Five Russian startups – the winners of the Startup Challenge accelerator organised jointly by the Skolkovo Foundation and multinational pharma giant AstraZeneca – are showcasing their inventions at the International Future Healthcare Forum in the...
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...
For many Russian tech startups, the colossal U.S. market with its abundance of investors seems like the promised land. The U.S. also happens to be the Skolkovo Foundation’s most active partner, the foundation’s president Victor Vekselberg told foreign...
Sarex , a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation that uses aerial photography to improve telecoms services, was awarded the highest number of points of any startup at the culmination of the first MTS StartUp Hub, an accelerator programme organised by the Russian...
After a gruelling boot camp and months of preparations, six Russian biomed startups were selected Thursday to take part in the first AstraZeneca-Skolkovo accelerator, in which the companies will get intensive support from the multinational pharma giant for...
ANTWERP, Belgium – Three Skolkovo startups are among the top 50 scale-ups selected to take part in SuperNova , a major new tech fair taking place in Antwerp on September 27-28. SuperNova will take place in various locations surrounding Antwerp's...
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...
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...
A competition to take part in a bootcamp in London is underway for Russian tech startups seeking to expand on international markets. The U.K.-Russia Techbridge Bootcamp is a nine-day programme in London held on June 13-21 for Russian tech companies described...
Приближается новый год, и это значит, что в годовых отчетах компаний вскоре напишут о том, каким трудным был год уходящий, но, несмотря ни на что, хорошо продуманная бизнес-модель и стратегия обеспечили устойчивость и стабильность бизнес-процессов. Очень насыщенный...
Wallarm , a Skolkovo resident cybersecurity startup, has attracted $2.3 million in investment upon completing the prestigious Silicon Valley seed accelerator programme Y Combinator. Three quarters of the Wallarm team pictured at Y Combinator in Mountain...
Representatives of French corporate giants Michelin and Auchan visited the Skolkovo innovation centre on Tuesday to meet with Russian startups that could help them to keep their businesses innovative in an event organised together with French Tech Moscow and...
Skolkovo’s Technopark has signed an agreement with Cherkizovo Group, a major Russian meat producer, to establish an acceleration centre for Skolkovo resident startups working in the areas of biotech in agriculture and industry. Renat Batyrov, left...
Elmira Safarova, the recently appointed science director of the Skolkovo Foundation’s biomed cluster, has a unique perspective in her new role: in her last job, she was head of a startup that had resident status within the foundation. Elmira Safarova...
Wallarm , a Russian cybersecurity startup, has been selected to take part in Y Combinator , one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent seed accelerator programmes. The accelerator is investing $120,000 in the startup. The IT company, which uses machine...
Surfancy, a project designed by Skolkovo resident SensArt to turn any surface into an interactive touch screen, has been named the winner of an accelerator programme run by MEGA, the chain of giant malls across Russia owned and operated by IKEA. As well as...
Проект Surfancy, созданный резидентом «Сколково» компанией «СенсАрт» , стал победителем программы МЕГA Accelerator. Разработчики получат в качестве приза от организаторов 3,5 млн рублей, а также смогут реализовать свой проект в торговых...
Skolkovo resident startup VisionLabs has been selected from among more than 300 companies to become one of 12 participants of ChallengeUp! , an international startup accelerator run by Intel, Cisco and Deutsche Telekom. Participants of the ChallengeUp...
Российский стартап VisionLabs вошел в список 12 финалистов программы Challenge Up! , организованной Intel, Cisco и Deutsche Telekom. Участники, успешно завершившие программу, получают право на поддержку от крупнейших технологических партнеров при выводе продуктов...
“What makes your project any better than those of your competitors? What will stop people stealing your idea? You need to learn how to interact with investors.” This is the blunt feedback that Skolkovo resident companies hear from potential investors...
Резидент IT-кластера Фонда «Сколково» Navigine , разработчик решений в сфере indoor-навигации, привлек 400 тысяч долларов от синдиката инвесторов во главе с финской финансово-технологической компанией Innovestor. Приложение для аэропортов...
Ровно семь месяцев назад — в июне текущего года — во время роуд-шоу IT-кластера «Сколково» в Сингапуре было подписано соглашение о партнерстве между акселератором HaxAsia, венчурным фондом HaxVentures и Фондом «Сколково»...
Резидент кластера информационных технологий Фонда «Сколково» компания «Трансновация» начала продвижение на рынок Латинской Америки. Компания привлекла первый раунд инвестиций в рамках государственной программы правительства Чили и начала...
Мероприятие необычного формата, объединившее развлекательную, зрелищную и познавательную части, прошло в Гиперкубе Сколково в ночь с 13 на 14 октября. «Робоночь-2015» стала третьей в истории и побила предыдущие рекорды по числу участников и гостей...
Официальное открытие акселерационной программы Robotics , проходящей в рамках федерального акселератора технологических стартапов GenerationS , состоялось на территории Сколковского института науки и технологий (Сколтеха). В Сколтехе стартовал акселератор...