Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Runet: more and more investors

Venture Almaz Capital Russia Fund I will seek interesting projects Russian developers. Earlier, the start of receipt of applications has announced the IT department -Investment Holding Finam. According to Vedomosti, a venture fund created with the participation of U.S. companies Cisco and Russia's UFG Asset Management, prepared to invest over $ 8.9 million in the Russian IT-startups. Investors are interested in projects in IT, media and Communications: startups, which have "a good market and a technological idea and a team able to implement it, as well as operating companies with sales in the units of millions of dollars." investment period will be 5-7 years. Future projects and businesses in the Internet , IT and telecommunications are also attracting investment holding company "Finam". The Department of IT-investment holding company to invest in startups and existing businesses in the area of ??information and communication technologies, Internet technologies (online services, online media, video, audio, social networking, e- commerce), software, games (computer, online), infrastructure (ISP, hosting service), mobile technologies and services. At the same time, the industry of venture capital investments in the country is still in its infancy - there is no shortage of proposals (only in Finam ", says project manager of the fund Finam-IT" Yuri Eremin, available for at least 30 proposals per month), but companies willing to invest a little, told "Vedomosti" Yan Ryazantsev, investment director of the Russian Venture Company. Not to invent an innovative product - you need business model, team and intellectual property protection, "he says.

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