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

Past deals in Russia

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.