The Skolkovo Foundation was named Russia’s best centre of excellence in blockchain technologies, and one of the foundation’s resident startups, TVzavr , won the Blockchain Economy prize at the Russian Association of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain...
Three Skolkovo fintech startups presented their solutions to the global financial services world at the recent Sibos conference in Toronto, after winning the chance to do so in a competition earlier this year. Maria Veikhman (left), CEO and founder of...
Two resident startups of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster were among the top 10 companies at Slush Singapore this week, as selected by a jury of investors. Svetlana Yefimova presenting her company Oz Forensics at Slush Singapore. Photo: Oz Forensics...
Four Skolkovo resident startups are among the 10 finalists of the Innotribe Startup Challenge taking place next week at the International Financial Congress in St. Petersburg. The four Skolkovo companies selected for the final of the competition on July...
A competition to take part in a bootcamp in London is underway for Russian tech startups seeking to expand on international markets. The U.K.-Russia Techbridge Bootcamp is a nine-day programme in London held on June 13-21 for Russian tech companies described...
Skolkovo startups won two out of four categories at the Startup of the Year awards at Moscow’s Digital October centre on Wednesday. Koshelek (CardsMobile), an app that allows users to compile all their bank, transport and discount cards into one electronic...
A Russian Cybathlon Federation was officially set up on Tuesday to develop the creation of technology to help disabled people, with the Skolkovo Foundation among the signatories of the founding document. The first international Cybathlon was held in Zurich...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Two underwater robot projects were among the three winners of the Degree of Freedom competition for unmanned vehicles and driver assistance systems that will now be awarded mini-grants from the Skolkovo Foundation. GNOM's underwater robots are designed...
Two Skolkovo Foundation resident companies won awards at the Startup of the Year ceremony held on Friday evening at Moscow’s Digital October technology entrepreneurship centre. Flying the flag for Skolkovo were Fibrum , which makes virtual reality...
Skolkovo IT cluster resident SPIRIT Navigation finished in second place in Microsoft’s Indoor Localization Competition this month, the software giant announced. The competition among 44 teams from 19 countries was held at Microsoft’s...
The Skolkovo Business Angels Club marked its first anniversary this week by announcing three deals with resident startups The SBAC is an initiative by the Skolkovo Foundation to match investors with promising startups. The SBAC, founded a year ago, brings...
A resident of Skolkovo’s IT cluster has made it into the semifinals of the worldwide Cisco Internet of Things Innovation Grand Challenge with a next-generation forest fire detection system. DiSiCon, a startup from Nizhny Novgorod, was selected from...