The Brussels Dialogue forum organized by Rossotrudnichestvo took place in the EU capital, in which representatives of the Skolkovo Foundation participated, as well as two Skolkovo companies: ExoAtlet and 3D-Tek. The principle idea of the forum was to...
Four Skolkovo startups working in the field of sports and entertainment tech demonstrated their products to a senior manager from the German software giant SAP at the Skolkovo Technopark last week. Federico Winer, head of entertainment industry technologies...
The sixth Skolkovo Startup Village ended on Friday evening with an awards ceremony for the winning tech startups and projects that had taken part in the event’s competition. The winners of the 2018 Startup Village hold up their prizes on the main...
Group-IB , a Skolkovo Foundation resident cybersecurity startup, has released a report detailing the actions of a Russian-speaking targeted attack group nicknamed MoneyTaker. MoneyTaker carried out at least 20 successful attacks on financial institutions...
Russian entrepreneurs seeking to enter the EU market need look no further than Prague, Skolkovo startups heard this week at a seminar titled “The Czech Republic: A Gateway to the EU Market.” The Czech Republic offers a range of support mechanisms...
Vocord , a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster, has been ranked the world’s best face recognition engine for the third time in the MegaFace Facescrub 2016-2017 challenge . The company’s Vocord-deepVo3 algorithm topped...
Traditionally, Russian business in Latin America may have revolved around two products – importing bananas and flowers – but as the governments of Mexico and Ecuador open up their lucrative oil and gas industries to foreign companies, Russia’s...
The fifth annual Skolkovo Robotics event opened at the Skolkovo Technopark on Friday with a greeting from space. Cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky addresses the Skolkovo Robotics conference from onboard the ISS. Photo: Sk.ru. Cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, who...
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...
The Open Innovations Startup Tour 2017 , a roving search for talented tech startups across Russia and several neighbouring countries, has completed its first stop abroad in the Kazakh city of Almaty, following earlier visits to Russia’s Far Eastern regions...
Two Skolkovo resident startups were included in the TekhUspekh (TechUp) rating of fast-growing Russian tech companies announced at Moscow State University last week. Eidos ( Ensim ), which makes surgery simulators for training surgeons and medical students...
Questions surrounding artificial intelligence and whether or not it constitutes a threat to mankind have dominated the headlines this year. Now the Skolkovo innovation centre is gathering together Russian and international experts in this field to discuss the...
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...
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...
As nations across the globe marked World Cancer Day on February 4, the Skolkovo Foundation announced the creation of a new Cancer Centre of Excellence. The new centre is set to coordinate the work of all the startup companies and partners currently working...
An energy-saving project co-funded by the Skolkovo Foundation has been shortlisted for the prestigious IChemE Global Awards for excellence, innovation and achievement in the chemical, process and biochemical industries. UNIHEAT was created in 2012...
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...
A wind generator, a cow pregnancy test and the curiously titled Internet of Vegetables were among the victors in the pitch contest at the seventh stage of the Startup Tour, which wrapped up in St. Petersburg this week. The winners of the pitch sessions...
ALMATY, Kazakhstan - The top two biomedical innovations at the Startup Tour in Almaty this week seek to modernize cattle rearing in Kazakhstan, with promising knock-on effects for the meat and dairy industries. Ruslan Altaev of Skolkovo's Biomed Cluster...
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...
Skolkovo’s Robocenter is teaming up with IT cluster resident VisionLabs to present Russia’s first computer vision Olympics. The event, set for March 27 at the Baumann Moscow State Technical University, aims to promote understanding of the field...
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...
The concept of omics may still leave most people baffled, but for science communities, this hugely promising approach to biolomedical research is already 25 years old and ignorance could be costly. Skolkovo, for its part, is taking no chances. The Hypercube...
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...