The 2nd Russian Venture Forum
The 7th Russian Venture Fair
October 10 - 11, 2006
Saint-Petersburg
Russia
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The Russian Venture Forum is a meeting point for investment professionals, proving to be a dynamic force in the development of the country’s investment infrastructure.
As Russia’s premier annual event for the venture capital and private equity market, the Forum brings together leading local and international investors and innovative high-tech business leaders.
Every autumn the venture business leaders from Russia and abroad, key experts of private equity funds, bankers, managers of major Russian financial corporations and industrial companies, heads of regions of Russia, ministries and departments concerned, come to Saint Petersburg. This year the representatives of major international and Russian private equity and venture capital organizations, participated in the Forum and the Fair, included: Jeff Milanette (Innovative Partners Inc, USA), Harry Fitzgibbons (The Russian Technology Fund), Barbara James (African Venture Capital Association), Maaret Heiskari (Sitra), David Giebink (U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation), Volker Neuschuetz (German Investment and Development Bank), Lawrence Wright (Cole Management Inc.), Akram Chowdry (Hi-Tech Venture Capital Fund, LLP), Jon Edwards (London Stock Exchange), Joerg Kreisel (JKIC, Germany), Anna Trifonova (RTS), Gennady Margolit (Moskow Interbank Currency Exchange), Vladimir Burenkov (GOTEK-Invest), Dmitry Kulish (Intel Capital), Mikhail Shkrumelyak (International Bridge Investments), Anton Danilov-Danilyan (Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry), et al.
The owners and top-managers of more than 100 innovative high-tech SME companies and about 120 investors – representatives of private equity and venture capital funds, business angels, banks and other investment institutions participated in the Forum this year. More than 700 delegates worked at the Forum altogether.
Program of the Forum consisted of wide range of different events.
The subjects to be discussed at the Forum included:
- Development of private equity industry in Russia
- Fundraising in Russia and abroad
- Opportunities of capital attraction to mid-caps at stock exchanges
- Intellectual property of the early-stage companies issues
- Infrastructure of support of venture entrepreneurship
- State-private partnership.
The Seventh Venture Fair was held within the framework of 2006 Russian Venture Forum.
The Fair presented a unique opportunity for SMEs interested in attracting investments for their business development, and gave them a chance to introduce their projects to investors from the Russian private equity and venture capital market.
Of more than 220 applications sent by the companies to the organizing committee of the Fair, the 105 mostly promising, representing the business of 25 cities of Russia, were considered by the expert commission to meet the basic criteria of private equity and venture capital financing. Russian and foreign specialists gave a special training for top managers devoted to rising effectiveness of work with venture investors. The projects exhibited are strongly competitive both at the Russian and the international markets of new technologies, and some of them have none analogues in the world.
About 70 companies exhibited their projects at the Fair’s stands. The extremely large number of applications received from the companies interested in participating in the Fair caused the decision to present 35 projects only in the Catalog of the Fair, giving to investors the opportunity to familiarize themselves with them and to contact with the most interesting ones in the future.
Total volume of investments required by the companies came to more than $200 mln. Majority of the projects came from Moscow and Saint Petersburg, the Privolzhskiy Federal District ranked to be the 3rd.
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The presented projects were evaluated by the Judges Team of the Fair. From the total of 68 companies presented at the stands, the best in 9 nominations were selected. The winners were: Conveyor LLC, Bryansk; Tradition Co. Ltd., Moscow; Melitta Ltd., Moscow; Beresta-EcoDom Ltd., Nizhny Novgorod; Kronvet Ltd., St. Petersburg; Zircon Ltd., Vladivostok; Electrochemical Power Sources JSC (ELIT), Kursk; STC RATEC, St. Petersburg; Red Star Stents Manufacture, Moscow.
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