• Update available for Startup Village

    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...

    26 May, 13:03 Nowak David
  • ‘Keep Calm and Make Robots’

    In business, they say, failure is the first step on the ladder to success. If that’s true, Daria Kaftan is headed in the right direction. Daria Kaftan, the 24-year-old rock-chick innovator and familiar face in the Skolkovo ecosystem. Photo: sk.ru...

    06 May, 16:49 Nowak David
  • Стартап-тур - 2015 подошел к финишу

    В подмосковном Красногорске завершился последний этап Стартап-тура - 2015. Инновационное роуд-шоу прошло в нынешнем году по 10 городам России, а также побывало в Алма-Ате и Минске. В заключительный день подмосковного этапа тура жюри определило 15 победителей...

    30 April, 18:22 Baklanov Mikhail
  • Startup Tour makes final stop of 2015 in Krasnogorsk

    KRASNOGORSK, Moscow Region - Russia's biggest innovations roadshow wound up last week in the Moscow region town of Krasnogorsk. Moscow Region Government headquarters in Krasnogorsk. Photo: sk.ru The Startup Tour, whose goal is to stimulate high...

    29 April, 11:54 Nowak David
  • Startup Tour puts Ufa on the map of Russian innovation

    The Startup Tour completed its penultimate stop this week on its three-month journey around Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus, putting the central city of Ufa firmly on the map of Russian innovation. ThUfa's State Petrochemical Technological University...

    23 April, 10:42 Nowak David
  • Белорусский этап Стартап-тура ставит первые рекорды

    МИНСК. Впервые за почти пятилетнюю историю проведения Стартап-тура красную ленточку по случаю открытия его этапа перерезали члены правительств сразу двух государств: вице-премьер РФ Аркадий Дворкович и первый вице-премьер Белоруссии Василий Матюшевский. ...

    14 April, 14:13 Baklanov Mikhail
  • Krasnoyarsk startups told to dumb down their pitches

    The Krasnoyarsk stage of the 2015 Startup Tour ended with two local companies invited to the Startup Village pitch sessions in Moscow and a message for all participating innovators: Dumb down your pitches! The city in eastern Siberia was the ninth stop on...

    07 April, 15:05 Nowak David
  • Дальневосточный RST: импульс развития стартапам “в домене .asia”

    ВЛАДИВОСТОК. И победители, и эксперты Всероссийского стартап-тура во Владивостоке едины во мнении: Стартап-тур очень вовремя пришел в регион. Инновационные компании, «работающие в домене .asia» (термин первым применил Пекка Вильякайнен, идеолог...

  • Skolkovo opens Far East branch in Vladivostok

    Skolkovo Foundation chairman Andrei Burenin on Thursday announced the opening of a Skolkovo branch in Vladivostok to accelerate the commercialization of new technology from all over Russia’s Far East. Speaking at the eighth stage of the Russian Startup...

    02 April, 10:40 Nowak David
  • St. Petersburg delights with cow pregnancy tests and ‘Internet of Vegetables’

    A wind generator, a cow pregnancy test and the curiously titled Internet of Vegetables were among the victors in the pitch contest at the seventh stage of the Startup Tour, which wrapped up in St. Petersburg this week. The winners of the pitch sessions...

    27 March, 9:57 Nowak David
  • A glimpse inside Kazakh innovation

    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...

    26 March, 10:25 Nowak David
  • Startup Tour opens door to Skolkovo ecosystem in Kazakhstan

    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...

    20 March, 17:17 Nowak David
  • Cattle-farming innovations triumph at Kazakh pitch sessions

    ALMATY, Kazakhstan - The top two biomedical innovations at the Startup Tour in Almaty this week seek to modernize cattle rearing in Kazakhstan, with promising knock-on effects for the meat and dairy industries. Ruslan Altaev of Skolkovo's Biomed Cluster...

    20 March, 16:35 Nowak David
  • The day the Russian Startup Tour ceases to be ‘Russian’

    A key message that Skolkovo transmits its startups is the need to expand into new territories. Now it is leading by example: This week, Russia’s biggest innovations roadshow ventures abroad for the first time in its five-year history. Almaty - the...

    13 March, 14:02 Nowak David
  • From the Urals with innovations: Four teams make Startup Village 2015

    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...

    13 March, 10:25 Nowak David
  • Стартап-тур в столице Урала

    ЕКАТЕРИНБУРГ. Сегодня около тысячи молодых стартаперов пришли в Экспоцентр Екатеринбурга на уральский ивент «Всероссийского стартап-тура-2015». 11 и 12 марта с.г. они будут учиться у экспертов «Сколково», получать новые знания в рамках...

  • Russian Startup Tour swings into Yekaterinburg

    Thirty-seven companies will battle for a place at Startup Village this week, when the Russian Startup Tour makes its fifth stop on the 12-stage trip in Yekaterinburg. The Yekaterinburg Expo Center. Photo: www.ekaterinburgexpo.ru Russia’s fourth...

    10 March, 16:46 Nowak David
  • Application process opens for Startup Village 2015

    The Skolkovo Foundation began accepting applications Monday for the pitch sessions at Startup Village, Eastern Europe’s biggest innovations conference, at the Innovation Center on June 2-3. Last year's Startup Village attracted around 10,000...

    02 March, 14:35 Nowak David
  • В яблочко: Startup Village награждена «Серебряным Лучником»

    Крупнейшая в России и Восточной Европе конференция в области стартапов, Startup Village, награждена престижной профессиональной премией «Серебряный Лучник». В Москве состоялась 18-я Церемония награждения лауреатов Национальной премии в области...

    19 February, 21:14 Baklanov Mikhail
  • RST2015: Rostov pitch session winners revealed

    Adaptive toys for rehabilitation and a robotic assistant surgeon were among 13 winning innovations at the first stage of the Russian Startup Tour in Rostov-on-Don. More than 100 projects from the southern city and surrounding region competed for a place...

    05 February, 11:01 Nowak David
  • Екатерина Иноземцева: «Кризис пройдет, инновации останутся»

    До начала ежегодного Стартап-тура (RST) «Сколково» осталось две недели – мероприятие стартует 3 февраля в Ростове-на-Дону. Екатерина Иноземцева, директор по стратегии Фонда «Сколково», в написанной для Sk.ru колонке рассказывает...

    20 January, 14:51 Mungalov Dmitry