RoboCV, a Moscow-based startup developing autopilot solutions for vehicles and industrial equipment, has just raised $3 million in a Series A round. The funds will be used to develop existing autopilot systems for warehouses and to develop a pre-series autopilot RoboCV X-MOTION, the company stated. Also, RoboCV has plans to implement a full-scale complex robotics …
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.
The Moscow Application & Technology Expo (MATE Expo) 2015 is back in the Russian capital this spring. The international exhibition will showcase tech segments such as mobile, augmented and virtual reality, the Internet of Things, wearable technology, consumer electronics for medical use, and the connected car. The event will be held over March 12-14 at …
The board of directors of Austrian IT-provider S&T AG has approved an investment plan which will see it pump tens of millions of euros into Russian companies in 2015. The plan was announced by S&T Vice-President Alexander Malshakov, responsible for the company’s business in Eastern Europe. S&T AG plans to buy several Russian IT companies, …
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As a busy year draws to a close, RusBase has asked 10 Russian venture capitalists what they think were the most important events of 2014. Andrey Romanenko, Run Capital: “Considering that Run Capital was only founded in April, we think this year was a successful one. The most important event for us was our $6 million investment in …
The founders of MaxTelCom believe their technology can bring fiber-optic networks to every apartment and office, which will boost the quality and speed of the internet by dozens if not hundreds of times compared to what we are familiar with today. The company plans to make its debut on the international market in 2015. The …
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The Tomsk University of Control Systems and Radio Electronics (TUSUR) and Keysight Technologies, a US company, have plans to open Siberia’s first scientific and educational center in Tomsk in early 2015, portal Globalsib.com reported. TUSUR is reported to have already launched this past fall its new master’s degree program focused on the automation of the …
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In late October, Soft Machines Inc., a Silicon Valley-based semiconductor startup company with an important R&D center in Russia, unveiled the Soft Machines VISC architecture – a “breakthrough” in microprocessor performance-per-watt scaling that will “significantly improve performance and power for all segments of the computing ecosystem,” according to the company. “We’ve been quietly building the …
Microsoft has suspended plans to provide tablets to Russian schools under a deal expected to benefit a textbook publisher headed by Kremlin ally Arkady Rotenberg, citing “concerns” over Western sanctions, a news report said. According to an agreement signed in late September, Microsoft would “provide free of charge, to [publisher] Prosveshcheniye, the same type of technical assistance that [it] provides at no cost to thousands of schools and publishers worldwide,” Microsoft said …
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Telum, the developer of the Ranberry family of mobile products in Russia, has developed technology that enables users to quickly deploy a 4G/LTE wireless broadband network for voice, video and data transmission. The project, called Ranberry B1000, incorporates products by Telum and by Intel. Telum is a resident of Skolkovo, the international tech hub under …
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Thin Film Technology has received a grant of $1.9 million from Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow. The firm was founded in 2006, and has been working with the Skolkovo innovation center since 2011. It develops semiconductor sensors for measuring pressure, vibration levels and other physical parameters in unstable and aggressive environments. …
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Scientists at the Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) are working on a new 3D printer they claim will enable the printing of body components for spacecraft and submarines, the TPU website announced. According to Alexei Yakovlev, head of the TPU’s Institute of High Tech Physics, “Five different technologies have been developed to produce nanopowder and nanopowder-based …
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