As both oil prices and the ruble continue to fall, the Startup Tour that is about to begin its annual journey across Russia in search of promising tech companies is needed more than ever before, says Pekka Viljakainen, the project’s creator and an advisor...
Recent events in Ukraine and Crimea have put the spotlight on Putin’s Russia and how it operates on a global stage, but will this have recriminations for Moscow’s emerging tech ecosystem? Skolkovo Foundation nurtures Russian entrepreneurs'...
The Sochi Olympics have focused the world’s attention on Russia’s ability to get things done. Orinability — in the leadup to the games, almost all the attention was on the massive cost of the games and the fact that lots of journalists were...
Pekka Viljakainen, advisor to the President of the Skolkovo Foundation addressed the startup community in his video, announcing the major event, the All-Russian Startup Tour , which starts on January 20:
The registration process for the All-Russian Startup Tour-2014 road show has been opened at rst.startupvillage.ru earlier in December, 2013. The tour isn’t just Skolkovo’s project. It’s in fact a big joint initiative of several Russian development...
Togliatti was the first Russian city, where The Russian Startup Tour - 2014 started today. The road show, organized by the Skolkovo Foundation, together with Rosmolodezh, RVC and Rusnano covers 27 cities, nearly twice as much as the previous tour. Pekka Viljakainen...
The 2014 road show of the Russian development institutions - Russian Startup Tour – is be carried out for the second time. Yesterday it started from Togliatti, a beautiful city on Volga river with strong industrial history, as the biggest Russian car...
On January 22 the All-Russia Startup Tour visited Saransk, the administrative center of Mordovia. This city became widely known after it was recognized as one of the best places to live in Russia and French movie star Gerard Depardie said he wanted to stay...
On January 22 the All-Russian Startup Tour got to Penza, a city with a bit more than half a million population, located in the very middle of the Volga region, with deep industrial and agricultural traditions. 12 best innovative projects were on the stage,...
The All-Russian Startup Tour was a success story for seven victorious teams from Saratov, who will go to Skolkovo to attend the Startup Village in June 2014 and will take part in the Open Innovations forum in the fall of 2014 and will get other types of support...
The Russian Startup Tour 2014 is a joint tour run by several institutes for development, organised with the aim of forming startup communities in major Russian cities. This year, the tour will be taking place in 27 different towns. It will start on the 20th...