Russia and South Korea are ready to step up joint R&D efforts in IT and a number of high-tech areas. Envoys of the two partners’ political, business and scientific circles reached preliminary agreements on this and other matters last month in Seoul. Commenting on the results of the talks, Oleg Plaksin of RVC, Russia’s state-owned …
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Brainly, a global social learning network designed to allow students to help each other with schoolwork, has completed a $9 million Series A funding round with the participation of several major venture funds. Among them are General Catalyst Partners, who led the round, Runa Capital, a venture firm operating globally from its offices in Moscow …
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Dr. Alina Ilinova, an assistant professor and the tech transfer manager at Mining University in St. Petersburg, spent quality time earlier this year at the Maryland International Incubator (MI2, University of Maryland, College Park), studying the best international practices in the commercialization of university-originating technologies and the innovation ecosystems developed at UMD and other American …
American Councils for International Education announces the opening of the Fall 2014 application for the US-Russia Innovation Corridor (USRIC). University-based startups and entrepreneurs are encouraged to apply until November 9. The US-Russia Innovation Corridor (USRIC) deploys services and resources to advance research and commercialization collaborations with the potential to accelerate success in business. USRIC helps startups quickly …
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This past Tuesday the Skolkovo Foundation, the non-profit organization in charge of completing an international tech hub on the outskirts of Moscow, inked a memorandum of understanding with Tel Aviv University, opening the way to a wide range of cooperations. The two partners intend to launch joint R&D and commercial projects in the field of …
AmazingHiring, a Moscow-based service for finding IT professionals, has attracted $500,000 in a second seed round, with equal contributions brought in by SMRK, a Kiev-based venture fund, and Altair, the seed-stage fund backed by Russo-Austrian serial investor Igor Ryabenkiy. The startup is developing a search engine and browser plug-in for Chrome that recruiters can use to search …
Runa Capital, a venture firm operating globally from its offices in Moscow and San Francisco, has led a $2.2 million funding round in SchoolMint, a leading provider of mobile and online enrollment systems for US public, charter and private schools. Several US funds and business angels have also participated in the round: among them are …
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Netology, a major Russian online education platform offering courses in the fields of Internet business, web development and e-commerce, has merged with Foxford (previously 100EGE.ru), a provider of online courses for secondary school students, under the “Netology Group” brand. The merged companies have received a $1.1million capital injection from InVenture Partners, a Russian fund that …
Communications and Mass Media Minister Nikolai Nikiforov has announced that “no quicker” than in three years the ministry plans to develop such a strong IT sector that the country no longer needs foreign software. “We are aiming for total IT sovereignty in Russia. And it’s achievable in principle. Russia has always been renowned for its programmers,” …
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Did you ever imagine the day when students organize and filter their college interests on one portal? That day has come in Turkey. Most of us remember how overwhelming the college application process felt but thanks to the recent launch of Yandex üniversite, Turkish students now have a comprehensive online guide to the college decision process.
Dnevnik.ru, Russia’s first social educational network, was included last week in EdTech Europe’s list of the most influential European companies in the sphere of e-learning and educational technology. The criteria for selection included compliance with key trends in the sphere of e-learning (SaaS, MOOC, adaptive learning, gaming), scalability of a project’s technology and the influence …
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Top Russian university Higher School of Economics (HSE) has teamed up with eSolutions, an e-commerce service provider launched by the Otto Group, in an ambitious academic and professional partnership. While eSolutions specialists will participate in some of the university’s educational programs, the students will offer marketing research for the German company and benefit from internship …
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