After a gruelling boot camp and months of preparations, six Russian biomed startups were selected Thursday to take part in the first AstraZeneca-Skolkovo accelerator, in which the companies will get intensive support from the multinational pharma giant for...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed a landmark agreement with the global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca on Tuesday on the setting up of a corporate accelerator programme for biomed startups working on treatments and diagnosis systems for cancer, cardiovascular...
A competition to take part in a bootcamp in London is underway for Russian tech startups seeking to expand on international markets. The U.K.-Russia Techbridge Bootcamp is a nine-day programme in London held on June 13-21 for Russian tech companies described...
The Skolkovo Foundation and Alibaba Russia, the local branch of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, are teaming up to create the AliExpress Challenge for B2C microelectronics solutions. The initiative was announced Tuesday at Startup Village, Russia...
It’s not just millions of rubles and Skolkovo residency on offer for the winners of the Startup Village pitch sessions: Companies from IBM to Google and SAP are lining up to reward the top startups with investment, acceleration programs and entry into...
Improvements in this version of Startup Village: Record crowds, new setting, creative catering. Like the leading smartphone apps, Startup Village is constantly evolving. The third edition of Russia and Eastern Europe’s biggest startup event is no...
In business, they say, failure is the first step on the ladder to success. If that’s true, Daria Kaftan is headed in the right direction. Daria Kaftan, the 24-year-old rock-chick innovator and familiar face in the Skolkovo ecosystem. Photo: sk.ru...
The second foray outside the confines of Russia begins Tuesday for the Startup Tour, which visits the Belarusian capital of Minsk in its quest to uncover and develop the top startups in the CIS. The National Library of Belarus in Minsk, venue for the...
The Krasnoyarsk stage of the 2015 Startup Tour ended with two local companies invited to the Startup Village pitch sessions in Moscow and a message for all participating innovators: Dumb down your pitches! The city in eastern Siberia was the ninth stop on...
Skolkovo Foundation chairman Andrei Burenin on Thursday announced the opening of a Skolkovo branch in Vladivostok to accelerate the commercialization of new technology from all over Russia’s Far East. Speaking at the eighth stage of the Russian Startup...
ALMATY, Kazakhstan - The Kazakh stage of the Startup Tour concluded on Friday with several innovations winning a place at the Startup Village in June and, perhaps more significantly, the foundations put in place for of a new era of high-tech cooperation between...
A key message that Skolkovo transmits its startups is the need to expand into new territories. Now it is leading by example: This week, Russia’s biggest innovations roadshow ventures abroad for the first time in its five-year history. Almaty - the...
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...
On March 20-22, the Hypercube will host Russia’s biggest robotics event, the Skolkovo International Robotics Conference. Photo: sk.ru Around 1,800 people are registered for the three-day bonanza, which brings robot developers, company CEOs...
More than 140 startups registered an interest to take part in the Kazan stage of the Russian Startup Tour, the fourth stop on the innovations roadshow that runs Tuesday and Wednesday in the Tatarstan capital. The Kazan Kremlin. Photo: flickr The...
The third stage of the Russian Startup Tour concluded this week in Nizhny Novgorod, where two startups won million-ruble investments and six were invited to Startup Village in Moscow this summer. The finalists and winners from the pitch sessions in Nizhny...
The Russian Startup Tour gathers pace this week with a visit to Nizhny Novgorod, where 29 finalists are to compete for places at June’s Startup Village and a special guest will provide a glimpse into the future of the automobile industry. Nizhny...
The second stage of the Russian Startup Tour began this week in the Siberian city of Tomsk, a renowned innovations hub. One of the facilities at Tomsk's Special Economic Zone. Photo: Investment Portal of the Tomsk Region The tour is Russia’s...
Adaptive toys for rehabilitation and a robotic assistant surgeon were among 13 winning innovations at the first stage of the Russian Startup Tour in Rostov-on-Don. More than 100 projects from the southern city and surrounding region competed for a place...
A trip to the United States has blown away any doubt in three of Skolkovo’s premier startup businesses that the lucrative tech market is accessible, and that local partners and investors can be found, the entrepreneurs say. The companies, Viziware...
Skolkovo partner Microsoft and the Foundation for Developing Internet Initiatives have rolled out an accelerator program for startups – and Skolkovo residents are invited to take part. Under the program, Microsoft is offering grants and the FDII investment...
There’s an identity crisis in the world of Russian startups. Too many young entrepreneurs are failing to define themselves clearly enough for investors, threatening to put the brakes on the development of new business, a U.S. startup accelerator has...