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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Thirty-seven companies will battle for a place at Startup Village this week, when the Russian Startup Tour makes its fifth stop on the 12-stage trip in Yekaterinburg. The Yekaterinburg Expo Center. Photo: www.ekaterinburgexpo.ru Russia’s fourth...
On March 20-22, the Hypercube will host Russia’s biggest robotics event, the Skolkovo International Robotics Conference. Photo: sk.ru Around 1,800 people are registered for the three-day bonanza, which brings robot developers, company CEOs...
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...
The second stage of the Russian Startup Tour began this week in the Siberian city of Tomsk, a renowned innovations hub. One of the facilities at Tomsk's Special Economic Zone. Photo: Investment Portal of the Tomsk Region The tour is Russia’s...
Today’s economic realities leave Russian tech startups with enough trouble getting to market as it is, but even those that receive the support of Skolkovo must overcome a problem of their own making: failure to pay attention to their customers' needs...
A trip to the United States has blown away any doubt in three of Skolkovo’s premier startup businesses that the lucrative tech market is accessible, and that local partners and investors can be found, the entrepreneurs say. The companies, Viziware...