Incubators, Accelerators, Technoparks

Russian startups present their public security solutions in France

December 9, 2016

Amid heightened security alerts in airports, train stations and other public places across the world, Skolkovo startups working on security solutions for crowded places have travelled to France to demonstrate their technologies and search for potential partners. The delegation, which consisted of seven resident companies from the nuclear and IT clusters of the Russian tech hub, embarked …

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Russian tech park Kalibr agrees cooperation with Iranian counterparts

December 9, 2016

During a visit in Iran last month, a delegation from Moscow-based technopark Kalibr signed a memorandum of understanding with two leading Iranian science and technology parks, the Fars and the Khuzestan technoparks. The three-year agreement encompasses several types of cooperation, from synergies between resident companies, to technology transfers between Russian and Iranian industrial companies, to …

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Organisation of Islamic Cooperation teams up with Russia’s IT Park to launch startup accelerator

December 9, 2016

IT Park, a major Russian tech park, has announced the launch of the ‘OIC Startup Platform’ with the support of the Secretariat of the Organisation for Islamic Cooperation (IOC). The initiative is also supported by Oxademy, a UK-based online business education provider operating in eight countries, and Selet, an educational initiative in Tatarstan. The acceleration …

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Food giant Cherkizovo teams up with Skolkovo to launch startup accelerator

November 28, 2016

Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, has signed an agreement with Cherkizovo Group, a major Russian meat producer, to create a startup accelerator in the fields of biotech in agriculture and industry. Cherkizovo will rent 120 sq. m. in the technopark to provide a co-working and testing areas, along …

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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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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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Iran’s Azad University to set up R&D center at Skolkovo

September 23, 2016

Iran’s Islamic Azad University will open next year an R&D center at Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow. The two sides agreed at the International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP) conference, which took place earlier this week in Moscow. The partnership encompasses several technology fields, including energy, oil …

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Moscow accelerator GVA introduces Indian startups to the Russian market as the two countries bolster business ties

September 16, 2016

Global Venture Alliance (GVA), a Moscow-headquartered provider of business services, training programs and seed funding for startups, has teamed up with the Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE), a major tech business incubator based in Mumbai, to launch the ‘India-Russia Bridge for Innovations’ (IRBI). As reported by BW Disrupt, an Indian online publication, the IRBI program enjoys the financial …

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SD Ventures invests in Latvian drone company, opens co-working space in Riga

March 2, 2017

This summer Social Discovery Ventures (SD Ventures), an international technology and investment group with Russian roots, invested an undisclosed amount in Latvian drone company AirDog. The group also is also creating a new co-working space in Riga, which is scheduled for launch in September. In an interview with EU-Startups, SD Ventures founder Dmitry Volkov, a Russian-American serial entrepreneur, explained his interest …

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IASP annual conference: The world’s science parks meet in Moscow (Sept. 20-23)

September 12, 2016

The International Association of Science Parks (IASP) will hold its 33rd annual conference in Moscow from Sept. 20 to Sept. 23, in partnership with Skolkovo, the new Russian international tech hub. Also partnering this major event are the Science Park of the Moscow State University and Technopark Strogino, with support from the Moscow City Government. (Registration deadline: …

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10 Russian and Ukrainian startups land in US market via NYC accelerator

August 13, 2016

Next week the New York-based Starta Accelerator will commence its second acceleration program for tech startups from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Ten startups were selected from 209 applicants, and their founders will come to New York City on August 15 for a 14-week acceleration program. They will have the opportunity to develop their business in the U.S. and to attract another round of investment from …

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Russian and Chinese technoparks team up to develop medical robots

June 27, 2016

Illustrating Russia’s and China’s willingness to strengthen their ties in the field of high technologies, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Russia’s sovereign fund, has agreed a partnership with several Russian and Chinese industry players to develop and manufacture medical robots. According to the agreement, which was annonced Friday last week at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, a …

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