Runa Capital invests in US website security startup StopTheHacker

East-West Digital News, 15 Feb 2012 SaaS website security services provider StopTheHacker announced earlier this week that it received $1.1 million in initial funding from public and private investors including Runa Capital, a Russian early-stage venture capital firm,...

VEB Buys Into IT Firms Compulink, T-Platforms

Moscow Times, 16 February 2012 Vneshekonombank has purchased a minority share of the offshore holding that owns one of Russia’s largest information technology systems integrators. According to a report of the bank’s activities for the last quarter of 2011,...

Expert: Russia needs startups to drive innovation

Russia Today, 09 February, 2012 International experts say Russia has to do more to create a ‘start-up’ friendly business climate. They are gathered in Moscow for the Forum Week of Business, and suggest boosting investment in innovative companies will help. “You need a...

RVC USA “melds US innovation with the resources of Russia”

From: East-West Digital News, Feb 02, 2012 Russian Venture Company (RVC), the state-owned fund of funds dedicated to innovation, is looking to invest in US startups through a newly-established office in Boston. RVC-USA presents itself as a “visionary and strategic...

High tech holding RTI to acquire system integrator NVision

From: East-West Digital News, Jan 27, 2012 RTI, a large Russian group of high-tech research and production companies, announced on Tuesday the acquisition of NVision, a Moscow based system integrator with regional representative offices in Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk,...