HELSINKI - A new Russian venture fund formed jointly by the Skolkovo Foundation and Russian Venture Capital, a state investment vehicle, was presented to an international audience Wednesday at the Slush tech conference in Helsinki. The new fund, Skolkovo...
HELSINKI — The Skolkovo startups currently taking part in Slush, the annual large-scale tech startup event held in Helsinki, are better prepared than ever before, the Skolkovo Foundation’s vice president for strategy and investment, Ekaterina Inozemtseva...
A Skolkovo startup that has designed a smart clock that shows users notifications as they need them has raised more than eight times the amount it was seeking on the Indiegogo crowdfunding website. Glance Clock, which is being promoted under the tagline...
The biggest Technopark in Eastern Europe, speakers from some of the world’s most successful companies, and the latest developments in virtual reality will all be on show next week at the Skolkovo innovation centre when it hosts the annual Open Innovations...
Finland’s BioCity Technopark is to build a biotech technopark at the Skolkovo innovation centre under an agreement signed Tuesday at the ongoing International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP) conference in Moscow. Kirill...
Chinese investors are to spend $30 million on a plant in the country’s northeast that will use cutting-edge technology devised by Risilica, a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation, to turn by-products of rice farming into amorphous silica. An estimated...
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...
Wallarm , a Russian cybersecurity startup, has been selected to take part in Y Combinator , one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent seed accelerator programmes. The accelerator is investing $120,000 in the startup. The IT company, which uses machine...
This year’s Open Innovations tech forum will be hosted by the Skolkovo innovation centre, the event’s organizing committee headed by Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich has decided. The forum, which this year runs from October 26-28, will...
Oil producer Gazprom Neft is to open a research and development centre at the Skolkovo innovation centre outside Moscow under an agreement signed Thursday at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg (left)...
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...
Navigine , a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation that makes indoor navigation and tracking systems, has attracted $400,000 in investment from a syndicate led by Finnish fintech company Innovestor. The deal with Navigine is Innovestor’s first...
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...
The Skolkovo Foundation’s Startup Tour has completed its third stop-off in the western Siberian city of Novosibirsk, following visits to Irkutsk and Vladivostok. The two-day event to identify promising tech startups was held at Novosibirsk’s...
Two startups from the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster have raised over $10 million in investment in their devices designed to make carrying out everyday tasks more convenient. ComfortWay , which provides travellers with access to mobile networks at...
Crowdfunded scientific project OhmyGut , which allows curious Muscovites to discover what’s really going on inside their bellies, has proved a hit, raising more than twice its target amount of funding over two weeks before its completion deadline. ...
IT cluster resident PayQR has developed an app for mobile phones for paying housing and public utilities bills - and even traffic fines – from the comfort of the home. The program is available on iOS and Android platforms. In September, a new national...
Inside Skolkovo’s IT cluster, a handful of early-stage companies involved in mobile technology are undergoing an acceleration program designed to get their innovations to market faster. .Vasily Ryzhonkov, head of the software acceleration program at...
IT security company Group-IB, a Skolkovo resident, has been awarded a mini-grant of 5 million rubles from the foundation to develop its payment protection system. The money, which is added to private investment of the same amount, will be put towards...
Skolkovo resident SEMAT has secured 50 million rubles in investment from Russian-Czech company MTE Group to research electrical discharge machining, a deal signed at Startup Village. Karavaev and Volkov, in light suits, during the signing. Photo: sk.ru...
IT cluster resident Ivideon has received a $4 million boost from Impulse VC to take its video-streaming service global. Screenshot from Ivideon website The startup’s cloud platform allows users to beam video to any device using almost any...
It’s not just millions of rubles and Skolkovo residency on offer for the winners of the Startup Village pitch sessions: Companies from IBM to Google and SAP are lining up to reward the top startups with investment, acceleration programs and entry into...
Skolkovo has launched a Startup Village smartphone app to help 10,000 visitors get the most out of Eastern Europe’s biggest startup conference. Startup Village runs next Tuesday and Wednesday at Skolkovo’s headquarters just west of Moscow...
Russia’s high-tech startups are getting better by the year, but innovators need to be more persistent to commercialize their solutions, said Pekka Viljakainen, advisor to Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg and an ever-present in three editions of the...
IT cluster resident Comindware has secured a 29.7 million ruble grant from the Skolkovo Foundation to develop an all-encompassing software solution for streamlining management processes within companies. Comindware, which provides computer-based management...