The Russian Startup Tour gathers pace this week with a visit to Nizhny Novgorod, where 29 finalists are to compete for places at June’s Startup Village and a special guest will provide a glimpse into the future of the automobile industry. Nizhny...
Skolkovo’s top startup expert Pekka Viljakainen on Thursday announced the five winners of the pitch sessions at stage two of the Russian Startup Tour in the Siberian city of Tomsk. Three victors received 1 million rubles investment from Fund to...
Adaptive toys for rehabilitation and a robotic assistant surgeon were among 13 winning innovations at the first stage of the Russian Startup Tour in Rostov-on-Don. More than 100 projects from the southern city and surrounding region competed for a place...
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...
Skolkovo is dangling $400,000 worth of prizes in front of the tech startups that can revolutionize computer hardware - and possibly take humanity beyond a simple doubling of processor power every two years. Moore’s law states that computer capacity...
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...
The Baltic3i competition was won by four groups of IT project developers from Kaliningrad, Kazan, Moscow and Vilnius. The world's first ever competition between start-ups from the Baltic states was organized by the Skolkovo Foundation and the Corporation...
Cisco company, one of the Skolkovo Foundation's key partners, has announced the launch of an international competition involving innovations in the 'Internet of things' - the Cisco IoT Innovation Grand Challenge . According to Cisco, the competition...