Grishin Robotics

Grishin Robotics launches new $100M hardware fund

Frank Tobe 15 Apr 2016

In 2012, Dmitry Grishin, co-founder and CEO of Mail.Ru Group, the largest Internet and social networking company in the Russian-speaking world, seeded a fund with $25 million of his own money to f...

Robots in Depth: Grishin Robotics’ Valery Komissarova on getting funding

Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth 23 Oct 2015

Robots in Depth is a new video series featuring interviews with researchers, entrepreneurs, VC investors, and policy makers in robotics, hosted by Per Sjöborg. In this interview, Valery Komissarova ...

Valery Komissarova on when investing in robots is the right move

Valery Komissarova and Andra Keay 26 Feb 2014

As part of Robohub’s Big Deals series, startup expert Andra Keay asks Valery Komissarova, Grishin Robotics’ Director of Business Development, about what all the recent robotics acquisitions mean t...

Beaming-in to RoboBusiness 2013

Frank Tobe 27 Oct 2013

RoboBusiness 2013, held last week at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, was a revitalized example of previous RoboBusiness events. Throughout the three-day event, there was renewed e...

Dmitry Grishin on evaluating robotic investment opportunities

Dmitry Grishin and Hallie Siegel 25 Jul 2013

As part of our series on high-risk, high-reward robotics, and as a follow-up to his recent Robot's Podcast interview, I asked entrepreneur and venture capitalist Dmitry Grishin to talk to us about how...

More space robots as Grishin funds NanoSatisfi

Andra Keay 11 Jul 2013

NanoSatisfi, a Silicon Valley based cubesat startup, today received $300,000 investment from Grishin Robotics bringing their total seed funding to $1,750,000, not including their initial successful Ki...

Bolt closes funding round and opens applications

Andra Keay 20 Feb 2013

Bolt, Ben Einstein's hardware and robotics accelerator in Boston, today announced the close of their first funding round and the opening of the first round of applications for 2013 hardware startups. ...

Robotics year in review: Top 10 stories of 2012

David Pietrocola 26 Dec 2012

The past year was a watershed moment for robotics. From defense to exploration, startups to legislation, we saw products, laws, and investments that have shifted robotics out of the lab and into our l...

Robot startup series #3: Elad Inbar & RobotAppStore

Andra Keay 11 Dec 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE942o42Ra8 I interviewed Elad Inbar, CEO of the RobotAppStore, just before the announcement that Grishin Robotics was investing $250,000 in this cloud robotics mark...

Grishin Robotics invests in RobotAppStore

Andra Keay 10 Dec 2012

For Grishin Robotics, the future is in the clouds. Grishin Robotics are investing $250,000 into RobotAppStore, an online marketplace for robotics applications. It seems that Grishin is betting on t...

Grishin Robotics invest in RobotAppStore

Andra Keay 10 Dec 2012

For Grishin Robotics, the future is in the clouds....

Grishin’s first investment: Double Robotics

Andra Keay 21 Sep 2012

It was announced today that Grishin Robotics was investing $250,000 into Y Combinator startup Double Robotics. Double Robotics have already sold out their first order of affordable telepresence rob...

Double Robotics: Crossing the chasm?

Andra Keay 12 Sep 2012

Double Robotics, the Ycombinator company behind 'wheels for the ipad' is a fantastic showcase of the new breed of affordable consumer robotics. But can they cross the chasm? These guys know how to cre...