Investors in Russia

CapMan is a leading Nordic private assets management and investment company. They have built value in unlisted businesses, real estate and infrastructure for 30 years. They serve investors in the private assets class on a broad scale. Their roots are Nordic but their handprint and their networks are international. At CapMan, they build better organised, managed, and financially stable companies, because this contributes to overall economic well-being. More jobs and innovations equal better conditions for the society. Similarly, they invest in real estate and infrastructure, because they believe that functional high-quality environments and utilities are cornerstones for functioning societies.

Sberbank today is the largest credit institution in Russia and CIS, accounting for 26% of the aggregate Russian banking assets and 30% of banking capital. According to The Banker magazine, as of July 01, 2010, Sberbank was ranked 43th in the world in terms of Tier 1 capital. Established in 1841, Sberbank has grown into a universal commercial bank with diversified businesses. Sberbank is the biggest taker of deposits in the country and the key lender to the national economy. As of January 01, 2011, Sberbank accounted for 47,9% of retail deposits, 31% of consumer loans and 31% of corporate loans in Russia.

Russian Direct Investment Fund is a private equity arm of Vnesheconombank. It seeks to make direct pari passu investments in growth companies. The firm co-invests and the co-investors must have either assets under management exceeding $1 billion (for financial investors) or revenues over $1 billion (for strategic investors). The firm will seek to make investments in projects that possess a Russian operator and seeks to purchase stakes in closely held Russian companies. The firm seeks to invest in infrastructure, modernization sectors with a focus on advanced processing of natural resources; agriculture and food retailing; added-value mining; housing and construction materials; and transport and logistics and innovation sectors with a focus on aerospace; alternative energy; nuclear power; pharmaceuticals and healthcare; telecommunications and information technology. The firm makes its investments in Russia and France. It seeks to co-invest between $50 million and $500 million in projects or companies implying a total equity commitment of at least $100 million to $1 billion alongside outside capital. The firm's own stake shall be limited to no more than 50%; it can, however, own controlling stakes in companies in partnership with a co-investor. The firm will co-invest with private equity and sovereign wealth funds amongst other strategic investors. It may use leverage while investing, with a time horizon to exit of five to seven years via the public listing of the asset or a sale to strategic buyers. Russian Direct Investment Fund was founded in June 2011 and is based in Moscow, Russian Federation.

Elbrus Capital Funds are CIS-focused private equity funds with US$1 billion of assets. Since the establishment of the first fund in 2007, Elbrus Capital Funds have made over 90 acquisitions. The funds focus on investments in leading Russian and CIS companies looking for further growth and consolidation opportunities. The funds seek to acquire controlling or significant minority equity stakes in fast-growing businesses, and partner with entrepreneurs who have the ambitions to take their business to the next level of development. Since the foundation, Elbrus Capital Funds have invested in 18 platforms across different industries, including the leading players in the digital area (HeadHunter, Mail.ru Group, CIAN Group), FMCG (Great Beer Holding), outsourcing and logistics (DPD Russia, PickPoint, OSG Records Management, Intercomp), private healthcare (National Medical Network), media (UTH, Vyberi Radio) and others.

Ruvento ventures is dedicates to fund the best iot and hardware teams across USA and Asia.They invests in technologies that are powered by values, and focused on changing the world.

Baring Vostok Capital Partners Limited is a venture capital and private equity firm based in Russia. It invests on early venture, acquisitions, buy-outs, growth capital, later-stage, mid-market, and medium-sized enterprises that operate in sectors such as natural resource extraction, particularly oil and gas; competitive industrial companies that operate in local or export markets; mass media and telecommunications; utilities; construction materials; specialty manufacturing; real estate development; residential real estate development; internet; software; retail; and service management. Baring Vostok Capital Partners was founded in 1994 and is based in Moscow, Russia with additional offices in Limassol, Cyprus and Gernsi, Channel Islands.

RUSNANO Management Company LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing direct and fund of funds investments. Within direct investments, the firm specializes in private equity and venture capital investments in middle market, late venture, later stage, emerging growth, and PIPEs. Within fund investments, it focuses on private equity and venture capital funds. Within direct investments, the firm prefers to invest in the scientific research sector, high-tech companies with a focus of at least 30% on nanosatellite projects and in new materials, engineering and instrumentation, metallurgy and metalworking, energy, construction, robotics, as well as biotechnology and nuclear medicine, opto- and nanoelectronics industries. solar energy and energy conservation, microelectronics, energy efficiency, robotic technology, information and communication technology, alternative energy, biomedicine, new materials, metalwork, biotechnology and medicine, electronics and mechanical engineering. It gives priority to projects that will establish new manufacturing facilities or broaden and modernize existing production. The firm invests in companies based in the Russian Federation. It seeks to invest in projects whose income in five years is forecasted at RUB250 million ($8.5 million) or greater. The firm also seeks to co-invest. It uses various modes of investment such as investment in owner’s equity of the project company, loans, credit guarantees, and leasing operations. RUSNANO Management Company LLC was founded on July 19, 2007 and is based in Moscow, Russian Federation with additional offices in Menlo Park, California and Herzliya Pituach, Israel. RUSNANO Management Company LLC operates as a subsidiary of JSC Rusnano.

OOO VEB Innovations is a venture capital arm of State Corporation Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank) specializing in venture capital and debt investments. The firm seeks to invest in high technology projects of the Skolkovo Foundation. It seeks to invest in space and telecommunications, biomedical technologies, energy efficient technology, information and computer technologies, and nuclear technologies. Within space and telecommunications, the firm focuses on terrestrial mainline communications, mobile communications and data transmission, space communications, projects aimed at developing production of the means of communication and telecommunication, development of industrial space technologies, development of functional space technologies including software, and projects aimed at creating mission-oriented space systems. Within biomedical technologies, it focuses on computer modeling for the pharmaceutical industry, new healthcare methods and technologies for combating pandemics, novel pharmaceuticals, drug delivery systems, personalized medicine, medical equipment, devices, implants and materials, and medical radiology. Within energy efficient technology, the firm focuses on efficiency improvement in the field of renewable energy sources, energy metering technologies, materials, engineering solutions and technologies improving industrial energy efficiency, materials and technologies reducing energy loss in heat distribution networks and electric power transmission systems, and materials and technologies optimizing energy consumption by industrial and residential objects. Within information and computer technologies, it focuses on cloud computing, new methods of information storage, processing, and transfer, analytics software, images, video and voice recognition and processing, mobile applications, Web X.0, and IT security. Within nuclear technologies, the firm focuses on radiation technologies, technologies for the development of new properties of materials, mechanical and instrumentation engineering technologies, novel microelectronics technologies, designing and construction of complicated objects, complex objects modeling and engineering, and nuclear science technologies. It seeks to invest in companies based in Russia. The firm seeks to invest in the form of equity and loans. It can co-invest in projects obtaining grants of the Skolkovo Innovation Center. The firm will co-invest only with grants of the seed and start-up stages. OOO VEB Innovations is based in Moscow, Russia.

United Capital Partners is a private equity firm specializing in investments in the growth stage, middle market, and emerging growth. The firm may also consider recapitalization and/or partial sale to financial or strategic buyers. It seeks to invest in small and medium sized enterprises in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. The firm focuses on exiting investments via an IPO on a recognized international or domestic stock exchange in three to five years. United Capital Partners is based in Moscow, Russian Federation.

AddVenture is an international venture capital fund with a sector-focused strategy, with a fund investment range from $1–10M.