As announced earlier this year, Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, has opened a new branch in the Far East and selected its first batch of local startups.
Skolkovo’s experts have granted the status of resident companies to seven early-stage companies, the Skolkovo Foundation reported, claiming to have received in total hundreds of applications from startups.
“Russia’s Far East is fertile ground for innovation, that’s why Skolkovo is here,” said Skolkovo senior vice president Alexander Chernov at a ceremony to mark the occasion in Vladivostok.
Among Skolkovo’s Far East startups are Softvelum, a 4-year-old media-streaming startup, MekhatronicServis, which has developed a positioning system for underwater robotic devices, and Trans-FRK, which offers lasers for eyesight correction.
Another new Skolkovo resident company, “The Forum Family of Antifriction Materials,” is developing a technology that lengthens the life of machinery through the application of a nanomaterial. This technology may be used for the treatment of water pipes, hulls of ships and aircraft, artillery systems, or to strengthen the enamel of human teeth.
Urodinamicheskaya Sistema provides a cloud-based patient database for doctors to make quicker and more accurate prognoses and diagnoses.
Technological Equipment, which processes fish waste into fish oil and flour, is the largest integrator in the field of coastal fish processing in Russia’s Far East.
A yet to be named seventh startup is creating a super-tough fiber from basalt rocks using new technology.
