04.07.2019
On July 3, RVC has conducted the business breakfast “Pharmaceutical and Medical Industry in Russia: Potential for Venture Investments”.
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On June 26, RVC held the business breakfast “Support for Educational Technologies in Digital Economy” which was attended by representatives of federal executive authorities, principals of universities, scientific agencies and venture investors.
Chinese IT giant Huawei has completed a deal to acquire the develop business part of the intelligent video surveillance systems, biometric identification and computer vision of Vocord.
The RVC Biofund portfolio company of "National BioService" (NBS) became the winner of the district stage of the All-Russian "Exporter of the Year" award in the North-West Federal District.
The main parameters of action organization and venture fund finance for supporting the promising educational technologies of digital economy had been agreed by the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation and RVC.
The agreement on cooperation in action organization and venture fund finance in the area of pharmaceutical and medical industry had been signed by the Minpromtorg of Russia and RVC within the SPIEF.
The Center of Genetics and Reproductive Medicine Genetico, which is the part of the RVC Biofund portfolio, won a tender to conduct the researches on the topic “Population genomics of indigenous ethnic groups of Russia” for the Research Institute of Medical Genetics of the Tomsk National Research Medical Center (NIMC).
A meeting of Venture Market Council was held in Moscow, bringing together the representatives of leading private and corporate venture funds and development institutions.
RVC with the support of the consulting company EY has developed a methodology for assessing assets included in the investment portfolio.
The export revenue earned by portfolio companies of funds partially owned by RVC in 2018 amounted to 88.4 million US dollars, two times more than in 2017 (44.6 million US dollars). Japan, Germany, USA, UK and Belarus have become the leading countries in terms of the volume of exported products.
EnergoLesProm LLC, a 100% subsidiary of ELP Group LLC, a portfolio company of the RVC Seed Investment Fund, has signed its first export contract for the delivery of a fast pyrolysis unit for processing low-quality wood into liquid fuel to Germany.
The new Terra Fund II of $ 40 million comprises 24 investors, including 7 new investors and 17 investors who previously worked for Phystech Ventures and North Energy Ventures.
Gazprom Neft, Gazprombank, the Russian Venture Company (RVC) and VEB Innovations have established the New Industry Ventures Fund.
Closed-end mutual fund (CEMF) "Maxwell Biotech" founded with participation of RVC capital sold its shares in the portfolio companies at the final stage and ensured return of investment to the members.
Roistat is a modern cross-cutting business intelligence system for analyzing and optimizing all the company’s marketing expenses.
RVC and Da Vinci Capital have announced the establishment of a joint venture fund Da Vinci Pre-IPO Tech Fund.
"MULTiKUBIK" company (known on the international market as CINEMOOD) attracted 263 million rubles of investments. Round leader, Russian and Belorussian venture investment fund RBF Ventures invested 140 million rubles.
Research results show how main market players acted in 2018 and how main industry trends developed. The rating considers three types of start-up investors: venture funds, business angels and corporations.
On December 18, at "Personnel for digital economy V 1.0» forum, deputy general director — investment director of RVC Aleksey Basov presented base parameters, strategy and key directions of the Fund for Development of Educational Technologies that will be created under the roadmap "Personnel and Education" of the program "Digital economy of Russia" of the Russian government.
RVC together with the Ministry of economic development of Russia presented a project of the Strategy of development of venture market and direct investments for the period till 2025 and further perspective until 2030.