• A Russian-Kazakh pipeline for oil and gas cooperation

    Access to clients such as Gazprom and Rosneft is on offer for Kazakh startups that join the Skolkovo ecosystem, said the executive director of the foundation’s Energy Cluster, Nikolai Grachev, at a roundtable in Almaty on Thursday. Nikolai Grachev...

    19 March, 11:43 Nowak David
  • Top Kazakh minister opens Startup Tour in Almaty

    ALMATY - Kazakhstan’s Minister for Investment and Development Asset Issekeshev raised the curtain Thursday on the sixth leg of the Russian Startup Tour - and first to take place abroad – with a call to transform Almaty into a major innovations hub...

    19 March, 8:29 Nowak David
  • Intel partners Startup Tour, Startup Village

    U.S. tech giant Intel on Tuesday announced it had become a partner to the Russian Startup Tour and the summer's Startup Village, two of Russia’s most important events to encourage the growth of new high-tech companies. Intel's Valery Cherepennikov...

    17 February, 13:56 Nowak David
  • Victor Vekselberg opens Russian Startup Tour in Rostov-on-Don

    The Russian Startup Tour got underway on Tuesday in Rostov-on-Don, where more than 100 fledgling copmanies have signed up to take part in the first of 12 two-day programs. Skolkovo's delegation was led by foundation president Victor Vekselberg, second...

    03 February, 10:23 Nowak David
  • Skolkovo startups: ‘We need more mentors’

    Results from 2014 show the Skolkovo Mentor Program to be popular, with many resident startups urging the foundation to find more mentors. The program was launched in the second half of 2014 with the aim of pairing successful, experienced businesspeople with...

    14 January, 16:49 Nowak David