Brain Beat , a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation’s biomed cluster that has developed a non-invasive glucometer, won second prize at the 7 th Asian Entrepreneurship Award in Japan earlier this month. Edward Krizhanovsky, CEO of Brain Beat...
Skolkovo’s resident scooter-sharing startup Samocat Sharing will expand to Helsinki next summer with a network of 50 docking stations across the Finnish capital. Samocat Sharing founder Vasily Bykov pictured at a scooter dock inside the Skolkovo...
WayRay , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation’s space cluster that makes holographic augmented reality displays for cars, has raised $80 million in a Series C investment round led by Porsche. WayRay's technology projects additional...
What if you could buy a piece of land in a historic location, like Trafalgar Square or Times Square, and build whatever you wanted on it? Well now you can – at least, in a digital format – thanks to Skolkovo resident Piligrim XXI . An example...
Doc+ , a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster that provides telemedicine services, has raised investment of $9 million led by the Swedish venture fund Vostok New Ventures. Doc+ allows patients to arrange home visits by a range of medical...
Few countries in the world can benefit from telemedicine and the remote diagnosis and monitoring services it offers as much as Russia, with its enormous territory and multitude of sparsely populated and hard to reach areas. Yet currently, digital healthcare...
As Moscow prepares to host up to one million football fans for the upcoming FIFA World Cup , one Skolkovo resident startup is set to offer fans and Muscovites alike a new form of transport convenient for covering the so-called last mile: kick scooters for rent...
Магазины без продавцов, роботы на складах, дроны для доставки покупок… Это лишь малая часть стремительных изменений в ритейле, которые наблюдали в Китае участники бизнес-миссии Фонда «Сколково». Специально для Sk.ru итоги этой насыщенной...
Пять компаний Фонда «Сколково» принимают участие в открывающемся 26 марта Mobile World Congress в Барселоне. По уверениям организаторов, в центре программы конгресса в нынешнем году будут стартапы. Подтверждено участие более 600 компаний из 145...
Face recognition technology went definitively mainstream this week, with the unveiling of Apple’s new iPhone X, which is unlocked when it recognizes the owner’s face. But the technology makes many people decidedly nervous. Last week, The Guardian...
When Vitalik Buterin, founder of the Ethereum blockchain platform, was about six years old, he already knew the value of Pi to about 30 digits. “Here people teach children to memorise Pushkin poems; I learned 3.14159265359… ” the 23-year...
Samocat Sharing , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation’s energy-efficient technologies cluster, is expanding its kick scooter sharing scheme to the Finnish city of Espoo. Sergei Pisarenko, cofounder of Samocat Sharing, rides a scooter around...
If you’re stuck for ideas of where to go on holiday this summer, how about visiting a mythical world you once saw in a dream? Or how about spending some time on Mars? If you’re looking for something more earthly but can’t face a long-haul...
Skolkovo’s resident cybercrime sleuths Group-IB have helped Russia’s Interior Ministry catch a gang of hackers suspected of using a Trojan virus to steal money from more than one million bank accounts via mobile banking apps, the ministry said Monday...
Рынок краткосрочной аренды автомобилей в Москве набирает обороты. На днях первый оператор каршеринга пришел в инноград Сколково; сервис поиска и выбора автомобилей для краткосрочной аренды тестирует «Яндекс». Михаил Седых, сооснователь компании...
Guide dogs have been used by blind people for nearly half a millennium, and in that time, no more trustworthy solution has been found to reliably lead a blind person through the numerous potential hazards that surround them. But training a guide dog is a slow...
Copter Express , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation, has taken second place in the Global Mobile Challenge , a major mobile app competition held in partnership with the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, for its system for using drones...
For any Russian company with international aspirations, the Asian markets are the modern Klondike - and not just because strained relations with the West have made it more difficult for some Russian enterprises to do business there. Asia will be the future...
Интернет-ресурс «Шахтерская мини-энциклопедия» утверждает, что «даже в наши дни ещё не существует прибора, так же тонко и быстро реагирующего на присутствие газа, как организм канарейки». Известно, что канареек с давних времен шахтеры...
Hackers may be associated around the world with Russia above any other country, thanks to news reports that often describe cybercriminals as Russian, and to accusations this year that Russian hackers were behind attacks on the U.S. Democratic National Committee...
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...
Mobile devices, the Internet of Things and outdated legislation were put under the microscope last week at the annual Business Information Security Summit in Moscow, as international IT security experts agreed on one thing: business technologies are growing...
The parking gods can be cruel and capricious, as anyone who has ever spent half an hour or more circling their destination in a city centre looking for a space knows. A new app aims to relieve drivers in Moscow of this particular stress by not only showing...
Компания ComfortWay объявила о старте продаж SIM-карт CwSim. Новый продукт даст пользователям возможность подключаться к мобильному интернету по локальным тарифам в 140 странах мира. ComfortWay — резидент кластера информационных технологий Фонда «Сколково»...
Even before Pokemon GO fever struck the world, 2016 had already been dubbed the year of virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) by tech-watchers due to the number of new devices hitting the market this year. Then Nintendo’s Pokemon-themed AR game took the...