February 21st, 2013

Grishin Robotics Invests In Boston-Based Incubator, Bolt

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Grishin Robotics, a Russian VC group dedicated to the commercialization of robotics, has dropped an unnamed sum into Bolt, a hardware incubator in Boston. Grishin’s investment is part of a $3.5 million financing package closed this week. → Read More

December 10th, 2012

RobotAppStore Raises $250K From Grishin Robotics To Take The App Distribution Model To The World Of Robots

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The smartphone market, some argue, really took off after Apple introduced the first app store to make its iPhones more useful. Now a new startup hopes that the same might be the case for the fledgling world of robots: RobotAppStore, an online marketplace for apps for robots, has raised $250,000 from Grishin Robotics, the Robot-focused investment vehicle of Mail.ru CEO Dmitry Grishin, which earlier→ Read More

June 15th, 2012

Mail.ru CEO Starts $25 Million Fund To Spark Personal Robotics Start-Ups

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Dmitry Grishin, founder of Grishin Robotics, believes that robots – personal robots, not boring ones like the Mars Rover – are the future.

“It has been very difficult to do something really big in robotics for the last 20 years. So much technology innovation has been web-based and with computers. It’s been very expensive and hard to do to build a prototype, never mind bringing it to… → Read More