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...
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...
The Skolkovo Foundation announced the official launch of Skolkovo Ventures – three new investment funds devoted to IT, industrial technology and biotech – at the Startup Village open-air conference on Tuesday. The investment funds have been set...
Navigine , a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation that makes indoor navigation and tracking systems, has attracted $400,000 in investment from a syndicate led by Finnish fintech company Innovestor. The deal with Navigine is Innovestor’s first...
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. ...
IT cluster resident Ivideon has received a $4 million boost from Impulse VC to take its video-streaming service global. Screenshot from Ivideon website The startup’s cloud platform allows users to beam video to any device using almost any...
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...
At a summit between one of Russia’s leading inventors and the country’s top cardiologist, a curious parallel emerged. Microelectronics specialist Martyn Nunuparov wanted to produce a pacemaker that requires no battery, but he had little knowledge...
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...