Hardware, Electronics, Robotics

Internet-of-Things highlighted this week at Moscow conference

February 12, 2016

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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3D modelling app maker GeoCV secures $1.15 million for sales tests in Russian and US markets

February 16, 2016

Two Moscow-based funds, Emery Capital and Starta Capital, have invested $1.15 million in GeoCV, a startup which is developing a mobile app for creating 3D-models of interiors. According to Russian tech blog Firrma.ru, the funding will be used for sales tests in the Russian and US markets in the next few months. In a previous round …

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Grishin Robotics invests in US 3D sensing hardware and software maker 

February 16, 2016

3D sensor developer Occipital Inc. announced last week that it raised $13 million in Series B funding. Grishin Robotics, a fund launched in 2012 by Mail.ru group CEO Dmitry Grishin, participated in the round along with Intel Capital, Shea Ventures and existing investor Foundry Group. In 2013, following a Kickstarter campaign, Occipital launched “the Structure Sensor,” a 3D sensor that scans objects …

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Skolkovo teams up with Panasonic and KAMAZ in search for battery breakthrough

February 16, 2016

Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow,  is teaming up with two of its biggest industrial partners in Panasonic and truck-maker KAMAZ in a search for the next big breakthrough in battery technology. The three powerhouses of innovation this week launched a competition among Skolkovo residents – also open to …

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Maxfield Capital invests in “magic” Californian farming data platform

November 12, 2020

Maxfield Capital, a venture fund operating globally from its offices in Moscow, New York City and Tel Aviv, has invested “up to $500,000” in OnFarm. This Fresno, California-based startup defines itself as an “Internet-of-Things platform that enables a comprehensive array of leading farm hardware technologies into a single grower-friendly management and decision platform.” Thus the startup …

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Intel launches IoT Lab in Russia

February 17, 2016

Intel is announcing the opening of an “IoT Ignition Labs” in Moscow. With a focus on Smart building, Smart City, and Retail, the Moscow lab “offers tools, technology and engineering know-how to those in the industry keen to take IoT projects into commercial deployment.” The US corporation is simultaneously announcing IoT labs in Ireland and …

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Can your iron attack you? Kaspersky says ‘yes’

June 29, 2015

Last week, public attention was once again drawn to one of the most secretive and controversial figures of the Russian IT industry – Eugene Kaspersky, the founder of the prominent anti-virus company. Immediately after Edward Snowden revealed that the U.S. and British security services had worked to subvert the company’s anti-virus software to track users …

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Ivideon secures $4 million from Impulse VC to take its video-streaming service global

February 18, 2016

Ivideon, a Russian startup whose cloud platform allows users to beam video to any device using almost any hardware configuration, has just raised $4 million from Russian venture fund Impulse VC. The investment deal was one of 14 agreements signed or announced on day one of Startup Village, totaling a combined $272 million in value, the …

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Russia’s Yota working on dual-screen tablet

February 18, 2016

Russian electronics firm Yota Devices has created a new tablet device, Sergei Chemezov, the head of state technology holding Rostec, told newspaper Vedomosti in an interview published Monday. “We are working on a tablet. I’ve already seen it,” Chemezov said, adding that one of the Yota Tablet’s novel features is the ability to charge a YotaPhone smartphone. Rostec, a massive state conglomerate heavily invested in the …

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New technology for bank card protection: breakthrough or scheme of the century?

May 27, 2015

“A Russian scientist made a breakthrough”: this is how many global media outlets have described the new quantum key protection technology for bank cards developed by Viktor Petrik. The scientist seemingly proposed a brilliant solution for the problem of data leakage. According to Petrik, the magnetic strip and the electronic chips are the weakest link in the …

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