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...
The sixth Skolkovo Startup Village ended on Friday evening with an awards ceremony for the winning tech startups and projects that had taken part in the event’s competition. The winners of the 2018 Startup Village hold up their prizes on the main...
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...
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...
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...
Apis Cor, the parent company of a Skolkovo resident startup that uses 3D printing to construct buildings, has raised about $6 million in investment from the Rusnano Sistema Sicar venture fund, Vedomosti newspaper reported Thursday. Apis Cor demonstrated...
Skolkovo startup HUDWAY has exceeded its funding target less than 24 hours after it launched a crowdfunding campaign for its latest head-up display (HUD) designed to make driving safer. The HUD is attached to the dashboard and projects the navigation...
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...
A robotic pet sitter designed by an offshoot of a Skolkovo resident startup has raised more than double the amount it was seeking, just a few days into its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. Pebby consists of a smart collar and a remote-controlled...
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...
A California-based company has bought the rights to indoor navigation technology developed by Skolkovo resident SPIRIT Navigation . SPIRIT Group, of which the SPIRIT Navigation startup is part, said it had sold all the property rights to the technology to...
Резидент «Сколково» «ЦРТ-инновации» провел первое внедрение биометрических технологий для дистанционного обслуживания клиентов в банковской сфере Беларуси. Технологию подтверждения клиентов по голосу начал использовать в своем контакт...
A Siberian company that participated in last year’s Startup Tour has reportedly raised investment of $1.4 million to produce the first batch of 3D pens known as CreoPop. CreoPop. Photo: Company website. The pens use a new type of ink that...
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...
Томская компания DI-Group привлекла инвестиции в размере 2 млн сингапурских долларов (1,4 млн долларов США) на производство первой партии 3D-ручек CreoPop, сообщил портал Inotomsk.ru . Широкую известность проект 3D-ручки получил после участия разработчиков...
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...
The R&D spinoff of Dauria Aerospace, Russia’s first private space firm, is to receive 60 million rubles from the investment arm of state corporation Vnesheconombank under a deal signed Tuesday at Startup Village. Morozov, left, and Ivanov. Photo...
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...
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...
Leading nuclear cluster resident Optogard Nanotech has received an 80 million ruble grant from the Skolkovo Foundation to build a laser-plasma facility at the innovations center. Optogard's laser-plasma technology at work. Photo: Optogard Nanotech...