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US-Russia Innovation Corridor takes Russian medtech startups to Philadelphia

February 12, 2016

Although the relations between the two powers have reached historic lows, US-Russian cooperation in scientific and technological fields is still partly alive. Thus the US-Russia Innovation Corridor (USRIC) — a cooperation framework created by Nizhny Novgorod and Maryland universities in early 2013 — announced yesterday the participants in its Fall 2015 MedTech program. These five Russian startups …

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InVenture Partners invests $5 million in US telemedicine startup American Well

February 16, 2016

InVenture Partners, a venture fund with Russian origins which invested in taxi booking app Gettaxi and in a range of Russian startups, has invested $5 million telemedicine startup American Well. This Boston, USA-based company uses mobile and web technology to “improve access to quality care, removing barriers such as distance, mobility, and time.” The fund received a minority stake in the US …

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No smoking, please: Russian mobile health technologies

June 21, 2015

In June 2015 Russia launched the comprehensive project BrosayemKurit.rf (translation: Let’s Quit Smoking). The country celebrated World No Tobacco Day on May 31 with the release of another mobile application, “Smoke Free Area.” With the app a user can take a photo of an establishment where the ban on smoking in public places is violated and send …

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Roman Abramovich invests $500,000 in Russian-Israeli medical consultation startup

November 12, 2015

Earlier this week Russian-Israeli startup Medviser announced that it has received half a million US dollars in investment from Roman Abramovich. The transaction was made via an undisclosed entity belonging to the Russian billionaire. It valued the company at $1,7 million post money, with the investor receiving a 30% stake. Medviser was founded in mid-2014 by Anna Danishevskaya, …

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Maxfield Capital invests in 3D printing startup Zdravprint

February 26, 2016

Maxfield Capital, a venture fund operating globally from its offices in Moscow, New York City and Tel Aviv, has invested an undisclosed amount in Zdravprint, a Russian startup that develops medical 3D-printing technology. It is the first time Zdravprint has received venture money, the fund’s Corporate Communications Director Nadir Khabdulin told East-West Digital News.

Russian startup launches web-based cancer diagnosis service

December 26, 2018

Russian startup Unim (United Medicine) has launched the Unim Histology Internet service, which will make it possible for the public to send analyses remotely to the Dmitri Rogachev Federal Clinical and Research Center for Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, and Immunology in Moscow. Backed by the IIDF (FRII in Russian, the country’s largest startup investment fund inspired by …

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AddVenture injects $1.5 million into Medbooking.ru

November 11, 2013

Russian fund Addventure announced last week a Series A investment of $1.5 million in в Medbooking.com, an online service for setting appointments with Moscow medical organizations. Medbooking is intended to become an umbrella brand for appointments with all categories of physicians, dentists and cosmetologists. It will work in synergy with Timetovisit.ru, a service launched a …

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Russian startup creates navigator for the blind, plans international rollout

October 23, 2013

Russian startup Oriense has created a “navigator” for the visually impaired and the blind, helping them feel confident both inside and outside with the help of an audio guide. This tool will be able to replace ultrasonic canes and other localizers. “We secure a special device on one’s chest that can see the surroundings and use a …

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Russian innovators offer solutions for mobile medicine; Cisco backs hi-tech endeavors

June 12, 2013

The Russian government has named pharmaceutical and biomedical as priority sectors for innovation, and has set a fairly ambitious strategic goal of increasing the share of domestic medical equipment products in the Russian market to at least 40%. In these highly important fields, two new players have emerged recently in Russia, assisted by the global …

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Microsoft Seed Fund backs app development and genetic diagnostics

November 19, 2014

Last week, the Microsoft Russia Seed Fund announced it has disbursed another $160,000 to support Russian startups developing IT projects. A $60,000 grant went to Appercode from Siberia’s Novosibirsk. The Appercode team pushes a solution that would enable application developers and systems integrators to create .NET/C#-based cross-platform mobile apps. The product is believed to reduce …

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Online pharmacy group Parus Invest seeks to attract $20 million

February 19, 2013

Parus Invest, a Russian e-commerce holding company focusing mainly on pharmacy products, has announced a plan to attract up to $20 million in investments, yielding up to 20% of its shares. Discussions are being held with unnamed funds, the holding’s Chairman of the Board Anton Buzdalin told last week Kommersant, a leading Russian business daily. The operation, which could take …

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