On December 1st, 2017 the IV annual Forum "Ecosystem of Innovations" held a meeting of the Russian Venture Capital Market Council where the focus areas for 2018 were defined.
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RVC, Roscosmos and VEB Innovations announced establishment of a venture fund in form of Investment Partnership Agreement. The agreement of intent was signed by Alexander Povalko, the CEO of RVC, Anton Zhiganov, executive director for business development and commercialization at Roskosmos and Kirill Bulatov, CEO of VEB Innovations LLC.
GenerationS, the largest start-up accelerator in Russia and Eastern Europe organized by RVC, is summing up the collection of applications.
In modern life, major corporations are unable to retain their market positions without dealing with innovations.
The project is launched by Ufa State Petroleum Technological University, the Center for Technology Entrepreneurship Petrokvantum and venture companies PhystechVentures and NorthEnergyVentures.
Alexey Basov was appointed Deputy General Director and Investment Director of RVC. Alexey will be in charge for the implementation of company's strategy in the field of investment policy, programs and projects.
For the pilot implementation of the projects of the National Technological Initiative, a working group will be established in the Novgorod Oblast, including representatives of the NTI Project Office, the Administration and public authorities of the Novgorod Oblast, companies participating in the road maps of the NTI markets as well as individual technological entrepreneurs.
RVC and the Russian Export Center (REC) signed a cooperation agreement aimed at facilitating exports of high-tech products of companies participating in the National Technology Initiative (NTI) when entering foreign markets. The agreement was signed by the General Director of RVC Alexander Povalko and head of REC Group of Companies Petr Fradkov within the Open Innovations-2017 Forum.
The United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) will invest up to 300 million rubles in Skolkovo Venture Fund — Industrial I established by Skolkovo-Venture Investments LLC and Russian Venture Company (RVC).
The State Secretary, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Oleg Fomichev, chaired a meeting of the RVC Board of Directors, at which the Company's Development Strategy for 2017-2030 was approved.
The interdepartmental working group under the presidium of the Council for Economic Modernization and Innovative Development approved a grant of 244 million rubles for the implementation of SKYF project, which is an unmanned aerial carrier platform for cargo transportation and agricultural aviation.
RVC opened a registration for the team engineering Olympiad for schoolchildren "Olympiad of the National Technological Initiative" (NTI Olympiad) of the 2017/2018 academic year.
On September 6, 2017, within the framework of the Eastern Economic Forum, an agreement was signed on the creation of the Far East Fund of the Development and Implementation of High Technologies.
In 2017, Creative GenerationS track develops for the first time innovative technologies in the domains of cinematography, music, augmented reality and media. Russian media holding "STS Media" has become a partner of "Creative" track within the frameworks of the greatest start-up accelerator in Russia "Generation S".
The leading Russian producer of precious metals "Krastsvetmet" is launching direction metallurgy and mining direction of the largest start-up accelerator in Russia and Eastern Europe "GenerationS" under RVC.
"Dual Technologies" track satellite within the federal start-up accelerator GenerationS will unite entrepreneurs-technologists specializing in developing solutions in the domain of civil technologies which are promising for use in the defence sector.
GenerationS Federal Technology Startups Accelerator established by RVC, launches special nominations for the most active innovation regions and universities in Russia — "City of the Future" and "Launching Innovations".
On August 23, at the site of the International Military Technical Forum "Army-2017", a partnership agreement was signed between the subsidiary funds of the Russian Venture Company ("Infrafund RVC" LLC, "FPI RVC" LLC, "Biofund RVC" LLC, "GT OPK" LLC) and autonomous non-profit organization "Agency for Technological Development". The document was signed off by Evgeny Kuznetsov, Director of "RVC Infrafund", a managing company of subsidiary funds, and Vadim Kulikov, CEO of the Agency for Technological Development "ATR".
Venture Market Council affiliated with RVC in partnership with the Ministry of Economic Development was composed of ten leaders of venture funds, Russian companies and investor associations.
RVC created a network of regional partners of the federal start-up accelerator GenerationS, which included accelerating programs for technology entrepreneurs from Russian 19 cities.