“Don’t waste your time waiting for COVID-19 to dry out; if you have an investment project - you can start it online”. That’s what Pekka Viljakainen says, a venture investor from Finland and an advisor to the Chairman of the Board of...
"It's like Dropbox, but only for corporate passwords," Andrei Pyankov, CEO of Passwork , an Arkhangelsk-based company, briefly explains the essence of the product. This conversation took place during the Startup Tour stage in the capital...
A data exchange platform for medical centers and insurance companies developed by GBooking, a Skolkovo resident, has been on the Top 100 list of startups at the Slush conference, Helsinki. The company has created a platform for exchanging medical records...
Skolkovo’s resident scooter-sharing startup Samocat Sharing will expand to Helsinki next summer with a network of 50 docking stations across the Finnish capital. Samocat Sharing founder Vasily Bykov pictured at a scooter dock inside the Skolkovo...
On 11 December, a Finnish-Russian forum on international cooperation in technological entrepreneurship and innovation infrastructure was held at the leading Finnish University of Aalto , Helsinki, Finland. The forum was organised by the social sciences...
The prime-minister of the Republic of Finland Jurki Katainen visited the Skolkovo Foundation exposition at the European startups forum Slush . The Skolkovo representatives told Mr. Katainen about technologies, represented at the forum, plans of development...
Residents, which took part in the Slush forum , were able to work out at the on-site pitches, create their video presentations in English, as well as to see how their colleagues deal with international investors. Maxim Uvarov, director of the "Health"...
Startup Sauna Warmup is a project of a famous Scandinavian business accelerator to be held at the Skolkovo Technopark March 14 in the park’s conference hall. The "warmup" consists of 3-minute pitch sessions in English and talks with mentors...
Bulldozer@ Skolkovo #10: In a Sauna (сауна) Blog of Pekka Viljakainen , advisor to the president of the Foundation and head of Commercialization project office, who was the main driving force behind the Skolkovo participation in the Slush Forum in Helsinki...
The agreement will help the technopark to reach a synergy with the Finnish Startup Sauna, which is the organizer of the Slush forum . It will also help the technopark to get an access to thousands of European start-uppers, who work together with this well-known...
Slush opened with welcome speeches of industry leaders, which gathered a huge audience of startuppers. Among them was Jason Chein, one of Amazon.com heads, in charge of GameCircle unit. Talking to startuppers, among them a lot from Russia, Jason told...
15 residents of the Skolkovo’s Cleantech cluster made their pitch presentations during the Slush forum . Investors were quite interested, asking different questions, demonstrating good feedback and interest. As the head of the Cluster Vasily Belov...
As Yekaterina Pankratova, head of marketing for the Technopark Skolkvovo said, one of the target audience of pitches are Finish startups themselves. Skolkovo prepared a special package for them, called “Go Skolkovo!” “Weve already found...
The Skolkovo Technopark organized the first business visit to Finland for 20 startup companies, residents of Skolkovo. On November 18-20, representatives of these companies visited the city of Salo, Finland – the home city of Nokia. Salo is one of the...
On November 22, the Slush Forum was held in Helsinki, Finland, gathering in a cozy chamber the residents of Skolkovo Foundation, Finnish business angels, serial entrepreneurs and local startups. The leading co-organizers of this event were Veijo Hytti...
On 18–20 November, more than twenty companies participating in the Skolkovo project ( www.sk.ru ), the largest innovation project in Russia, were on their first business mission to Finland The business delegation visited Salo, one of the main...