• Инвесторы увлеклись робототехникой

    В рамках третьей международной конференции Skolkovo Robotics прошла инвестиционная питч-сессия робототехнических проектов, организованная Инвестиционной службой Фонда «Сколково» совместно с Робоцентром «Сколково». Послушать презентации...

    02 April, 8:02 Efendieva Marina
  • Catalyzing angel investment in Almaty

    ALMATY, Kazakhstan - It’s springtime in downtown Almaty, though winter is blowing its last frigid gusts off the snowy peaks of the Zailiyskiy Alatau mountain range and around the city's skyscrapers and Soviet-built housing blocks. At a downtown...

    30 March, 12:05 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
  • Business angels brandish tridents at pitch session

    Angel investors may earn their nickname in the noble quest to rescue cash-starved startups, but, as revealed in a recent meeting of the Skolkovo Business Angels Club, they can be positively fiendish in forcing them to justify their salvation. The business...

    17 March, 13:28 Nowak David
  • Russian Startup Tour swings into Yekaterinburg

    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...

    10 March, 16:46 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
  • Investors ready to plow $20 million into Russian-Indian innovations – Skolkovo VP

    Investors are ready to plow up to $20 million into joint startup projects between India and Russia, Skolkovo vice president Igor Bogachev told the TASS news agency Friday. “At Skolkovo alone we have 70 registered venture funds that want to invest in...

    13 February, 10:19 Nowak David
  • Craig Barrett: Politics moves faster than innovation and research

    Skolkovo Foundation Council co-chairman Craig Barrett voiced confidence on Thursday that the project to diversify Russia’s economy would far outlive the current political troubles. Barrett, Intel chairman until 2009, spoke at the final quarterly meeting...

    18 December, 20:44 Nowak David
  • Skolkovo's startups at Slush: Exhibiting, networking, impressing

    HELSINKI, Finland - The Skolkovo stand at Slush 2014 featured so many resident companies that they weren’t all able to exhibit their innovations simultaneously. A handful of the total 51 startups – out to woo the wealthy investors milling around...

    19 November, 17:53 Nowak David
  • Инновации облегчают создание стартапов, но снижают их стоимость

    Молодым компаниям, думающим, что они стоят миллиарды долларов, нужно вернуться с небес на землю. Несмотря на шум, вызванный сделкой по приобретению WhatsApp за 19 млрд долларов корпорацией Facebook Inc., инвестиции первого раунда в стартапы США снизились в...

    25 March, 11:11 Mungalov Dmitry