| Date | Title | Description |
| 25.01.2024 | Managing Director of GenerationS Ekaterina Petrova received the status of Business Leadership Excellence at the Impact Leadership Global Award in the UAE | Leaders from across different sectors were honoured with Impact Leadership Global Awards 2024 in Dubai on their role of making impacts in their respective fields like health, wellness, education, innovation, transportation, medicine, litera... |
| 01.09.2023 | RZD Transport Accelerator Launched | Anatoly Khramtsov, Deputy CEO & Chief Engineer, Russian Railways: «Russian Railways Holding Company has continuously been implementing new and improving proven innovation tools. The company has a fine-tuned system for forecasting innova... |
| 25.04.2023 | 15 Moscow Companies Selected for Business Extension in Middle East with City Support | The Moscow Export Center coordinated by the Moscow Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Development and GenerationS, the Corporate Innovation Development Platform, have summed up the results of the qualifying stage of the Internati... |
| 21.04.2023 | GenerationS won international best Team Award | On 20 April, there was the grand finaleof the International Best Team Award. This is a unique event which allows improving your development, motivation and HR management skills. This year, more than 300 companies participated in the Award a... |
| 20.10.2022 | Ekaterina Petrova – An Innovative and Motivating Businesswoman Leading a Successful Innovation Development and Consulting Platform in Russia | Receiving the status of “Best manager in the field of innovative business” at the first independent award for businesswomen “Charmous” in the year 2017, she completely redesigned the development strategy and relaunched the corporate acceler... |
| 06.10.2022 | GenerationS became a winner in the 12th Annual 2022 Business Excellence Awards |
The Globee Awards are a set of business award competitions organized annually and conferred in nine programs and competitions. They were created in 2003 to recognize accomplishments and contributions of companies and business executives &... |
| 23.09.2022 | GenerationS managing director Ekaterina Petrova received the Women World Award organized by the Globee Awards | Ekaterina was recognized in the category “Female Star of the Year in Business Products or Services” and was the only winner from Russia!
The Women World Awards are the world’s premier business awards for female entrepreneurs, executi... |
| 10.08.2022 | Russian IT-sector against sucntions |
Source: vedomosti.ru |
| 08.07.2022 | GenerationS and the Moscow Export Center launch Global Partners Program for moscow startups | Moscow b2b-companies from the fields below are welcome to apply:
Within the framework of the accelerator, startups will get an opportunity to pitch their product to largest innovative companies and to present their solution at leading inte... |
| 07.06.2022 | Russian technologies for export: how VR Concept conquers the world | The current economic and political situation in Russia, oddly enough, opens up new export opportunities for local companies. Cooperation with Europe is now difficult, but many Asian and Middle Eastern countries are open to partnership with ... |
| 26.05.2022 | Left without saying goodbye: which IT companies left Russia and is there any substitution? | Today, close attention is paid to the IT industry: the digital economy depends on its development in the country. However, today's realities are such that many of the world's leading manufacturers have either left the Russian market or limi... |
| 13.05.2022 | GreenTech-2022. How do green startups make money and why are they growing so fast? | The definition of GreenTech or “green” technologies includes all startups that are somehow connected with the environmental agenda. They can both directly create sustainable products and help improve the safety of existing projects in vario... |
| 28.04.2022 | How a startup can survive during a crisis – the strategy choice | This problem is especially sensitive for founders who at the end of 2021 were developing a business plan for the future and couldn’t predict the changes in the Russian economy.
Ekaterina Petrova, managing director of GenerationS corporate ... |
| 27.04.2022 | Can local startups replace foreign companies in Russia? | The main economic news of recent weeks concern the new sanctions that foreign countries have imposed on Russia. Russia, in turn, is developing initiatives aimed, among other things, at supporting small and medium-sized enterprises, which ar... |
| 10.04.2022 | Russian business continues to invest in startups | In the current economic situation, domestic business is urgently revising its strategies, making adjustments to business plans and goals. But the positive trend in working with innovations continues – most companies do not plan to stop thei... |
| 07.04.2022 | GenerationS has issued the fourth anti-crisis guide for Russian startups | Despite the current situation in the world, many accelerators, incubators, funds and companies continue to support startups. And to help them keep track of up-to-date information on grants, investment and educational programs, conferences a... |
| 28.03.2022 | Blockchain: everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask | Today, we hear about blockchain, without exaggeration, every day. Especially often in the context of cryptocurrency, which is now in demand more than ever: due to the blocking of Russian credit cards, many "usual" currency transac... |
| 22.03.2022 | GenerationS has released a list of Russian corporations that will continue to work with startups | The GenerationS team has published a list of corporations that are ready to continue working with startups despite in the current situation in the world. It includes russian companies from differet fields.
Due to the difficult economic sit... |
| 17.03.2022 | MKB develops innovative digital solutions to improve customer service | The projects proposed for evaluation by the jury are aimed at improving the bank's customer service and automating processes: a video analytics system in offices, a robotic system for client calls, a system for analyzing conversations with ... |
| 15.03.2022 | To see through: understanding what machine vision is and why we need it | Machine vision is an important component of modern technologies and an effective way to automate various processes, especially in enterprises using computer technology and robotics.
How does machine vision work? Devices located directly on... |
| 04.03.2022 | GenerationS presents a report on the role of middle managers in the business processes of companies | GenerationS, a corporate innovations development platform, presented an analytical report on middle managers, their place in innovation activities of companies and the role they play in improving business processes. The document is based on... |
| 03.03.2022 | The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) supports the early restoration of peace through diplomacy and hopes for the success of negotiations between representatives of the Russian Federation and Ukra... | “Since its foundation, RDIF has been focused on improving the quality of people's lives, has been actively engaged in the fight against COVID-19 in various countries as part of humanitarian missions, protecting millions of lives in more tha... |
| 17.02.2022 | Innovative solutions for dermatology and cosmetology | The skin is not only the largest, but also a very vulnerable organ. It is affected by a huge number of external and internal aggressive factors. Millions of skin diseases are diagnosed annually. Thus, in Russia about 6 million people a year... |
| 11.02.2022 | Beyond the Limits: How MedTech Changes Our Lives | Bionic prostheses, an exoskeleton that helps you move after a stroke, skin printing on a 3D printer for transplantation — all this has long ceased to be fantasy. Every year, innovative developments appear in the field of MedTech, which unti... |
| 31.01.2022 | Carbon footprint: what is it and why should we be concerned? |
Climate change has become, perhaps, the main reason that forced people to unite and seriously pay attention to the environmental situation. It is happening very intensively and affects all corners of our planet. Fires, floods, droughts, t... |
| 20.01.2022 | Startups know no age | In the modern history of business, there are many examples of successful and effective projects of both very young entrepreneurs and businessmen of a very respectable age, who are so passionate about their idea that even 20-year-olds can en... |
| 18.01.2022 | From electronics to ice cream: what products were exported by Moscow in 2021 | From January to October last year, Moscow's supply of non-resource non-energy products reached $26.59 billion. This is 29.5 percent more than the same period in 2020 and almost 34 percent more than the same period in 2019.
“Moscow is the m... |
| 23.12.2021 | The participants of the Russian Railways Accelerator with the support of GenerationS presented their projects at the Demo Day | On December 21, the final event of the Russian Railways Accelerator was held, the purpose of which was to select the best projects in the field of logistics for the existing needs of the Russian Railways Holding. This is the second program ... |
| 22.12.2021 | Woman leader: how to deal with stereotypes, difficulties and ageism? | Women leaders today still face some difficulties and are forced to overcome many stereotypes. Ekaterina Petrova, director of the GenerationS Corporate Innovation Development Platform which is part of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, told... |
| 16.12.2021 | A step forward: Moscow b2b companies enter international markets | The main goal of the program is to help Moscow SMEs to scale faster their solutions to foreign markets.
The following companies took part in the Demo Day: IntellectDialog; Droneport; KPBS; GoodWAN; Orient Systems; ECA; Lossew LLC, Research... |
| 16.12.2021 | A boom of tech startups | During the pandemic, the IT market showed higher dynamics than in the previous few years. In 2020, it increased by 14%, according to IDC. Against the background of the accelerated digitalization of industries and the development of various ... |
| 14.12.2021 | #20questions to Maxim Nalyutin, Director of Consulting at Deloitte CIS | However fintech also has weaknesses, do you want to know which ones? Or maybe you would be interested to know how ready the banking sector is for innovation? We decided to ask #20 questions to Maxim Nalyutin, director of the consulting depa... |
| 09.12.2021 | RVC Management Company LLC and Russian Helicopters Holding Company signed a long-term cooperation agreement in the field of innovations | The agreement with Russian Helicopters (part of Rostec State Corporation) aimed at not only cooperation in the framework of scouting and selecting startup projects for a corporate technology accelerator or for the needs of individual busine... |
| 12.10.2021 | GenerationS alumni, Biomicrogels Group, became the winner of the G20 Innovation League | The G20 Innovation League Forum is one of the most important events for the development and search for partners, where the innovation climate of the G20 countries is being fostered. The event is designed to build a network between public an... |
| 15.09.2021 | Credit Bank of Moscow will select and implement the best fintech solutions of Russian and international startups with the support of GenerationS | Credit Bank of Moscow, together with the corporate innovation development platform GenerationS, launched a search for innovative solutions in the field of fintech. The main goal is to find breakthrough innovative digital solutions to improv... |
| 25.06.2021 | Generations received Cosmopolitan the Daily Business Award 2021 | In the end of June GenerationS became a winner of Cosmopolitan The Daily Business Awards in the category Best Practices in Ecosystem Acceleration - Russia 2021.
Cosmopolitan The Daily Business Awards aims to recognize and reward excellence... |
| 23.06.2021 | Beeline and GenerationS launched the call for innovative solutions in the field of personal security | GenerationS, corporate innovation development platform and Beeline, leading telecom company in Russia launched the call for cybertech solutions.
Startups offering solutions in the key directions below are welcome to participate in the call... |
| 19.04.2021 | GenerationS became a winner of Global Business Outlook Awards 2021 | Annual Global Business Outlook Awards seeks to recognise and reward excellence in businesses around the world. It is designed to facilitate the outstanding work of businesses and business leaders across industries. Global Business Outlook A... |
| 10.03.2021 | Sibur and Generations launch a Corporate accelerator |
SIBUR, the largest petrochemical company in Russia, and corporate accelerator GenerationS announces the start of application process for innovative projects as part of the corporation's global digital transformation program. The selection... |
| 20.01.2021 | Lenta and GenerationS selected retail startups to launch pilot projects | At the pitch session, 15 international teams presented to Lenta management their innovative solutions in the field of automation and improving the efficiency of operations, marketing, logistics and supply chain, as well as new services for ... |
| 19.01.2021 | Why the opportunity for innovation in tech has never been greater |
By Ekaterina Petrova, MD of the GenerationS Corporate Accelerator
For so many, 2020 has been a year of continuity and survival. The thought of breaking new ground may seem farfetched for those that aren’t one of the few sectors that have... |
| 10.01.2021 | Five things an accelerator can teach enterprises about innovation | Yet for such a desirable asset, the very notion of innovation has a certain intangibility. Everyone knows when they see something innovative, whether it’s a product, service or business model, yet explaining what it is, or how a company can... |
| 06.01.2021 | Why the opportunity for innovation has never been greater | By Ekaterina Petrova, Managing Director of GenerationS Corporate Accelerator
For so many, 2020 has been a year of continuity and survival. The thought of breaking new ground may seem farfetched for those that aren’t one of the few sectors ... |
| 02.12.2020 | Four Startups have successfully completed pilot projects in ChelPipe Group Accelerator by GenerationS | As part of the final pitch day, the project teams, together with company's experts, presented to the management of ChelPipe Group the pilot results aimed at implanting innovative solutions in the company's business.
Thus, the introduction ... |
| 01.12.2020 | Lenta and GenerationS sum up the results of the first international projects selection | More than 270 international applications were submitted in a month period, where 65% are start-ups from Europe, 18% from Israel, 10% from Asia, and 7% from the USA. Also, applications were received from various projects in Australia and Sou... |
| 26.11.2020 | AI, Blockchain, quantum: Online event series to highlight “next-wave technologies” (Dec. 1, 10, 22) |
GenerationS and Sequence Ventures announce #GENSTechTalks a new series of talks (in English language) to explore the Russian tech landscape with the leading industry experts.
The series is scheduled as follows:
at 4.00pm Moscow time (GM... |
| 06.11.2020 | The Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation and GenerationS launched a Contest for research projects in public administration | The main purpose of the Contest is to solve urgent research problems in the field of data analytics, the results of which can be applied directly in the day-to-day work of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation.
DataContest will ta... |
| 20.10.2020 | Russian Railways and GenerationS have selected 20 projects for further acceleration |
Russian Railways together with JSC VNIIZhT and GenerationS (a platform for the corporate innovations development from RVC) summed up the interim results of the Rolling Stock acceleration program, launched in July. The accelerator's goal i... |
| 14.10.2020 | Russian retail giant seeks UK tech start-ups with the support of GenerationS |
One of Russia’s largest retail companies is looking to work with start-ups in the UK.
Lenta and corporate accelerator GenerationS are inviting early-stage companies to apply for a paid pilot scheme, with their solutions potentially then ... |
| 13.10.2020 | GenerationS and Lenta are looking for international startups |
Corporate Accelerator GenerationS and Lenta, one of the largest retail chains in Russia, launched a call for international startups in the USA, Europe, Israel, China and South Korea. The main goal is to find mature solutions with high lev... |
| 05.10.2020 | Ekaterina Petrova, director of GenerationS corporate accelerator wins Stevie Award for Women in Business 2020 |
The Stevie Awards for Women in Business honor women executives, entrepreneurs, employees, and the companies they run– worldwide. The Stevie Awards have been hailed as the world’s premier business awards.
More than 1,500 entries were subm... |
| 22.09.2020 | GENERATIONS is among the winners of ITU Innovation Challenge 2020 | The Telecommunication Development Sector (ITU-D) fosters international cooperation and solidarity in the delivery of technical assistance and in the creation, development and improvement of telecommunication and ICT equipment and networks i... |
| 15.09.2020 | GenerationS is searching for innovative solutions in the field of mineral fertilizers | The search is conducted in partnership with one of the leading world fertilize producer and is focused on a highly specialized technology of fully biodegradable coating for controlled release fertilizers and a technology for applying this c... |
| 02.09.2020 | GenerationS is launching an innovation educational program | Educational program was customized for both - those who already have some experience working with innovations and want to improve their competencies in the field of corporate innovations, and for those who are just at the very beginning of ... |
| 30.07.2020 | Innovations in #Russia vs. abroad: the shifting and perspectives | The Global Innovation Index capture elements of the national economy that enable innovative activities, such as:
Institutions, Human capital and research, Infrastructure, Market sophistication, Business sophistication
Two output pillars c... |
| 24.07.2020 | Russian Railways and GenerationS launched a joint accelerator aimed at finding innovative solutions for the transport industry |
Russian Railways and GenerationS launched joint corporate accelerator for innovative solutions for transport industry. The main goal of the project is to find promising, highly competitive technologies that can improve the safety, operati... |
| 25.06.2020 | ChelPipe Group and GenerationS selected 14 projects for the accelerator | 12 Russian and 2 foreign projects, that presented the most promising and competitive solutions for ChelPipe Group were selected for the next acceleration stage. Teams from Russian cities such as Moscow, Kazan, Chelyabinsk, Perm, Ekaterinbur... |
| 28.05.2020 | Adapting to a New Innovation Reality: Trends, Technologies, Prospects | Analysts from the Roscongress Foundation have identified the main points made by the paper. For each one, a relevant video excerpt of a panel discussion held at one of the Foundation’s main events has been added.
The COVID-19 pandemic has ... |
| 28.05.2020 | GenerationS presents the analytical report "Adapting to a new innovation reality: trends, technologies, perspectives" | In the framework of this report preparation, GenerationS analyzed the pandemic impact on various economic sectors based on open, leading industry data sources, analytical reports and international indices. The format of spot surveys of corp... |
