• Catalyzing angel investment in Almaty

    ALMATY, Kazakhstan - It’s springtime in downtown Almaty, though winter is blowing its last frigid gusts off the snowy peaks of the Zailiyskiy Alatau mountain range and around the city's skyscrapers and Soviet-built housing blocks. At a downtown...

    30 March, 12:05 Nowak David
  • Business angels brandish tridents at pitch session

    Angel investors may earn their nickname in the noble quest to rescue cash-starved startups, but, as revealed in a recent meeting of the Skolkovo Business Angels Club, they can be positively fiendish in forcing them to justify their salvation. The business...

    17 March, 13:28 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
  • Alexander Borodich named business angel of the year

    Alexander Borodich, one of Russia’s most active investors, has been named the country’s business angel of the year in a ceremony at the Skolkovo Hypercube. Borodich is one of the founding members of the Closed Business Angels Club, itself one...

    26 November, 16:12 Nowak David
  • Skolkovo business angels work miracles on anniversary

    The Skolkovo Business Angels Club marked its first anniversary this week by announcing three deals with resident startups The SBAC is an initiative by the Skolkovo Foundation to match investors with promising startups. The SBAC, founded a year ago, brings...

    01 October, 14:34 Nowak David