russian venture capital market overview 1st quarter 2015
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Russian Venture Capital Market Overview
1st Quarter 2015
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Contents
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Greeting 3
About RMG partners 4 Two-Minute Overview of the Russian Venture Capital Market 5
Key Findings 6
VC Market Overview 7
Exits and Large Deals 8
Market Structure 9
Soft / Internet - B2B 13
Soft / Internet - B2C 14
Venture fund survey 15
Methodology 16
Deal List for 1Q2015 17
Calendar of Events 2015 23
Contacts 37
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Dear Colleagues, Despite current difficulties on the world scene and in the Russian media industry, we continue to produce a quarterly Report on the Russian venture capital market. We believe that current circumstances make it particularly important to fully and objectively communicate information on the Russian market. We strive to improve the content of our Report from issue to issue, helped by our partners: East-West Digital News and the National Association of Participants in the Alternative Investments Market (NAURAN).
In this Report, you will analysis of the market and interviews with market players as well as key metrics for the Russian venture industry. We also start to publish what we find to be the best articles and works of analysis concerning the market over the past period.
After a relatively successful year in 2014 we are now seeing a serious decline in activity with inevitable impact on the volume and number of transactions. Funds are holding back from investment and many Russian management companies have changed their focus to investment in Asia and other geographical regions.
Notable trends include growing influence of angel funds and clubs, including the Venture Club founded by Alexander Borodich. Projects with a sustainable return on investment are seeing increased popularity.
There has been some interest from private equity funds in technology projects that have advanced from the start-up stage.
Recent changes in Russian law as part of the campaign to bring more business onshore has led to uncertainly in the operation of venture capital funds and investment companies. Many investors lack a clear answer as to how to structure deals conveniently and efficiently. We therefore look forward to the moment when the new law on investment partnerships will start to work, enabling inflow of money to new funds that are organized as such partnerships.
I will be very glad to receive your comments, remarks and suggestions on the Report.
Please send me an e-mail at: [email protected].
Arseniy Dabbakh Managing Partner RMG Partners
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Greeting
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About RMG Partners
RMG Partners is an independent Russian investment company. During 20 years of work it has built an impeccable reputation as a reliable partner for its clients and professional market players.
RMG partners provides Russian and foreign companies with a wide range of services in the field of venture capital investments: - search for promising target assets; - capital raising, including public or private offering; - search for strategic investors and support of M&A deals; - support for venture projects, including strategy development and
measures to increase capital-raising potential; - recommendations on deal structure and financing methods.
Analysis and discussion of deal terms and conditions, as well as due diligence.
RMG partners is an active member of the National Association of Alternative Investors (NAURAN). NAURAN is a non-profit partnership created to draw attention to the market of direct and venture capital investments in Russia, to form a favorable legal environment, to assist in fund raising and promote the Russian investment market on the international scene. Other members of NAURAN include:
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Two-Minute Overview of the Russian Venture Capital Market
Seed
Start-up
Growth
Expansion
Total
Transaction numbers Investment value, $M
Average deal amount, $M
Investor structure
38 85
12.7 18
0.3 0.2
42 22
23 21
0.5 0.9
3 10
2.7 32
0.9 3.2
6 2
30.3 50
5.1 25
89 121
68.7 153
1.7 1.3
1Q2015 1QQ014
Number
0 13 Exits
0 109
Value, $M
Private fundsPublic fundsCorporationsPPPBusiness angels
5
Maturity 0 2
0 32
0 16
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Key Findings The venture capital market shrank by nearly two times in 1Q 2015 to its lowest level by both turnover ($68.7M) and transaction numbers (89) since the start of coverage by RMG partners
The only substantial y-o-y growth during 1Q 2015 was in transaction numbers at start-up and expansion stages
The biggest number of transactions in 1Q, 53 out of 89, were made by state entities (state funds, public-private partnerships, corporate funds of state-owned companies). But private capital is still dominant in total transaction value.
There were no exits in the first quarter of 2015. This was due to devaluation of assets in dollar terms following depreciation of the ruble
State funds paid a lot of attention to projects in IT (30 deals), industrial and biotech projects (7 deals including PPP), which have best prospects on international markets. There were 38 investments by state funds across all sectors in 1Q
The findings of our latest survey confirm that the Russian venture capital market is in crisis. In the current climate investors need to select projects even more carefully, to seek co-investors, and to cooperate with partners in order to take best advantage of opportunities to develop the project on foreign as well as local markets
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VC Market Overview
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Source: RMG partners
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193 221 213
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Value, $M (left axis) Number of deals (right axis)
Halving of deal numbers made 1Q 2015 the worst performing quarter since the start of Russian venture market coverage by RMG partners. Amounts invested did not change significantly y-o-y in ruble terms, adjusted for real inflation, due to decline of the ruble exchange rate. Tough economic conditions have altered the distribution of investments between stages Complete lack of transactions at the final, mature stage is not telling, as transaction numbers at this stage have not exceeded one or two in previous periods. But it is interesting that start-up and expansion deals doubled y-o-y, while deals at the growth stage (between the latter two stages) plummeted. The growth period has become unattractive as it offers relatively slow increase of value (compared with start-up) and relatively high levels of risk (compared with expansion). Main investors in 1Q2015 were public funds, private funds and corporate funds (either those with their own acceleration programs, such as QIWI Universe 2.0 set up by the Russian payment system company, QIWI, or funds set up by companies such as Sberbank and Hubert Burda Media to invest in their own corporate projects). The share of investments by private funds, though still dominant, has declined as private Russian money has switched to foreign start-ups (this effect has also devastated private-public partnerships in Russia). As shown on page 9 below, private funding at the growth, expansion and maturity stages has plummeted and no other investor types have filled the gap. Early-stage projects in search of private finance still have recourse to “clubs” of business angels.
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Exits and Large Deals
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Investment volumes in 1Q2015
Source: RMG partners
153 69
109
0
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400
1Q2014 1Q2015
Investments, $M
Base market Exits
There were many hurried exits from projects in 3Q and 4Q2015, and the sell-off led to a sharp decrease in valuations. As a result, there were no exits at all in 1Q2015. However, several investors, while keeping their projects open, are delaying new capital injections, not seeking co-investors, and have started negotiations on sale. Prominent projects now in search of buyers include LinguaLeo, Life-Pay, Utinet, Sotmarket. Contact, Payonline (a deal was completed in March 2015), etc. The emphasis is on recouping investments rather than any gains from growth in project value.
“Two years ago we changed our strategy and started investing in industrial start-ups. They often generate profits even faster than ICT projects, because the industrial technology sector sets definite targets – to meet certain technology goals, to create a specific component, to achieve a specific result. The first exit by our fund was at the start of 2014 from a start-up, which makes machinery for high-precision metalworking. I believe that government should be involved in the highly risky pre-seed stage because this is the stage that generates favorable conditions for commercial investors at later stages and that serves as a driver of interest.” Mikhail Rayak, executive director, Pre-seed Investment Fund
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Market Structure I
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29
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61
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4 7
98
14 8 6
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85
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10 2 2
47
17 18 12
73
22
7 10
66
21 13
5
38 42
3 6 0
Seed Start-up Growth Expansion Maturity
Quarterly VC deal numbers by investment stages since 2013
1Q 2013 2Q 2013 3Q 2013 4Q 2013 1Q 2014 2Q 2014 3Q 2014 4Q 2014 1Q 2015Source: RMG partners
In conditions where financing sources are increasingly hard to find, many new Russian venture projects have developed a standard strategy. First, a seed-stage company carries out test sales of its products, obtaining a sales threshold of 50-200,00 rubles per month, which gives access to 1.4 million rubles funding for 3 months from a government-backed accelerator, the Internet Initiatives Development Fund. This is sufficient to finance start-up. The company then applies for competitive grants that are obtainable from various government development institutions, most notably the Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises (FASIE), which has a special government mandate since February 2015 to support the high-tech enterprise sector and has become active in administering and financing national VC contests such as Generation S. The great advantage of public funding is that it is relatively long-lasting (a year or more), so that start-ups can focus on business development rather than fund raising. Many private investors are also doing their best to secure government financing for their projects.
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Private funds Public funds Corporations PPP Business angels
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Maturity
Activity of different types of investors by development stage
US$ M
Source: RMG partners
Seed Start-up Growth Expansion
18
12.7
21 23
2.7
50
30.3 32
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Market Structure II
Investor preferences between sectors saw no change in the first quarter of 2015. The VC market remained huge dominated by Soft and Internet (B2B and B2C), which took over 90% of the market by deal numbers and total value. The trifling number of industrial tech and biotech projects were sponsored mainly by private-public partnerships. This division is a simple reflection of risk levels: Soft and Internet ventures are saleable and a technique for their development has been put in place, while the development prospects and market for industrial tech and biotech ventures remain very limited, although there are major prospects on a global level, which state-backed investors can afford to target. Russia, unlike the US and South-east Asia, has nothing approaching a mass market for venture projects in spheres other than IT and media.
“A proper venture investor invests in innovative start-ups that already have a strong base and a 5-year development horizon. There is a new category of business angels in Russia, usually people who remain anonymous and who invest in classic dividend projects – soft development, travel and cloud technologies, e-commerce.” Lyubov Simonova, adviser to Almaz Capital fund
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Market Structure: investors
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Private funds still dominant in 1Q2015
Source: RMG partners
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10
20
30
40
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Seed A B C+ Exit
VC investments by round, 1Q2015, $ million
Business angel Corporations Public fundsPrivate funds PPP
Source: RMG partners
$ M, w/o exits
- 10 20 30 40 50 60
PPP
Private funds
Public funds
Corporations
Business angelsBiotech
Industrial tech
Other tech
Computer equipment
Soft and Internet B2B
Other IT
Soft and Internet B2C
Commitments by government to support high-tech import substitution and improve the competitiveness of Russian venture start-ups abroad are having little or no effect on the ground. Most investors are focused on projects, which could generate sales on markets outside Russia as quickly as possible. Such projects are mainly in the Soft and Internet segment, so its dominance remains unchallenged. Investors are particularly keen on start-ups, which can sell their product or service directly to foreign companies (B2B-business model) rather than attempting to enter foreign consumer markets (B2C-business model).
0,2 0,9 3,2
25
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1,3 0,3 0,5 0,9 5,1
0 1,7
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1Q2015
Average deal amount by stage
Source: RMG partners
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Market Structure: segments
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80 VC investments by sector, 1Q2015 Investment w/o exits, $M
Enterprise management
Total Tech 10% IT 90%
Biotechnologies
Industrial technologies
Other technologies
Software and Internet
B2B
Marketing/ Advertising
Other B2B
services
Software and Internet
B2C E-commerce
Content providers
Other B2C services
Hardware
Platforms Other IT
“Several start-ups in our portfolio received investments from government development institutions. I think that government works quite efficiently as a pre-seed investor, but could do it even better. It is important that a private investor believes in a project strongly enough to attract government interest. Another tendency is [growth of] cross-border deals, and this indicates lack of confidence in the possibility of future sale of local Russian projects. Russian investors are searching for projects from which they can exit with a good return and are currently finding them in the US, Europe, Israel and Asia. The Russian market is in crisis and start-ups are fighting to hold onto the turnover results they have attained, even in ruble terms. Unfortunately, it is now very difficult to prove to investors that there is potential for consumer demand, scaling and channels for growth on the local market.” Sergey Fradkov, managing partner, iDealMachine
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Enterprise management
systems 10.6%
Marketing and advertising
13.2% Other business
software 1.7%
Platform 33.2%
Other B2B solutions 41.3%
Enterprise management
systems 7.3%
Marketing and advertising
48.0%
Other business software
0.6%
Platform 18.7%
Other B2B solutions 25.4%
Soft and Internet B2B
1Q2015 $28.1M
1Q2014 $15.7M
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2
1
1Q2014 1Q2015
Amount, $M Quantity
8 4
13
7
1Q2014 1Q20150
0,5
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5
1Q2014 1Q2015
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10
1Q2014 1Q2015
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9
5 4
1Q2014 1Q2015
Enterprise management systems Marketing and advertising Other business software
Other B2B solutions Platform
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E-commerce 77%
Education 6%
Search and recommendations
9%
Social media 7% Content providers
10%
E-commerce 63%
Education 8%
Search and recommendations
9%
Social media 4%
Other 6%
Soft and Internet B2C
1
3
2 1
1Q2014 1Q2015
Amount, $M Quantity
Content providers 44
22
13 16
1Q2014 1Q2015
E-commerce
4
4
7
2
1Q2014 1Q2015
Education
5 2
12
5
1Q2014 1Q2015
Search and recommendations
4 0
9
6
1Q2014 1Q2015
0,2 2
5
11
1Q2014 1Q2015
Social media Other
0,02
1
0
1Q2014 1Q2015
Games
1Q2015 $33.3M
1Q2014 $56.4M
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Venture Fund Survey
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The survey of venture funds active in Russia in 1Q2015 showed that the Russian VC market no longer has any “safe havens”, i.e. niches where investors feel confident of recouping their investments by sale of the project (e-commerce was previously such a niche). Almost all respondents said that the only dependable strategy in the current environment is portfolio diversification and employment of highly professional fund managers. Views differ as regards the efficacy of state-backed development institutions and venture funds in helping the sector through current difficult times. Only 40% of the funds interviewed are convinced that government is an efficient investor for companies at early stages, helping projects directly with grants and subsidies and providing additional financing to business angels and investment funds. Other respondents are very critical of the current role of government investments and their usefulness for the market, noting incompatibility of the efficiency criteria used by state officials and fund managers as well as imperfect co-investment techniques and lack of fixed “rules of the game”. There has been a major outflow of investors from the Russian market, as local assets become devalued. Nearly all respondents agree that preference is now being given to projects outside Russia due to their greater stability and better growth prospects. However, 20% of funds in the survey believe that relocation out of Russia for the sake of fundraising is costly and, for the most part, unjustified. The reverse process – Russian market entry by foreign projects in search of new points of growth – is so marginal that only 10% of the respondents even mentioned it. Overall, the market was in severe crisis during 1Q2015. 10 funds were interviewed: IIDF, Target Ventures, Maxfield Capital, Moscow Seed Fund, iDealMachine, Almaz Capital, Saint-Petersburg Pre-seed Investment Fund, Skolkovo Foundation, IT-Online Ventures, Starta Capital.
“Most foreign investors ask start-ups to transfer their businesses, intellectual property, and sometimes headquarters, to a foreign country. Most projects target markets in North and South America and in South-East Asia. To be successful on other markets you have to be physically present there. Russian companies, which can’t find investors at home, are working increasingly with foreign investors. Foreign markets have key importance for IT projects, but the Russian market is crucial for industrial and high-tech projects. So, in order to work with foreign investors and on foreign markets, companies often open a subsidiary abroad while keeping their headquarters and intellectual property in Russia. We are seeing a lot of such cross-border deals between Russia and China.” Evgeny Taubkin, head of the investment service, Skolkovo Foundation
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Methodology
Methods used in this research are based on recommendations developed by the Russian Venture Capital Association (RVCA) with the help of Russian VC market players. “Venture capital investments” are defined as investments of up to 100 million dollars in high-risk, high-tech and potentially highly profitable projects, targeting IRR of at least 15%. “Investments” are defined as acquisition of equity in a non-public company in return for investments and/or long-term financing with the possibility of equity conversion (including with suspensive conditions). Investments may be made by funds (Russian or foreign legal entities raising capital from more than one source for direct investment in non-public companies), individuals or groups of individuals. Only investments in companies working mainly on the Russian market were taken into account. Companies financed by Russian investors, but oriented mostly to foreign markets were not included the measurement of Russian VC investments. In this report “corporations” mean corporate funds (funds that are financed by their founding organizations from internal sources, but which may invest in venture companies not affiliated with the founding organization). Investments in market infrastructure and exits were not taken into account. Investments in market infrastructure mean investments in VC funds, business incubators, business accelerators, technoparks and other institutions that work in the venture market but are not venture companies. Our estimate of VC investment market size includes grants and investment loans. These sums were included in the total market size (even though a grant is a non-repayable subsidy for research and development), since, like repayable investments, they are used to finance commercial VC projects. This Report distinguishes four main stages in the development of VC projects, as follows Seed: the project exists only on paper or as a result of laboratory research. Start-up: a company is being set up or has been operating already for a short time, but it has not yet sold its products for money. Growth: commercial production, first turnover from sales. Expansion: expansion of sales, market share, output,
office space, etc. In the deal list below we also define project advancement by the funding stage reached in 1Q2015. We refer to the first round of investments as “Seed”, followed by rounds A, B, C, and denote any further stages as C+ We group all VC projects into 7 sectors: biotechnologies; industrial technologies; computer technologies and hardware; other technologies; B2B software/Internet; B2C software/Internet; other IT. Biotechnologies: healthcare, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and medical equipment development. Industrial technologies: laser, energy, aerospace technologies, robotics, green and other technologies for industrial use. Computer technologies and hardware: telecommunications, data storage, mobile technologies and computer hardware. Software/Internet – B2B: applications and web services whose clients are enterprises (business management, marketing, IT product development solutions, etc.). Software/Internet – B2C: applications and web services whose clients are individuals (e-commerce, content provision, search engines, consumer finance solutions, education, games, social networks, etc.). The information used in the table of deals below was taken from mass media, open databases (Rusbase, AngelList, etc.), and internal sources of RMG Partners.
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Deal List for 1Q2015
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№ Deal date Project Investor Investor
type
Deal value,
$M
Company developme
nt stage
Investment round Sector Sub-sector
1 Jan Optoguard Nanotech Skolkovo PPP 1.23 Seed Seed Industrial_Tech Laser Tech
2 Jan Anews TMT Investments, Run Capital, 101Startup Private 2.7 Startup C+
Software_Internet_B2C Content Providers
3 Jan Dental Cloud Imperious Group Private 0.047 Seed Seed Software_Internet_B2B Platform/Middleware
4 Jan GeoCV Starta Capital (0,03); Moscow Seed Fund (0,062) PPP 0.092 Seed Seed
Software_Internet_B2C
Other B2C Internet services/software
5 Jan Pinxter Private investors Private 0.5 Expansion A Software_Internet_B2C
Search/Recommendations
6 Jan Ros.Taxi Yandex Corporate 1.8 Expansion A Software_Internet_B2B Other B2B software
7 Jan PostgreSQL Anton Suschkevich Angel 5 Expansion A Software_Internet_B2B Other B2B software
8 Jan Box2Box QIWI Corporate 0.5 Seed Seed Software_Internet_B2C E-commerce
9 Jan Rentmania FASIE Public 0.015 Startup Seed Software_Internet_B2C
E-commerce
10 Feb Netology group Buran Venture Capital, InVenture Partners Private 2.1 Growth A
Software_Internet_B2C Education
11 Feb
Energy exploration technology, Arkadiy Zlobinskiy FASIE Public 0.015 Seed Seed Industrial_Tech Other Industrial Tech
12 Feb
Med. Equipment sterilizer, Sergey Kavetskiy FASIE Public 0.015 Seed Seed Biotechnology Medical Equipment
13 Feb
Laser cutting and welding, Vitaliy Alekseenko FASIE Public 0.015 Seed Seed IIndustrial_Tech Laser Tech
14 Feb Bicycle security system,
FASIE Public 0.4 Seed Seed
Software_Internet_B2C
Other B2C Internet services/software
15 Feb Big data analyzer DIRECTUAL
FASIE Public 0.4 Seed Seed
Software_Internet_B2B
Other business software
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№ Deal date Project Investor Investor
type
Deal value, mln $
Company developme
nt stage
Investment round Sector Sub-sector
16 Feb Virtual reality analyzer FASIE Public 0.4 Seed Seed Other_Technologies Other_Technologies
17 Feb Ficus FASIE Public 0.4 Seed Seed Other_Technologies Other_Technologies
18 Feb RocketCallback Private investor Angel 0.06 Startup A Software_Internet_B2B Other B2B software
19 Feb RoboCV I2BF Global Private 3 Expansion A Industrial_Tech Robotics
20 Feb Mamsy ru-Net, Baring Private
15 Expansion A Software_Internet_B2C E-commerce
21 Feb Wicron Ashmanov and partners
Private 0.08 Startup Seed Industrial_Tech Robotics
22 Feb Wicron Skolkovo Fund Public
0.08 Startup Seed Industrial_Tech Robotics
23 Feb Netologia Group Venture Capital, Inventure Partners
Private 2.1 Startup C+ Software_Internet_B2C Education
24 Feb Vse evakuatoryi Rossii FASIE
Public 0.02
Seed
Seed
Software_Internet_B2C Other B2C Internet services/software
25 Feb PromoAtlas FASIE Public
0.02 Startup Seed
Software_Internet_B2C Other B2C Internet services/software
26 Feb Tictag.ru
Rostislav Kishenkov, Robot Food and Tech Angel 0.6 Startup Seed Software_Internet_B2C E-commerce
27 Feb MobilityLab IT Private 3 Startup A Software_Internet_B2B
Enterprise management software
28 Feb Bagazh iz ruk v ruki
Alexandr Borodich, Bogdan Yarovoi, private investors Angel 0.2 Seed Seed Software_Internet_B2B Other B2B software
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№ Deal date Project Investor Investor
type
Deal value, mln $
Company developme
nt stage
Investment round Sector Sub-sector
29 Feb Stealthy Messenger Nikita Khalyavin Angel 0.0001 Seed Seed Software_Internet_B2C Social Media
30 Feb Adaperio Rustam Baekenov Angel 0.03 Startup Seed Software_Internet_B2C E-commerce
31 Feb GetIntent AltairVC Private 0.4 Growth Seed Software_Internet_B2C Other B2C Internet services/software
32 Feb Poblizosti.pro Alexandr Timoshenko
Angel 0.2 Startup A Software_Internet_B2C E-commerce
33 Feb Lobster
Bogdan, Yarovoyi, Igor Yatrovoi, Igor Kaloshin, Ilya Mirochnik Angel 0.15 Startup Seed Software_Internet_B2C Social Media
34 Feb BigPicture Oleg Zakharchenko Angel 0.2 Growth Seed Software_Internet_B2C Social media
35 Feb Аvtoplanshet IIDF, Microsoft Seed Fund Public 0.04 Startup Seed Software_Internet_B2C
Other B2C Internet services/software
36 Feb ASU Bankomatyi IIDF Public 0.022 Startup Seed Other_Technologies Other_Technologies
37 Feb AFK IIDF, Microsoft Seed Fund
Public 0.04 Startup Seed Other_Technologies Other_Technologies
38 Feb NDFLka IIDF, Microsoft Seed Fund Public 0.04 Startup Seed Other_Technologies Other_Technologies
39 Feb Bez Pyili IIDF Public 0.022 Startup Seed Software_Internet_B2C E-commerce
40 Feb Instruktor po pokupke kvartir IIDF Public 0.022 Startup Seed Software_Internet_B2C E-commerce
41 Feb Moi Mechanik IIDF Public 0.022 Startup Seed Software_Internet_B2C Search/Recommendations
42 Feb Teledacha IIDF, Microsoft Seed Fund Public 0.04 Startup Seed Software_Internet_B2C
Other B2C Internet services/software
43 Feb Yu-test IIDF Public 0.022 Startup Seed Software_Internet_B2C Other B2C Internet services/software
44 Feb Appfollow IIDF Public 0.022 Startup Seed Software_Internet_B2B Marketing/Advertising
45 Feb Dreamroomer IIDF, Microsoft Seed Fund Public 0.04 Startup A Software_Internet_B2C E-commerce
46 Feb HappyCart IIDF Public 0.022 Startup Seed Software_Internet_B2C E-commerce
47 Feb Petshotel IIDF, Microsoft Seed Fund Public 0.04 Startup Seed Software_Internet_B2C E-commerce
48 Feb Promarket IIDF Public 0.022 Startup Seed Software_Internet_B2C E-commerce
49 Feb Scrut IIDF Public 0.022 Startup Seed Software_Internet_B2B Other B2B software
50 Feb WebSemantics IIDF, Microsoft Seed Fund Public 0.04 Startup Seed Software_Internet_B2B Marketing/Advertising
51 Feb Odarennyie deti IIDF Public 0.022 Startup Seed Software_Internet_B2C Social media
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№ Deal date Project Investor Investor type
Deal value, mln $
Company developme
nt stage
Investment round Sector Sub-sector
52 Feb Qubequ IIDF Public 0.022 Startup A Software_Internet_B2B Other business software
53 Feb PressIndex IIDF Public 0.022 Startup Seed Software_Internet_B2B Other B2B software
54 Feb Strizh IIDF Public 0.022 Startup Seed Computer_Technologies_Hardware
55 Feb Rentcar IIDF Public 0.022 Startup Seed Software_Internet_B2C E-commerce
56 Feb Robolanding IIDF Public 0.022 Seed Seed Software_Internet_B2B Marketing/Advertising
57 Feb Kartadoma IIDF Public 0.022 Startup Seed Software_Internet_B2C E-commerce
58 Feb CERAmarketing IIDF, Microsoft Seed Fund Public 0.04 Startup Seed Software_Internet_B2B Marketing/Advertising
59 Feb Good Trade IIDF Public 0.022 Startup Seed Software_Internet_B2C E-commerce
60 Feb Teslawatch IIDF, Microsoft Seed Fund Public 0.04 Startup Seed Other_Technologies Other_Technologies
61 Feb IIS Eldis IIDF, Microsoft Seed Fund Public 0.04 Startup Seed Other_Technologies Other_Technologies
62 Feb Chestnaya Cena IIDF Public 0.022 Startup Seed Software_Internet_B2B Marketing/Advertising
63 Mar Oktogo
MCI Management, Mangrove Capital Partners, ABRT Venture Fund, Ventech Private 5 Expansion C+ Software_Internet_B2C E-commerce
64 Mar Ensol Founders Private 0.5 Startup A Industrial_Tech Power Supply Tech
65 Mar Promeo Private 0.018 Seed Seed Software_Internet_B2C Social media
66 Mar Helpmed Private 1 Seed Seed Software_Internet_B2C Other B2C Internet services/software
67 Mar CartPay Co. FASIE Public 0.018 Seed Seed Industrial_Tech Other Industrial Tech
68 Mar CartPay Co. Private 0.06 Seed Seed Industrial_Tech Other Industrial Tech
69 Mar SocialKey Ads Digital Society Laboratory Corporate 3.5 Seed Seed Software_Internet_B2B Marketing/Advertising
70 Mar Promobit kamaFlow Private 0.2 Seed Seed Software_Internet_B2B Other B2B software
71 Mar Codeweb Skolkovo Public 0.33 Seed Seed Software_Internet_B2B Other B2B software
72 Mar Double Data
Columbus Nova, Almaz Capital Partners, Simile, Venture Partners, LETA Capital, I2BF Global Ventures Private 3.3 Startup A Software_Internet_B2B Other B2B software
73 Mar TicketsCloud
2be.lu Investment, Bogdan Yarovoiy Private 0.3 Seed Seed Software_Internet_B2B Platform/Middleware
74 Mar Electronic herd Eco-innovations Corporate 0.042 Seed Seed Software_Internet_B2B Other business software
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№ Deal date Project Investor Investor type
Deal value, mln $
Company developme
nt stage
Investment round Sector Sub-sector
75 Mar Trucker Path Renren Corporate 1.5 Startup A Software_Internet_B2C Search/Recommendations
76 Mar Wedvice
Doctornet.pro, Alexander Vorobev, Vitaly Fridzon Private 0.042 Seed Seed Software_Internet_B2C
Other B2C Internet services/software
77 Mar Life.film Alexey Karlov Angel 0.02 Seed Seed Software_Internet_B2C Other B2C Internet services/software
78 Mar Smart Wi-Fi Private 0.07 Seed Seed Software_Internet_B2B Marketing/Advertising
79 Mar Vseveda FASIE Public 0.018 Seed Seed Software_Internet_B2C Search/Recommendations
80 Mar Mobiforce FASIE Public 0.018 Seed Seed Software_Internet_B2B Other business software
81 Mar Solomoto Bloomberg Capital Private 8 Startup A Software_Internet_B2B Platform/Middleware
82 Mar BaseRide Technologies IncuVest Private 0.6 Seed Seed Other_IT Other_IT
83 Mar InstallTracker Angel 1 Seed Seed Software_Internet_B2B Platform/Middleware
84 Mar AMSRus the Untitled Private 0.01 Seed Seed Software_Internet_B2C Social media
85 Mar Tutzhdut the Untitled Private 0.01 Seed Seed Software_Internet_B2B Other business software
86 Mar Ediniy medicinskiy portal Angel 0.3 Seed Seed Software_Internet_B2C
Search/Recommendations
87 Mar Chistaya planeta Venture fund of Promsvyazbank Corporate 0.025 Seed Seed Industrial_Tech Other Industrial Tech
88 Mar RTM Diagnostika
Biofund RVK, Modernization and Technology Development Fund PPP 0.717 Seed A Biotechnology
Diagnostics & Research
89 Mar ArCycle Altair Capital, Almaz Capital Private 0.6 Seed Seed Software_Internet_B2B Other B2B software
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Calendar of Events 2015
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IN COOPERATION WITH
Event Calendar: January
24
Event City Date Organizer Institutional modernization of Russia - what is the role of
innovation ?
Moscow 14 RBC
Brand&Retail Session at the Konsumexpo-2015
Moscow 19 В2В Сontact
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2015
Davos-Klosters 21-24 World Economic Forum
Winter scientific school, Modern Biology & Biotechnology of the
Future, 2015
Moscow 25 Future Biotech
StartupLynch — project evaluation
St. Petersburg 30 Ingria Business Incubator
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Event Calendar: February
25
Event City Date Organizer Russian Startup Tour Rostov-on-Don 3 Skolkovo Foundation
Cbonds Presentation in Hong Kong
Hong Kong 6 Cbonds
Russian conference of developers and users of
PostgreSQL
Moscow 6-7 RAEC
SuperInvestor U.S. 2015 San Francisco 9-11 NVCA
Russian Startup Tour Tomsk 11-12 Skolkovo Foundation Cyber Security Forum 2015 Moscow 12 RAEC
LP-GP Forum: Clean Energy & Sustainability
London 12 AltAssets
Electronic trading platforms in Russia: who's who
Moscow 12 Expert RA
TEDxMoscow Moscow 15 Skolkovo Foundation Russian Startup Tour Nizhny Novgorod 17 Skolkovo Foundation
Russian Mortgage Congress Moscow 19 Cbonds
The crisis of corporate debt . Resolution technology of
difficult situations between lenders and borrowers
Moscow 19 Vedomosti
14th project selection. Business Incubator IT park (Naberezhnye
Chelny)
Naberezhnye Chelny 21 IT Park Kazan
Belarus Startup 2015 Minsk 21
The Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus, IT
House The Ninth International
Conference on Digital Society Lisbon 22-27 IARIA
Internet of Things - IT Challenge
Moscow 25 Skolkovo Foundation
5th stage of KRITBI incubator acceleration program
Krasnoyarsk
25 LOGA Group, KGAU KRITBI
IN COOPERATION WITH
Event Calendar: March
26
Event City Date Organizer Implementation of prototyping
tools and software development strategy for international markets
Tel Aviv 02 РВC
Russian Startup Tour Kazan 03
Skolkovo Foundation
Communication of scientific breakthroughs (session at the
Communication on TOP conference)
Geneva
09 Top Communications GmbH
Mega-Projects of Russia and the world : Solutions That Work
Cannes 10 Kommersant
Russian Startup Tour Yekaterinburg 11
Skolkovo Foundation
Social & Mobile Gambling Conference
Moscow 12 Smile Expo
Conference: Internet of Things Moscow 12 Smile Expo
eTarget: Audience Management and Marketing in the Internet
Moscow 12-13 Ashmanov and partners, Rambler&Co,PRICE
M-health Conference Moscow 13 Smile Expo
Hong Kong Venture Capital Forum 2015
Hong Kong 15 HKVCA
iCOMference 2015 Moscow 17 The Runet, RAEK
Russian Startup Tour Astana 17
Skolkovo Foundation
Roundtable: defaults and restructuring of the corporate
bond market
Moscow 18 Cbonds
4th Annual Partner Conference RBC
Moscow 19 RVCA
Finance for growing business - 2015
Moscow 22 Expert RA
ICT in the financial sector in 2014
Moscow 24 CNewsConferences и CNewsAnalytics
Big data Russia Moscow 24 Publishing house "Open Systems"
IN COOPERATION WITH
Event Calendar: April
27
Event City Date Organizer Smart City - Innovations for Life Hanover 13 Vedomosti
Regulation and management of innovation in medicine and public
health (conference)
Oxford, UK
13 Synapse Intelligence
RBCC Just Networking London, UK 14 RBCC
IT- Outsourcing : anti-crisis optimization
Moscow 14 CNews Conferences
World Bank Briefing St. Petersburg 14 АЕВ Russian Startup Tour Minsk 14
Skolkovo Foundation
CEE private equity forum Warsaw 16 Incisive Events
3d Print Conference Almaty Alma- Ata, Kazakhstan 16 Smile Expo
North Caucasian Federal District IT- School
Stavropol 17 ANO Agency of Innovation Development
Taxation of oil companies Moscow 17 Russian Business Forum
HackDay #37 Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg
17 HackDay
HRPR CAMP — 2015 Minsk 18
Invest Show Alma- Ata, Kazakhstan 18 IRBIS
Imagine Cup Moscow 18 Microsoft World Economic Forum on East
Asia 2015 Jakarta 19-21 The World Economic Forum
Legal issues of the pharmaceutical industry : the interaction of government and
business in the new environment
Moscow 21 The Moscow Times
ICT in the energy industry in 2015
Moscow 21 CNews Conferences и CNews Analytics
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Event Calendar: April
28
Event City Date Organizer Russian ICT company in Germany :
a strategy for success
Dusseldorf
21 NRW.INVEST, CNews Conferences
RBCC Expats Forum
St. Petersburg
22 RBCC
The bankruptcy procedure in Russia. Financial and Legal Aspects
Moscow 22 The Moscow Times
Russian Forum of Sales 2015
Moscow 22 Prime Time Forums
Russian Startup Tour Ufa 22
Skolkovo Foundation
Russian Electronics : import substitution and development
prospects
Moscow 22 Vedomosti
RIF+KIB 2015 Moscow 22-24 RAEC Mobile Show Asia 2015 Singapore
22-23 terrapinn
DEMO Traction San Francisco 22 IDG Seminar, Business Process
Optimization Moscow 22-23 Andrey Koptelov, CNews
Conferences Finance 2015 : Management in
turbulence Moscow 23 Kommersant
ICT in health care: achievements and obstacles
Moscow 23 CNews Conferences
TNW Europe Conference 2015 Amsterdam 23-24 The Next Web 15th Russian and 10th Kazan
Venture Fair Kazan 23-24 RVCA
IT- School of the Siberian Federal District
Ulan-Ude 24 ANO Agency of Innovation Development
Startup Day Stockholm
25 GeekWire
DEMOday – Graduation from the fifth accelerator IIDF
Моscow 28 IIDF
Wearable Technologies Conference 2015
Milan 29 The WT Group
Russian Startup Tour Moscow Region 29
Skolkovo Foundation
IN COOPERATION WITH 29
Event City Date Organizaer Startup School LIFTёrnaya 2015 Astrakhan 4 IT-park FABRIKA, IIDF
TechCrunch Disrupt New York
4-6 TechCrunch
World Economic Forum on Latin America 2015
Mexico 6-8 The World Econ. Forum
2nd International Conference, Modern applications of
nanotechnology
Minsk 6-8 The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Foresight fleet in 2015 Astrakhan 12 RVK, SIA
CSTB -2015 Moscow 12-15 RAEC Management of corporate debt.
Anti-crisis measures Moscow 14 Kommersant
Startup Expo Eurasia
Мoscow 15 PFUR, Launch Gurus, RusBase
IT-School of the Volga Federal District
Ulyanovsk 15 ANO Agency of Innovation Development
Regional consulting practice sessions
Voronezh 18 LOGA Group
Impulse Good annual award Moscow 19 Our Future Fund
Investments in Russia: prospects, challenges and
opportunities for the real estate market
Tokyo 20 Kommersant
ITEX’15 Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
21 C.I.S NETWORK SDN BHD
National Russian Conference, Best Practices of Project
Management - 2015
Tomsk 21-22 NP PIT Business Partners
6th Investfunds Forum -Institutional Investors
Conference
St. Petersburg 21-25 Cbonds Congress
Event Calendar: May
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Event Calendar: May
30
Event City Date Organizer
12th CIS and Baltic Bond Congress
Baku 21-22 Cbonds Congress
The Russian market CRM: trends 2015
Moscow 21 CNews Conferences
Corporate debt and financial restructuring
Moscow 21 Russian Business Forum
IT-School of the Urals Federal District
Yekaterinburg 22 ANO Agency of Innovation Development
M & A 2015: opportunities and risks in terms of sanctions
Moscow 22 The Moscow Times
BioSciencesWorld 2015 Rome 24-29 IARIA 13th Annual International Conference on Finance
Athens 25-28 ATINER
Regional consulting practice session
Perm 26 LOGA Group
Bank equipment: new possibilities Moscow 26 РBC
12th Flagship Conference - Russian Economy: Quo Vadis
Moscow 27 АЕВ
3rd VC Forum Moscow 28 Cbonds Congress, Preoveca
Corporate communication system 2015: New Solutions
Moscow 28 CNews Conferences
St. Petersburg Internet Conference St. Petersburg 28-29 RAEC, Trinet Group
9th International Conference on European Science and Technology
Munich 28-29 The organizing committee of ICEST
Productive efficiency: Strategies, managers and technology
Moscow 29 The Moscow Times
Tax strategies in Russia. Course for deoffshorization
Moscow 29 The Moscow Times
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Event Calendar: June
31
Event City Date Organizer Final of Russian Startup Tour —
Startup Village Moscow 2 Skolkovo Foundation
Infosecurity Europe 2015 London 2 Reed Exhibitions RBCC Business Forum 2015:
Conference London 2-3 RBCC
Russian Gaming Week London 3 Smile Expo 9th Siberian Venture Fair Novosibirsk 3-4 RVCA
Information security of business and government agencies:
development in new conditions
Moscow 4 CNews Conferences
TECHNOPROM 2015 Novosibirsk 4-5 The Government of the Novosibirsk Region
Corporate Fraud Moscow 5 Russian Business Forum IT-School of the Far Eastern
Federal District Vladivostok 5 ANO Agency of Innovation
Development MixAR Moscow 6 26dotss
INOTEX 2015 - The 4th International Exhibition of
Innovation and Technology
Tehran 8 Pardis Technology Park
Cost optimization on IT infrastructure in 2015: how to
overcome the crisis
Moscow 9 CNews Conferences
Actual issues of intellectual property
Moscow 10 The Moscow Times
ICT in insurance: effectiveness in new conditions
Moscow 10 CNews Conferences
Regional consulting practice session (Verkhnyaya Salda)
Yekaterinburg 10 LOGA Group
Rapid.Tech 2015 Erfurt 10 Messe Erfurt GmbH
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Event Calendar: June
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Событие Город Дата Организатор Festival FUTUR EN SEINE in
Paris - the sixth issue Paris 11 Cap Digital
Program of acceleration of the Ural region "Factor"
Chelyabinsk 15 NP Business Angels Urals
Bio International Convention 2015
Philadelphia 16 Biotechnology Industry Organization
BI: Market of New Opportunities Moscow 16 CNews Conferences
Accelerator technology startups as part of the Youth Forum PFD
"iVolga 2015"
Samara region., Pribrezhnyii town
18 The government of the Samara region, the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs
IT-school of Crimean Federal District
Sevastopol 19 ANO "Agency of Innovation Development»
Regional consulting practice session
Naberezhnye Chelny
22 LOGA Group
Regional consulting practice session
Grozny 24 Moscow Technological Institute
Russia and CIS Investment Forum
Zurich 24 Hansa Fincom
Start in Garage Minsk 27-28 RIS Ventures
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Event Calendar: July
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Event City Date Organizer
NANO KOREA 2015 Seoul 1 Nanokorea
Summer School of Development and
Entrepreneurship HSE {sun} 2015
Venue to be confirmed
6 Business Incubator of the Higher School of Economics, IIDF
GSMA Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2015
Shanghai 15 GSMA
Summer School 2015 of Academpark
Novosibirsk 21 Academpark
Event City Date Organizer
Game Developers Conference 2015
Cologne 3 United Business Media LLC
gamescom 2015
Cologne 5 BIU
ITCE 2015 Taegu 19 KOTRA 13th Triple Helix International
Conference 2015 Beijing 21-23 Tsinghua University
Event Calendar: August
IN COOPERATION WITH
Event Calendar: September
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Event City Date Organizer 13th International Banking Forum,
Banks of Russia – 21st century Sochi 2-5 Association of Regional Banks of
Russia
Startup Debate: Journey of a Russian businessman
Moscow 3 GVA LaunchGurus, Moscow Youth multipurpose center
DLD Tel-Aviv Tel Aviv 6-12 Yossi Vardi Annual Meeting of the New
Champions 2015 Dalian 9-11 The World Econ. Forum
CTIA Super Mobility Week Las Vegas 9-11 CTIA World communication forum Davos-
Kyiv session 2015 Kiev 10 WCF-Davos
V Baikal Venture Fair Irkutsk Date to be confirmed
RVCA
4th Interbank Conference, Money and bill market
Yaroslavl 11 Cbonds congress
3d Print Conference Kiev
Kiev 11 Smile Expo
Video monitoring: analyst, clouds and not only
Moscow 15 CNews Conferences
International Investment Forum, Sochi-2015
Sochi 17-20 The Russian Government
2nd Great Internet Forum BIF 2015 Almaty 18-19 Internet Avenue
The 9th Annual Asian PE & VC Conference
Hong Kong 21-24 SuperReturn Asia
Russian National Science Festival 2015
Ufa 25-27 The Ministry of Education and Science
Bitcoin Conference Kiev Kiev 26 Smile Expo
Russian National Science Slam Samara 26 Regional Centre of Innovation
Iran Telecom 2015 Tehran 26 PALAR Samaneh
Contact Centers 2015: development trends
Moscow 29 CNews Conferences
Media Business. Reloading Moscow 30 Vedomosti
7th Russian Congress of Private Equity
Moscow 30 Cbonds congress
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Event Calendar: October
35
Event City Date Organizer
Big Data 2015 Moscow 1 CNews Conferences Open Innovation 2015 Moscow 1-31 Innovation Forum Foundation
Microsys 2015
Stuttgart 5 P. E. Schall GmbH & Co. KG
BIOTECHNICA 2015
Hanover 6 Deutsche Messe
St. Petersburg International Innovation Forum 2015
St. Petersburg 7-9 Committee on Industrial Policy and Innovation
RACE Fourth International Congress and Exhibition of
affiliate programs and marketing in Russia
Moscow 8 Smile Expo
Meet Magento Russia Moscow 9 Turnkey Ecommerce Private Client Russia & beyond London 13-14 Adam Smith Conferences
itCOM 2015 Krasnoyarsk 14-16 JSC Krasnoyarsk Fair
Bio Japan 2015 Yokohama 14 IDCEE 2015 Kiev 15-16 TA Venture VC fund
GITEX Technology Week 2015 Dubai 18 Summit on the Global Agenda
2015 Abu Dhabi 25-27 The World Econ. Forum
9th International Biotechnology Forum and Exhibition "RosBioTech 2015"
Moscow 28-30 The Ministry of Education and Science
AccEssMeeting UAE-Russia: Business Investment Road Show
2015
Abu Dhabi
28-29 Strategy Links
CeBIT India 2015 Bangalore 28 Robotekspo 2015 Moscow 29-31 Expocentre
Annual Forum, Retail 2015 Moscow 29 Kommersant
IENA 2015 Nuremberg 29
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Event Calendar: November
Event City Date Organizer Wealth Innovation Forum
Geneva Geneva 1 CIS Wealth
Nordic Private Equity Conference 2015
Copenhagen 6 Private Equity Conference
The 8th Annual SuperReturn Middle East 2014
Dubai 8-11 SuperReturn Middle
IV Moscow International Financial Forum
Moscow 10-11 Hansa Fincom
Russia Risk Conference 2015 Moscow 12 Cbonds Congress, PRMIA
CNEWS FORUM 2015 Moscow 12 Cnews Conferences
Discover ICT Yekaterinburg 24-26 LLC Financial and Analytical Systems
11th annual conference Retail in Russia
Moscow 24 Vedomosti
Russian Financial Forum Moscow 26-27 Vedomosti
Internet and business. Russia Moscow 27-28 Ashmanov and partners, RAEC
6° Russian M & A Congress Moscow Cbonds congress
Event City Date Organizer
Videoconferencing: the experience, technology and
prospects
Moscow 1 CNews Conferences
13th Russian Bond Congress St. Petersburg 3-4 Cbonds Congress German Private Equity
Conference Frankfurt 5 RVCA
CeBIT Bilisim Eurasia 2015
Istanbul 17
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Event Calendar: December
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