The Skolkovo Foundation brings 45 companies to Slush - the biggest tech show in Norther Europe, gathering entrepreneurs, top-tier investors and executives of major corporations. Slush will take place on November 11-12th in Helsinki, Finland.
This year 7 Skolkovo’s startups passed the tough and highly competitive qualifying process to take part in the Slush 100 pitching competition of the conference. These startups will compete for the chance to meet the most prominent European venture investors and get the first prize of €500,000. Their list includes:
Panorics
360-degree spherical and panoramic video camera system. Created for professional Virtual Reality and video studios it can also live-stream spherical video for watching the broadcast on VR headsets, computers or mobile devices.
ABBYY
ABBYY team creates artificial intelligence technologies and solutions that capture, translate, extract and transform information into accessible and useful knowledge. ABBYY core technologies cover 4 fields - Text recognition (OCR, ICR), Document analysis, Lexicography, Natural Language Processing and available on all major mobile and desktop platforms
Promobot
Promobot is a leader in production of service robots in Russia. Nowadays completely self-contained robot Promobot is capable of acting as a guide, administrator, and consultant, helping to lessen the burden on administrative stuff and avoiding human factor mistakes. Over 50 robots work at cinemas, shopping malls, museums and help clients.
Astro Digital
Satellite imagery in action uses fresh images of the planet from Landsat and Landmapper constellations every day for urban development, agriculture, disaster and forest management and business intelligence.
Bioenergy
BioEnergy develops technology that helps to make organic waste disposal profitable through biomass pretreatment unit. It achieves twice more biogas from the same amount of waste, while digestion process takes only a half of normal time period.
BioMicroGels
The company develops new microgel purification solutions for cleaning water from oil, petroleum products and heavy metal ions.
Gbooking
Modern and simple appointment management system for business. It converts missed leads to paying customers, reduces ‘no shows’ and increases revenues thanks to online booking 24/7, smart notification system, price optimization algorithm and a wealth of essential tools for your business.
Skolkovo booth will feature 25 notable projects, including ExoAtlet, the first Russian exoskeleton for disabled people; iRidium, software environment for IoT and home/building automation, RealSpeaker audio-visual speech recognizer, Intellect Motion haptic gaming and virtual reality and many others.
About the Skolkovo Foundation
The Skolkovo Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in September 2010 by the Russian government with the objective of accelerating Russia’s transformation from a resource-intensive to an innovation-based economy. To achieve this objective, the Foundation is overseeing the creation of the Skolkovo Innovation Center, composed of more than 1,000 high-tech startups, Skolkovo Technopark, the Skolkovo Institute of Technology (Skoltech) - a new graduate research University established in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - and Skolkovo city, located near Moscow. Together, these entities establish a vibrant ecosystem of technology innovation and entrepreneurship. Fifty global corporations including Boeing, Cisco Systems, EADS, GE, Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Siemens, Nokia, Samsung, and Panasonic have already recognized the opportunity Skolkovo presents by signing R&D partnership agreements with the Foundation. The cumulative revenue of Skolkovo’s startups through December 2014 reached $1 billion. They brought in more than $220 million in investment, creating 13,500 jobs and filing over 1,300 patent applications along the way. By 2020 over 2 million square meters of residential and office space will be built in Skolkovo with 35,000 people working daily in the Innovation Center. For more information: http://www.sk.ru/en
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