Skolkovo startup Pravoved.ru , a robot-lawyer platform providing legal consultations, has raised $1 million from two venture funds, AddVenture and Target Global Fintech Opportunities Fund. Pravoved.ru has developed and launched a robot-lawyer based on neural...
When the Kursk region-based agricultural enterprise Agrofirma Rylskaya noticed that the costs of their sugar beet production were constantly rising, with no corresponding increase in yield, they turned to an innovative tech startup. Roboprob , a resident startup...
PERM — The Open Innovations Startup Tour 2018 began its journey across Russia to promote tech entrepreneurship on Tuesday, holding its first event of the year in the Urals city of Perm. Maxim Reshetnikov, governor of the Perm region, addresses the...
The annual Open Innovations Startup Tour , the Skolkovo Foundation’s journey across Russia to support tech entrepreneurship in the regions, kicks off Tuesday in the Urals city of Perm. This year, in addition to rewarding the best tech startups in each...
Compo , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation, has raised 200 million rubles ($3.5 million) in investment from VEB Innovations , a tech investment fund set up by Vnesheconombank. The startup, a resident of Skolkovo’s advanced manufacturing...
Group-IB , a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation specialising in investigating and preventing cybercrime, has teamed up with the Waves open-source blockchain platform to shut down a phishing scam targeting users of the platform. Ilya Sachkov,...
For centuries, ambitious young people have gone into law believing they would never be in want of work: the world will always need lawyers, so the thinking went. In the 21 st century, amid growing predictions that many human jobs will soon be outsourced to...
There is one topic that seems guaranteed to create a traffic jam along the usually uncongested road leading to the Skolkovo innovation centre, and that topic is blockchain and cryptocurrencies. This week, bitcoin approached a value per coin of $10,000, and...
A proposal sent to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to use artificial intelligence to improve Russia’s legal system made the headlines this week, but this process is in fact already underway. Robot-lawyers, the use of blockchain to create smart contracts...
Three Skolkovo fintech startups presented their solutions to the global financial services world at the recent Sibos conference in Toronto, after winning the chance to do so in a competition earlier this year. Maria Veikhman (left), CEO and founder of...