Meet Innovation Russia (MIR), a tech tour intended for French companies to connect with the Russian innovation ecosystem, is announcing its third edition from June 1 to 3, 2016. The tour will lead 20 French business executives to Moscow and to Kazan, the innovation-friendly capital of Tatarstan 800km east from Moscow. MIR aims to offer “an …
New tech tour to lead French companies to Moscow, Kazan in June Read More
Earlier this month Pulsar Venture Capital, an early-stage investment fund from Tatarstan, an entity of the Russian Federation, announced the launch of a startup accelerator in partnership with government agency Enterprise Ireland and Dublin-based early stage investor NDRC. The accelerator promises to help startups “enter the global market and find an investor or strategic partner in 100 days.” Three locations are involved: Kazan (the capital of Tatarstan), Dublin and …
Tatarstan teams up with Enterprise Ireland to launch Russian startups globally Read More
Appnow, a Russian startup based in Tatarstan, has raised $2 million from Dutch investment company Maxforсing ВV, as reported by Rusbase.com. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Appnow enables restaurants, cafes and beauty salons to create their own mobile apps. An application for iOS, Windows Phone or Android may be created and automatically authorized by …
Dutch investors put $2 million in Russian mobile solution provider Appnow Read More
This year Startup Sabantuy, a Kazan, Russia-based startup contest, went as far as Belgrade and Novi Sad (Serbia), Istanbul, and Dubai, in addition to a range of Russian cities, to find and support promising startup together with investors. As witnessed by East-West Digital News, Serbian startups showed huge interest in this event. The fact that more than …
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Russian wedding startup Wedvice, a resident at the business incubator of the Naberezhnye Chelny IT park, in Tartarstan, has received 25 million rubles (a little more than $400,000 at the current exchange rate) in investment. The investment came from Moscow businessman Alexander Borobyov, CSKA Basketballer Vitaly Fridzon and fellow IT park resident DoctorNet.pro. Among the service’s …
Wedding startup from Tatarstan secures $400,000 from business angels Read More
This month saw the hosting of the Kazan Startup Week, a nine-day event dedicated to the five-year anniversary of the Kazan IT-Park, a business incubator for IT firms located in the innovation-friendly Republic of Tatarstan, around 800 km east of Moscow. The highlight of the event was the DemoDay, which offered participating startups the chance …
While startup incubators and accelerators have been springing up like mushrooms in Russia over the past few years, this one deserves particular attention. It is the first such structure in the country completely dedicated to hardware projects – from consumer robotics to 3D-printing to smart electronics for “smart home” systems and wearables. The accelerator, christened …
Russia’s first hardware startup accelerator launches in Kazan Read More
Held last week in Moscow and Kazan, Tatarstan, the 2013 edition of the Russian Tech Tour offered yet another illustration of the growing appeal of the Russian tech scene to venture capitalists. Not only did more than 70 Western and Russian businessmen visit some of the Russian capital’s hottest tech spots, from Skolkovo to Digital October, they …
Deadline for applications for the 2013 Russian Tech Tour: February 22 – The 2013 Russian Tech Tour, which will be held in Moscow and Kazan on April 23-26, will pair the most promising early and later stage growth companies with representatives from leading cross-border venture capital and global corporate firms. The funds that will be …
Tech Tour seeks 25 most promising emerging Russian technology companies Read More
Since the beginning of 2013, the Microsoft Seed Fund has provided a total of $110,000 in grants to two startups from Russia’s regions. A $50,000 grant went to RealSpeaker, a startup from Kazan, Tatarstan, which offers a new approach to speech recognition. The company also recently received financing from Startobaza, a local seed-stage investment company, along with …
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The Republic of Tatarstan is confirming its commitment to innovation with plans to invest heavily over the next two years in the engineering and transport infrastructure of Innopolis, an “innovation city” under completion near the capital Kazan. Tatarstan will put up a significant part of the total investment, which has been estimated at 20 billion …
Tatarstan’s Innopolis to receive $670 million in investments Read More
iCarnegie, the technology arm of Carnegie Mellon University, announced plans to open an IT training center in what is now developing as Innopolis, an ‘innovation city’ outside of Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, an autonomous republic of the Russian Federation. The international educational and training facility will reportedly have the capacity to train as many …
