In its third edition, this 3-day event will gather select early-stage investors, including business angels, seed funds and their associations, in partnership with EBAN. Top speakers will come from as far as Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Mexico, Panama, Poland, Sweden, Turkey, the UK and the USA. In previous years, the summit took place …
A Delivery Club courier has been spotted roaming the streets of Saratov, central Russia, riding a white horse, reports The Moscow Times, citing the Russian online publication TJournal. The man was photographed with the company’s typical green shirt and backpack. “I’m already being called the courier on the white horse around the city,” he was …
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Sberbank, the state-owned financial and digital giant, is discussing with the city and country authorities the creation of a dedicated platform and framework in Moscow to experiment AI technologies. Participants in the experimental site would benefit from a privileged legal and tax framework and be allowed to leverage the Russian capital’s huge data volumes. The …
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AliExpress, the Chinese B2B marketplace that dominates the Russian cross-border e-commerce market, is testing its first sales to offline retail outlets. This activity could account for up to 10% of AliExpress Russia’s business, company representative Anton Panteleev told the Russian business daily Vedomosti. The Chinese company aims to provide small and mid-sized local chains with …
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Earlier this month the Eastern Ring campus of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) won the Prix Versailles Campuses Award. Endorsed by the UNESCO and the International Union of Architects, the Prix Versailles Award is a major world architecture and design award. Its judges panel is headed by Francesco Bandarin, former Assistant Director-General for …
Moscow tech research institute Skoltech wins major world architecture and design award Read More
It’s Sunday evening in Moscow, late January 2019. A nondescript fair-haired man is walking through the Tretyakov Gallery. All of a sudden, he approaches a picture, looks at it carefully, removes it from the wall, and calmly walks off with it under his arm in front of dozens of visitors. No one bats an eyelid. …
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Moscow’s first test for a new remote electronic voting system ended in a technological failure, prominent election analyst Grigory Melkonyants announced on Facebook. The Internet voting mechanism was put to the test during an election for the best student congress president in Moscow’s higher education system. 1,794 “voters” — that is, Moscow university students — were asked …
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Many people first heard about ToSky on June 2, 2019, when the company launched a toy Lada into space with a figure of Dmitry Rogozin, general director of the Russian State Space Corporation (Roscosmos), inside. To do so, the startup from Tomsk (3,000 east of Moscow) used an aerostat, basically a high-altitude balloon. But Nikita …
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Moscow Vice Mayor Maxim Liksutov has told the BBC Russian Service that the Russian capital’s municipal government is tracking the movements of its residents using tools as diverse as taxi data, cell phone data, security cameras, data from Troika multi-ride metro passes, and customer complaints about the city’s public transport system. Liksutov said that all this geoanalytical …
A private investor in Moscow is willing to build a giant data center in Russia, reported business daily Vedomosti, citing “a source close to the project.” Dubbed ISTRADIGITAL, the project envisages the construction of a technology park near Moscow worth 132 billion rubles (about $2 billion at the current exchange rate). Among other facilities, it would …
Private investor envisions $2 billion tech park with giant data center in Moscow Read More
The Skolkovo Foundation, in charge of developing Russia’s flagship innovation hub on the outskirts of Moscow, will cooperate with the Italian Trade Agency (ICE) and the Italian Confederation for the Promotion of Artisans and Small Businesses (Confartigianato Imprese) in exchanging their expertise and promoting innovations. The parties signed formal agreements in Moscow on May 29 as part of Skolkovo’s …
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StartupBlink has just released the 2019 edition of its Startup Ecosystem Rankings Report, which now encompasses 1,000 cities and 100 countries across the world. This is the first StartupBlink report that aims to track both momentum and trends within the global startup ecosystem. StartupBlink’s algorithm analyzes tens of thousands of data points. Data is coming from …
Moscow ranked #10 in global startup ecosystem ranking of 1,000 cities Read More
