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  • GreenTech Startup Booster Open For Applications

    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...

    03 September, 17:01 Vitaly Shustikov
  • Let me entertain you: Skolkovo sports tech startups pitch to SAP

    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...

    18 September, 17:39 Collinson Shura
  • A Russian-Kazakh pipeline for oil and gas cooperation

    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...

    19 March, 11:43 Nowak David
  • Top Kazakh minister opens Startup Tour in Almaty

    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...

    19 March, 8:29 Nowak David
  • Russian Startup Tour swings into Yekaterinburg

    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...

    10 March, 16:46 Nowak David
  • Skolkovo startups: ‘We need more mentors’

    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...

    14 January, 16:49 Nowak David
  • ‘Listen to the customer,’ Russian startups are urged

    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...

    02 December, 17:02 Nowak David