Green technologies are where it’s at these days, especially given the looming and ever present threat of the climate crisis, which has not gone away in spite of Covid-19 dominating the news headlines. Most of the world’s nations signed the Paris...
Access to clients such as Gazprom and Rosneft is on offer for Kazakh startups that join the Skolkovo ecosystem, said the executive director of the foundation’s Energy Cluster, Nikolai Grachev, at a roundtable in Almaty on Thursday. Nikolai Grachev...
ALMATY - Kazakhstan’s Minister for Investment and Development Asset Issekeshev raised the curtain Thursday on the sixth leg of the Russian Startup Tour - and first to take place abroad – with a call to transform Almaty into a major innovations hub...
Thirty-seven companies will battle for a place at Startup Village this week, when the Russian Startup Tour makes its fifth stop on the 12-stage trip in Yekaterinburg. The Yekaterinburg Expo Center. Photo: www.ekaterinburgexpo.ru Russia’s fourth...
Results from 2014 show the Skolkovo Mentor Program to be popular, with many resident startups urging the foundation to find more mentors. The program was launched in the second half of 2014 with the aim of pairing successful, experienced businesspeople with...
Today’s economic realities leave Russian tech startups with enough trouble getting to market as it is, but even those that receive the support of Skolkovo must overcome a problem of their own making: failure to pay attention to their customers' needs...
HELSINKI, Finland - While many of Slush’s 10,000 attendees were partying into the night at the grand opening of Europe’s biggest startup conference on Monday night, Skolkovo’s top startups were cramming ahead of a potentially life-changing...
There’s an identity crisis in the world of Russian startups. Too many young entrepreneurs are failing to define themselves clearly enough for investors, threatening to put the brakes on the development of new business, a U.S. startup accelerator has...
The first Mentor-Protégé pairing has been formed by the Skolkovo Mentors Program – an effort to steer startups in the right direction by appointing an expert to consult in key areas of development. The program is a pillar of the Skolkovo...