Podcasts

Dnevnik.ru is an educational social network that connects students, teachers, parents, and school administrators.

Interview with a partner of Life.SREDA, one of the most active venture funds in Russia.

Digital October is one of the main organizers of the event TechCrunch Moscow. In this interview their Director talks about the improvement he has seen over the years in the Russian VC market and gives advice to foreign investors. 

Excursiopedia, the winner of TechCrunch Moscow 2012's "startup battle" is an online travel startup based around activities.

Watch this interview with Endorphin's founder who explains the advantage professionals can find by rating one's connections in order to find a person with the right type of skills and expertise.

Alisa Chumachenko is "a hard core gamer", founder and CEO of the Russian startup "Gaming Insight International". She is considered amongst the world's most prominent women in tech.

Smartmarket.net is one of the first crowd investing platforms in Russia. Although it already represents around 100 project, its official launch will be this March.

Bay.ru is an eCommerce importing all sorts of US goods into Russia.

Marina Treshova believes that there will be a boom in Russian startups in the education and financial sectors.

Interview with the Managing Partner of Runa Capital, one of the few Russian funds that has an international perspective.

EastLabs' Managing Partner Hrish Lotlikar says international investors should cooperate more with tech-companies from the CIS.

Patrick Schneider-Sirkorsky, RusBase's International Partnership Director, explains RusBase's concept, vision and mission.

The American-Russian entrepreneur Edward Shenderovich points to the various factors showing that the Russian VC market is improving and international interest is growing.

We kickstart our series of interviews gathered at TechCrunch Moscow 2012 with the Editor of TechCrunch Europe Mike Butcher, who was the event's moderator. According to Mike, the Russian VC market, the level of startups and their products are making great improvements.

Russian entrepreneur Pavel Durov is the creator and head of the social network Vkontakte (which means “In Touch”), and General Manager of the company of the same name. Today, Vkontakte is the most popular social network in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, with more than 150 million registered users and 33 million daily visitors.

IBM's Sancia Matthyssen talks with veteran entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Tom Lewis, about his 20 plus years of working with startups in Russia and the former Soviet Union. He touches on how the region has changed, the lessons learned, important considerations when doing business in non-local markets, and more.

Philippe Botteri, an investment strategist at Accel Partners and formerly Vice President of Bessemer Venture Partners, talks about technology investment opportunities in Russia and the Nordic region. He speaks with Maryam Nemazee on Bloomberg Television's "The Pulse." (Source: Bloomberg) Principle at Accel Partners in London.

Voice traffic in Russia has quadrupled in the past year, J'son&Partners Consulting has revealed. In late 2011, Russia had 22 million VoIP users (including Skype subscribers), and the general penetration level of voice services reached 14%.