Scientists, tech entrepreneurs, students, professors and all other members of the Skolkovo innovation ecosystem now have access to the goldmine of scientific information compiled by the Elsevier publishing house. The Elsevier publishing house produces...
A company working on creating food for prawns from algae has been awarded five million rubles ($82,000) by the Skolkovo Foundation, making it the first startup working in agriculture to receive a mini-grant from the foundation. The company, Solixant , plans...
We are happy to offer you a newsletter which we publish for our experts on the quarterly basis Download in .pdf
IT security company Group-IB, a Skolkovo resident, has been awarded a mini-grant of 5 million rubles from the foundation to develop its payment protection system. The money, which is added to private investment of the same amount, will be put towards...
Skolkovo’s grant committee has signed off on a 30 million ruble grant for space and telecommunications cluster resident startup HelgiLab, with the same sum being put up by its founders to take the environment-scanning company to the next level. ...
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...
The R&D spinoff of Dauria Aerospace, Russia’s first private space firm, is to receive 60 million rubles from the investment arm of state corporation Vnesheconombank under a deal signed Tuesday at Startup Village. Morozov, left, and Ivanov. Photo...
An IT cluster resident seeking to increase the effectiveness of its database management system (DBMS) has won a 32 million ruble grant from the Skolkovo Foundation. The Linter product line. Photo: screenshot. Database management systems are software...
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...
IT cluster resident Kribrum, a company that monitors user behavior on social networks, has received provisional approval on a 24 million ruble grant from the Skolkovo Foundation. The money, matched by a further 23.3 million rubles raised privately, will...
Skolkovo’s grant committee has approved a 5 million ruble minigrant for IT cluster resident KB Avrora after the robot developer won the Robocross-2014 unmanned vehicle competition last June, according to company director Stanislav Gol. The KB Avrova...
IT cluster resident Comindware has secured a 29.7 million ruble grant from the Skolkovo Foundation to develop an all-encompassing software solution for streamlining management processes within companies. Comindware, which provides computer-based management...
ALMATY, Kazakhstan - It’s springtime in downtown Almaty, though winter is blowing its last frigid gusts off the snowy peaks of the Zailiyskiy Alatau mountain range and around the city's skyscrapers and Soviet-built housing blocks. At a downtown...
Angel investors may earn their nickname in the noble quest to rescue cash-starved startups, but, as revealed in a recent meeting of the Skolkovo Business Angels Club, they can be positively fiendish in forcing them to justify their salvation. The business...
It took his grandfather’s brush with death to turn Leonid Glushchenko into an innovator. He was a fresh-faced, 21-year-old medical student at a university on the Volga River when the pensioner developed a life-threatening blood clot. Saving Pyotr...
IT cluster resident SDI Research has had a 21.8 million ruble grant approved from the Skolkovo Foundation to develop a semantic master data management system that aims to significantly streamline information handling at large industrial holding companies. ...
A tech startup that is looking to make those hellish trips to the shoe store a thing of the past has won a 15 million ruble grant from the Skolkovo Foundation. An illustration from Netkutyur showing the tight spots in red. Fitanny is a virtual shoe...
The Skolkovo Foundation has agreed to issue a grant to a resident of its space and telecoms cluster to develop technology that could see airships take to the skies once more. Atlant, the R&D spinoff of Russia’s only airship constructor Avgur, has...
The Skolkovo Foundation has awarded a 150 million ruble grant to its resident space startup Dauria Satellite Technology to develop an Earth-observation satellite. The company is a subsidiary of Skolkovo partner Dauria Aerospace, and will use the cash injection...