A member of staff at Skolkovo startup Promobot , which makes friendly talking robots , has used one of the company’s creations to ask his girlfriend to marry him. To the relief of all the coworkers – and robots – gathered around watching,...
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. ...
Skolkovo resident VisionLabs and the smart building systems developer Alphaopen have launched a smart home system that uses face recognition technology to enable residents to enter their building without a key and to reach their floor without pressing a lift...
Having conquered Russia, China, the U.S. and about a dozen other countries, Skolkovo resident company Promobot has sent its first robot to Australia, where the friendly promotional robot is currently taking part in the Commonwealth Games . People pose...
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...
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...
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,...
Several resident startups of the Skolkovo Foundation took their products and technologies to Las Vegas last week for CES , one of the world’s biggest consumer technologies exhibitions and conferences, which ran from January 9 to 12. Promobot robots...
Group-IB , a Skolkovo Foundation resident cybersecurity startup, has released a report detailing the actions of a Russian-speaking targeted attack group nicknamed MoneyTaker. MoneyTaker carried out at least 20 successful attacks on financial institutions...
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...
The Skolkovo Foundation has teamed up with the Russian Export Centre, a state body that helps Russian companies enter foreign markets, to set up a Russian innovations hub in Dubai. The hub is planned to be located in the national innovations and industrial...
The directors of three Skolkovo startups won awards at two ceremonies this week for their innovative tech developments. Group-IB head Ilya Sachkov at a previous EY awards ceremony. Photo: EY. Ilya Sachkov, head of the cybersecurity company Group...
Insilico Medicine , the parent company of Skolkovo resident biomed startup Insilico , has published a peer-review research paper calling for patients to regain control of their personal medical records, and even to profit from them. The Baltimore-based Insilico...
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...
Fibrum , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster that makes virtual reality headsets, games and platforms, has developed the world’s first chain of virtual stores for the Chinese ecommerce platform AliExpress. Customers...
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...
Two resident startups of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster were among the top 10 companies at Slush Singapore this week, as selected by a jury of investors. Svetlana Yefimova presenting her company Oz Forensics at Slush Singapore. Photo: Oz Forensics...
Two resident startups of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster have been selected to take part in the Starta accelerator in New York, guaranteeing them $130,000 each in funding. Alexander Berenov, general director of Inspector Cloud. Photo: Sk.ru...
Five Skolkovo companies will take part in the DICE Europe video game industry conference, which is taking place in Cascais, Portugal on September 10-12. DICE (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) brings together gaming, console and VR industry players...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has tasked his government with creating infrastructure for driverless transport in Russia, bringing the country a step closer to the appearance of autonomous vehicles on its roads and motorways. Volgabus and KB Avrora's...
Navigine , a Skolkovo resident startup that makes indoor navigation and tracking systems, has raised $900,000 in funding from an international syndicate of investors led by the Innovestor co-investment service. Navigine's technology can be used to...
Hot on the heels of other major French retailers scouring the Skolkovo innovation city for new technologies, a team of talent scouts from the Decathlon Group chain of sports stores met with a range of Skolkovo startups on Monday with a view to adopting their...
People working at the Skolkovo innovation city outside Moscow can now get a free lift to and from work and get to know their colleagues at the same time, thanks to an app designed by resident startup DaDaEdu , whose name translates as “Yes yes, I’m...
Four Skolkovo resident startups are among the 10 finalists of the Innotribe Startup Challenge taking place next week at the International Financial Congress in St. Petersburg. The four Skolkovo companies selected for the final of the competition on July...