Skolkovo will bring top startups to demonstrate their projects at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York, that will take place at Pier 36 on 15-17 May. The companies will be featured at the Startup & Hardware Alley on the second day of the conference, 16th May.
Vasily Belov, Senior VP for Innovations of the Skolkovo Foundation: “The Skolkovo team is thrilled to take part in Tech Crunch Disrupt in New York for the first time. The resident startups of Skolkovo will show robotics, hardware and IoT, health and biotech, VR & AI technologies. The founders of the ten companies will be looking at raising from $1million up to $10 million investment. The Skolkovo investment team will look at the most promising projects at the conference to invite them to join the ecosystem of the leading innovation center in Russia.”
The Skolkovo Pavilion will feature the following companies:
1
RoboCV
Intellectual autopilots for automated transportation of pallets within a warehouse. X-MOTION NG solution is the first ever fully autonomous indoors mobile robotics system with complete 3D-axes material handling, capabilities managed from the cloud.
2
Marvelmind Robotics
Precise (+-2cm) Indoor "GPS" for autonomous robots, drones and VR. Customers in 30+ countries.
3
Piligrim
Next generation augmented reality environment development platform for tourists and museum projects. Offers an incredible experience of time travel allowing to take part in historical events and to see architectural masterpieces.
4
Market Music
Intelligent that counts customers, recognises age, sex and gender for audio & video in-store broadcasting for retail chains and HoReCa companies. Uses the collected information to increase conversion and customer loyalty.
5
Playkey
Game virtualization service that saves money on PC upgrade that allows playing modern top-rated games on low-performance PCs and laptops.
6
Vision Labs
Face.DJ is a software for building realistic 3D model of the face by single photo made by a world-leading visual recognition company
7
Wattsbattery
Portable home energy storage and management system WATTS that uses plug & play power cell for home and outdoor, wirelessly connected to cloud platform and mobile app
8
DRD Biotech
In vitro rapid test for assessment the brain damage based on biotech and IT technologies. Used for assessment of TIA/Ischemic Stroke, Conussions and Risk of Posttraumatic Epilepsy.
9
Gero
Gero develops personalized biomarker of aging and overall health risks based on activity stream from any wearable.
10
Navigine
High accuracy platform for indoor navigation and tracking. Navigine assists developers and system integrators to create mobile apps and entreprise systems for navigation of visitors and staff, tracking assets and goods.
About TechCrunch Disrupt
TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017 is TechCrunch’s 8th annual conference in New York. The format combines top thought-leader discussions with new product and company launches. Morning executive discussions debate technology-driven disruptions in many industries, while the afternoons are reserved for the Startup Battlefield, where 20+ new companies will launch for the first time onstage, selected to present from numerous applications received from around the world. The winning company will receive a $50,000 grand prize and the Disrupt Cup at the conclusion of the conference. The conference is May 15-17 at Pier 36 in New York.
About the Skolkovo Foundation
The Skolkovo Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in September 2010 by the Russian government with the objective of accelerating Russia’s transformation from a resource-intensive to an innovation-based economy. To achieve this objective, the Foundation is overseeing the creation of the Skolkovo Innovation Center, composed of more than 1,600 high-tech startups, Skolkovo Technopark, the Skolkovo Institute of Technology (Skoltech) - a new graduate research University established in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - and Skolkovo city, located near Moscow. Together, these entities establish a vibrant ecosystem of technology innovation and entrepreneurship. The cumulative revenue of Skolkovo’s startups through June 2016 reached $1,6 billion. They brought in more than $350 million in investment, creating 21,800 jobs and filing over 1,900 patent applications along the way. By 2020 over 2 million square meters of residential and office space will be built in Skolkovo with 35,000 people working daily in the Innovation Center. For more information: http://www.sk.ru/en
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