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...
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...
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...
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...
Texas-based Propell Technologies, which owns an exclusive license to use clean fracking technology developed by a Skolkovo resident, has received a $5 million investment from Roman Abramovich's Ervington Investments. The deal, announced this week, spells...
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...
In the dying snow flurries of 2014, as the Vnukovo plane trails dissipate silently into the Moscow sky, the Skolkovo Foundation can look back upon an eventful, challenging and ultimately successful year from its new, permanent home. Snow settles at Skolkovo...
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...
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...
Microsoft Research is to award grants to high-potential projects that develop machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence, the company has announced. Machine learning is the ability of computer programs to adapt and teach themselves new capabilities...
An international team of scientists led by a professor from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology has won a grant from the European Union to develop space weather forecasting systems. Skoltech professor Yuri Shprits’ team is developing equipment...