итоги конкурса...
Фонд Сколково и ГК InfoWatch проведут «Кибербаталии» между участниками IT-кластера «Сколково» и другими компаниями, работающими в сфере информационной безопасности. Проект стартует 29 июня и продлится до 17 августа. «Кибербаталии»...
Проект Surfancy, созданный резидентом «Сколково» компанией «СенсАрт» , стал победителем программы МЕГA Accelerator. Разработчики получат в качестве приза от организаторов 3,5 млн рублей, а также смогут реализовать свой проект в торговых...
DRD Biotech , a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation that makes rapid tests for diagnosing strokes and other conditions affecting the brain, won second prize at the Asian Entrepreneurship Award in Tokyo this week, taking home 500,000 yen ($4,700). ...
The Internet of Things: IT Challenge competition reached its grand finale at the Skolkovo innovation centre Friday, with prizes of 5 million rubles ($78,000) awarded to the winners in several categories. Skolkovo resident THRONE Systems scooped first prize...
Dozens of young tech entrepreneurs left the fourth annual Startup Village elated on Friday after winning cash prizes of up to 3 million rubles ($45,000) in a competition at the culmination of the two-day event held at the Skolkovo innovation centre. Multikubik...
Команда молодых робототехников из Сколтеха reSet одержала победу в российском этапе робототехнических соревнований Eurobot 2016. Следующим шагом станет участие в международном финале Eurobot 2016, который состоится 12 июня в Париже. Финал российского...
Российский стартап VisionLabs вошел в список 12 финалистов программы Challenge Up! , организованной Intel, Cisco и Deutsche Telekom. Участники, успешно завершившие программу, получают право на поддержку от крупнейших технологических партнеров при выводе продуктов...
The 2016 Startup Tour , Skolkovo’s roaming search for promising science and tech startups around the country, has visited its final destinations for this year. The winners from all the 13 cities visited by the tour will meet at the Skolkovo Innovation...
A Skolkovo resident startup was awarded first prize in the Global Happiness Technology Challenge in China last week for its Webot telepresence product. Webot, a remote presence bot, allows users to observe the bot’s surroundings from their location...
The Skolkovo Foundation’s Startup Tour , a roving search for talented science and tech startups, has completed its visits to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad and the Belarussian capital Minsk. The winners of the Kaliningrad stage of the Startup...
The 2016 Startup Tour , the Skolkovo Foundation’s travelling quest for promising tech startups, made its first stop outside Russia this week with a visit to the Kazakh city of Almaty. Almost 700 budding entrepreneurs and scientists from around Kazakhstan...
The Skolkovo Startup Tour visited the city of Tula last week, where more than 500 scientists and entrepreneurs gathered to pitch their ideas to a panel of experts and investors scouring Russia for the most promising tech startups. Winners of the Tula...
Разработчик решений в области компьютерного зрения, анализа данных и робототехники, резидент IT-кластера «Сколково» компания VisionLabs вышла в финал международного соревнования стартап-проектов Innorobo 2016. Российская компания вошла в шестерку...
Skolkovo resident company VisionLabs has been selected as one of just six projects in the final competition of Innorobo , Europe’s biggest robotics trade fair. VisionLabs will now pitch its facial recognition technology, software and cloud solutions...
The Skolkovo Foundation’s Startup Tour , a roving competition for budding tech entrepreneurs, visited the southern Russian city of Taganrog last week, where Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich awarded prizes to the winners in each of the five categories...
This week, the Skolkovo Foundation’s Startup Tour, which is travelling the country in search of promising tech startups, called in on the southern city of Krasnodar. The event, held on March 14-15, attracted more than 500 entrepreneurs and scientists...
Startups fostered by the Skolkovo Foundation won the first, second and third prizes over the weekend at Pioneers Moscow , a competition to discover the best budding tech companies. The final of the international Pioneers event at the Hofburg Imperial...