Green technologies are where it’s at these days, especially given the looming and ever present threat of the climate crisis, which has not gone away in spite of Covid-19 dominating the news headlines. Most of the world’s nations signed the Paris...
On August 12, a press conference covering the launch of the Skolkovo Foundation’s first environmental program, GreenTech Startup Booster, took place. The project was organized with the support of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the...
Skolkovo Technopark launched the first acceleration program for foreign high-tech companies in 2020. About 25 startups from Uzbekistan take part in it. Their interests range from medicine and agriculture to IT, energy efficiency and industrial technology. Yuri...
The final phase of the corporate acceleration program that has been co-run by Skolkovo Foundation and international biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is now complete The representatives of six corporate winners speak about their developments. Natalia...
Five Russian startups – the winners of the Startup Challenge accelerator organised jointly by the Skolkovo Foundation and multinational pharma giant AstraZeneca – are showcasing their inventions at the International Future Healthcare Forum in the...
Skolkovo’s resident scooter-sharing startup Samocat Sharing will expand to Helsinki next summer with a network of 50 docking stations across the Finnish capital. Samocat Sharing founder Vasily Bykov pictured at a scooter dock inside the Skolkovo...
For many Russian tech startups, the colossal U.S. market with its abundance of investors seems like the promised land. The U.S. also happens to be the Skolkovo Foundation’s most active partner, the foundation’s president Victor Vekselberg told foreign...
Sarex , a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation that uses aerial photography to improve telecoms services, was awarded the highest number of points of any startup at the culmination of the first MTS StartUp Hub, an accelerator programme organised by the Russian...
After a gruelling boot camp and months of preparations, six Russian biomed startups were selected Thursday to take part in the first AstraZeneca-Skolkovo accelerator, in which the companies will get intensive support from the multinational pharma giant for...
ANTWERP, Belgium – Three Skolkovo startups are among the top 50 scale-ups selected to take part in SuperNova , a major new tech fair taking place in Antwerp on September 27-28. SuperNova will take place in various locations surrounding Antwerp's...
Long before he became one of the world’s richest men, Jack Ma applied for a job at KFC when it opened in China. Out of 24 applicants, all were accepted – except Ma, the business magnate himself has said. Now a popular Chinese joke has it that decades...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed a landmark agreement with the global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca on Tuesday on the setting up of a corporate accelerator programme for biomed startups working on treatments and diagnosis systems for cancer, cardiovascular...
Two resident startups of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster have been selected to take part in the Starta accelerator in New York, guaranteeing them $130,000 each in funding. Alexander Berenov, general director of Inspector Cloud. Photo: Sk.ru...
A competition to take part in a bootcamp in London is underway for Russian tech startups seeking to expand on international markets. The U.K.-Russia Techbridge Bootcamp is a nine-day programme in London held on June 13-21 for Russian tech companies described...
Wallarm , a Skolkovo resident cybersecurity startup, has attracted $2.3 million in investment upon completing the prestigious Silicon Valley seed accelerator programme Y Combinator. Three quarters of the Wallarm team pictured at Y Combinator in Mountain...
Representatives of French corporate giants Michelin and Auchan visited the Skolkovo innovation centre on Tuesday to meet with Russian startups that could help them to keep their businesses innovative in an event organised together with French Tech Moscow and...
Skolkovo’s Technopark has signed an agreement with Cherkizovo Group, a major Russian meat producer, to establish an acceleration centre for Skolkovo resident startups working in the areas of biotech in agriculture and industry. Renat Batyrov, left...
Two of Russia’s key development institutions, the Skolkovo Foundation and Russian Venture Company (RVC), will combine their efforts next year to organize the Open Innovations Startup Tour (OIST), a roving quest to find and support talented startups in...
Elmira Safarova, the recently appointed science director of the Skolkovo Foundation’s biomed cluster, has a unique perspective in her new role: in her last job, she was head of a startup that had resident status within the foundation. Elmira Safarova...
Wallarm , a Russian cybersecurity startup, has been selected to take part in Y Combinator , one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent seed accelerator programmes. The accelerator is investing $120,000 in the startup. The IT company, which uses machine...
Surfancy, a project designed by Skolkovo resident SensArt to turn any surface into an interactive touch screen, has been named the winner of an accelerator programme run by MEGA, the chain of giant malls across Russia owned and operated by IKEA. As well as...
Skolkovo resident startup VisionLabs has been selected from among more than 300 companies to become one of 12 participants of ChallengeUp! , an international startup accelerator run by Intel, Cisco and Deutsche Telekom. Participants of the ChallengeUp...
“What makes your project any better than those of your competitors? What will stop people stealing your idea? You need to learn how to interact with investors.” This is the blunt feedback that Skolkovo resident companies hear from potential investors...
Inside Skolkovo’s IT cluster, a handful of early-stage companies involved in mobile technology are undergoing an acceleration program designed to get their innovations to market faster. .Vasily Ryzhonkov, head of the software acceleration program at...
The Skolkovo Foundation and 11 of its resident startups have sought to gain a key foothold in Southeast Asia, as a road show to Singapore brought opportunities for forging new partnerships and cementing existing ties. The motivation behind the trip to...