15 fast-growing technology companies became members of the first Export Accelerator of the National Technology Initiative (NTI) organized by RVC in partnership with PwC.
On November 15, the Biofund's portfolio company of the RVC National BioService opened the NBS-YUG biobank on the basis of the Research Institute of Medical Primatology of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia.
As many as 38,359 schoolchildren from 430 cities of Russia applied for participation in the “Olympiad of the National Technology Initiative” (NTI Olympiad) of the 2018/19 school year, organized by RVC and ASI together with the largest Russian universities.
The Government of St. Petersburg and Russian Venture Company (RVC) have agreed to cooperate in the implementation of the National Technology Initiative (NTI).
Moscow, November 6, 2018 — PwC and RVC present the 7th annual review of the Russian venture capital industry, MoneyTree™: Venture Market Navigator” (“MoneyTree™: Russia") for 2017 and preliminary results for the first half of 2018.
The Technical Committee "Cyber-Physical Systems", created on the basis of RVC, began the development of standards of terminology and architecture for distributed energy systems.
On October 29 and 31, meetings of the working team and expert council at RVC on the preparation of the Strategy for the Development of the Venture and Direct Investment Market until 2030 were held in Moscow.
More than 1,800 schools in 412 cities have applied for a class from the National Technology Initiative. The largest number of schools that included a lesson in the program in St. Petersburg is 240 educational institutions.
As part of the business program of the Open Innovations Forum, RVC held a session “Involving universities in developing products and technologies demanded by the market”.
On October 16, at the Open Innovations Forum, RVC held a panel session on the topic: "Golden mean. The balance of state and private capital as a key factor in the development of the venture capital industry.”
Within the framework of the Open Innovations Forum, representatives of the Russian-Belarusian Venture Capital Fund RBF Ventures announced plans to invest new projects and to attract commercial co-investors to the capital of the fund.
On October 17, within the framework of the International Forum “Open Innovations”, RVC and the Foundation for Support of Social Projects (FPSP) entered into an agreement aimed at developing a long-term partnership in the field of social entrepreneurship.
RVC and the Korean electric power company LSIS agreed on the exchange of technology innovations in the field of equipment, software, engineering and services of the market of electric power systems as part of the implementation of the roadmap of the National Energy Initiative. RVC Innovation Infrastructure Development Director Mikhail Antonov and Technical Vice President of LSIS Kwon Bon Hyun signed the corresponding memorandum at the Open Innovations International Forum.
RVC General Director Alexander Povalko and Deputy General Director of the TUS-S&T Service Group Miao Chun at the Third Russian-Chinese Forum “Investing in Innovations” in Moscow signed the agreement on cooperation.
Within the framework of the Moscow International Innovation Development Forum "Open Innovations 2018", the session" Education 4.0. took place Creating optimal conditions for the transition from university to business.”
The IPChain Association (National Coordinating Centre for Processing Transactions with Rights and Objects of Intellectual Property), Skolkovo Foundation, Russian Venture Company and the Foundation for Assistance to the Development of Small Forms of Enterprises in the Scientific and Technical Sphere (Innovation Assistance Fund) have agreed on strategic cooperation in legal protection, security and management of intellectual property.
More than 10 thousand schoolchildren from 387 cities of Russia applied for participation in the Olympiad of the National Technology Initiative (the NTI Olympiad). Accepting of applications from the participants will last until October 30, 2018.
Venture funds of Rusnano Sistema SICAR and Skolkovo Ventures invested in the promotion of a Russian IT start-up in the markets of Russia, the USA, and Europe