The Open Innovations forum kicked off on Monday morning at the Skolkovo innovation centre, attracting an estimated 18,000 people from all over the world to Russia’s biggest conference and exhibition devoted to homegrown innovative tech solutions. ...
The Golden Autumn agricultural trade fair is to a large extent a celebration of Russian traditions. Individual regions of Russia present their local produce on their own stand, often accompanied by people dressed in folk costumes who sing, dance or play traditional...
Optogard Nanotech , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation, has raised 110 million rubles ($1.8 million) in financing from Garant, a group investing in industrial projects. Under the terms of the deal, the investors and company founders have become partners...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, at whose initiative the Skolkovo innovation city outside Moscow was founded in 2010, praised the project’s evolution at a meeting of the Skolkovo Foundation’s board of trustees on Wednesday. “I’d...
UNIM , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation’s biomed cluster that provides remote cancer diagnosis services, has raised investment from Medme, a strategic investor on the digital medicine market. Under the terms of the deal, the details of which...
ExoAtlet , a Skolkovo resident startup that makes exoskeletons that help disabled people to walk again , has raised $2 million in private investment and state grants in South Korea. The funding, raised with the help of senior managers at major Korean corporations...
As the Skolkovo innovations city prepares to host its fifth annual Startup Village , a giant two-day festival outside Moscow for entrepreneurs and investors, the event’s godfather, Finnish entrepreneur Pekka Viljakainen , is crystal clear on its draw...
Совокупная стоимость всех товаров, объявления о продаже которых размещены на сайте «Авито», равна 2% российского ВВП. Если бизнес хочет быть успешным, он должен внедрять инновационные решения, не только идти в ногу со временем, но и опережать его...
Ten Skolkovo startups will be among the global tech companies showcasing their products and solutions at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York next week. The Skolkovo startups heading to New York next week include RoboCV, whose autopilot system turns any regular...
WayRay , a resident of Skolkovo’s space cluster that makes augmented reality (AR) technology for cars, has raised $18 million in Series B financing led by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group. WayRay's navigation system shows the driver directions...
The Skolkovo Foundation investment service was ranked fourth in a rating of M&A consultants working on the Russian market in 2016 that was released on Monday. The first place went to ALTHAUS Group, followed by Sberbank CIB and RB Partners, in a list...
«Фармстандарт», крупнейший фармпроизводитель РФ, инвестировал 1 млн долларов в холдинг Genotek, который занимается ДНК-исследованиями. Сколковское подразделение Genotek, компания «Генотек ИТ», является резидентом IT-кластера Фонда ...
Playkey , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster, has attracted $1.5 million in investment from Darz, a major German IT service provider and data centre owner, in exchange for a share of the company, Kommersant newspaper reported on...
Сколковская компания Playkey получила инвестиции от крупного немецкого IT-провайдера и владельца дата-центров Darz, сообщает газета «Коммерсантъ» . По данным издания, объем инвестиций составил $1,5 млн. Это подтвердил сооснователь и гендиректор...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed a strategic business cooperation agreement with the Russian division of Japan’s Panasonic Corporation during a state visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin to the island nation on Friday. Skolkovo vice president...
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...
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...
Nearly 50 resident startups of the Skolkovo Foundation took part in this year's Slush event, a major tech startup conference held on November 30-December 1 in the Finnish capital Helsinki. The startups exhibited their projects on a stand shared with...
HELSINKI — Marvelmind Robotics , a Skolkovo resident startup that makes high-precision indoor navigation systems, has made it through to the semifinals of the Slush 100 Pitching Competition in Helsinki. Maxim Tretyakov, CEO of Marvelmind Robotics...
HELSINKI — The Skolkovo startups currently taking part in Slush, the annual large-scale tech startup event held in Helsinki, are better prepared than ever before, the Skolkovo Foundation’s vice president for strategy and investment, Ekaterina Inozemtseva...
HELSINKI — Slush , the biggest event for tech startups in northern Europe, opened Wednesday in the Finnish capital Helsinki with the unmistakable strains of Finnish cello metal music, a pyrotechnics show and a record 17,000 participants, including many...
An armada of Skolkovo startups will head to Helsinki next week for Slush , one of the biggest events in Europe for tech entrepreneurs. Slush attracts thousands of tech entrepreneurs and investors from around the world. Photo: Affe Tavasti / Slush. ...
On April 30, 1975, the Vietnam War ended when tanks from Communist North Vietnam burst through the wrought-iron gates of Saigon’s Independence Palace, the home and seat of the president of capitalist South Vietnam. Forty-one years later, Vietnam is still...
Skolkovo resident Anisoprint has attracted 17 million rubles ($270,000) in investment from the NK4 engineering centre under an agreement signed at the Open Innovations forum on Thursday. Fyodor Antonov, head of Anisoprint, pictured at work in his lab...
Современные технологии способны кардинально менять качество жизни людей. Простой пример: всего несколько лет назад человек, потерявший руку или ногу, вынужден был менять образ жизни и привычки, смиряться с отсутствием многих возможностей. Сегодня такой человек...