In its seventh edition on May 29-30, Startup Village – the largest tech entrepreneurship event in Russia and neighboring countries – was held at the Skolkovo Innovation Center. More than 10,000 people from 85 countries of the world, including over a thousand from the local and international investment community, attended the event. The business program included …
Startup Village 2019: “Every investor has found its startup” Read More
Dubbed ‘Food Ball’ in reference to this year’s world football cup, this startup aggregates food orders from train passengers during long-distance journeys. Based in Omsk, Siberia, and competing with the traditional dining cars of Russian Railways, the startup claims to partner with more than 500 fastfood chains, cafés and restaurants in more than 80 cities …
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The Russian government has named pharmaceutical and biomedical as priority sectors for innovation, and has set a fairly ambitious strategic goal of increasing the share of domestic medical equipment products in the Russian market to at least 40%. In these highly important fields, two new players have emerged recently in Russia, assisted by the global …
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This Monday, a group of select innovation experts and mentors is starting a six-week-long road show through 15 Russian cities – from Rostov-upon-Don, to Astrakhan, to Tomsk, to Vladivostok in the Far East – aiming to meet thousands of local startup entrepreneurs, innovators, and representatives of technoparks. In each city, the program consists of presentations, …
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National telecom operator Rostelecom and Irkutsk city authorities signed an agreement last week for the deployment of Rostelecom’s e-government solutions in the city, TASS-Telecom reported citing company sources. Similar agreements have been signed earlier with municipal authorities in Siberian cities of Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk and Omsk.
Tulp.ru, a website where users can share impressions on local businesses—from detailed stories of their consumer experince to photos and ratings—is about to raise $3 million from “an important Russian offline player,” reported company founder Taisiya Kudashkina to EWDN.
