Rusnano

Rusnano is a principal investment firm based in Moscow, Russia, founded in 2007, with a focus on developing the nanotechnology industry and investing in high-tech projects. The firm specializes in both direct investments and fund of funds, targeting sectors such as scientific research, new materials, biotechnology, energy, and advanced manufacturing. Rusnano prioritizes projects that promise to establish new production facilities or enhance existing ones, seeking investments in companies forecasted to generate significant revenue within five years. Additionally, Rusnano operates subsidiaries, including RUSNANO USA, which invests in North America, and aims to co-invest in projects with substantial economic or social potential. The organization emphasizes innovation and aims to support the commercialization of developments in nanotechnology and related fields.

Dmitry Akhanov

Managing Director

Alexander Belichev

Managing Director

Pavel Erochkine

Managing Director

Artur Galstyan

Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer

Alisher Kalanov

Head of Investment Division

Vladimir Konovalov

Managing Director

Vladimir Kozlov

Managing Director

Andrey Kushnarev

Managing Director

Tatiana Pashkevich

Head of Investor Relations

Dmitry Pimkin

Managing Director

Olga Sadovskaya

Investment Director

Leysan Shaydullina

Managing Director

Olga Yur’evna Shpichko

Managing Director of Investment

Nikolay Tychinin

Investment Director

Dmitry Volokhov

Investment Director

90 past transactions

OCSiAl Group

Venture Round in 2015
OCSiAl Group specializes in the manufacturing of single-wall carbon nanotubes, known for their unique properties that enhance the performance of various materials. Founded in 2009, the company offers a range of products under the TUBALL brand, including additives that improve electrical and thermal conductivity in applications such as polymer composites, rubbers, metals, and paints. Key products include TUBALL MATRIX, a line of pre-dispersed concentrates for easy integration into different systems, and TUBALL BATT, a dispersion designed for lithium-ion batteries. The company operates from its headquarters in Luxembourg and has a significant production capacity of 75 tonnes of nanotubes per year. OCSiAl also maintains a global presence with offices in the USA, Russia, Korea, China, and other countries, focusing on technologies that advance various industries, including electrochemical power sources and coatings.

Panacela Labs

Series B in 2015
Panacela Labs, Inc. is a joint venture company founded in 2011 by Cleveland BioLabs (Nasdaq:CBLI), a clinical-stage biotechnology company with a focus on oncology and orphan drug development, and Open Joint Stock Company “RUSNANO”, the largest Russian investment company, in collaboration with Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Children’s Cancer Institute of Australia and Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Panacela Labs is 54.6% owned by Cleveland BioLabs. Panacela Labs has residency in the Innovation Center "Skolkovo".

Selecta Biosciences

Series E in 2015
Selecta Biosciences is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing nanoparticle immunomodulatory drugs aimed at treating and preventing human diseases. The company’s proprietary platform integrates advancements in immunobiology and nanotechnology to create targeted immunomodulatory nanoparticles. Its lead product, SEL-212, has completed Phase II clinical trials for chronic refractory gout. Additionally, Selecta is advancing gene therapy candidates, including SEL-302 and SEL-313, which are in preclinical development for rare metabolic disorders. The company has established collaborations and licensing agreements with various organizations, including Spark Therapeutics and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, Selecta Biosciences continues to innovate in the biopharmaceutical field.

Motorica

Seed Round in 2015
Motorica is a Russian company established in 2013 that specializes in the manufacture of upper limb prosthetics designed to restore grip functionality for individuals with complex partial injuries. The company emphasizes research and development in the fields of medicine and robotics, producing functional prosthetic devices intended for everyday use. Motorica collaborates with both individual clients and various public and private prosthetic enterprises. As a resident of the Skolkovo Innovation Center, Motorica engages in partnerships with international companies and associations in the prosthetics sector to enhance its product offerings and technological advancements.

Crocus Technology

Series E in 2015
Crocus Technology International Corp. specializes in developing and supplying magnetic sensors and embedded memory solutions based on its patented magnetic logic unit technology. The company provides a range of magnetic sensor products, which include various architectures suitable for challenging environments, such as oil drilling, fluid level measurements, and solar energy applications. Its offerings cater to diverse sectors, including industrial, automotive, consumer electronics, and the Internet of Things. Additionally, Crocus Technology delivers magnetic random access memory products and technologies tailored for the semiconductor and electronic systems industries, addressing needs in telecommunications, networking, storage, computing, and handheld devices. Established in 2014, the company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with an additional office in Grenoble, France, and distributes its products through a network of sales distributors both domestically and internationally.

KuibyshevAzot

Venture Round in 2015
KuibyshevAzot is the producer of caprolactam and polyamide-6 in the CIS and Eastern Europe. It is also one of the top-10 Russian nitrogen producers, producing ammonia and a range of nitrogen fertilizers (urea, ammonium nitrate, ammonium sulfate), which account for 5% of total Russian output of fertilizers.

Quantenna Communications

Venture Round in 2014
Quantenna Communications, Inc. specializes in designing, developing, and marketing advanced wireless communication solutions for local area networking. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company offers a range of products, including radio frequency and digital baseband chips that support various IEEE Wi-Fi standards such as 802.11n, 802.11ac, and the draft Wi-Fi 6 standard. Quantenna also provides Qdock, a software framework that facilitates the integration of third-party applications with its Wi-Fi solutions. Its offerings cater to a wide array of applications, including home networking, retail, outdoor, small and medium businesses, enterprise settings, and consumer electronics. Quantenna markets its solutions directly to original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, and third-party distributors across the Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, generating significant revenue from the Asia-Pacific region. As of June 2019, Quantenna operates as a subsidiary of ON Semiconductor Corporation.

Selecta Biosciences

Private Equity Round in 2014
Selecta Biosciences is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing nanoparticle immunomodulatory drugs aimed at treating and preventing human diseases. The company’s proprietary platform integrates advancements in immunobiology and nanotechnology to create targeted immunomodulatory nanoparticles. Its lead product, SEL-212, has completed Phase II clinical trials for chronic refractory gout. Additionally, Selecta is advancing gene therapy candidates, including SEL-302 and SEL-313, which are in preclinical development for rare metabolic disorders. The company has established collaborations and licensing agreements with various organizations, including Spark Therapeutics and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, Selecta Biosciences continues to innovate in the biopharmaceutical field.

SiTime

Series G in 2014
SiTime Corporation is a semiconductor company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, specializing in MEMS-based silicon timing solutions that replace traditional quartz products. Established in 2003, SiTime has achieved an 85% market share in the timing market, having shipped over 50 million devices. The company's product lineup includes a variety of timing devices such as resonators, clock integrated circuits, programmable OCXOs, and precision oscillators, catering to diverse applications across sectors like telecommunications, automotive, industrial, Internet of Things, mobile, and aerospace and defense. By leveraging standard semiconductor processes and high-volume packaging, SiTime provides enhanced performance, reduced size, and improved reliability, facilitating faster time to market and lower costs for its customers. SiTime's innovative solutions contribute significantly to the ongoing transition in the timing market toward a fully silicon-based ecosystem.

Compass-EOS

Series F in 2013
Compass-EOS radically changes network routing by shifting it into the age of silicon photonics. The Compass-EOS icPhotonics technology is the world’s first commercial silicon for inter-chip optical interconnect, unleashing the next revolution in routing architectures. Its family of carrier-grade routers is a new breed of scale-out routers, enabling SDN-based, simplified architectures in service provider networks. Since 2006 Compass has attracted top-tier investors ranging from leading venture capital funds to service providers and core routing suppliers.

SiTime

Series F in 2013
SiTime Corporation is a semiconductor company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, specializing in MEMS-based silicon timing solutions that replace traditional quartz products. Established in 2003, SiTime has achieved an 85% market share in the timing market, having shipped over 50 million devices. The company's product lineup includes a variety of timing devices such as resonators, clock integrated circuits, programmable OCXOs, and precision oscillators, catering to diverse applications across sectors like telecommunications, automotive, industrial, Internet of Things, mobile, and aerospace and defense. By leveraging standard semiconductor processes and high-volume packaging, SiTime provides enhanced performance, reduced size, and improved reliability, facilitating faster time to market and lower costs for its customers. SiTime's innovative solutions contribute significantly to the ongoing transition in the timing market toward a fully silicon-based ecosystem.

Dauria Aerospace

Series B in 2013
Dauria Aerospace develops and manufactures small space of the new generation of cell phones. The company offers components for small satellites, office systems, sensors, actuators. It develop DX1, an apparatus for testing equipment, development of technology and software, unified platform of small satellites DX series, it allows to create a new generation of satellites for different purposes with minimal revision for specific functions. Dauria Aerospace was founded in 2011 and is based in Munich, Germany with satellite development centers in Skolkovo, Moscow, and California.

Evofem Biosciences

Series C in 2013
Evofem Biosciences, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, develops and commercializes various products to address unmet needs in women’s sexual and reproductive health. Its commercial product is Phexxi, a vaginal gel for the prevention of pregnancy. The company is also involved in the development of EVO100, a vaginal pH regulator for the prevention of urogenital transmission of Chlamydia trachomatis infection and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection in women. Evofem Biosciences, Inc. is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Wireless Technologies Center LLC

Venture Round in 2013
Wireless Technologies Center LLC engages in the manufacture of communications equipment. Wireless Technologies Center was founded in 2011, the LTE vendor is located in Tomsk, Siberia.

Pharmsynthez

Venture Round in 2013
Pharmsynthez is a Russian pharmaceutical company focused on the development, production, and distribution of innovative drugs. It operates in three key areas: laboratory research and development of new medications, preparation of original active pharmaceutical ingredients, and the commercialization of pharmaceutical products. The company specializes in creating technologies for organ-specific drug delivery and employs innovative manufacturing methods. Its comprehensive approach to drug manufacturing distinguishes Pharmsynthez from many other pharmaceutical firms in Russia, enabling it to contribute significantly to the healthcare sector through the introduction of original medicines and active ingredients.

TAE Technologies

Venture Round in 2013
TAE Technologies is leveraging proprietary science and engineering to tackle the world’s biggest challenges. Their core mission is to create a new source of clean energy – one that’s powered by nature’s own processes and produces no harmful byproducts. Their groundbreaking work has led to industry-wide advances in accelerator and plasma physics, and acted as a catalyst for adjacent innovations based on their results. With 20 years of focused research, TAE Technologies is on a purposeful path to commercial fusion energy and pioneering sustainable solutions for a better tomorrow.

SBT Management

Venture Round in 2013
SBT Management design and manufacture of wireless systems using russian-made 90/40-nanometer Processors. The project is presented by SBT, which is one of Russia’s leading producers of hardware and applications for wireless networks. SBT develops its products using the latest measurement, laboratory, testing and manufacturing equipment from top-rank international suppliers. As well as creating wireless systems and equipment, SBT carries out development work to order for manufacturing companies, research institutions, design organizations, telecom network integrators and other public institutions and private companies. The company provides its customers with wireless solutions for various purposes, including transport systems, terminals, processors and chips, and aerial equipment.

Exaware

Venture Round in 2013
Exaware offered by Compass-EOS are based on the company’s own icPhotonics™ technology, which uses unique electro-optical information transfer at the level of individual chips. The technology has led to the creation of an innovative router architecture that consumes much less power and occupies substantially less space than existing routers. The new router achieves high-speed data transfer with large capacity. In addition to low cost of operation, the technology offers a distributed scalable system of routing gateways, which promises a breakthrough comparable to that achieved by data center virtualization.

DSK Grad

Venture Round in 2013
DSK Grad LLC manufactures prefabricated residential construction units. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Naro-Fominsk, Russia.

OCSiAl Group

Venture Round in 2012
OCSiAl Group specializes in the manufacturing of single-wall carbon nanotubes, known for their unique properties that enhance the performance of various materials. Founded in 2009, the company offers a range of products under the TUBALL brand, including additives that improve electrical and thermal conductivity in applications such as polymer composites, rubbers, metals, and paints. Key products include TUBALL MATRIX, a line of pre-dispersed concentrates for easy integration into different systems, and TUBALL BATT, a dispersion designed for lithium-ion batteries. The company operates from its headquarters in Luxembourg and has a significant production capacity of 75 tonnes of nanotubes per year. OCSiAl also maintains a global presence with offices in the USA, Russia, Korea, China, and other countries, focusing on technologies that advance various industries, including electrochemical power sources and coatings.

Evofem Biosciences

Series C in 2012
Evofem Biosciences, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, develops and commercializes various products to address unmet needs in women’s sexual and reproductive health. Its commercial product is Phexxi, a vaginal gel for the prevention of pregnancy. The company is also involved in the development of EVO100, a vaginal pH regulator for the prevention of urogenital transmission of Chlamydia trachomatis infection and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection in women. Evofem Biosciences, Inc. is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Regado Biosciences

Series E in 2012
Regado Biosciences is a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the discovery and development of aptamer-based antidote-controlled therapeutics. It provides REG1 that is used in patients suffering from acute coronary syndrome who undergo coronary revascularization procedures, which include coronary artery bypass grafting and percutaneous coronary intervention. It was founded in 2001 and headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

Lilliputian Systems

Venture Round in 2012
Lilliputian Systems provides mobile power solutions for consumer electronics devices. The company aims to revolutionize mobile fuel, ushering in new applications and devices made possible by their technology.

MAPPER Lithography

Venture Round in 2012
MAPPER Lithography B.V. develops a maskless lithography infrastructure for the semiconductor industry. It offers tools that use multiple e-beam technology for manufacturing semiconductors. The company’s technology is used for making chips without a mask and using electron beams. MAPPER Lithography B.V. was founded in 2000 and is based in Delft, the Netherlands. The company has a manufacturing facility in Moscow, Russian Federation.

Aquantia

Series F in 2012
Aquantia Corp. specializes in designing, developing, and marketing advanced high-speed communication integrated circuits focused on Ethernet connectivity. The company serves various markets, including data centers, enterprise infrastructure, access, and automotive sectors. Its product offerings encompass corporate data center solutions, enterprise infrastructure products, and access technologies, such as client connectivity and carrier access. Aquantia markets its products to integrated circuit suppliers, original equipment manufacturers, and original design manufacturers through direct sales channels. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Aquantia has established itself as a key player in semiconductor technology, particularly known for its expertise in Ethernet solutions for cloud computing and next-generation enterprise networks. In 2019, Aquantia became a subsidiary of Marvell Technology Group Ltd., enhancing its capabilities and market reach.

NeoPhotonics

Post in 2012
NeoPhotonics offers a complete line of both active and passive optical components for every network market segment: FTTH/Access, Datacom, Storage Area Networks, Metro and Long Haul networks. NeoPhotonics' transceivers are compliant with industry standard MSAs, are available in GBIC, SFF, SFP, XFP and other configurations, and serve a variety of reaches, applications and data-rates from 155MBps to 10GBps. NeoPhotonics' advanced silica Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) integrated optical modules and subsystems are critical parts in access FTTH networks and in metro and long-haul DWDM networks. For FTTH, NeoPhotonics manufactures integrated splitters in high volume and FTTH BiDi and TriPlexer transceivers, Other products include AWGs, Athermal AWGs, VOA Multiplexers, EDFAs and ROADM Modules. NeoPhotonics' manufactures MEMS-based Variable Optical Attenuators and Dynamic Channel Equalizers

Beneq

Venture Round in 2012
Beneq Oy, based in Espoo, Finland, specializes in atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment and thin film coating services. Founded in 2005, the company offers a variety of automated ALD solutions tailored for high-capacity wafer production, as well as research equipment for academic and corporate R&D purposes. Its product range includes batch production ALD solutions for thin film applications and roll-to-roll ALD technologies used in areas such as AMOLED displays, OLED lighting, flexible photovoltaics, and battery production. In addition, Beneq provides various types of electroluminescent displays, including transparent and rugged options, aimed at markets such as transportation, maritime, aeronautics, and defense. As of 2018, Beneq operates as a subsidiary of Qingdao Sifang SRI Intellectual Technology Co. Ltd.

Quantenna Communications

Private Equity Round in 2012
Quantenna Communications, Inc. specializes in designing, developing, and marketing advanced wireless communication solutions for local area networking. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company offers a range of products, including radio frequency and digital baseband chips that support various IEEE Wi-Fi standards such as 802.11n, 802.11ac, and the draft Wi-Fi 6 standard. Quantenna also provides Qdock, a software framework that facilitates the integration of third-party applications with its Wi-Fi solutions. Its offerings cater to a wide array of applications, including home networking, retail, outdoor, small and medium businesses, enterprise settings, and consumer electronics. Quantenna markets its solutions directly to original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, and third-party distributors across the Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, generating significant revenue from the Asia-Pacific region. As of June 2019, Quantenna operates as a subsidiary of ON Semiconductor Corporation.

BIND Therapeutics

Series D in 2012
They are a clinical-stage nanomedicine platform company developing Accurins™, our novel targeted and programmable therapeutics. Accurins are designed with specified physical and chemical characteristics to target specific cells or tissues and concentrate a therapeutic payload at the site of disease to enhance efficacy while minimizing adverse effects on healthy tissues. Our strategy is to leverage our medicinal nanoengineering platform to develop our own pipeline of Accurins, initially in oncology, as well as Accurins in collaboration with biopharmaceutical companies. Our lead drug candidate, BIND-014, is in Phase 2 clinical trials for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). To date in 2013, we have announced collaborations with Amgen, Pfizer and AstraZeneca to develop Accurins based on therapeutic payloads from their product pipelines.

Selecta Biosciences

Series D in 2012
Selecta Biosciences is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing nanoparticle immunomodulatory drugs aimed at treating and preventing human diseases. The company’s proprietary platform integrates advancements in immunobiology and nanotechnology to create targeted immunomodulatory nanoparticles. Its lead product, SEL-212, has completed Phase II clinical trials for chronic refractory gout. Additionally, Selecta is advancing gene therapy candidates, including SEL-302 and SEL-313, which are in preclinical development for rare metabolic disorders. The company has established collaborations and licensing agreements with various organizations, including Spark Therapeutics and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, Selecta Biosciences continues to innovate in the biopharmaceutical field.

AQUANOVA

Venture Round in 2012
AQUANOVA is a Russian industrial manufacturing of NovaSOL® solubilizates containing nanoparticles (product micelles). AQUANOVA project is based on the technology from German company AQUANOVA AG for enclosing active organic substances into nanocapsules (micelles) about 30 nm in diameter. The technology provides improved activity and effectiveness of natural components along with favourable economic performance. In particular, more rational use of costly natural substance allows the reduction of its content in the final product (food ingredient) by 3-5 times at the same functionality, thereby significantly reducing the food ingredient prime cost.

Akrilan

Private Equity Round in 2012
Akrilan offers a wide range of dispersions for the production of decorative water-soluble paints, primers, sealants, putties and plasters. The leader in the assortment is Acrilan 101 - a product of universal application with special film properties and high adhesive characteristics.

ICM Glass Kaluga

Venture Round in 2011
ICM Glass Kaluga is a new heat-insulating materials production based on the nanotechnological approach to unsorted cullet processing. Foam glass is a new material for the Russian market. Foam glass possesses unique thermophysical and operational features, such as wide temperature range of application, vapour and water impermeability, absolute non-flammability, size stability (no shrinkage), high strength, resistance to aggressive media (including acids), rodents and insects.

Novomet

Venture Round in 2011
Novomet-Perm JSC, founded in 1991 and based in Katy, Texas, specializes in designing, engineering, and manufacturing electrical submersible pumps for the oil and gas industry. The company has established itself as a key player in the global market, with a significant share of 25% in Russia and 3% internationally for submersible extractive equipment. Novomet focuses on producing high-capacity oil production equipment capable of operating under challenging conditions, employing advanced technologies such as nanostructured protective coatings made from materials like tungsten carbide and titanium oxide. The company is also committed to developing a global service network that provides comprehensive maintenance solutions for electric centrifugal pumps, ensuring clients receive tailored support for their specific operational needs.

LED Microsensor NT

Venture Round in 2011
LED Microsensor NT is the world’s only producer of the full range of LEDs and photodiodes for the mid-infrared spectrum (wavelengths of 1,600–5,000 nanometers). The product is used as a unique component base for sensors of various substances in liquids, gases, and solid matter. Sensors based on mid-infrared LEDs can identify more than 50 substances. They can perform analysis of as many as 10 components simultaneously thanks to a multicolored matrix. Their rapid response time suits them to dynamic analyses, for example, analysis on conveyor lines or in liquid flows.

Selecta Biosciences

Series D in 2011
Selecta Biosciences is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing nanoparticle immunomodulatory drugs aimed at treating and preventing human diseases. The company’s proprietary platform integrates advancements in immunobiology and nanotechnology to create targeted immunomodulatory nanoparticles. Its lead product, SEL-212, has completed Phase II clinical trials for chronic refractory gout. Additionally, Selecta is advancing gene therapy candidates, including SEL-302 and SEL-313, which are in preclinical development for rare metabolic disorders. The company has established collaborations and licensing agreements with various organizations, including Spark Therapeutics and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, Selecta Biosciences continues to innovate in the biopharmaceutical field.

PET-Technology

Venture Round in 2011
PET provide the PET centers with the radiopharmaceuticals, the project company will establish production of isotope 18O and organize two cyclotron sites—in Lipetsk and Ufa—for production of short-lived isotopes. PET is used for the diagnosis of cancers, including diagnosis in early stages, and for diagnosis and treatment in cardiology and neurology. Radiopharmaceuticals are selectively absorbed by tumor tissues and tissues whose metabolic activity is high. By combining into one instrument the functions of PET and computer tomography, benefits of both ensue—a three-dimensional picture of functional changes in tissue overlays a high-resolution image of the patient’s organs. PET diagnostics identify 18 percent more tumors in early stages, significantly improving prognoses and decreasing mortality.

Galen

Venture Round in 2011
Galen" is a domestic manufacturer of modern composite materials for industrial civil engineering, electric power industry and the road industry. As a developer and pioneer in the implementation of basalt plastic technologies in Russia, Western and Eastern Europe, today Galen is the leader of the domestic market in basalt plastic construction materials. The company occupies more than 50% of the composite communications market in Russia and the CIS. The plant is a successful manufacturer of flexible connections, facade dowels, fittings and mesh. Products made of composite material - basalt plastic, developed and patented by Galen, are know-how. The use of these high-strength corrosion-resistant products instead of metal analogs allows improving the quality of the facilities under construction and at the same time reducing the cost of construction. The plant’s products have been praised abroad, more than 20% of the products are shipped to foreign countries, and thousands of “passive” houses have been built in the UK using flexible Galen links.

Optic Fiber Systems

Venture Round in 2011
Optic Fiber Systems provides first industrial production of optical fiber in russia. The Optic Fiber Systems company produces optic fiber for communication cables used by telecommunication companies for data transfer. The plant located in Saransk, the capital of Mordovia, was commissioned in 2015. In quarter 4, 2016, the Company started commercial production of optic fiber. In March 2018, the total output amounted 2,000 km of fiber.

Nearmedic

Venture Round in 2011
NEARMEDIC will base its pharmaceutical production on Kagocel®, an antiviral drug available over the counter. Construction of the new GMP-tailored manufacturing facility will enable NEARMEDIC to remove Kagocel production from a rented facility and greatly expand manufacturing operations to further strengthen its Russian and the CIS market positions. Kagocel is a compound of an active plant-based gossypol molecule with a nanosized polymer carrier. The joining of this small molecule to a highmolecular-weight polymer-carrier prevents rapid metabolism of the active ingredient in the organism, prolonging the drug’s pharmacological activity and avoiding toxicity. Therein lies its uniqueness. Kagocel elicits the formation of alpha- beta- and gamma-interferons in the human organism. The interferons have highly antiviral activity, effective in treatment and prevention of flu and other acute respiratory infections and in treatment of herpes infections.

Panacela Labs

Series A in 2011
Panacela Labs, Inc. is a joint venture company founded in 2011 by Cleveland BioLabs (Nasdaq:CBLI), a clinical-stage biotechnology company with a focus on oncology and orphan drug development, and Open Joint Stock Company “RUSNANO”, the largest Russian investment company, in collaboration with Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Children’s Cancer Institute of Australia and Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Panacela Labs is 54.6% owned by Cleveland BioLabs. Panacela Labs has residency in the Innovation Center "Skolkovo".

Nesscap Energy

Post in 2011
Nesscap Energy Inc. operates through its subsidiary, Nesscap Co., Ltd., which is based in Yongin, South Korea. The company specializes in the research, development, and manufacturing of ultra-capacitor products. Nesscap offers a range of electric double layer capacitor cells, pseudo capacitor cells, and multi-cell modules designed for various operating voltages. Its ultracapacitors are particularly tailored for applications in the hybrid vehicle market, alternative energy sector, and other industrial power-driven markets.

Joule Unlimited, Inc.

Venture Round in 2011
Joule Unlimited, Inc. produces infrastructure-compatible fuels directly from sunlight and waste carbon dioxide. It captures sunlight to produce energy in liquid forms, such as diesel and ethanol, as well as uses waste carbon dioxide as a sole feedstock to produce liquid fuels. Joule Unlimited, Inc. was formerly known as Joule Biotechnologies, Inc. and changed its name to Joule Unlimited, Inc. in 2010. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts with an additional office in Los Angeles, California.

THERMOINTECH

Venture Round in 2011
TERMOINTEH offers both ready-made efficient and cost-effective solutions, as well as opportunities to develop exclusive concepts using thermoelectric systems based on innovative technologies.

NEVZ-CERAMICS

Venture Round in 2011
NEVZ-CERAMICS, JSC develops and produces nanostructured ceramics for the following industries: power industry (including atomic power), radio electronics, machine engineering, chemical and petrochemical. Our company is aimed to extend the scope of applications of ceramics, including development of medical devices and biocompatible medical nanoceramics for traumatology and orthopedics. NEVZ-CERAMICS, JSC has well-developed production, power, and transport infrastructures. At our disposal we have production and construction departments, research and experimental laboratories for development a production.

Monocrystal

Venture Round in 2011
Monocrystal, Inc. specializes in the development and production of synthetic monocrystalline sapphire and composite materials, primarily for applications in electronics and optical devices. The company offers a wide range of products, including sapphire wafers for optoelectronics, metallization pastes for solar cells, and optical components used in various industrial applications. Monocrystal is recognized as a leader in the global market for synthetic sapphires, particularly for light-emitting diodes (LEDs), holding approximately 50% of the market share in this sector. A significant portion of its output, around 95%, is exported to 25 countries, with its materials utilized in the production of smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, cameras, and fingerprint sensors. The company serves major manufacturers in the LED and solar cell industries, and a notable number of leading global firms rely on its sapphire ingots and wafers. Established in 1999 and headquartered in Stavropol, Russian Federation, Monocrystal operates as a subsidiary of Concern Energomera JSC.

SiTime

Series E in 2011
SiTime Corporation is a semiconductor company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, specializing in MEMS-based silicon timing solutions that replace traditional quartz products. Established in 2003, SiTime has achieved an 85% market share in the timing market, having shipped over 50 million devices. The company's product lineup includes a variety of timing devices such as resonators, clock integrated circuits, programmable OCXOs, and precision oscillators, catering to diverse applications across sectors like telecommunications, automotive, industrial, Internet of Things, mobile, and aerospace and defense. By leveraging standard semiconductor processes and high-volume packaging, SiTime provides enhanced performance, reduced size, and improved reliability, facilitating faster time to market and lower costs for its customers. SiTime's innovative solutions contribute significantly to the ongoing transition in the timing market toward a fully silicon-based ecosystem.

RU-VEM

Venture Round in 2011
RU-VEM LLC is a Russian developer working in two directions: vacuum equipment and technologies and energy saving based on variable frequency drives. We carry out a full cycle of works: production, design and service. RU-VEM units are manufactured using one technology platform. Each unit is equipped with an integrated modem for transmission of data to support services in the event of malfunctioning and for online tuning. The company also produces a line of vacuum units for deposition of various modified coatings: anticorrosive, wear-resistant, strengthening, and other coatings. As part of the project, the RU-VEM plans to open a center where it will update existing vacuum equipment, develop new equipment, and develop new deposition methods by order.

NANOLEK

Venture Round in 2011
NANOLEK is Russian biopharmaceutical company having own high-quality full-cycle production in accordance with GMP standards, specializing in production of import-substituting and innovative drugs both proprietary and created with participation of international partners with focus on prophylactic and treatment of socially significant diseases.

Advenira Enterprises

Venture Round in 2011
Advenira Enterprises is an innovative thin film deposition technology startup offering hardware, precursors, and processing that enable many critical high tech and clean tech applications. Advenira Enterprises has authored a novel Solution Derived Nanocomposite (SDN) technology that allows for low cost - high throughput nanocomposite multifunctional coatings deposition. SDN technology possesses immense potential for an extremely diverse scope of applications, including but not limited to the production of energy-efficient, low-emission architectural glass, solar cells and modules, flat panel displays, advanced process equipment for the semiconductor and microelectronic industry, as well as food packaging and antibacterial materials.

Plastic Logic Germany

Venture Round in 2011
Plastic Logic Germany leads the way in developing, manufacturing and commercializing flexible displays. The company has successfully industrialized the manufacturing process in its facility, the world’s first commercial, volume, organic electronics factory. Using a stable and proven licensed technology transistor platform, the company manufactures a range of high-quality, flexible plastic displays. These shatterproof, daylight-readable displays are ultra-thin, ultra-lightweight and very low-power, offering huge advantages over conventional screens as they are extremely robust with proven lifetimes. Plastic Logic Germany also runs an open pilot line for flexible electronics. Third party companies are invited to benefit from the company’s years of experience in the industrialization and manufacture of flexible electronics. Plastic Logic Germany’s customers include OEMs and electronics manufacturers for signage and logistics, mobile electronic devices, smart-cards, wearables and more. For more information, please visit www.plasticlogic.com.

Plastic Logic Germany

Debt Financing in 2011
Plastic Logic Germany leads the way in developing, manufacturing and commercializing flexible displays. The company has successfully industrialized the manufacturing process in its facility, the world’s first commercial, volume, organic electronics factory. Using a stable and proven licensed technology transistor platform, the company manufactures a range of high-quality, flexible plastic displays. These shatterproof, daylight-readable displays are ultra-thin, ultra-lightweight and very low-power, offering huge advantages over conventional screens as they are extremely robust with proven lifetimes. Plastic Logic Germany also runs an open pilot line for flexible electronics. Third party companies are invited to benefit from the company’s years of experience in the industrialization and manufacture of flexible electronics. Plastic Logic Germany’s customers include OEMs and electronics manufacturers for signage and logistics, mobile electronic devices, smart-cards, wearables and more. For more information, please visit www.plasticlogic.com.

RST-Invent

Venture Round in 2011
RST-Invent is using 90-nanometer technology to manufacture a new generation of ultra high-frequency RFID-chips to EPC Class-1 Generation-2 standards. Application of 90-nanometer process to RFIDs has brought a breakthrough in downscaling size, energy consumption, and cost of the chips.

Nanoelectro

Venture Round in 2011
Nanoelectro will manufacture up to 50 tons of ultradurable cable per year at design capacity. Production technology involves melting and serial assembly of bimetallic rough-forged materials that then pass through a deformation process which introduces niobic fibers 6 nm to 10 nm thick into the copper matrix of wire. In a 2×3 mm cross section of the composite wire that results, as many as 400 million fibers will be present. They are responsible for the extraordinary mechanical durability of the wire—1,000 MPa to 1,200 MPa. The space between fibers is comparable to the average length of the path of electrons in the copper matrix. That achieves electrical conductivity of 65 percent to 85 percent of ultrapure copper. NANOELECTRO has already received numerous inquiries from Russian and international companies regarding purchase of the superwire.

RUSALOX

Venture Round in 2010
LLC RUSALOX develops and manufactures circuit plates and substrates with high thermal conductivity. The company’s products include multilayer and one-layer plates, and heat-conducting commutation substrates based on aluminum and dielectric material with nanoporous structure, which provides high cooling efficiency of any heat-generating electronic elements. Its products are used in Chip-On-Board and flip chip technologies; microwave electronics; SiP systems; SOC systems; 3D memory stacks; MEMS and NEMS micromechanical devices; high-capacity modules; and Peltier elements. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Moscow, Russia.

Neutron Technologies

Venture Round in 2010
Neutron Technologies commercialize pioneering work by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and Explosives and Narcotics Detectors, both of Dubna, Russia, in the use of labeled neutrons for identifying explosives and narcotics. Several leading research centers and governmental agencies—the All-Russia Research Institute of Automatics, the Bochvar All-Russian Scientific Research Institute for Inorganic Materials, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, and others—contributed to product development and will continue to play a role as need for new products evolves.

RMT

Venture Round in 2010
RMT Ltd. engages in the development, production, and sale of thermoelectric cooling (TEC) modules and devices for optoelectronic applications in the Russian Federation. It offers TEC modules and micro cooling sub-mounts, TEC controllers and diagnostic devices, and optical gas analyzers, as well as other sub-components and materials for optoelectronic devices and sensors. The company also provides TECcad software that assists users to find optimal cooling solution from the TE module’s nomenclature, as well as to perform estimations of operational parameters. It serves customers through sales representatives. The company was founded in 1993 and is based in Moscow, the Russian Federation with an additional office in Berlin, Germany. It also has sales operations in China. As of October 13, 2020, RMT Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Ferrotec Gmbh.

Mipex Technology

Venture Round in 2010
Mipex Technology proudly presents the most advanced technology in the hydrocarbon and carbon dioxide detection for industrial safety applications. Having more the 15 years of design and manufacturing experience They can fairly announce that They have created excellent product – MIPEX infrared gas sensors. MIPEX sensors have had a significant impact on the combustible gas detection market.

Liotech

Venture Round in 2010
Liotech is a creation of the first large-scale production facility for production of new-generation lithium-ion (Li-Ion) batteries for electric power industry and electric transport in Russia. Liotech supplies batteries for urban electric transport, in particular, for Trolza Trolleybus Plant, where the Liotech’s products are used for trolleybuses with autonomous drive range. Also, Liotech supplies products for the energy market. Hevel Company launched hybrid electric power plant in Menza Village of the Zabaikalye Territory. The accumulator cells for the power storage device with 300 kWh capacity produced by Liotech were used for the electric power plant development. It is planned that in 2017 Hevel will build two more hybrid electric power plants in the Zabaikalye Territory, wherein the energy accumulators made by Liotech may also be used.

Profotech

Venture Round in 2010
Profotech will produce fiber-optic systems for measuring energy use and power grid protection. By incorporating nanofibers into its fiber optic current and voltage sensors, Profotech is able to provide innovative solutions to the power industry and other energy-intensive industrial sectors and to replace imports with domestic products that have better consumer properties. The nanofibers owe their superior technical characteristics to nanosized quartz ribs, 50 nanometers to 80 nanometers, inside the load-bearing quartz sheath on which the fiber’s core is hung.

Plastic Logic Germany

Venture Round in 2010
Plastic Logic Germany leads the way in developing, manufacturing and commercializing flexible displays. The company has successfully industrialized the manufacturing process in its facility, the world’s first commercial, volume, organic electronics factory. Using a stable and proven licensed technology transistor platform, the company manufactures a range of high-quality, flexible plastic displays. These shatterproof, daylight-readable displays are ultra-thin, ultra-lightweight and very low-power, offering huge advantages over conventional screens as they are extremely robust with proven lifetimes. Plastic Logic Germany also runs an open pilot line for flexible electronics. Third party companies are invited to benefit from the company’s years of experience in the industrialization and manufacture of flexible electronics. Plastic Logic Germany’s customers include OEMs and electronics manufacturers for signage and logistics, mobile electronic devices, smart-cards, wearables and more. For more information, please visit www.plasticlogic.com.

IRE-Polus

Venture Round in 2010
IRE-Polus is a manufacturer of fiber laser and telecommunication equipment. It begins more than two decades ago with Russian company IRE-Polus. Its story of creating a scientific and manufacturing corporation of global magnitude is unique in the history of Russian high technology. Established by Russian physicist and fiber laser pioneer Valentin Gapontsev, IPG Photonics has become over the past six years the world leader in fiber lasers, related instruments, and systems derived from the lasers. The corporation holds 75 percent of the global fiber laser market. Its shares are traded on the NASDAQ. And Russia’s IRE-Polus, the starting point for these advances, will soon become one of three manufacturing locations for the US-based company and project initiator; the others are in Germany and the United States.

BiOptix LLC

Series B in 2010
BiOptix Diagnostics is a developer of a biomolecule detection system. BiOptix developed an array-based biomolecule detection system that addresses many markets that currently cannot obtain the needed sensitivity and throughput in a single solution. It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

HemaCore

Venture Round in 2010
HemaCore was founded in 2010 as a biotech company focused on developing, manufacturing and implementing into clinical practice new in vitro diagnostic technology for hemostasis - thrombodynamics. Thrombodynamics assay – an innovative coagulation test for risk assessment of blood coagulation disorders – bleedings and thrombosis. Value proposition: they help clinicians succeed, providing clear and reliable estimation of patients coagulation state, thus giving an ability to prevent thrombotic or bleeding complications.

Zao Nir

Venture Round in 2010
Zao Nir is a full-cycle production of instruments with nanostructured PVD coating using a deposition technology developed at Kurchatov Institute Researchers at the Kurchatov Institute developed the technology used in this project—application of nanostructured coatings to metal-cutting instruments. The coatings increase wear resistance of the tools by 2.5 times, decreasing the frequency of replacement and lowering overall tool costs.

New Technologies of Construction

Venture Round in 2010
New Technologies of Construction” (NTC LLC) is an active industrial manufacturer of the innovative material—the UNIREM paving asphalt modifier. The manufacture of the UNIREM composite material is based on active rubber powder and makes use of the Russian technology made by the Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences: high temperature shear grinding of polymeric materials and high-dispersity materials with elements of micro and nanostructures produced on the basis of this technology. The use of the UNIREM modifier in the construction/reconstruction/repair of road facilities allows for up to a twofold reduction in grooves on the road surface, a reduction in the formation of thermal cracks and coating defects, a reduction in the formation of fatigue cracks, and an increase in the period between repair work on the asphalt concrete pavement by 20-25%. Effective use of the UNIREM modifier has been verified on more than 20 million sq m of road surface laid on various public road facilities including federal highways with high traffic flow. NTC’ products have been applied in 28 regions of the Russian Federation. The effectiveness of the use of the UNIREM modifier has been proven by the results of 10-year monitoring studies of public road facilities. The most recent monitoring studies were conducted by an independent laboratory at the end of 2017.

Microbor

Venture Round in 2010
Microbor Composite Co. is the developer and manufacturer of a new generation of composite Cubic Boron Nitride (CBN) and composite Nano Cubic Boron Nitride (NCBN). Microbor Composite Co. is the first producer in the world to introduce commercial tools made of NCBN. This material surpasses synthetic diamond in strength without compromising temperature or wear resistance.

Russian Quartz

Venture Round in 2010
Russian Quartz is a modernization and expansion of high purity quartz production at the Kyshtym Mining production facility and quartz deposit Portfolio company Russian Quartz will produce quartz concentrates at the Kyshtym Mining facility in Chelyabinsk Oblast. Under the project, the field-based complex, which is currently mining and processing quartz and preparing high-purity concentrates, will be technically upgraded. The quartz concentrates are feedstock for obtaining high purity quartz with many high-technology applications: microelectronics, heavy-duty and ultraviolet lighting, special-purpose optics, and quartz ceramics, to name a few. The project to upgrade the complex will be implemented over three years in two phases. When phase two is finished, the company’s annual production capacity will have grown nearly sevenfold: from 1,500 tons to 10,000 tons of quartz concentrate with purity ranging from IOTA Standard to IOTA 6 grade.

Rosana

Venture Round in 2010
The production facilities of their company include modern processing plants meeting all the requirements of high performance deep processing of animal raw materials and completed with peerless up-to-the-minute equipment.

Mikron

Venture Round in 2010
Micron" is the largest manufacturer and exporter of microelectronics in Russia, the center of expertise and the technological leader of the Russian semiconductor industry. Micron produces more than 700 product types, including integrated circuits for secured data carriers, identification, payment and transport documents, power management and RFID marking for various sectors of the digital economy.

Metaclay

Venture Round in 2010
METACLAY manufactures new-generation modified layered nanosilicates, masterbatches, and polymer nanocompositesProduction of new-generation modified layered nanosilicates, masterbatches, and polymer nanocomposites Basis of the technology used for production of polymer nanocomposites includes inventions of Russian scientists from leading scientific organizations of the country: A. V. Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis, RAS (TIPS RAS), Institute of Macromolecular Compounds, RAS, Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry, the Federal State Unitary Enterprise, Lomonosov Moscow State University and D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia. Metaclay’s coverings increase service length of metal pipes by half: up to 60-80 years, improve their persistency and durability at extreme temperatures (from -60ºС to +80ºС), decrease gas permeability as well as prevent material damage under solar radiation influence. Test of Gazprom VNIIGAZ confirmed that such coverings may be effectively used for the large-diameter pipes for main gas pipeline construction. Metaclay’s coverings, used among other things, in production of pipes at the Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant, apply for anticorrosion protection of the Power of Siberia Gas Pipeline. The Company also plans to certify the use of pipes with nano-coating in the projects of Transneft and Rosneft. Due to technological advantages and low cost of Metaclay’s products it has become possible to put significant competitive pressure on foreign players in the Russian market, first of all Borealis Company. For this purpose import three-layer insulation was used. One-layer coatings of Metaclay are more cost-efficient (while saving protective and performance characteristics), because less equipment is used in application.

Manel

Venture Round in 2010
Manel provides process lines for applying porous, inorganic, and non-metallic nanostructured coatings to aluminum, magnesium, titanium, and zirconium surfaces Processing lines for applying inorganic, nonmetallic ceramic coatings to metal surfaces will be the main product of this project. The technology was developed by a group led by Professor Anatoly Mamaev, doctor of chemistry. Micro-arc oxidation technology provides resistance to wear (two to eight times greater resistance), corrosion, and heat and improves the decorative properties of aluminum, magnesium, titanium, and zirconium components. This opens new uses for the metals and reduces production costs. The technology is safer for the environment because it is less likely to explode and produces no cyanide or nickel/chrome waste.

Nanotech-Dubna

Venture Round in 2010
Among the many subsets of nanomaterials, quantum dots are like no other. At dimensions typically below 10 nanometers, nanocrystalline semiconductors, metals, and magnetic materials can all exhibit quantum confinement phenomenon. Basically, at the nanometer scale, their hysical size encroaches upon the fundamental quantum confinement dimensions of orbiting electrons that are uniquely prescribed by their atomic nucleus. Quantum dots from one material of different sizes glow with different colors. In comparison with traditional florescent materials, quantum dots possess greater photostability and their color remains stable over several years. Current and future applications of QDs impact a broad range of industrial markets. These include biology and biomedicine; computing and memory; electronics and displays; optoelectronic devices such as LEDs, lighting, and lasers; optical components used in telecommunications; and security applications such as covert identification tagging or biowarfare detection sensors.

Membranium

Venture Round in 2010
MEMBRANIUM is a unique Russian company fabricating nanostructured membrane flatsheet and membrane elements for reverse osmosis (RO), nanofiltration (NF), ultrafiltration (UF) among the world's manufacturers of membrane production. We are professional and dedicated team of experts united by one goal – to bring national membrane science and technology to the leading position in the world.

Advanced Technologies Center

Venture Round in 2010
Advanced Technologies Center manufactures analytical instruments for research in materials science, biology, and medicine. Production of high-precision sensors for analyses of chemical and biological substances. dvanced Technologies Center manufactures the FemtoScan series of scanning probe microscopes—precision instruments that use the mechanical movement of a probe (cantilever) to study the surface of an object. The microscopes are precise to about one nanometer. ATC also produces atomic scales that can register the presence of particles of various substances at the level of individual atoms. One promising application of these scales is as quick-response biosensors. The company has established an R&D center where it will conduct research to perfect technology, carry out engineering development, and test prototypes and models. The center will supply software to work in instrument-managing and image-processing modes. The scanning probe microscopes that ATC produces are capable of more than 50 sophisticated research regimes—contact atomic force microscopy, resonance atomic force microscopy, scanning frictional microscopy, scanning resistance microscopy, scanning tunneling microscopy, electrostatic microscopy, magnetic force microscopy, force curve analysis, and nanolithography among them. Combining compact size with powerful software packages, ATC instruments can be accessed through the Internet with open architecture.

NikoMag

Venture Round in 2010
The NIKOMAG company specializes in the production of high-purity magnesia products - chloride, oxide and magnesium hydroxide. The company has a modern production technology, a source of the main raw material - mineral bischofite, located in close proximity, and its own scientific center with modern equipment. A developed sales system in all regions of the world allows the company to cooperate with various industries: oil production, metallurgy, food industry, energy, chemistry, etc.

Plakart

Venture Round in 2010
Plakart offers industrial customers services and ready-made solutions for applying multipurpose nanostructured coatings—thermal-barrier, wear-resistant, and corrosion-resistant coatings—through a network of centers. The coatings protect drilling platforms, bridges, steel structures, and associated apparatuses from corrosion. They safeguard stop valves and tubing fittings and drilling and oil and gas production and processing equipment from wear and tear. Robotized equipment and metallurgical labs ensure strict quality control and permit the company to produce coatings with programmed hardness, porosity, and adhesion.

SemiTEq

Venture Round in 2009
SemiTEq JSC designs and manufactures wide range of HV & UHV equipment which meets all modern semiconductor tech­nology requirements. The core Company competences are de­velopment & production of MBE Systems for wide range of А3В5, wide band gap А2В6 and А3N compound semiconductors growth. Key Systems components have patented design and include SemiTEq’s technology know­-how. MBE Systems and Wafer Processing Equipment product lines ensure high quality of epiwafer growth and its further pro­cessing under R&D as well as pilot production. The Company’s leading specialists have more than 20 years’ experience in sem­iconductor technologies and special equipment design. It helps SemiTEq to provide unique solutions based on its own scientific research for Customer’s specific goals.

Danaflex-Nano

Venture Round in 2009
Danaflex-Nano is a manufacturer of high-barrier polymer films and flexible packaging materials. The material is designed mainly for packaging of food, household cleaning products, cosmetics, and pet food. High-barrier flexible film is heat resistant, making it possible to process contents in hot or cold temperature regimes and to heat products in microwave ovens without unwrapping them. Barrier properties of the film prevent penetration of moisture, oil, fat, petroleum products, most household chemicals, gases, microbes, and UV radiation, maintaining the quality of the product. That and the fact that preservatives can be greatly reduced and shelf life is extended are significant competitive advantages for Danaflex-Nano’s film.

CJSC Uralplastic-N

Venture Round in 2009
Uralplastic-N is using know-how in three related areas: production of nanocomposites from clay and ceramics, introduction of nanocomposite additives to polymer packaging material, and manufacturing of modified flexible films with improved qualities.

RUSCHEMBIO

Venture Round in 2009
RUSCHEMBIO is providing russian nanoindustry scientists and other professionals access to reagents, disposables, and equipment. RUSCHEMBIO was one of the early projects in which RUSNANO coinvested. During two full years of operations, the company-warehouse has organized an outstanding and extremely broad assortment of reagents and developed an extensive system of express deliveries. It also became one of the first portfolio companies to turn a profit. RUSCHEMBIO will open new branches and warehouses in Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod, and Stavropol. It will develop its own brand and catalog for sale of products from Russian manufacturers. And it will broaden the product assortment by including independent nanoproducers, helping them promote their goods in the market.

NTpharma

Venture Round in 2009
NTpharma provides GMP production of nanovaccines and biopharmaceuticals containing carbohydrate binders. The project provides for building a facility for production of vaccines and pharmaceuticals in the municipal area of Pereslavl’-Zalessky, 150 kilometers (85 miles) northeast of Moscow. The project aims at production of new generation vaccines, including a polyvalent human flu vaccine, and pharmaceuticals for detoxification in oncological therapy and for treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS/Lou Gehrig’s disease). NTpharma’s technology allows to reduce by half the time required for culturing and production of the vaccine. This advantage is vital when dealing with vaccines for pandemic flu strains spreading rapidly all over the world.

BiOptix LLC

Series A in 2009
BiOptix Diagnostics is a developer of a biomolecule detection system. BiOptix developed an array-based biomolecule detection system that addresses many markets that currently cannot obtain the needed sensitivity and throughput in a single solution. It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

Indec

Venture Round in 2009
Indec is a manufacturer of high-tech electrochemical machines for precision machining of parts made of metals and alloys.

Connector Optics

Venture Round in 2009
Connector Optics is the first and only Russian manufacturer of epitaxial plates for high-speed vertical-emitting lasers (VCSEL) and photodiodes. Solutions offered by the company based on high-speed VCSEL spectral range of 850 nm allow data to be transmitted via optical communication channels with a speed of more than 25 Gbit / s per channel. Connector Optics has its own production facilities for the design and manufacture of innovative nanotechnology products for various purposes: laser diodes, including vertical-emitting lasers (VCSEL); pin photodiodes; Microwave transistors and diodes, and other devices of opto- and microwave electronics. The production complex of the company includes a modern industrial installation of molecular beam epitaxy Riber 49, equipped with various sources of materials, and advanced monitoring and diagnostic equipment.

NPC Spring

Venture Round in 2009
NPT Springs LLC is a design company of the State Corporation Rosnanotekhnologii. Our field of activity is the production of heavy-duty nanostructured springs with enhanced strength, durability and geometric accuracy.

Bebig

Venture Round in 2009
OOO Bebig develops oncological diseases treatment methods in the Russian Federation. It engages in promoting brachytherapy method as a high-tech prostate gland cancer treatment method. The company develops and implements nano-structured micro spheres for treatment of liver and pancreatic gland cancers; and develops isocord microsources for brachytherapy of prostate gland cancer. OOO Bebig was founded in 2004 and is based in Moscow, Russian Federation.

Trackpore Technology

Seed Round in 2009
Trackpore Technology engages in the market of medical equipment for membrane plasmapheresis and cascade plasma filtration.

Germanium and Applications

Venture Round in 2009
Germanium and Applications Ltd. specializes in the production and export of germanium and germanium-containing products for a range of high-technology applications, including optics, electronics, aerospace, telecommunications, and solar power engineering. The company offers a variety of products such as germanium blanks, concentrates, dioxide, tetrachloride, metallic germanium, and zinc selenide. It operates a vertically integrated manufacturing facility that produces germanium-based components like disks, bars, plates, and spherical blanks for lenses. Recently, the company launched advanced production capabilities for electro-optical components in Novomoskovsk, utilizing state-of-the-art technology for manufacturing and quality control. Additionally, the company extracts germanium-rich coal at its mines in Primorsky Krai and has developed a unique process for creating germanium concentrate nearby. Serving customers across Europe, North America, and Asia, Germanium and Applications Ltd. continues to expand its operations and enhance its product offerings in collaboration with RUSNANO.

OptoGaN

Venture Round in 2008
OptoGaN Oy develops and produces high brightness light emitting diodes (LEDs) for solid state lighting markets in Finland and internationally. It offers OptoGaN f-Power I, a blue-color InGaN LED chip for use in various applications, such as indoor and outdoor lighting, automotive, and white LED lamps. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Espoo, Finland. It has a pliot manufacturing line in Dortmund, Germany.