- 21
- August
2013
Konstantin Artemyev pitches Bravo Motors
Ecosummit TV: Konstantin Artemyev pitches Bravo Motors from Russia at ECO13 Berlin. Konstantin is 27 years old, founded and still owns an IT security startup and comes from Astrakhan near the Caspian Sea. In 2011, he founded his second startup Bravo Motors which is very similar to Hiriko as they also develop a foldable electric city vehicle. However, Konstantin and his talented team built the first prototype with just $200K, a fantastic achievement and proof of their engineering genius. Now Bravo Motors wants to raise $4M to further develop the eTrike and start series production. Bravo Motors just won the Skolkovo Startup Village competition as well as the Ecosummit Award 2013 Facebook Silver medal. We believe Bravo Motors is one of the most promising cleantech startups in Russia.
Read more- 19
- August
2013
Oleg Pertsovskiy presents Skolkovo Foundation, the new startup epicentre of the Russian economy
Ecosummit TV: Oleg Pertsovskiy presents Skolkovo Foundation at ECO13 Berlin. Skolkovo is a strategic development initiative backed by the government to diversify Russia’s economy through innovation and entrepreneurship. To kickstart a new startup culture, the Skolkovo ecosystem consists of an innovation centre with 5 clusters including an energy cluster, a university in cooperation with MIT as well as a new smart green city quarter located 20 km in the west of Moscow’s city centre (Kremlin). In particular, Skolkovo supports startups with a 50% co-financing grant of up to $1M to cross the gap from the research lab to the market. The other half should come from angels or VCs. Recently Skolkovo got another $4B commitment from the government to accelerate the development until 2020. Skolkovo is a very important project that contributes to making Russia more independent from finite resources like oil and gas.
Read more