VentureBeat: Russia finally gets serious about venture capital
Submitted by ileonov on Thu, 06/14/2007 - 22:24"People in places like the Valley seem to take availability of angel and venture capital for granted, but every tech economy has a jump-start before it becomes self-sustaining." Russian government has recently set up a $600 million (RUB 15 billion to be exact) fund of venture funds and set aggressive goals to kick start its high tech sector.
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Ultra Motor was nominated as Technology Pioneer for 2007 at the World Economic Forum in Davos
Submitted by ileonov on Tue, 06/12/2007 - 23:46Ultra Motor, a company that won the second prize at SVOD 2006 Conference, was nominated as Technology Pioneer for 2007 at the World Economic Forum in Davos. For an interview of Joe Bowman, UltraMotor's CEO, click here.
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Red Herring Magazine highlights Ultra Motor as one of top private European companies for 2007
Submitted by ileonov on Mon, 06/11/2007 - 23:14"Ultra Motor makes electrical engines and battery management systems for two- or three-wheel vehicles, aimed at providing low-cost transportation for people in developing countries. Based on technology developed by Russian scientists, Ultra Motor in January launched its first product, a range of electric two-heelers for the Indian market."
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CoolTech Club with Gili Raanan
Gili Raanan will talk about his successful experience of building 2 new VC backed ventures (nLayers Inc, and Sanctum Inc), and selling them eventually. The discussion would cover the challenges of operating in the US market while having a major non-US group (in this case Israel based R&D group), considerations before forming similar companies, and a proposed empiric model to decide when to scale up the Sales team, and the rest of the US based operation, avoiding some common mistakes.
For details and sign up - http://www.khirman.com/ctc/20070613
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Affiliate Event: RUSSOFT Forum 2007
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RUSSOFT Forum (formerly known as ROSS (www.soft-outsourcing.com)) - will gather all interested international participants in St. Petersburg on June 20-22, 2007 in the "Pribaltiyskaya" Hotel. |
Affiliate Event - ICII: The 2nd annual Investment Forum - EMPEC 2007 (Moscow)
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Invitation and special discount for AmBAR Members to attend EMPEC 2007 The International Council of Institutional Investors (ICII) is honored to announce the 2nd annual Investment Forum - EMPEC 2007, which will take place at the Congress Center of TPP in Moscow on June 4-5, 2007. |
AmBAR Event: New Frontiers in Marketing and Product Development in the Era of Web 2.0 Innovation
CoolTech Club with Dan Avida And Serge Plotkin
Title: Building Fast Growth Companies
Synopsis: Building great companies take skill, experience and luck. Dan Avida led EFI through years of fast growth and with Serge Plotkin, a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, co-founded Decru, which was later acquired by Network Appliance.
Dan and Serge will talk about their experiences and discuss the key steps of building successful companies, from inception and funding to a successful exit.
Bios:
Dan Avida:
Dan Avida is a General Partner at Opus Capital, an early stage venture capital firm.
