• Magnit Opens Digital Office at Skolkovo Technopark

    The Magnit Tech Accelerator (MGNTech) final kicked off today, coinciding with the opening of Magnit’s digital office at Skolkovo, which will be home to one hundred of the retailer’s IT specialists. The focus of the accelerator is to challenge Skolkovo...

    11 September, 16:19 Vitaly Shustikov
  • Wallarm to get $2.3 million in investment after completing Y Combinator

    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...

    13 December, 14:09 Collinson Shura
  • Michelin, Auchan hunt for Russian tech talent at Skolkovo

    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...

    07 December, 13:40 Collinson Shura
  • A new acceleration program for Skolkovo’s mobile tech startups

    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...

    22 July, 15:21 Nowak David
  • A foothold in Southeast Asia for Skolkovo

    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...

    06 July, 11:37 Nowak David
  • 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
  • Startup Tour: Biomed rules in Belarus

    Seventeen innovations received recognition at the Minsk stage of the Startup Tour this week, with four projects winning a place in the pitch sessions at Startup Village in Moscow this summer. The winners of the Belarus pitch sessions. Photo: sk.ru ...

    16 April, 14:15 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
  • Skolkovo International Robotics Conference: ‘A wheel of opportunity’

    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...

    10 March, 16:05 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
  • Nizhny Novgorod offers 29 projects for Russian Startup Tour

    The Russian Startup Tour gathers pace this week with a visit to Nizhny Novgorod, where 29 finalists are to compete for places at June’s Startup Village and a special guest will provide a glimpse into the future of the automobile industry. Nizhny...

    16 February, 10:33 Nowak David
  • Amid lasers and dry ice, Finnish PM opens Slush 2014

    HELSINKI, Finland - In a high-tech flurry of lasers and dry ice, Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb raised the curtain on Europe’s largest conference on the startup industry on Tuesday, with Skolkovo’s biggest ever delegation of 53 companies...

    18 November, 11:36 Nowak David
  • While Helsinki parties hard, Skolkovo startups cram for Slush

    HELSINKI, Finland - While many of Slush’s 10,000 attendees were partying into the night at the grand opening of Europe’s biggest startup conference on Monday night, Skolkovo’s top startups were cramming ahead of a potentially life-changing...

    17 November, 19:44 Nowak David
  • US market beckons for Skolkovo’s top startups

    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...

    07 November, 11:32 Nowak David