Sustainable Development & Resilience

Russia’s Skolkovo and France’s EDF team up to develop new energy efficient solutions

January 25, 2016 November 16, 2020

Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts and Moscow, and EDF, the largest state owned energy company in France, have just signed a memorandum of understanding as the French Minister of Economy Emmanuel Macron met his Russian counterpart Alexey Ulyukaev in Moscow. Skolkovo and EDF intend to work together in the field of energy efficiency …

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A Russian smartphone technology for the visually-impaired

October 6, 2015 November 12, 2020

A group of blind entrepreneurs from Russia are launching a smartphone to help those who can’t see, and they plan to target the U.S., Scandinavia and Israel. The EISmart smartphone for the visually-impaired is a hybrid device that combines the functions of a cell phone, an audio-book reader, a GPS navigator and much more. It …

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IIDF invests $1.3 million in mobile medical alert system

June 10, 2014 November 12, 2020

Knopka Zhizni (“Life Button”) has raised 45 million rubles (approximately $1.3 million) from IIDF (FRII in Russian), a $200 million seed and early-stage fund launched last year. The news was reported yesterday by IKS Media. Founded in November 2010 by MBA students of the Skolkovo Management School, the startup has developed a mobile medical alert system for the …

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From IT to cleantech to biotechnology, new edition of BIT contest elicits innovation across Russia

June 5, 2013 November 12, 2020

BIT Contest, the largest tech contest in Russia and its neighboring countries, is holding its 10th edition this year with a richer and more international format. Inspired by the MIT $100K competition, BIT contests — short for Business of Innovative Technologies — were organized for the first time in 2003 within Russia’s most prestigious business …

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Siberian children’s fund launches online charity network

March 15, 2013 November 12, 2020

Russia’s first ever charity social network launched earlier this month to enable handicapped children in Siberia’s Tomsk region to publish blogs and charities across the world to donate online for the kids’ treatment, the five-year-old regional Ordinary Miracle charity fund for children announced. Elena Makarova, the fund’s president, said at a press conference at RIA …

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Mobile medicine startup ‘Life Button’ raises $1 million

July 11, 2012 November 12, 2020

Knopka Zhizni (“Life Button”), a startup that has developed a mobile medical alert system for the elderly and the disabled, has raised “over 35 million rubles” (over $1 million) from Rintech.ru, a subsidiary of the diversified high tech group IT Co. Founded in November 2010 by MBA students of the Skolkovo Management School, the startup turned heads last …

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