Apr 4, 2012 | News
East-West Digital News (By Anna Andrianova) 3 April 2012 On the last week of March, a team from the Skolkovo Foundation came to Silicon Valley for the 8th annual Global Technology Symposium. The symposium has always had a bit of a Russia focus, and this year was no...
Apr 2, 2012 | News
East-West Digital News 2 April 2012 The Skolkovo Foundation, which has been instrumental in pumping R&D funds into the Skolkovo innovation hub just outside Moscow since 2010, has contracted with an international consortium to create a comprehensive ‘smart city’...
Mar 30, 2012 | News
East-West Digital News 30 Mar 2012 1C, the Russian enterprise software giant, has acquired a 51% stake in Megaplan, a publisher of cloud-based business service solutions, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported yesterday. The amount of the deal was not disclosed....
Mar 29, 2012 | News
East-West Digital News 29 Mar 2012 The Russian venture capital scene, which counted at most two dozen active funds just two years ago, is continuing its impressive growth. Its newest player, an early stage venture fund named Frontier Ventures, has just been announced...
Mar 28, 2012 | News
Russian Law Online 14 Mar 2012 Baker & McKenzie advised RUSNANO on an investment agreement with Domain Associates LLC, a US venture capital firm specializing in leading-edge life sciences technologies. The investment agreement provides a framework for a...
Mar 28, 2012 | News
Russia Beyond the Headlines 23 Mar 2012 The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (SkTech) plans to establish Russia’s biggest endowment fund, projected at 16.5 billion rubles ($560 million) in 2012 alone. The country’s biggest state-controlled companies will...
