The Baltic tech and startup conference TechChill Baltics cordially invites startups and investors from across Europe, Russia and the USA to share inspirational experience stories in its 5th edition, which will be held in the Godvil concert hall in Riga on Feb. 11, 2016. A house full of industry key-figures, entrepreneurs, investors and media will discuss business …
The GenerationS competition, organized in Moscow by the state-owned fund of funds RVC, ended with 35 startups receiving investments of more than $2.2 million from more than 150 of the project’s partners. These included foreign and Russian companies such as SAP, IBM, Samsung, Microsoft, Johnson&Johnson, Sberbank-Technology, NPO Saturn, and many others. The approximate $142,000 in grand prize money …
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Russian startup N-Tech Lab won the world championship in face recognition MegaFace Benchmark organized by the University of Washington. The algorithm, created by Russian developers managed to bypass more than 100 solutions from its competitors, including program FaceNet, created by Google. N-Tech.Lab team created a unique algorithm based on neural network technology (solutions, based on the principle of functioning and organization of biological neural networks i.e. the …
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HSE Inc., the business incubator of Moscow’s Higher School of Economics, a leading Russian university, has been listed number 14 in the world and number 7 in Europe by the UBI Global 2015 ranking. The results were announced in late November in London. HSE Inc. was the first start-up incubator in Russia when it opened back in 2006. …
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Astro Digital, a startup created by Ekaterina Kotenko-Lengold, won second place in the startup competition at Slush, which is a major event in northern Europe for innovators and developers interested in attracting international investors. “I’ve always been interested in the space industry and wanted to apply space technology to everyday life,” Kotenko-Lengold, a graduate from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and …
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Balkan Venture Forum (BkVF), one of the most influential Balkan event on innovation and entrepreneurship, cordially invites Russian startups to participate in its 7th edition which will take place in Zagreb, Croatia on December 3-4, 2015. Aiming to showcase top innovation startups to regional and global investors, the event will feature pitching sessions and exceptional networking …
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LighTech, a Russian project that aims to make the evacuation of large numbers of people more efficient, was awarded at this year’s Open Innovations international forum in Moscow, reported RVC, Russia’s fund of funds for innovation. The LighTech project owners have developed a flexible linear uninterrupted source of electrical luminophore-based light with wide possible applications in combat operations, …
iDealMachine, a venture fund and startup accelerator hosted by ITMO, a major university in St. Petersburg, was ranked third among 330 university business accelerators from 64 countries, according to UBI Global. The awarding ceremony took place on October 27 in Turin, Italy. Based in Stockholm, UBI Global presents itself as a “thought leader in performance analysis of business incubation around …
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Arguably one of the most influential startup and venture capital events in the CEE region, the Belgrade Venture Forum will be held on November 12-14 in the Serbian capital, attracting hundreds of industry players from the region and beyond. Intended for entrepreneurs and investors, as well as for corporations and governments, the forum will feature …
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Earlier this month in San Jose, California, Maxima Telecom’s WiFi network in the Moscow subway was honored at the WBA Wi-Fi Industry Awards as the “Best Wi-Fi Deployment in a City or Public Area.” Task complexity and scale, the approach to monetization, service quality, and market impact were among the jury’s key criteria. Open to the whole industry, …
The Internet of Things already surrounds us, with the number of connected devices is increasing every moment – from medical gadgets, to energy technologies, to a diversity of devices in the fields of education, transportation, and the environment. As Russia’s IoT community is emerging, the second yearly exhibition and conference “The Internet of Things” will take place this Thursday, Oct. …
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NUMA Moscow, an internationally-oriented startup accelerator in Moscow, will launch its first 6-month startup acceleration program on October, 29. Announced in March 2015, NUMA Moscow has been selecting a dozen of projects from all other Russia since June. NUMA announces that more than 300 mentors and experts from Russia and Europe will participate in the …
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