Startup Tour 2021 kicked off on March 17 in the city of Tver. It is taking place online for the first time, and over the course of six weeks, the tour will move through Tver, Ufa, Samara, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar...
The Skolkovo Softlanding Program , which takes place multiple times a year, is an easy way for foreign companies seeking market entry into Russia and the CIS. By participating, they learn the ins and outs of the Russian market and the Skolkovo Innovation Center...
Years of economic crisis due to low oil prices has spurred people in the Russian regions to create their own companies, even in the face of a global pandemic. The Skolkovo Startup Tour draws the country's entrepreneurs together into the largest innovation...
Day two of AIM Eurasia 2021 saw four Skolkovo startups presenting their smart cities solutions to a wide audience in the Middle East and other countries. The Skolkovo companies presenting at the Annual Investment Meeting (AIM) Eurasia workshop titled...
Dubai's Annual Investment Meeting (AIM) Eurasia 2021, a partner to the Skolkovo Foundation and Roscongress, kicked off on March 2 in online format. Kirill Kaem, the Skolkovo Foundation’s Senior Vice President for Innovations and member of Roscongress...
Skolkovo Foundation chairman, Arkady Dvorkovich, opened Friday’s forum – part of the France-Russia Trianon Dialogue – which focused on the hot topic of AI-based technology solutions. The forum took place on February 26 and brought together...
Group-IB’s Preventative Proxy, which has the capacity to protect 160 million users against malicious bots, has been included in Rospatent’s top-10 most important Russian inventions 2020. Group-IB is the only company representing the internet...
The Russian Science Foundation has offered a $1.4 million (108 million rubles) grant to Professor Mikhail Lebedev of Duke University, North Carolina, for his idea to develop invasive and non-invasive corticospinal and peripheral interfaces using biomarker monitoring...
Skolkovo Foundation Chairman Arkady Dvorkovich, who headed a recent visit to Serbia, stated that Russian and Serbian IT startups will get support from the Russian government, making it easier for companies to enter both the Russian and Serbian markets. ...
Food security will be a rising issue in the coming decades, which is why we need to rethink the way we grow crops to suit the needs of our society and environment. Skolkovo’s iFarm is one of Russia’s leaders in this area and is building vertical...
A delegation representing Innovaud, the innovation and investment promotion agency for the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland, visited Skolkovo Innovation Center on Monday with the goal of building mutual relations aimed at benefitting startups on both sides. ...
The Botkin.AI platform, a high accuracy, AI-based solution for analyzing medical images (CT scans, mammograms, and digital X-rays), has received the CE mark. CE certification will allow Intellogic, the company behind Botkin.AI, to export the platform to the...
Group-IB, one of Skolkovo’s international companies that specializes in protection against and prevention of cyberattacks, has been awarded with the prestigious Innovation Excellence prize from the global research and consulting agency Frost & Sullivan...
Five Russian companies, four of which are Skolkovo residents, pitched their sustainable AI-based solutions at the UN global summit “AI for Good.” The five companies were selected from a group of 40 startups that offered solutions tackling the UN’s...
Five Russian startup companies, four of which are Skolkovo Foundation residents from the innovation center’s IT cluster, will pitch their AI-based sustainable solutions at the Russian track of the AI for Good Global Summit taking place on January 27,...
When one thinks of a flying taxi, one usually pictures scenes from sci-fi movies such as The Fifth Element and Blade Runner. Yet in megacities across the world projects are underway with the goal of one day bringing drone-taxies into everyday life. Moscow is...
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and the Far Eastern High Technology Fund (FEHTF) have invested €4.4 million into Skolkovo Foundation resident Motorika, a leading Russian developer and producer of high-tech prosthetics and rehabilitation systems...
NFWare company, a Skolkovo Foundation resident from the innovation center’s IT cluster, recently attracted $1.4 million investment from Google Research business angels and other investors – Softline Venture Partners, Plug and Play Ventures –...
Cybersecurity firm Group-IB, an international company and Skolkovo resident that specializes in cyberattack prevention, has uncovered Russian scam groups that recently began conducting activities in Europe, the United States, and the CIS. The groups, which...
Skolkovo resident VR Concept has developed a VR prototyping solution that was recently picked up by the American corporation Microsoft for its “Gorod Innovatsii” program (Urban Innovation). The project is aimed at industry with the goal of increasing...
The online business mission to Singapore took place on December 17 with twelve Skolkovo residents pitching their AI solutions. The program titled “Global Challenge – artificial intelligence for sustainable development goals (SDGs)” was created...
The French business mission took place December 15-16 and was the first of its kind for regional operators belonging to the Skolkovo Foundation ecosystem. The event was organized in collaboration with the Trade Council of Russia to France, the Val d’Oise...
On December 15, corporate and academic experts for the GreenTech Startup Booster selected five winners out of twenty-three finalists to progress onto the pilot phase of the accelerator. The pilot phase takes place between December 2020-March 2021. ...
Cambridge Network shares many similarities with Skolkovo in the way that it helps startups in the Cambridge University ecosystem. It is currently working with 5000 companies from different countries, 17 of which are worth over $1 billion each. Cambridge Network...
Seven Skolkovo startups pitched healthcare and infrastructure AI solutions to Chinese technology companies, investors, and international organizations during the online Russia-China business mission, which kicked off today. The business mission follows...