The Startup Tour organised by the Skolkovo Foundation is set to hit the road in February, visiting cities across Russia and the former Soviet Union with the aim of fostering technology startups. The travelling event, which aims to spot innovative projects...
A Siberian company that participated in last year’s Startup Tour has reportedly raised investment of $1.4 million to produce the first batch of 3D pens known as CreoPop. CreoPop. Photo: Company website. The pens use a new type of ink that...
Russia’s high-tech startups are getting better by the year, but innovators need to be more persistent to commercialize their solutions, said Pekka Viljakainen, advisor to Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg and an ever-present in three editions of the...
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...
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...
The Startup Tour may have left Russia’s Far East, but the Skolkovo Foundation remains in the region for the foreseeable future with the Vladivostok branch beginning its official operations on Monday. The winners in Vladivostok. Photo: sk.ru ...
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...
The expansion of Russia’s biggest innovations roadshow shows no signs of abating, with Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich saying the Startup Tour is to take in Armenia and Kyrgyzstan next year. The stops on this year's Startup Tour. ...
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...
Skolkovo’s Biomed Cluster is expecting around 30 to 40 agriculture-based startups to become residents in the coming months as the Russian government moves to encourage high-tech innovation in food production. Skolkovo VP Kirill Kaem, the executive...
Skolkovo is looking to tap the biotechnology potential of Cuba and other parts of Latin America, officials said this month after foundation president Victor Vekselberg received a high-level Cuban delegation led by Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart. Fidel Castro...
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...
Access to clients such as Gazprom and Rosneft is on offer for Kazakh startups that join the Skolkovo ecosystem, said the executive director of the foundation’s Energy Cluster, Nikolai Grachev, at a roundtable in Almaty on Thursday. Nikolai Grachev...
ALMATY - Kazakhstan’s Minister for Investment and Development Asset Issekeshev raised the curtain Thursday on the sixth leg of the Russian Startup Tour - and first to take place abroad – with a call to transform Almaty into a major innovations hub...
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...
The third stage of the Russian Startup Tour concluded this week in Nizhny Novgorod, where two startups won million-ruble investments and six were invited to Startup Village in Moscow this summer. The finalists and winners from the pitch sessions in Nizhny...
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...
Skolkovo’s top startup expert Pekka Viljakainen on Thursday announced the five winners of the pitch sessions at stage two of the Russian Startup Tour in the Siberian city of Tomsk. Three victors received 1 million rubles investment from Fund to...
With its abundance of natural resources and formidable intellectual capital, Tomsk is a city that is perfectly placed to speed the diversification of the Russian economy through, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said on stage two of the Russian Startup...
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...
The Russian Startup Tour got underway on Tuesday in Rostov-on-Don, where more than 100 fledgling copmanies have signed up to take part in the first of 12 two-day programs. Skolkovo's delegation was led by foundation president Victor Vekselberg, second...
The first annual all-Russian innovations meeting, focusing on regional development, began at the Skolkovo Hypercube on Wednesday, signaling the start of a huge drive to kick-start the high-tech startup industry across the country. Deputy Prime Minister...