Mining industry management systems developer VIST Group, whose daughter company VIST Robotics is a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation, has sold a majority stake to Zyfra, a company developing solutions to digitalize industry, the companies said in a statement...
Wallarm , a Skolkovo resident company that provides AI-powered application security, announced Monday that it had closed an $8 million series A financing round in San Francisco, bringing the company’s total funding raised to $10.8 million. Members...
WayRay , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation’s space cluster that makes holographic augmented reality displays for cars, has raised $80 million in a Series C investment round led by Porsche. WayRay's technology projects additional...
Skolkovo resident startup CardsMobile , the creator of the Koshelek (Wallet) mobile app, has raised investment from Alfa Bank in exchange for a 25 percent stake in the fintech startup, the bank announced Monday in a press release. Photo: CardsMobile COO...
Skolkovo resident startup ExoAtlet , which makes rehabilitation exoskeletons that help disabled people to walk again, has raised $5 million in investment to expand its business to Europe and beyond. The funding is being provided by the Korean company Cosmo...
Playkey , Russia’s first cloud-based decentralized gaming platform and a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation, has raised more than $10.5 million in an ICO (Initial Coin Offering). The team behind Playkey, a cloud platform that allows users...
There is one topic that seems guaranteed to create a traffic jam along the usually uncongested road leading to the Skolkovo innovation centre, and that topic is blockchain and cryptocurrencies. This week, bitcoin approached a value per coin of $10,000, and...
Russia’s biggest lender, Sberbank, has acquired 25.07 percent of shares in Skolkovo resident startup VisionLabs , which has been ranked one of the world’s best face recognition technology companies. VisionLabs founder and CEO Alexander Khanin...
Seven Skolkovo startups have launched crowdfunding campaigns as they compete against each other in a reality TV show on Russian TV titled “An Idea Worth a Million.” Motorica has made 3D-printed cable-operated prosthetic hands for more than...
Optogard Nanotech , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation, has raised 110 million rubles ($1.8 million) in financing from Garant, a group investing in industrial projects. Under the terms of the deal, the investors and company founders have become partners...
UNIM , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation’s biomed cluster that provides remote cancer diagnosis services, has raised investment from Medme, a strategic investor on the digital medicine market. Under the terms of the deal, the details of which...
ExoAtlet , a Skolkovo resident startup that makes exoskeletons that help disabled people to walk again , has raised $2 million in private investment and state grants in South Korea. The funding, raised with the help of senior managers at major Korean corporations...
The Skolkovo Foundation investment service was ranked fourth in a rating of M&A consultants working on the Russian market in 2016 that was released on Monday. The first place went to ALTHAUS Group, followed by Sberbank CIB and RB Partners, in a list...
Representatives of French corporate giants Michelin and Auchan visited the Skolkovo innovation centre on Tuesday to meet with Russian startups that could help them to keep their businesses innovative in an event organised together with French Tech Moscow and...
Valery Komissarov, a VC at the Skolkovo Foundation, shares his thoughts on the latest trends in the space industry and the most up-and-coming space startups around the world with VentureBeat . Photo: Pexels.com. I’m a VC at Russia’s...
Актуальные вопросы и проблемы сферы частной космонавтики обсуждались на Inspace Forum 2016, прошедшем 3-4 марта в ЦВК «Сокольники». Один из главных выводов мероприятия — частная космонавтика в России есть, и, несмотря на существующие препятствия...
«В Кремниевой долине началось похмелье», - объявила на днях газета The Wall Street Journal. Венчурные инвесторы все реже готовы вкладываться в технологические стартапы. Речь идет не просто об очевидном тренде – меняется сама модель Кремниевой...
Inside Skolkovo’s IT cluster, a handful of early-stage companies involved in mobile technology are undergoing an acceleration program designed to get their innovations to market faster. .Vasily Ryzhonkov, head of the software acceleration program at...
IT security company Group-IB, a Skolkovo resident, has been awarded a mini-grant of 5 million rubles from the foundation to develop its payment protection system. The money, which is added to private investment of the same amount, will be put towards...
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says Skolkovo is starting to produce tangible results, despite being less than five years old. From left: Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg, his advisor Pekka Viljakainen, and Prime Minister Medvedev. Photo: sk.ru ...
IT cluster resident Ivideon has received a $4 million boost from Impulse VC to take its video-streaming service global. Screenshot from Ivideon website The startup’s cloud platform allows users to beam video to any device using almost any...
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...
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...
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...
Texas-based Propell Technologies, which owns an exclusive license to use clean fracking technology developed by a Skolkovo resident, has received a $5 million investment from Roman Abramovich's Ervington Investments. The deal, announced this week, spells...