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New Russian fund intends to invest $100 million in AI/ML projects across Europe and Israel

September 14, 2021

The Russian investment club Promising Projects and the AI Cluster of the Novosibirsk Akademgorodok have teamed up to launch a $100 million fund focusing on AI, ML, data mathematics and cybersecurity. Dubbed ‘AI 1 Ventures’ and incorporated in Luxembourg, the new fund targets such areas as Eastern and Western Europe, including the Baltic states, as well as Israel. Tickets from $250,000 to $5 …

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StartupBlink: Moscow city ranks #2 in Europe for startup ecosystem development

June 24, 2021

StartupBlink has just released the 2021 edition of its Startup Ecosystem Rankings Report, which encompasses 1,000 cities and 100 countries across the world.  Unsurprisingly, the US leads the country ranking, far ahead of any other country. Then come the UK, Israel, Canada, Germany and Sweden — immediately followed by China. Ranked 7th, China has blazed its way …

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Siberian startup raises $4.5 million for alternative tuberculosis, cancer and HIV treatment technology

February 19, 2019

In late January a Russian government fund injected 305 million rubles (around $4.5 million at the current exchange rate) in Personal Medication & Health Management (PM&HM), a Novosibirsk, Siberia-based company that has developed a new approach to tuberculosis, cancer and HIV treatments.  Founded by researchers from the local branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, PM&HM has designed a …

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Inside Russia’s creepy, innovative Internet

December 1, 2016

“For the past five years, Russia’s been building walls around its web and packing it with tech oligarchs, startup cities, face-finding algorithms, hacker hunters, and, of course, a few bears,” writes Ashlee Vance of Bloomberg Business Week in Hello World, a series of reports about inventors, scientists and technologists who shape our future around the …

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Akademgorodok: The last Soviet utopia, or the next Silicon Valley?

April 6, 2016

Located twenty miles from Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok, which literally means ‘academic town,’ was established in 1957. It quickly became a major Soviet scientific hub, with talented researchers settling there from all the country. After the fall of communism, however, salaries and funding collapsed. But Akademgorodok managed to attract a number of foreign companies including IBM, Intel and Schlumberger, …

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Novosibirsk’s Supercomputer Center helps geneticists and geophysicists alike

September 25, 2013

The Supercomputer Center in Novosibirsk’s Academgorodok, in Siberia, helps solve a wide range of research problems, from genetics to geophysics, portal RF Science and Technology reported. Set up more than ten years ago, the Center has had its peak capacity boosted since 2009 from 7.1 teraflops to 116 teraflops. Plans are to further increase it …

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Three new incubators to open in Akademgorodok

July 12, 2012

The technopark of Akademgorodok will host three new incubators by the end of the year, dedicated to information technologies, biotechnologies and scientific instruments, respectively. The regional authorities also announced recently their intention to create a world-class innovation center in Akademgorodok with 16 R&D centers, in addition to the four centers already present.

Novosibirsk authorities to attract $1 billion to fund innovation in Akademgorodok

January 4, 2012

The authorities of the Novosibirsk region in Siberia announced their intention to create a world-class innovation center in Akademgorodok, a major academic and scientific hub. The regional government will invest 10 billion rubles, or approximately $330 million, in the project by 2017, and expects the total investment from various sources to reach as much as …

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$10 million Phase 1 Novosibirsk silicon chips announced

February 4, 2011

A $10-million Phase 1 silicon chip production site has been announced for Novosibirsk’s science area of Akademgorodok, Newsib.ru reports. The future market for the new production will reportedly be power electronics, communications and optoelectronics makers in Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Omsk and other Siberian cities.

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