Country, city: USA, San Francisco. Visiting Russia once or twice a year. Job title, company: By the Bay, Founder The main milestones: PhD in Computer Science from UPenn, first CS PhD on influence on Twitter. Senior Software Engineer, Amazon....
Location: Austria,Vienna Job title, company: Owner, Peter Löschl Businessconsulting;International adviser Austrian Business Agency. The main milestones: -Area Manager at HP; -Director at Siemens; -Member of the Board at automotive...
Four Skolkovo startups working in the field of sports and entertainment tech demonstrated their products to a senior manager from the German software giant SAP at the Skolkovo Technopark last week. Federico Winer, head of entertainment industry technologies...
ARKHANGELSK — The Open Innovations Startup Tour, the Skolkovo Foundation’s annual roving quest for talented tech startups, kicked off its first visit to the northern Russian city of Arkhangelsk on Monday. Left to right: Pekka Viljakainen,...
Russia marked a milestone Wednesday with its first large-scale event for women in technology, aimed at supporting female professionals working in spheres where they are distinctly outnumbered by men, such as IT. Tatyana Arkharova (right), head of the...
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...
When multinational corporations work with small startups, it’s always a two-way process, believes Andrej Bievetski, managing director of SAP Labs in the CIS, the local R&D arm of the German software giant. Bievetski, who has been working for SAP for...
For three days this week, Skolkovo will be transformed into an international centre of industrial design, promise the organisers of an event aimed at helping tech startups to use design as a tool to commercialize their projects. The idea for the Days...
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...
Anton Kirichenko tucks his laptop under his arm, adjusts his suit and follows an event coordinator into a separate room for his speed date. The young entrepreneur has precisely eight minutes to impress his interlocutor. Waiting inside is Yaroslav Sedrichev...
If children throughout the 20 th century delightedly developed their engineering skills by playing with Meccano, a Russian startup hopes that 21 st -century children will find its robotic constructor kits no less fascinating – and educational. Roman...
Inside Skolkovo’s IT cluster, a handful of early-stage companies involved in mobile technology are undergoing an acceleration program designed to get their innovations to market faster. .Vasily Ryzhonkov, head of the software acceleration program at...
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...
The second foray outside the confines of Russia begins Tuesday for the Startup Tour, which visits the Belarusian capital of Minsk in its quest to uncover and develop the top startups in the CIS. The National Library of Belarus in Minsk, venue for the...
ALMATY, Kazakhstan – Anar Akbarli typifies the new generation of innovators from Central Asia: Progressive, tenacious, and very, very smart. His is a generation tasked with providing a new string to the Kazakh economy’s bow, and if his product pitch...
The third Skolkovo Robotics International Conference was a runaway success, attracting a wide array of participants from all corners of the planet and, critically, encouraging the discipline to flourish domestically. The March 20-22 event at the Skolkovo...
ALMATY, Kazakhstan - The Kazakh stage of the Startup Tour concluded on Friday with several innovations winning a place at the Startup Village in June and, perhaps more significantly, the foundations put in place for of a new era of high-tech cooperation between...
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...
The fifth stage of the Russian Startup Tour culminated this week with four teams from Yekaterinburg winning an invitation to the Startup Village in Moscow. The finalists in Yekaterinburg. Photo: sk.ru The capital of the Ural Mountains region was...
On March 20-22, the Hypercube will host Russia’s biggest robotics event, the Skolkovo International Robotics Conference. Photo: sk.ru Around 1,800 people are registered for the three-day bonanza, which brings robot developers, company CEOs...
The Russian Startup Tour unearthed some innovative gems in Kazan over the last two days, with six startups invited to Startup Village in Moscow and four million rubles in investments handed out. At the pitch competition in the Kazan IT park on Tuesday and...
More than 140 startups registered an interest to take part in the Kazan stage of the Russian Startup Tour, the fourth stop on the innovations roadshow that runs Tuesday and Wednesday in the Tatarstan capital. The Kazan Kremlin. Photo: flickr The...
U.S. tech giant Intel on Tuesday announced it had become a partner to the Russian Startup Tour and the summer's Startup Village, two of Russia’s most important events to encourage the growth of new high-tech companies. Intel's Valery Cherepennikov...
Technoserv has become a Skolkovo partner, signing a deal that compels Russia’s largest IT systems integrator to create an R&D center on the territory of the innovations hub. Technoserv, which recorded a total turnover of more than 40 billion...
A trip to the United States has blown away any doubt in three of Skolkovo’s premier startup businesses that the lucrative tech market is accessible, and that local partners and investors can be found, the entrepreneurs say. The companies, Viziware...