F5 Company, a global leader in multi-cloud services, announced acquisition of NGINX Web Server. The deal was worth around $670 million US, the press release of F5 says. NGINX Company is a resident of the IT Cluster of the Skolkovo Foundation. Illustration...
The Russian Streetbee service which collects data using crowdsourcing and machine learning technologies for retail, FMCG, and pharmaceutical companies, has announced a merger with BeMyEye, a leading European data collection service based on crowdsourcing, spokesperson...
The fourth annual CyberDay conference devoted to cybersecurity got underway at the Skolkovo Technopark on Friday, the 30 th anniversary of the establishment of Computer Security Day. Skolkovo Foundation chairman Arkady Dvorkovich speaking at the opening...
Mining industry management systems developer VIST Group, whose daughter company VIST Robotics is a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation, has sold a majority stake to Zyfra, a company developing solutions to digitalize industry, the companies said in a statement...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed an agreement with Singapore’s Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) on Wednesday during the ASEAN-Russian summit in Singapore. Alexander Khanin (left), CEO of Skolkovo...
Group-IB , a Skolkovo resident company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, is opening new global headquarters in Singapore, it announced at CyberCrimeCon 2018 in Singapore on Monday. Ilya Sachkov, CEO of Skolkovo resident company Group-IB at...
Wallarm , a Skolkovo resident company that provides AI-powered application security, announced Monday that it had closed an $8 million series A financing round in San Francisco, bringing the company’s total funding raised to $10.8 million. Members...
Amid the driverless cars, robots, virtual reality headsets, industrial equipment and examples of every area of tech on show at the Open Innovations forum held at the Skolkovo Technopark this week, some looked a little out of place. An inviting-looking double...
What if you could buy a piece of land in a historic location, like Trafalgar Square or Times Square, and build whatever you wanted on it? Well now you can – at least, in a digital format – thanks to Skolkovo resident Piligrim XXI . An example...
Four Skolkovo resident companies have been selected by the Russian-German Chamber of Commerce and partners to take part in Start.up! Germany , an international business mission to Germany’s industrial heartland. The finalists of the pitching session...
Eight Skolkovo IT startups headed to the Asian startup hub of Singapore last week to showcase their innovative products and solutions at ConnecTechAsia, a major telecoms trade exhibition. Singapore has a startup tax exemption scheme and launchpads across...
Seven Skolkovo resident startups are currently presenting their innovative mobile tech products and solutions at Mobile World Congress Shanghai , which opened Wednesday and runs through June 29. Seven Skolkovo startups are taking part in this year's...
Skolkovo resident robot-maker Promobot has landed a contract worth $56 million with a U.S. company, the Perm-based robotics company announced Tuesday. Promobot's Alexei Yuzhakov (left) shakes hands on the deal with USLG's Paul Spivak as Promobot...
The first Russian incarnation of the giant German digital business expo CEBIT will take place at the Skolkovo Technopark next year after the technopark signed a cooperation agreement with Deutsche Messe Rus, the Russian arm of the event’s organizer. ...
Skolkovo resident startup CardsMobile , the creator of the Koshelek (Wallet) mobile app, has raised investment from Alfa Bank in exchange for a 25 percent stake in the fintech startup, the bank announced Monday in a press release. Photo: CardsMobile COO...
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...
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...
Skolkovo resident startup ExoAtlet , which makes rehabilitation exoskeletons that help disabled people to walk again, has raised $5 million in investment to expand its business to Europe and beyond. The funding is being provided by the Korean company Cosmo...
It’s a big year for Promobot , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster. The Perm-based company has just released version 4 of its cheeky service robots, whose antics have made headlines around the world and which are already on...
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...
Two of the top three prizes in a reality TV show that followed the fortunes of Russian tech startups went to residents of the Skolkovo Foundation. Vitaly Savelyev, commercial director of KB Avrora, receiving first prize for the Agrobot project. Photo...
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...