Grishin Robotics

Grishin Robotics launches new $100M hardware fund

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...

15 April 2016, by Frank Tobe

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

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 ...

23 October 2015, by Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth

Valery Komissarova on when investing in robots is the right move

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...

26 February 2014, by Valery Komissarova and Andra Keay

Beaming-in to RoboBusiness 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...

27 October 2013, by Frank Tobe

Dmitry Grishin on evaluating robotic investment opportunities

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...

25 July 2013, by Dmitry Grishin and Hallie Siegel

More space robots as Grishin funds NanoSatisfi

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...

11 July 2013, by Andra Keay

Bolt closes funding round and opens applications

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. ...

20 February 2013, by Andra Keay

Robotics year in review: Top 10 stories of 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...

26 December 2012, by David Pietrocola

Robot startup series #3: Elad Inbar & RobotAppStore

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...

11 December 2012, by Andra Keay

Grishin Robotics invests in RobotAppStore

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...

10 December 2012, by Andra Keay

Grishin Robotics invest in RobotAppStore

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

10 December 2012, by Andra Keay

Grishin’s first investment: Double Robotics

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...

21 September 2012, by Andra Keay

Double Robotics: Crossing the chasm?

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...

12 September 2012, by Andra Keay