• 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
  • A forum of robots, a meeting of minds

    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...

    24 March, 11:16 Nowak David
  • Startup Tour leaves 2 million rubles in Nizhny Novgorod, invites 6 projects to Moscow

    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...

    19 February, 14:07 Nowak David
  • RST2015: Five winners emerge from Tomsk pitch battle

    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...

    12 February, 15:49 Nowak David
  • 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
  • Альберт Ефимов: «Стартап-тур должен быть перманентным»

    Одной из самых ярких составляющих Стартап-тура, который начинается 3 февраля в Ростове-на-Дону, обещает стать робототехнический трек. Главный робототехник «Сколково» Альберт Ефимов в интервью Sk.ru рассуждает о том, почему в России робототехников...

    23 January, 8:44 Baklanov Mikhail