• Graviton wins Startup Village 2015 pitch competition

    Home security firm Graviton has destroyed the field to win the 2015 Startup Village pitch competition, impressing the judges with its sensor-based system to win the 3 million ruble prize and an invitation to become a Skolkovo resident. Graviton's...

    03 June, 19:31 Nowak David
  • Ivideon gets $4 million from Impulse VC to go global

    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...

    03 June, 11:42 Nowak David
  • Panasonic opens R&D Center at Skolkovo

    Panasonic opened its R&D Center at Skolkovo during Startup Village on Tuesday, opening a new chapter in electronics research cooperation between Russia and Japan. The Panasonic R&D Center at Skolkovo Technopark Office Center. Panasonic signed...

    02 June, 16:26 Nowak David
  • Skolkovo and Alibaba team up to create the AliExpress Challenge

    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...

    02 June, 14:27 Nowak David
  • Update available for Startup Village

    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...

    26 May, 13:03 Nowak David
  • ‘Keep Calm and Make Robots’

    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...

    06 May, 16:49 Nowak David
  • St. Petersburg delights with cow pregnancy tests and ‘Internet of Vegetables’

    A wind generator, a cow pregnancy test and the curiously titled Internet of Vegetables were among the victors in the pitch contest at the seventh stage of the Startup Tour, which wrapped up in St. Petersburg this week. The winners of the pitch sessions...

    27 March, 9:57 Nowak David
  • A glimpse inside Kazakh innovation

    ALMATY, Kazakhstan – Anar Akbarli typifies the new generation of innovators from Central Asia: Progressive, tenacious, and very, very smart. His is a generation tasked with providing a new string to the Kazakh economy’s bow, and if his product pitch...

    26 March, 10:25 Nowak David
  • Startup Tour opens door to Skolkovo ecosystem in Kazakhstan

    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...

    20 March, 17:17 Nowak David
  • From the Urals with innovations: Four teams make Startup Village 2015

    The fifth stage of the Russian Startup Tour culminated this week with four teams from Yekaterinburg winning an invitation to the Startup Village in Moscow. The finalists in Yekaterinburg. Photo: sk.ru The capital of the Ural Mountains region was...

    13 March, 10:25 Nowak David
  • Application process opens for Startup Village 2015

    The Skolkovo Foundation began accepting applications Monday for the pitch sessions at Startup Village, Eastern Europe’s biggest innovations conference, at the Innovation Center on June 2-3. Last year's Startup Village attracted around 10,000...

    02 March, 14:35 Nowak David
  • RST2015: Rostov pitch session winners revealed

    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...

    05 February, 11:01 Nowak David