Mikhail Kokorich was preparing to study aerospace engineering in Moscow when the collapse of the Soviet Union forced an end to his plans. “At the time, life in Moscow was very difficult,” Kokorich said. “I came from a pretty poor...
Moscow-based social startup Flocktory announced last week that it has landed a $1.5 million Series A funding round from Digital Ventures , a new Russian venture fund, which has obtained a minority stake in the company. The main product that Flocktory is...
Macroscop , a Russian startup developing software for IP videocameras, signed earlier this month one of its first international contracts with Bahrain’s MHS-Technologies. The Russian company’s technology will be used in the business, defense...
FARNBOROUGH, England — Satellite services provider Aniara SpaceCom LLC of India and the United States on July 15 said it has contracted with Russian/German satellite builder Dauria Aerospace to launch two all-electric Ku-band telecommunications satellites...
Mobile app startup iBuildApp , which allows anyone to build a mobile app for iPhone or Android without the need for programming skills, is pleased to announce that they have raised an additional $525,000 in private financing. The company plans to use the investment...
The first patients have been enrolled in a Phase 1/2a clinical trial of a promising approach to treat malignant neoplasms. Following approval by the Russian Ministry of Health, Russian biotechnology company MetaMax will begin the trial of its lead anticancer...
The LinguaLeo Company, a resident of Skolkovo’s Information Technology Cluster, announced that it has entered into a partnership with the TED Foundation to present a series of informative lessons in both live and video formats. The TED LinguaLeo...
Dauria Aerospace , a multinational aerospace company providing global satellite-based remote sensing information services, with support of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), is launching its DX1 satellite on board a Soyuz 2-1b rocket. The launch...
Skolkovo Biomedical Cluster Resident " CardioNova ", founded with investments from Maxwell Biotech Venture Fund founded with the participation of RVC, announced today enrollment of the first volunteers with mild to moderate hyperlipidemia in a randomized...
MAKS Airshow 2013 - Airbus has undertaken the multi-disciplinary optimization modelling of its aircraft families at conceptual level using software from Datadvance called 'MACROS'. MACROS is an easy-to-use process integration, design optimization...
To identify the most promising Russian Internet companies Informilo asked investors in Moscow, London, New York, Boston and Silicon Valley to nominate and vote on companies outside of their own portfolios. Many of the companies have moved their headquarters...
Russia is now the largest internet market in Europe, with more than 55 million online users, and an online market that is still in a massive state of growth – and a new frontier for US and German venture capitalists looking for the next big win. Yankov...
A new technique that stabilizes femtosecond (fs) pulses generated in a microresonator could improve devices dependent on such pulses for applications in telecommunications, broadband spectroscopy and astronomy, among others. Last year, a team from Lomonosov...
Russian company T8 has received a RUB 40 million grant from the Skolkovo fund to design telecommunications equipment, reports Cnews.ru. The equipment is expected to enable the deployment of broadband networks in remote areas. T8 designs DWDM equipment. The...
Biomedicine is the area which demonstrates best of all the highest level of Russian science. Though some experts claim countries like the US are preeminent in biomedical ventures, there are a bunch of companies that prefer to recruit specialists from Russia...
Physicists from Russia, Czech Republic and Slovakia have found a way to preserve quantum entanglement of particles passing through an amplifier and, conversely, when transmitting a signal over long distances Physicists Sergei Filippov (MIPT and Russian...
The Scientific and Research Center of the JSC TATNEFT has been assigned the project participant status of establishing and operating the "Skolkovo" Innovation Center. An appropriate entry has been made in the register of the project participants according...
A Soyuz 2.1b carrier rocket has successfully launched a next-generation Russian meteorological satellite and six smaller satellites, the Federal Space Agency, or Roscosmos, said in an online statement. Roscosmos said that the Meteor-M meteorological satellite...
RoboCV plans to take the international automatic logistic systems – or robot control—market by storm. Just one year old, the young company has already quikckly gone from concept development to the international market. RoboCV creates quick...
Leveraging the same technology found in your smartphone, Dauria Aerospace will launch the first Russian private space satellite for about $3 million early next year. Dauria Aerospace Dauria’s DX-1 satellite Launching DX-1, which is being...
Russian Developer of Software for Engineering Analysis to Use C3D Kernel for its Portfolio of Software Products C3D Labs (ASCON Group) today announced that NTP Truboprovod has entered into a licensing agreement to use the C3D geometric kernel for its...
Nimbix, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of High Performance 3D Workstations on demand. This low cost pay-per-use model enables end users to run their own private desktop environments, with persistent storage, for as little as $1 (USD)...
They’re in front of every office worker 9 hours a day, and miniaturized versions are always in our pockets: Computers and the microelectronics inside them are an inescapable part of modern life. Check out the latest developments on Technology Update this...
There is no shortage of games out there for Android users. That said, there’s also nothing available for smartphones quite like the classic strategy games and RPGs for PC such as Fallout or StarCraft . For those who are fans of such nostalgia, one cool...
B2B SaaS platform now a part of over 3.5 million shopping cart transactions per month. Flocktory , a leading social referral marketing SaaS platform in Eastern Europe, announced today that the company has reached a critical milestone of 15 million...