Skolkovo Ventures was named the Best Russian Consultant on the VC Market at the Russia VC Awards earlier this week. The competition’s jury noted that Skolkovo Ventures is the most active player on the market of investment consulting for tech companies...
Long before he became one of the world’s richest men, Jack Ma applied for a job at KFC when it opened in China. Out of 24 applicants, all were accepted – except Ma, the business magnate himself has said. Now a popular Chinese joke has it that decades...
The Skolkovo innovation city welcomed a large delegation from the Belgian city of Antwerp this week, at which the two sides established areas of cooperation and one Skolkovo startup won the chance to launch pilot projects at Antwerp companies. The 100...
Not so long ago, a prostate cancer operation would cost the patient 1.5 litres of blood and entail a two-week stay in hospital. Now the average patient loses just 20 millilitres of blood, and three days in hospital are usually sufficient. This drastic change...
Guests of selected Moscow hotels will be able to check in upon arrival more quickly than ever before thanks to a new system using face recognition technology devised by Skolkovo resident VisionLabs together with self-service systems developer Invend. ...
The Skolkovo Foundation was named Russia’s best centre of excellence in blockchain technologies, and one of the foundation’s resident startups, TVzavr , won the Blockchain Economy prize at the Russian Association of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain...
AgroDroneGroup , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation that uses drones and computer software to closely monitor the condition of soil and crops, has raised 25 million rubles ($440,000) in investment from the Russian-Belarusian Venture Investment Fund...
Russia’s state banking giant Sberbank is planning to build a residential district to house 1,600 of its employees inside the Skolkovo innovation city, the bank’s press service confirmed to TASS news agency. Sberbank opened Russia's biggest...
Skolkovo startup Pravoved.ru , a robot-lawyer platform providing legal consultations, has raised $1 million from two venture funds, AddVenture and Target Global Fintech Opportunities Fund. Pravoved.ru has developed and launched a robot-lawyer based on neural...
When the Kursk region-based agricultural enterprise Agrofirma Rylskaya noticed that the costs of their sugar beet production were constantly rising, with no corresponding increase in yield, they turned to an innovative tech startup. Roboprob , a resident startup...
PERM — The Open Innovations Startup Tour 2018 began its journey across Russia to promote tech entrepreneurship on Tuesday, holding its first event of the year in the Urals city of Perm. Maxim Reshetnikov, governor of the Perm region, addresses the...
The annual Open Innovations Startup Tour , the Skolkovo Foundation’s journey across Russia to support tech entrepreneurship in the regions, kicks off Tuesday in the Urals city of Perm. This year, in addition to rewarding the best tech startups in each...
How can traditional intellectual property protection institutions such as patents continue to function in a world where new technologies are developed and go out-of-date in the space of a few months, if patents can take five years to obtain? If a robot creates...
Compo , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation, has raised 200 million rubles ($3.5 million) in investment from VEB Innovations , a tech investment fund set up by Vnesheconombank. The startup, a resident of Skolkovo’s advanced manufacturing...
Group-IB , a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation specialising in investigating and preventing cybercrime, has teamed up with the Waves open-source blockchain platform to shut down a phishing scam targeting users of the platform. Ilya Sachkov,...
Skolkovo Foundation president Victor Vekselberg praised the achievements of the innovation city’s educational institutions this year at a foundation council meeting on Friday. Skolkovo Foundation president Victor Vekselberg speaking at the council...
Russia’s state banking giant Sberbank opened the country’s biggest data-processing centre at the Skolkovo innovation centre over the weekend. The Sberbank data-processing centre at Skolkovo is the biggest in Russia and one of the biggest in...
For centuries, ambitious young people have gone into law believing they would never be in want of work: the world will always need lawyers, so the thinking went. In the 21 st century, amid growing predictions that many human jobs will soon be outsourced to...
A new state-of-the-art Additive Manufacturing Laboratory (AM Lab) opened at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) on Tuesday, boasting a globally unrivaled collection of 3D printers. The Insstek MX 1000, the biggest 3D printer...
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...
A proposal sent to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to use artificial intelligence to improve Russia’s legal system made the headlines this week, but this process is in fact already underway. Robot-lawyers, the use of blockchain to create smart contracts...
Three Skolkovo fintech startups presented their solutions to the global financial services world at the recent Sibos conference in Toronto, after winning the chance to do so in a competition earlier this year. Maria Veikhman (left), CEO and founder of...