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Russian fund Pulsar Venture Capital opens representative office in Ireland

November 16, 2016

Yesterday Pulsar Venture Capital, an early-stage investment fund from Kazan, Russia, announced the opening of a representative office in Dublin. Pulsar sees Ireland as “one of the best international platforms for scaling business in Europe” through “the engagement of top technological companies and international investors,” said Pulsar’s CEO Pavel Korolev. The Dublin representative office will also work on technology transfers, …

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Skolkovo and RVC to launch new venture funds

December 7, 2016

The Skolkovo Foundation will set up three venture capital funds to provide additional sources of funding for startups, said its president Victor Vekselberg in late October at the Open Innovations forum. Funded by the Russian government, the Skolkovo Foundation manages the completion of an international tech hub on the outskirts of Moscow. “Now we’re creating a daughter …

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3D Print Expo 2016: 5,000 attendees expected in Moscow (Nov. 17-18)

November 8, 2016

The fourth edition of 3D Print Expo 2016, which claims to be the largest industry event in Eastern Europe dedicated to additive technologies, will be held on November 17-18 at Sokolniki Moscow exhibition center. Some 5,000 attendees are expected. The event will bring together the representatives of the largest local and foreign companies, developers, suppliers, …

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Russia’s first driverless electronic bus unveiled at Skolkovo

November 7, 2016

“Matrëshka,” the first electronic driverless bus in Russia, was revealed in late October in Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow. Designed to carry up to eight passengers, the bus was showcased at the annual international forum of innovative development, “Open Innovation.” The bus is controlled by computers and equipped …

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Central bank contest highlights Russia’s best fintech startups

December 2, 2016

Earlier this month, illustrating the emergence of a whole new tech industry in the country, the Russian central bank rewarded some of the most remarkable fintech startups. The contest took place in the framework of Finopolis 2016, a forum on innovative financial technologies. Held on October 13-14 in Kazan, the capital of the innovation-friendly republic of Tatarstan, …

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The Kremlin eats GPS for breakfast

October 25, 2016

Over the past several months, Muscovites have been busy complaining on social media that their GPS-powered mobile apps are malfunctioning. Users of Yandex.Navigator have run into frequent problems, for example, watching their vehicles’ locations bounce all over the map. When the Pokemon Go craze arrived in Russia earlier this year, Moscow’s geolocation issues became truly …

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Pioneering report highlights Chinese and Russian innovation systems and their growing ties

November 10, 2016

As Russia has been “pivoting to the East” over the past few years, a study released earlier this month aims to describe the two countries’ innovation ecosystems, and analyze the new links being established between them. The report, named “China and Russia: Innovation and Entrepreneurship,” is a joint project by the Skolkovo Foundation on the …

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UK edtech startup receives Russian money to “bring VR and AR to chemistry education”

February 26, 2019

UK-based education service MEL Science announced today the completion of its Series A funding round with Sistema VC injecting $2.5 million in the company. MEL Science claims that its subscription service, which features nearly 40 interactive chemistry sets, is “changing science education” by “incorporating for the first time the virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) into a single …

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Russia aims to attract foreign investors to build giant medtech cluster in North Caucasus

October 6, 2016

A giant medical technology cluster could be built in Mineralnye Vody, a city in Southern Russia, with participation from Russian and foreign private investors. The project may require an investment of 162 billion rubles (about $2.5 billion at the current exchange rate). The Russian government would contribute a quarter of this amount, or 40 billion …

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This week: Russian Affiliate Congress 2016

October 13, 2016

This Friday, October 7, Moscow will play host to the 5th edition of Russian Affiliate Congress 2016 (RACE), an internationally-oriented event dedicated to affiliate programs and marketing. Featured in the event will be the following topics: Quality market innovations of affiliate marketing; Efficient affiliate marketing tools; Lead generation: new routes and maps, best practice; Forex and Binary …

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Siberians use multilayer graphene in next gen flash memory

October 5, 2016

Experiments conducted by scientists at the Novosibirsk-based Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics show that new multilayer graphene based flash memory can offer much higher IPS (instructions per second) and data storage time values than in analogs based on other materials, portal Science in Siberia reported recently. According to Yuri Novikov, PhD, a senior research fellow at …

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Moscow city drops Microsoft on Putin’s call for self-sufficiency

September 28, 2016

Moscow city will replace Microsoft Corp. programs with domestic software on thousands of computers in answer to President Vladimir Putin’s call for Russia’s authorities to reduce dependence on foreign technology amid tensions with the U.S. and Europe. The city will initially replace Microsoft’s Exchange Server and Outlook on 6,000 computers with an e-mail system installed by state-run …

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