Skolkovo Resident Companies

Who is assigned resident status

Since November 10, 2011, the Skolkovo Foundation has published a new version of the provision on assignment and loss of participant status. Now projects admitted to Innograd cannot use the word "Skolkovo" in the name, as well as words derived from the word "Skolkovo." There are other innovations. The product or technology created by the participant should have "significant commercialization potential, at least in the Russian, and in the future - in the world market." Another tough limitation is not to contradict fundamental scientific principles.

The areas of activity of Skolkovo (projects of participants must correspond to at least one of them) are listed in the twenty-page appendix to the rules.

As of November 2011, the number of participants in the Skolkovo innograd reached 220.

In August 2019, amendments to the law "On the Skolkovo Innovation Center" entered into force in Russia. New norms abolish territorial restrictions for its residents, writes TASS Information Agency of Russia. Now any organization engaged in research activities in Russia will be able to access all services and benefits of the innocenter. "The Skolkovo ecosystem will rely on successful regional and scientific and technological innovation centers," the agency said.

Also, the new edition removes restrictions for residents in the field of scientific research. Previously, they had to belong to one of six areas: energy efficiency and energy conservation, nuclear technology, space technology, medical technology, strategic computer technology, biotechnology in agriculture and industry. Now the law states that research must comply with the strategy of scientific and technological development of Russia.

The adoption of the law may lead to a twofold increase in the number of Skolkovo residents, the innocenter noted. "We plan that in the coming years the number of participants in the Skolkovo project will be at least 4 thousand. (Now residents are just over 2 thousand.) Such an increase will occur at the expense of regional companies that have long been ready to become participants in the project, but were waiting for the removal of territorial restrictions, "said Igor Drozdov, chairman of the board of the Skolkovo Foundation.

Residents

Resident status and grant are two main forms of support that Skolkovo can provide. "There are companies that come exclusively for the status of a participant giving tax breaks and joining the ecosystem, they do not ask for funding, said Alexander Turkot, former director of the Skolkovo innovation center information technology cluster.

Grants are intended for the most promising projects, which must be residents of Skolkovo. Providing financial support to the company, Skolkovo does not claim either ownership in the authorized capital, or intellectual property, or a place in the management structure, Turkot specified.

Entera is the developer of a service of the same name for the automatic download of primary documentation to 1C.

2024: The ability to obtain the status of a participant without passing the examination

Startups included in the register of small technology companies (MTK) will be able to obtain the status of a participant in the Skolkovo project without passing an examination. The status assignment will be carried out on the basis of a formal check within five working days. This decision was made by the Board of Directors of the Skolkovo Foundation. It will come into force after coordination with the Fund's Board of Trustees. The Fund announced this on March 12, 2024.

The presence of the company in the MTK register opens up simplified access to support measures and minimizes the collection of documents.

Another change supported by the Board of Directors is the advantages for project participants in the MTK register when receiving microgrants.

We reviewed and approved the approach to Skolkovo's participation in the program to support small technology companies (MTK), which is being implemented Government jointly with the group's development organizations ВЭБ.РФ. The decision provides for setting up the regulatory framework of the Fund and its support tools, in particular, microgrants. We hope that this will additionally support domestic developers of promising technologies. After all, small companies make an important contribution to achieving technological sovereignty, countries said Igor Shuvalov, Chairman of the ВЭБ.РФ, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Skolkovo Foundation.

The fund focuses the provision of microgrants on participants in the Skolkovo project, which are small technology companies with revenues of up to 300 million rubles. For Skolkovo project participants who have not yet received the status of a small technology company, we retained the possibility of obtaining microgrants to compensate for the costs of registering the results of intellectual activity, noted Igor Drozdov, Chairman of the Board of the Skolkovo Foundation.

Simplification of this order should have a positive effect on the demand for support measures and ultimately on the development of technological entrepreneurship in the country. And this is our common goal, since Sberbank, for its part, actively supports the entrepreneurial sector, startups adolescents who want to become technological entrepreneurs, and the culture of innovation in general. We have educational technology entrepreneurship programs for different target audiences, accelerators and the online platform SberUnity, combining startups, investors and corporations. We have built productive relationships with colleagues from the Foundation. So, since 2023, student startups-graduates of the SberStudent accelerator in a simplified process become participants in the investment reimbursement program, operated by the Skolkovo Foundation. It allows private investors to reimburse up to 50% of their investments in student startups, told Alexander Vedyakhin, First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sberbank, member of the Board of Directors of the Skolkovo Foundation.

The Strategy Committee includes Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the RFUergey Kuchushev, and the Committee for Urban Development includes Mikhail Susov, Vice President, Director of the Real Estate and Operation Department of Sberbank.

2023

Growth of residents' revenue by 43% to 508 billion rubles

The total revenue of Skolkovo residents in 2023 reached 508 billion rubles, which is 43% more than a year earlier. Such figures were presented on April 19, 2024 at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Skolkovo Foundation.

According to the press service of the fund, by the end of 2023, Skolkovo residents were 3912 companies in which about 95 thousand jobs were created. The volume of taxes and contributions paid by the project participants amounted to almost 60 billion rubles in 2023, a significant share of them came to the budget Moscow from participants registered on the territory of the innovation center - 21 billion rubles. It is also noted that 70% of Skolkovo residents have revenue, the highest growth dynamics in 2023 was shown by participants in the field of industrial technologies.

The total revenue of Skolkovo residents in 2023 reached 508 billion rubles

Extra-budgetary investments attracted to the projects of Skolkovo participants in 2023 reached 31.7 billion rubles, and for the period 2013-2023. - more than 180 billion rubles. In 2023, companies received 976 patents, of which 324 were in foreign countries (mainly the EAEU, South Africa, China and India).

In 2023, the number of regional operators of the Skolkovo Foundation increased to 26. The status was given to the Technopark "Electropolis" (Velikiye Luki), Technopark-Lipetsk and the Regional Development Agency (Arkhangelsk).

The weighted average percentage of implementation of strategic key performance indicators (KPIs) of Skolkovo residents in 2023 was estimated at 113.58%. According to Igor Shuvalov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Skolkovo Foundation, the fund's team managed to achieve good results, according to some KPIs, the plan was overfulfilled.

But the strategic ambition should be higher. The entire team of the development group in the new economic cycle should actively work on the agenda of technological sovereignty within the framework of the plans outlined by the president in the message. In this context, the updated Skolkovo management configuration and more active interaction with Moscow will allow us to launch new projects, he said.[1]

Skolkovo doubled KPI for revenue and investments for residents

The Skolkovo Board of Directors approved an updated system of key performance indicators (KPI) for 2024-2026. Thus, the planned values ​ ​ of residents' revenue and investments have been doubled. The Skolkovo press service announced this at the end of December 2023.

According to the updated KPI system, the projects of Skolkovo residents will have to attract 50 billion rubles of extrabudgetary investments in 2024 and 60 billion rubles in 2025. In the previous approved plan, these indicators were half as low and amounted to 25.7 billion and 29 billion rubles. The target of 70 billion rubles has been set for 2026.

Target values ​ ​ for revenue in 2024 and 2025. will amount to 700 billion and 850 billion rubles instead of previously approved 350 billion and 400 billion rubles. The target for 2026 is 1 trillion rubles.

According to the chairman of the board of Skolkovo Igor Drozdov, the analysis of the results of the implementation of key performance indicators for resident revenue and attracted investments for previous periods and three quarters of 2023 showed an excess of the maximum value of 120%.

Taking into account these data, the Skolkovo board of directors decided to revise the previously approved plan for 2023-2025 and set higher targets for individual KPIs, "Drozdov explained.

The head of the Skolkovo board of directors, chairman of the VEB.RFIgory Shuvalov said that "the system of development institutions in the perimeter of the ВЭБ.РФ works to achieve the goals of the country's technological sovereignty and contributes to the development of the economy of high redistributions."

We will build our work, including based on the ambition of the Skolkovo Foundation to be the leader of the innovative agenda not only in Russia, but on an international scale, "said Shuvalov, whose words are quoted by the Skolkovo press service.[2]

Startups "Skolkovo" for the year attracted 1 billion private investment

Startups "Skolkovo" in 2023 attracted more than 1 billion private investments, while the amount of compensation to investors exceeded 0.5 billion rubles. Such data in the press service of the Skolkovo Foundation led on December 26, 2023.

From the materials of the fund it follows that in 2023 the investment was received by the 51 resident of Skolkovo, and most of the investments fell on projects in the field of IT, industrial technology and biomeda. Among them - Rady Robot, a developer and manufacturer of equipment for automating the final packaging cycle, attracted investments in the amount of 129.4 million rubles. Of these, 6.8 million rubles were received thanks to the Skolkovo program for reimbursing investments to business angels. It allows you to return up to 50% of investments, and the maximum cashback amount to one investor for investments in a startup is 20 million rubles.

Another Skolkovo resident, Aipex, attracted more than 51 million rubles of investments in 2023 thanks to the Skolkovo program. The company is engaged in the optimization of surface cleaning and treatment processes, creates demulsifying detergents for cleaning, degreasing and surface preparation in various technical processes in the oil and gas, engineering and other industries.

According to Pavel Gudkov, vice president for financial support and technological expertise at Skolkovo, whose words were quoted on December 26, 2023 by the fund's press service, for the entire duration of the Skolkovo investment reimbursement program, residents attracted investments totaling more than 4 billion rubles, and the amount of reimbursements paid amounted to 1.9 billion rubles.

The Skolkovo investment reimbursement program plays a significant role in the development of seed financing, since it reduces the risks of angel business when investing in startup capital. Thanks to this program, innovative projects receive private investment and expand production, "Gudkov added.

Among Skolkovo residents, only 3% of companies responded

In June 2023, the Skolkovo Foundation announced a small number of responded residents, as well as planned changes in support for entrepreneurs in 2023-2024.

Although now it is often said that many IT specialists left and closed the business, out of 3,600 companies, about 3% closed and responded. Indeed, these are mainly companies from the field of information technology, but, nevertheless, 3% is a rather insignificant figure. Therefore, we can say with confidence that new prospects and opportunities have opened up for Skolkov residents, "Igor Drozdov, Chairman of the Board of the Skolkovo Foundation, told Vedomosti (interview published on June 8, 2023).

According to him, the sanctions restrictions did not affect the companies that come to Skolkovo. Problems with the supply of components and logistics are solved by replacing suppliers, customs brokers and representative offices of the Fund in India and China.

Igor Drozdov also said that the main problem of most startups is that they do not offer complex solutions, but create narrow-core products, which in turn limits the growth opportunities of such companies.

There will be certain changes. They are aimed at increasing the number of successful implementations of startup solutions in the real economy. We had the idea of ​ ​ creating technology holdings, uniting several small technology companies, in order to bring complex products to the market. Such holdings are supposed to be created together with financial and industrial partners. The main financial partner should be ВЭБ.РФ, "he explained.

The Chairman of the Board of the Fund also noted the effectiveness of startups due to the ability to quickly adapt to industry requests: "If a customer has appeared on the horizon on the competencies and technological reserves of startups, then they are usually ready to put aside previous plans and start doing what will bring money. They adapt very quickly to the request of the industry. And that's why, in my opinion, Skolkov startups are effective^[3]

Assignment of Skolkovo resident status to Marketing Logic

Analytical IT company Marketing Logic on February 13, 2023 announced that it had become a member of the Skolkovo project and entered the information technology cluster. Read more here.

2022

Revenue of Skolkovo residents increased by 42% to 351.9 billion rubles

The revenue of residents Skolkovo"" in 2022 increased by 42% to 351.9 billion rubles. The number of residents increased by 9% and reached 3.5 thousand companies, and the volume of extrabudgetary investments in startups amounted to 37.1 billion rubles. Such data were announced at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Skolkovo Foundation at the end of May 2023.

In 2022, 38 projects totaling 265.1 million rubles were supported by minigrants for "raising." Microgrants supported 722 participants, 1441 applications were approved in the amount of 755.4 million rubles. At the expense of these funds, more than 2,100 prototypes of the products of the project participants were created, more than 4,600 various independent tests were carried out, and more than 1,500 patent applications were submitted.

Skolkovo residents in 2022 received 950 patents, of which 297 were in the territory of foreign countries. Export revenue exceeded 30 billion rubles, the products of Skolkov startups are represented in 102 countries. The top export destinations are the CIS countries:,, and Kazakhstan Belarus. Armenia Kyrgyzstan

In 2022, the number of regional operators of the Fund increased to 24. The status was received by the Valdai Research and Development Center (Veliky Novgorod), T. Park Fabrika (Astrakhan), the Aquarium IC (Krasnodar), the Nobel Technopark (Izhevsk ).

According to the chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation Igor Drozdov, despite the unprecedented sanctions pressure, 2022 was very successful for Skolkovo residents, and most of them showed "brilliant results."

Among the success stories is the IPO of two residents. The most powerful placement was shown by Whoosh, the leader of the kicksharing market, which raised 2.1 billion rubles on the exchange. Genetico, a developer of innovative solutions for the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of genetic diseases, is located at 178 million rubles. In the current situation, there is a certain interest of private investors in the innovative sector, he added.[4]

The revenue of Skolkovo residents from the Sverdlovsk region amounted to 11 billion rubles

Residents Skolkovo"" from Sverdlovsk region in 2022 attracted over 500 million rubles investments, and their revenue by 106% exceeded the indicators of 2021 and reached 11 billion rubles. This was announced on July 11, 2023 by the chairman of the board of the Skolkovo Foundation. Igor Drozdov

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Among the most successful residents from the Sverdlovsk region, the head of Skolkovo singled out Biomicrogels, a developer of means for cleaning water and hard surfaces from complex pollution. In 2021, it attracted over 1 billion rubles. investments. As well as Reinnolz Lab, a world-class heat exchanger equipment developer and manufacturer. In 2022, she signed a large contract for the supply of network water sample coolers for the Rooppur NPP power units in Bangladesh.

2.4 billion rubles of soft loans from SME Bank

credits SME Bank rubles Residents in Skolkovo the framework of the federal project "Take-off - from to" received preferential benefits totaling 2.4 billion in 2022 startup. IPO In total financial , 25 companies of the innovation center used the support of the subsidiary of the SME Corporation. The bank announced this on February 13, 2023. More. here

Assignment of resident status to 680 startups

In 2022 Skolkovo , more than 680 received resident status, startups in total, at the end of the year, the ecosystem united about 3.5 thousand small technology companies. This was reported on December 26, 2022 in. Skolkovo Foundation

As of May 1, 2022, the number of Skolkovo resident startups exceeded 3300. The number of jobs in the ecosystem is rapidly approaching 70 thousand.

Assignment of Skolkovo resident status to Entera

Entera, the developer of the service for automatic loading of the primary in 1C, became a resident of Skolkovo (ВЭБ.РФ Group). Entera representatives announced this on January 20, 2022. Read more here.

2021

Revenue growth of Skolkovo residents by 55% to 247.8 billion rubles

In 2021, the revenue of Skolkovo residents increased by almost 55% compared to 2020 and amounted to 247.8 billion rubles.

Skolkovo Ventures begins to create holdings from startups

Skolkovo Ventures begins to create holdings from Skolkovo resident startups. The head of the company, Vladimir Sakovich, announced this in early March 2021.

Due to geopolitics, many foreign solutions have become unavailable. For ten years, good technology companies have grown at Skolkovo, at universities, at Rusnano, etc., but they are niche, they need to be combined, "he said in an interview with RBC.

According to the plans of Skolkovo Ventures, holdings will acquire assets in their areas, providing an opportunity for venture funds and business angels to complete the investment cycle and exit startups.

Some existing investors will be able to convert a stake in the asset to a stake in the holding, new investors may appear together with Skolkovo Ventures. The venture capital initiative will find strategic buyers, for example, among corporations.

Corporations often justify their reluctance to invest in startups by the fact that the latter have very narrow products, and the company needs a comprehensive solution. Let's say if someone wants to develop 5G, he goes to Huawei, because they will provide a turnkey solution. Big business wants to work with proportionate contractors, - explained the head of Skolkovo Ventures.

Kirill Varlamov, director of the Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF), in a conversation with RBC, expressed the opinion that the planned Skolkovo Ventures consolidation of startups within the holding without difficulties is possible only in transactions in which a large portfolio company absorbs other companies or as a point specific solution regarding a specific group of companies. In other cases, difficulties may arise with determining who will be in charge, how to synchronize company development strategies, how to distribute the internal budget, etc.

According to Varlamov, startups are attractive to corporations if they open new promising niches in which massive corporations have not yet succeeded.^[5]

FIS Skolkovo Resident Status

According to the results of the examination of the Federal Innovation Center "Skolkovo," FIS received an official opinion on full compliance with the requirements for residents and became a member of the information technology cluster. FIS announced this on January 26, 2021.

The first Skolkovo resident went public

The company "Traffic Light Group," a resident of the Information Technology Cluster of the Skolkovo Foundation, marked the shares on the Moscow Exchange. This was announced on January 21, 2021 by the Skolkovo Foundation. Read more here.

2020

Revenue growth of Skolkovo residents by 60% to 160 billion rubles

In 2020, the total revenue of residents of the Skolkovo Fund amounted to 160 billion rubles, which is 60% more than a year earlier, when the indicator was measured at 100 billion rubles. Such data on April 8, 2021 was presented by the chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation Arkady Dvorkovich. According to him, 20 billion rubles of investments were attracted, but we are talking about a small amount.

But these, of course, are crumbs for such a huge country as Russia, he added.

Dvorkovich noted that startups a generation of several thousand startups has grown out of several hundred rather weak ones. And the first few hundred have become very high-quality, even by international standards.

In our regions throughout the country, we have a knowledge of what it is and why it should be done. Already hundreds of thousands of jobs have been created across the country. We have a lot of support tools, some of which work effectively, some with failures. This is a big change, - added the chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation.

He stressed that most of the private investment goes to companies connected with the state in one way or another. Since the practice of control by law enforcement and tax authorities and the state as a whole is rather prohibitive to investment, the financial market cannot perceive these assets as relatively safe.

The developers themselves are not sufficiently motivated to look for an opportunity to attract investment, which is a plus. Many companies are not focused on attracting investments, but on sales. Therefore, sales are growing fast enough. I think this in the future has hurt for success. When our dream comes true, and the financial market arises, there will be something to sell and invest in, "concluded Arkady Dvorkovich.[6]

The first residents began to be produced from Skolkovo

On December 15, 2020, the first residents began to be produced from Skolkovo. According to the law, participants in the innovation center will be able to no more than 10 years, its message says.

In total, by the end of 2020, 11 companies will lose the status of a participant in the Skolkovo project due to the expiration of the 10-year term. At the same time, they intend to continue close cooperation with Innograd.

According to Viktor Vekselberg, chairman of the board of directors of the Skolkovo Foundation, head of the Skolkovo Innovation Center, by mid-December 2020, Skolkovo has almost 2,800 participants with a total annual revenue of more than 100 billion rubles.

One of the first residents of the Skolkovo Foundation was the Center for Innovative Development of STM, established by the Sinara - Transport Machines holding. Now STM holding has become an industrial partner of Skolkovo with its research center.

We have significantly expanded the areas of work on products. Now these are not only locomotives, but all rolling stock, including track equipment, urban public transport. We also made a significant emphasis on digitalization. At a new level, we are working with Skoltech, startups and business accelerators, - the words of the Director General of the STM Research Center Yevgeny Zuev are quoted in the message.

One of the first residents of Skolkovo was also the Satellite Innovation company. Its software products and hardware solutions for video surveillance systems are known in the Russian and foreign markets under the brands Macroscop and Eocortex.

Another graduate, Datavans, was helped by the Skolkovo Foundation to take a step from a research project to the production of a boxed product that is being bought worldwide today.^[7]

Assignment of Skolkovo resident status to AnalyticsHub project

The author's project AnalyticsHub (AnalyxHub LLC) passed the project examination Skolkovo and was recognized by the board of experts as innovative, and the company itself received an official opinion of the expert commission on compliance with the requirements for the participant. innovation center This was announced on November 6, 2020 in the group. Merlion More. here

Digital office of Magnit opened in Skolkovo

On September 11, 2020, Magnit announced the opening of an office at Skolkovo. Its employees will be engaged in the creation of new technologies for retail. Read more here.

2018

Largest residents

In May 2020, Skolkovo provided TAdviser with data on the largest startups by revenue for 2018. As it turned out, they are represented mainly by subsidiaries of a number of the largest players in the Russian IT market. Thus, the first three are represented by Diasoft Systems, Ai-Teko Innovation Center and SoftLineSettlement. The revenue of the largest startup - Diasoft Systems - in 2018 amounted to 1.2 billion rubles. For a complete list, see the table below.

Statistics on the largest residents for 2019 as of the beginning of June 2020 in Skolkovo have not yet been prepared. It is expected to be available in July or August 2020.

Top 10 startups "Skolkovo" by revenue in 2018

№	Company	Description	Revenue in 2018 (thousand rubles)'
1	Diasoft Systems LLC	Creating an innovative ecosystem of financial applications based on SOA and Cloud computing.	1,200,400,00
2	Ai-Teko Innovation Center LLC	Development, system integration, infrastructure solutions, services and outsourcing, information security, consulting.	988 400.00
3	CJSC SoftLineSolution	Cloud technology solutions, software licensing, hardware supply and related services.	985 973.00
4	Tinkoff Development Center LLC	R&D Bank Center	978 691.00
5	Rock Flow Dynamics LLC	Complex of effective modeling of deposits with unique productivity	940 945.00
6	Algorithm LLC	Application-to-Person Semantic Traffic Analyzer.	760 748.00
7	Netology Group Online Learning Center LLC	Using Machine Learning and Big Data Algorithms to Organize Full-Cycle Distance Education	737 535.08
8	Ai Ti Vi Group LLC	Open platforms for video surveillance and integrated security systems.	684,551,00
9	HF Labs LLC	Unified Client 2.0, a solution for ensuring the quality, synchronization and enrichment of customer information in CRM systems with data from open sources	662 269.00
10	AmoCRM	Small Business Cloud CRM	609 956.00

General statistics

In 2018, according to the annual report of Skolkovo, there were more than 1.9 thousand companies in the ecosystem of the innovation center with a total revenue of 69.6 billion rubles.

2011

As of April 2011, about 20 IT companies had the status of a Skolkovo resident, a decision was made to financially support seven to eight IT projects, Alexander Turkot reported in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The Skolkovo Foundation in 2011 was going to finance 30 IT projects, the cluster plans to submit three or four projects per month to the grant committee. According to the director of the Skolkovo IT cluster, its financing will be divided into three areas, within the framework of the first it is planned to support numerous startups, the second - projects at the stage of entering the market, as well as two or three large companies. The priorities of the cluster are defined in the so-called forcing - a list of 15 focus areas of development, including cloud computing, information protection, semantic search, IT for healthcare and education.

"Our task is to create an ecosystem that can work following the example of Silicon Valley and Bangalore, which with the help of our fund will be able to produce projects that are interesting for the West," he said. "We want to become a focal point for novice projects - not zero, but not yet advanced enough to go to development institutions, for example, to the Russian venture capital company, which complains about the unpackaged projects," says Turkot.

On the other hand, Turkot sees the task of the Skolkovo IT cluster in supporting investors, sharing risks with them, as well as raising the prestige of the profession of a software technologist and interacting with key Western partners.

In particular, more than ten Western companies are now creating R&D centers on the basis of Skolkovo. "The main requirement for them is that they should not be engaged only in intellectual outsourcing and cost optimization. We must see a focused direction with a clear product plan, "explains the director of the IT cluster. According to him, foreign partners are certainly interested in the Russian market, but they are much more interested in Russian ideas and brains. "However, only in a regulatory way it is impossible to solve the problem of brain drain, it is necessary to create conditions," says Turkot.

One of the problems in this area is due to the fact that there is no culture of patenting technologies in Russia, the expert believes. "The attitude towards intellectual property in Russia is slurred to say the least. One of Skolkovo's tasks is to create a model in which there will be a legislative and technological opportunity to protect intellectual property, make it a subject of measurable value, "he notes. "We hope that the Intellectual Property Management Center being created at Skolkovo will partly help in solving this problem," Turkot said.

"In the near future, we plan to hold a face-to-face confrontation of projects with the participation of TV channels, the prize for which will be quite tangible - tens of thousands of dollars," Turkot said.

The Skolkovo IT cluster has not yet been approached by projects that are engaged in a state Internet search engine, a national operating system, as well as e-government technologies, Turkot said. "However, if they come to us with intelligible ideas, we will gladly support them," he said.

In addition, according to him, the cluster closely monitors the development of IT projects and infrastructure in the regions, among which Turkot calls Kazan the leader. "We are approached by non-Moscow projects - from Tomsk, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk. However, in my opinion, the extraterritorial status of Skolkovo should be maintained, since it is not entirely correct to "pull out" promising teams and technologies from the region, leave it without the best resources. But this is a matter of state will and legislation, "Turkot said.

Examples of IT cluster residents:

• NIC Aerodisk

Aerodisk Research Center, software developer, is a resident of the Skolkovo Innovation Center since May 14, 2020.

• Advanta

Advanta Group of Companies - Russian a developer software for business development management - has been a resident Skolkovo Innovation Center since March 2020.

• Yandex

In mid-December 2019, the board of directors of the Skolkovo Foundation approved the provision of a land plot of about 20 hectares to Yandex for the construction of a campus on the territory of the innovation center. The Russian Internet company, among other things, will place a data center, laboratories, offices, a corporate university, school and preschool educational institutions there. It is planned to build the campus in 10-15 years. Read more here.

• Red Soft

Red Soft and the Skolkovo Foundation signed a partnership agreement on June 27, 2019. Under the terms of the agreement, Red Soft will open a development center on the territory of Skolkovo and receive resident status. Read more here.

• "Innovation Center of I-Teco"

The Ai-Teko Innovation Center has been a resident of the Skolkovo Innovation Center since 2015.

• Abbyy Infopoisk

In February 2011, the Skolkovo Foundation approved the allocation of a grant in the amount of 450 million rubles. Abbyy Russia. The money is allocated to create the Compreno automatic word processing technology, the total project budget will be 950 million rubles. (Abbyy itself will invest the rest of the funds). The grant from Skolkovo is gratuitous and does not imply a return on investment, Abbyy noted. Earlier, Skolkovo President Viktor Vekselberg named Abbyy among those companies with which the fund intends to cooperate.

To carry out the work on the grant, a separate company Abbyy Infopoisk was created. She will become one of the first residents of the Skolkovo innograd, Andreev notes, the staff of specialists working on Compreno technology and the corresponding intellectual property will be transferred to it. True, while the new company will function outside Skolkovo due to the lack of readiness of the innograd infrastructure.

Most of the work on the creation of Compreno technology has already been done, says Sergey Andreev, 300 specialists are working on it, who have spent 1 thousand people on the project. The cost already invested in Compreno, Abbyy's president estimates at approximately $50 million. Commercial products based on the new technology should appear within two to three years.

Compreno technology is designed to create systems for analyzing, translating and searching texts in various languages. With the help of this technology, it will be possible, for example, to automatically compile a context database for improved text analysis, text autoreferencing, etc.

According to Turkot, as of April 2011, the company received only an eighth of the money so far, and the next tranche depends on achieving intermediate results.

• Parallels Research

In March 2011, Parallels Research, a subsidiary of Parallels (Parallels Software), became one of the residents of the Skolkovo innovation center. As a Skolkovo resident, Parallels Research will carry out research activities in the areas of container virtualization and other cloud computing technologies. Parallels Research Center profile is research and development, in those areas where the "parent" company has more than 10 years of successful experience in commercializing solutions based on these technologies. Cooperation with the Skolkovo Innovation Center will accelerate research work in the field of container virtualization and cloud computing, carried out within the framework of Parallels' main activities.

According to Parallels estimates, the cloud computing market will grow to $150 billion by 2015. Of great interest is the creation of a network of data centers that meet the computing needs of authorities and corporations, as well as the export abroad of low-level cloud services (PaaS, disk space and other IT resources).

On May 26, 2011, Parallels Research, a subsidiary of Parallels, received 150 million rubles from the Skolkovo Foundation for research and development in the field of cloud computing. The goal of the project is to develop a software platform that allows you to create effective private and public "clouds" with significantly lower operating costs than existing technologies. The platform integrates virtualization, automation, data warehouse and computer network technologies into a single system based on the existing technologies of the parent company Parallels and new technologies to be developed at the Parallels Research Center.

The software created within the framework of the project will be in demand when creating DPC telecommunication companies, service providers, large SaaS solution operators. As a result, customers of such providers will be able to consume information technologies precisely as services via the Internet, having the ability to instantly increase the required capacity, automatically connect new services, securely store all data in the "cloud" and access them from any device. The platform will also be applicable for building highly efficient IT systems of the next generation of large corporate clients - "private clouds."

The financing scheme - a grant - was chosen by the Skolkovo Foundation. Investments in Parallels Research are distributed in a 50/50 proportion between Parallels and Skolkovo. Thus, the total volume of investments in the project will amount to 300 million rubles in the first year. With these funds, it is planned to hire about 140 software engineers, purchase the necessary equipment for research and development, which will accelerate the development of the platform. Upon completion of research, Parallels, which has more than 10 years of experience with cloud computing in 120 countries, will commercialize development. The benefits from the work of the center for the state are the growth of exports of finished software, the creation of new jobs in the high-tech sphere, the increase in domestic competence in the advanced field of information technology - in the field of "cloud" computing. In the long term, the work of the center will provide multiple direct and indirect tax revenues to the budget, attracted external funds. It is expected that investments in the project will be returned by 2015, although the Skolkovo fund does not set the direct task of returning money to residents.

• CST innovation

In July 2011, CST innovation became a resident of Skolkovo. This is a 100% subsidiary of the St. Petersburg "Center for Speech Technologies," created specifically for the new project of "multimodal biometric systems." According to CNews, the executive director of "MDG-Innovation" Innokenty Dementiev, in addition to the already received exemption from income tax, benefits for the payment of insurance premiums and a simplified export regime, the company is counting on a grant of "several million dollars "CST^[8].

The development of the "MDG-Innovation" will be an identification technology that allows you to identify a person by voice or face image. Potential customers in the company are called the spheres of state, corporate security and telecommunications.

The company considers the starting development unique in scale and functionality: "it will be able to store multimillion-dollar databases of biometric data (samples of voices, photo images), find target personalities in any communication channels and video files, analyze media of all types in real time and build instant response systems."

The software is directly focused on security officials.

'Identification of the perpetrator, suspect or any other target identity will be based on analysis of audio recordings (e.g. telephone conversations), photographs or video material obtained at the site or crime scene, 'the CST. - It is also possible to connect additional identification modules: by fingerprint, iris, etc. '.

'We are cooperating with the Interior Ministry and the FSB on our other products, 'says CNews Dementiev. "Previously, the departments became interested in the new development, we received letters from the Ministry of Internal Affairs about this, but its implementation is not a matter of the very near future, after the completion of the work, a number of examinations will still be required."

"As far

as I know, the CST is really successfully cooperating with the security forces, it is more difficult with projects in the consumer market," said Vyacheslav Borilin, vice president of the developer of video conference systems Spirit. - The fact is that commercial customers often do not have specially trained employees with the system, as in the case of special services, but untrained and unmotivated personnel. "

Recall that the large-scale voice biometric system implemented by the "Center for Speech Technologies" in Mexico has been in operation since the beginning of 2010. 'Future development will allow identifying a person in real time by two biometric modalities,' explains Dementiev. - Currently, Mexico has implemented a system of phonocounts, that is, it collects, stores and searches only by the vote base. In the framework of our new project, firstly, a system will be developed that will allow identifying a person not by one biometric characteristic, but by two, namely, by voice and by face. Such a system will make it most likely to identify a person's identity. In addition, all processes in the system will proceed automatically, which will allow even specialists without expert qualifications to use our system.

In addition to law enforcement agencies, strategic objects, venues for mass events, etc. are called a niche for their new system in the CST. Dementiev calls its main competitors NEC, Morpho (a subsidiary of the Safran group, which deals with aviation and security systems).

• Workle

In July 2011, one of the new residents of the IT cluster was the company "Work" with the Internet employment project. "The project will contribute to the fight against unemployment in Russia, and we are grateful to Skolkovo for helping in this difficult task," said the founder of the project Vladimir Gorbunov.

Work is the first Internet portal that will provide users with the opportunity to work, build a career and earn money over the Internet throughout Russia. Work's priority is a wide selection of specialties; by the end of 2012, more than 20 professions adapted for Internet work will be represented. Rosno, OTP Bank, Renaissance Insurance, MAKS and others will be the first partner companies to charge online experts to Work.

Since July 2011, Work has been operating in closed testing mode; more than 2,500 people take part. The official start is scheduled for late 2011.

• Titan Information Service

Speech Recognition Project (July 2011)

• Proofreading Laboratory

Anti-Typo Technology (July 2011)

• REGUL +

Automated Enterprise Management Technologies (July 2011).

• CyberCop

CyberCop's comprehensive cybercrime system (Group-IB - Information Security Group) is an effective tool that will allow law enforcement agencies in Russia and abroad to fight cybercrime at the most difficult stages of the investigation process - collecting evidence, analyzing the information received and finding attackers. Thanks to the correlation of data on computer crimes, methods of their commission, information about the persons involved, the investigation will be conducted on the basis of complete information. Therefore, such technical means will contribute not only to the protection of information, but also to a direct decrease in the very level of cybercrime.

The complex CyberCop system under development consists of four main modules:

• CyberCop is the central module responsible for storing, processing and correlating information about high-tech crimes. This system module is intended for use only by the relevant law enforcement agencies.
• BrandPointProtection and AntiPhishing is a module that allows you to automatically monitor the Internet for illegal use of corporate brands and phishing attacks.
• Fraud Monitor is a subsystem designed to fix and prevent fraud in Internet banking systems.
• Forensic Systems - advanced software and hardware devices for conducting computer forensic research and collecting digital evidence.

• Smart Engines

The company Smart Engines - Russian a developer in the field of recognitions document systems based on - artificial intelligence on March 6, 2020 announced that it had become a resident. " Skolkovo More. here

• Uniclaud Labs

In September 2011, the Skolkovo Innovation Center awarded Uniclaud Labs LLC, part of the iT group of companies, the status of a resident participant in the project. Support for innovative activities from the technopark will allow the young team to develop and successfully commercialize a "cloud" product focused on the medium and small business market. Unicloud is a project launched by the iT group of companies in 2010 with the aim of creating unique offers for the market in the cloud service model. The company specializes in providing the small and medium-sized business market with cloud services and conducting integration projects in the field of creating private cloud systems.

"When we announced the start of providing Google Apps for Business and Microsoft Hosted Exchange services through our company, they said that selling the best cloud services from market leaders is just the first step. Today we announce the next step: Unicloud, represented by its subsidiary Unicloud Labs, is developing a unique cloud service, "said Dmitry Torshin, CEO of Unicloud

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The company is creating a service that will make life easier for small and medium-sized businesses in Russia, will be simple, understandable and mobile. But its main advantage is that the service is not another accounting system, but a business tool that will help companies master new markets, find customers, suppliers and partners. Moreover, all these features in the basic version of the solution are supposed to be made free. The release of the service to the market is scheduled for 2012.

The development of a unified cloud system for automating the activities and interaction of small businesses in Russia is carried out with the involvement of world-class consultants, including Christoph Fetzer, Doctor of Science, Professor of the Dresden Technical University; Denis Popov, Ph.D. (Technical Science), Assistant Professor, Ufa State Technical University; Bayram Annakov, known in startup circles, CEO of Empatika consulting company. The project is coordinated by Tagir Yapparov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of ATI Group, who is among the best managers in the field of information technology according to the rating of the Association of Managers "TOP-1000 of Russian Managers."

• Identity Management Systems (IDX)

In September 2020, Identity Management Systems LLC (provides services under the IDX trademark) was included in the register of participants in the Skolkovo innovation center, the company received the status of a startup. With the support of the Innovation Center, the company will continue to develop a trusted digital interaction platform.

Biomedical Technology Cluster Residents

• Maxwell Photonics

On July 4, 2011, the first ceremony of assigning the status of a resident of the Skolkovo innovation center took place at the RIA Novosti press center. The Maxwell Photonics biotechnology company, the third portfolio company of the Maxwell Biotech group, which was included in the list of Skolkovo Foundation participants, joined the biomedical technology cluster.

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