Sarex , a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation that uses aerial photography to improve telecoms services, was awarded the highest number of points of any startup at the culmination of the first MTS StartUp Hub, an accelerator programme organised by the Russian...
ANTWERP, Belgium – Three Skolkovo startups are among the top 50 scale-ups selected to take part in SuperNova , a major new tech fair taking place in Antwerp on September 27-28. SuperNova will take place in various locations surrounding Antwerp's...
Seven Skolkovo resident startups are currently presenting their innovative mobile tech products and solutions at Mobile World Congress Shanghai , which opened Wednesday and runs through June 29. Seven Skolkovo startups are taking part in this year's...
Skolkovo resident startup CardsMobile , the creator of the Koshelek (Wallet) mobile app, has raised investment from Alfa Bank in exchange for a 25 percent stake in the fintech startup, the bank announced Monday in a press release. Photo: CardsMobile COO...
Several resident startups of the Skolkovo Foundation took their products and technologies to Las Vegas last week for CES , one of the world’s biggest consumer technologies exhibitions and conferences, which ran from January 9 to 12. Promobot robots...
Russia’s biggest lender, Sberbank, has acquired 25.07 percent of shares in Skolkovo resident startup VisionLabs , which has been ranked one of the world’s best face recognition technology companies. VisionLabs founder and CEO Alexander Khanin...
Fibrum , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster that makes virtual reality headsets, games and platforms, has developed the world’s first chain of virtual stores for the Chinese ecommerce platform AliExpress. Customers...
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...
Five Skolkovo companies will take part in the DICE Europe video game industry conference, which is taking place in Cascais, Portugal on September 10-12. DICE (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) brings together gaming, console and VR industry players...
Skolkovo startup HUDWAY has exceeded its funding target less than 24 hours after it launched a crowdfunding campaign for its latest head-up display (HUD) designed to make driving safer. The HUD is attached to the dashboard and projects the navigation...
Navigine , a Skolkovo resident startup that makes indoor navigation and tracking systems, has raised $900,000 in funding from an international syndicate of investors led by the Innovestor co-investment service. Navigine's technology can be used to...
Hot on the heels of other major French retailers scouring the Skolkovo innovation city for new technologies, a team of talent scouts from the Decathlon Group chain of sports stores met with a range of Skolkovo startups on Monday with a view to adopting their...
People working at the Skolkovo innovation city outside Moscow can now get a free lift to and from work and get to know their colleagues at the same time, thanks to an app designed by resident startup DaDaEdu , whose name translates as “Yes yes, I’m...
Four Skolkovo resident startups are among the 10 finalists of the Innotribe Startup Challenge taking place next week at the International Financial Congress in St. Petersburg. The four Skolkovo companies selected for the final of the competition on July...
Russian tech startups seeking to conquer international markets are setting their sights on the U.K. as a gateway to Europe, attracted by government support and business conditions in the British capital. Successful Russian tech startups looking to expand...
Skolkovo startups won two out of four categories at the Startup of the Year awards at Moscow’s Digital October centre on Wednesday. Koshelek (CardsMobile), an app that allows users to compile all their bank, transport and discount cards into one electronic...
A robotic pet sitter designed by an offshoot of a Skolkovo resident startup has raised more than double the amount it was seeking, just a few days into its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. Pebby consists of a smart collar and a remote-controlled...
Skolkovo resident Cloudike ( ASD Technologies ) has entered the Indonesian market with the launch of its mobile cloud service on the country’s mobile carrier Indosat Ooredoo. The network’s customers will now be able to use incloud to upload,...
A Skolkovo startup that has designed a smart clock that shows users notifications as they need them has raised more than eight times the amount it was seeking on the Indiegogo crowdfunding website. Glance Clock, which is being promoted under the tagline...
Skolkovo resident SensArt , whose product Surfancy turns any surface into an interactive touch screen, has reached an agreement with Sberbank Technologies to introduce its technology to branches of Russia’s biggest bank. Surfancy's interactive...
The whole of the territory of the Skolkovo innovation centre is now covered by a wireless Internet of Things (IoT) network set up by STRIZH Telematika , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation’s space and telecoms cluster. STRIZH Telematika's...
A California-based company has bought the rights to indoor navigation technology developed by Skolkovo resident SPIRIT Navigation . SPIRIT Group, of which the SPIRIT Navigation startup is part, said it had sold all the property rights to the technology to...
Skolkovo resident startup ComfortWay has launched sales of a SIM card that allows travellers to make use of the best local mobile internet deal available, wherever they might be. The CwSim card uses the Remote SIM Provisioning technology released earlier...
The Skolkovo Foundation is on the hunt for promising virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) projects and has launched a search that will culminate in St. Petersburg next month. The competition will be held as part of Unreal Fest , an international open-air...
Surfancy, a project designed by Skolkovo resident SensArt to turn any surface into an interactive touch screen, has been named the winner of an accelerator programme run by MEGA, the chain of giant malls across Russia owned and operated by IKEA. As well as...