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Kaspersky Lab leads Russian tech invasion of Dublin’s ‘Silicon Docks’

June 2, 2016

Kaspersky Lab, the global cyber-security firm, is leading an invasion of Dublin by Russian technology companies, start-ups, programmers and developers – many of whom are looking abroad as Russia remains stuck in recession and worries grow over the political and legal environment there. The Moscow-based company, which is the fourth biggest seller of anti-virus software, is planning to open a …

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Impulse VC and Phystech Ventures invest in UK-based startup to “apply biological intelligence to branding”

June 3, 2016

In yet another illustration of the internationalization of Russian venture capital, two funds with Russian roots, Impulse VC and Phystech Ventures, have invested in UK adtech startup Locomizer. The seed round, which amounts to $300,000, may be followed by additional capital injections of up to $1.5 million by the end of this year. This startup — which also has Russian roots — claims …

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Intel acquires Russian computer vision company Itseez

May 31, 2016

Itseez, a Russian company developing computer vision algorithms and implementations for embedded and specialized hardware, has just been acquired by Intel. The US corporation has announced a “definitive agreement” – without disclosing, however, any details of the deal. “This acquisition furthers Intel’s efforts to win in IoT market segments like automotive and video, where the ability to …

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Russia considers deploying Hyperloop systems across the country

March 2, 2017

“Russia is technologically ready to launch such large-scale projects as Elon Musk’s Hyperloop,” Russian minister of transport Maxim Sokolov said in mid-May at a press briefing in the southern Russian city of Sochi. As reported by Russian business daily RBC, this Hyperloop-like transport system would link the western and eastern ends as well as the northern and …

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Winter Capital to invest $3 million in StickerDrive to “let advertising enter all spheres of human life”

May 31, 2016

Earlier this month Winter Capital, an investment advisory firm backed indirectly by Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin, announced a $3 million investment plan in several tranches for StickerRide. Created in 2013, this Moscow-based startup connects car owners with brands to organize advertising campaigns. The StickerRide application helps car drivers earn a little extra each month by using their …

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Russia’s Run Capital invests in UK P2P lending platform

May 26, 2016

Earlier this month iBondis, a London, UK-based online P2P lending platform for SMEs, closed a venture capital funding round of undisclosed amount. The round was led by Run Capital, with participation from an unnamed institutional investor and an individual investor. The company intends to use the funds to expand the service in Europe, mainly in …

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After-sanction era: Russian businessmen invest in Iranian digital markets

May 25, 2016

Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin is among the first ones to take advantage of the lifting of most international sanctions on Iran. Winter Capital Partners (WCP), a private equity and venture capital fund controlled by Potanin’s Interros, has recently acquired a stake in Pomegranate. This Swedish company actively invests in Iranian digital assets via Sarava, a …

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Russian corporations launch giant startup investment programs

June 16, 2017

Since the beginning of this year, at least six corporate venture funds have been launched or started operations in Russia. Four of them were created by AFK Sistema, a Russian, LSE-listed conglomerate. Sistema Venture Capital, the most recent  one, started operating last month in Moscow. It has raised 10 billion rubles (approximately $154 million at the current exchange rate) to support globally-oriented …

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Russian students win prestigious international programming championship

May 24, 2016

A team from Russia’s St. Petersburg State University (SPbU) has come out on top of the 40th International Collegiate Programming Contest of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM ICPC), beating 128 of their peers in the finals held at Prince of Songkla University in Thailand. Coming ahead of teams from Harvard and the MIT, Russian students Stanislav Ershov, Igor Pyshkin and …

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Life.Sreda launches international fund to help banks invest in blockchain startups

July 5, 2016

Life.Sreda, a Singapore-based venture fund with Russian origins, is launching a new venture fund dedicated to investing in the blockchain ecosystem. Christened ‘Banking on Blockchain Fund,’ or ‘BB Fund,’ the new fund will provide start-up capital for early stage blockchain companies that have use cases relevant to banks. Starting with an initial capital infusion of $5 …

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Runa Capital raises $135-million second fund

July 5, 2016

Yesterday Runa Capital, a venture investment firm operating globally from its offices in Moscow, London and San Francisco, announced that it has closed its second fund, Runa Capital Fund II, having raised $135 million. As a result, Runa has $270 million under management, taking into account its first fund, which also amounted to $135 million. The firm declined to …

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Skolkovo agrees cooperation with Algerian technoparks

May 20, 2016

In late April Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, signed a cooperation agreement with Algeria’s National Agency for the Promotion and Development of Technoparks (ANPT). This partnership came as one of the results of a visit to Moscow by the Algerian prime minister and the ANPT’s director Abdelhakim Bensaoula. As reported …

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