Almaz Capital
Finance
Web-site: www.almazcapital.com/
"We invest in companies with 'proven technologies' for global markets, which may be headquartered outside of the CIS, and companies with 'proven business models' that serve the Russian and CIS market. The industry sectors that we actively engage, network and research include software, Internet, digital media, e-commerce, consumer technologies and communications. Selectively, we will also consider related opportunities in fabless semiconductors, optoelectronics and cleantech. We invest in companies across three phases of maturity: product development, growth and profitability." (almazcapital.com)
Headquarters: Moscow, Russian Federation
As a young engineer in the late 1980s, Viktor Vekselberg showed initiative and was well-liked by co-workers at the Moscow-based company where he helped develop equipment for oil exploration.
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"I'm probably not going to move back for a couple of decades," said Yekaterina Paramonova, a third-year undergraduate majoring in nuclear science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, echoing the sentiment of many Russians who have tasted life outside the motherland.
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A business plan to create rehabilitation devices for cerebral palsy sufferers, created by Perm's Denis Kashin, won first place at a ceremony at Skolkovo and will be Russia's entry at the international finals for young entrepreneurs in New York.
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The ship known as Skolkovo has set sail, already having onboard 60 companies, including a handful of multinationals — whose brand presence is considered a significant stamp of approval.
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A year after President Dmitry Medvedev first spoke of Skolkovo, the Silicon Valley-type hub near Moscow, Hewlett-Packard has still not joined the rush to participate in it. Skolkovo is just one of many global hubs the company could consider joining.
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While the Skolkovo innovation hub is forming in Moscow's suburbs, with the potential of bringing research and development dividends, the ongoing business of information technology is returning to its pre-crisis glory.
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