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.

Olga Sadovskaya

Investment Director

Past deals in Moscow

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.

Dauria Aerospace

Series B in 2013
Dauria Aerospace, founded in 2011 and headquartered in Munich, Germany, specializes in the development and manufacturing of low-cost small satellites and related components. The company harnesses advanced microelectronic and micro-system technologies to create a new generation of satellites designed for various applications, including earth observation, traffic management, and precision farming. Dauria's flagship products include the DX series of satellites and the DX1 testing apparatus, which supports technology development and software integration. Additionally, the company collaborates with national governments to jointly finance space projects, expanding the range of operational services available. Dauria also operates CloudEO, a cloud-based platform that facilitates the development, production, and marketing of geo-services by bringing together data, software, and processing capabilities in a secure environment. This innovative approach aims to lower barriers for entry into the geo-services market and encourages the establishment of new business models, fostering a collaborative ecosystem among stakeholders.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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