• 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
  • Catalyzing angel investment in Almaty

    ALMATY, Kazakhstan - It’s springtime in downtown Almaty, though winter is blowing its last frigid gusts off the snowy peaks of the Zailiyskiy Alatau mountain range and around the city's skyscrapers and Soviet-built housing blocks. At a downtown...

    30 March, 12:05 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
  • 10 simple rules for international success

    ALMATY, Kazakhstan – As part of the March 19-20 Startup Tour in Kazakhstan’s second city, Skolkovo’s startup guru Pekka Viljakainen gave a master-class on initiating a high-tech business. During the Finn’s 35-minute presentation at the...

    24 March, 9:54 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
  • 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
  • Russian Startup Tour reaches Kazan

    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...

    02 March, 10:43 Nowak David
  • Кирилл Каем: «От Томска ждем интересных проектов»

    11-12 февраля Всероссийский стартап-тур проходит в Томске, городе с долгой и славной научной историей – там в 1888 году был открыт первый в Сибири университет. От Фонда «Сколково» этот этап тура курирует директор биомедицинского кластера Кирилл...

    11 February, 8:32 Mungalov Dmitry
  • «Сельское хозяйство – это прикольно»

    «Толку не будет до тех пор, пока молодежь не поверит: сельское хозяйство – это прикольно». Так говорит немец Ральф Бендиш, генеральный директор завода Claas на Кубани. Немецкая компания Claas была первым крупным зарубежным производителем сельскохозяйственной...

    10 February, 11:39 Baklanov Mikhail
  • Стартап-тур не Олимпиада: в нем есть победители

    РОСТОВ-НА-ДОНУ. В столице Юга России объявлены итоги конкурса питчей в рамках первого этапа Всероссийского стартап-тура. Фото Sk.ru Первые места заняли: Найра Давидсон с проектом «Светящийся провод» (энергоэффективные технологии); Ольга...

    05 February, 9:07 Baklanov Mikhail