How to get seed investments: tips from RVC and its partners
The main 5 points: thoroughness of the application; presentation skills of the team; exit options; transparent allocation of funds; the right scale of requests
16.02.2011The main 5 points: thoroughness of the application; presentation skills of the team; exit options; transparent allocation of funds; the right scale of requests
16.02.2011Venture is an extreme sport where a very high reward awaits the few best.
14.02.2011One of the areas of restructuring of the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline is the division of the early research department into 40 research groups, in fact, small biotech firms.
04.02.2011In 2011, the appetite of Big Pharma for biotechnology is expected to grow further. Moreover, there will be a restructuring of cooperation models in the field of innovative projects.
02.02.2011Now in Russia there are good conditions for obtaining investments in the field of biotechnology: there is a lot of money, but there are few worthwhile projects.
01.02.2011The new method of non–invasive breast cancer diagnosis allows detecting the disease at an early stage with an accuracy of up to 95% - 30% higher than that of existing methods. You can start production in a year and a half.
14.01.2011Rusnano is being transformed from a state corporation into a joint-stock company. Anatoly Chubais hopes that after that there will be more reasons to call Russia an innovative country.
22.12.2010PwC Report "Restructuring of the Biotechnology Industry": in order to survive, companies must actively develop cooperation to develop a new business model focused on innovation and success.
29.11.2010"I don't want to be called either a venture investor or a business angel," says Chikunov. — These are all American terms. I call myself the helper of those who want to help humanity. Maybe I'm a philanthropist?"
01.11.2010Venture capitalists are interested in markets with good development potential. "Now is the time to think about Russia," says Evgeny Zaitsev, a member of the American delegation at the Global Innovation Partnership Forum, one of the partners of the Helix Ventures venture fund.
18.10.2010Why is the pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis so persistently trying to absorb the biotech company Genzyme?
13.09.2010Experts are not inclined to overestimate the initiative of the department: "Any step in this direction can only be welcomed – Russia lags far behind other countries in the field of innovation... But this step is tiny."
02.09.2010Due to the fact that the main purpose of investment activity is to ensure the most effective forms of capital investment, each business entity should pay special attention to its investment attractiveness.
30.08.2010In the vast majority of developed businesses, there is no need to put the issue of pricing at the forefront, since the market itself is able to adjust prices. The approach to pricing innovative products looks somewhat more complicated.
25.08.2010The purpose of the creation of the special economic zone "Neudorf" is to boost innovative development and commercialization of scientific achievements in instrumentation, information technology and pharmaceuticals. On the territory of the SEZ, all conditions have been created for investors to work.
21.07.2010The Supervisory Board of RUSNANO approved a project for the development and commercialization of domestic innovative medicines. The total budget of the project will be about 5.1 billion rubles.
06.07.2010International pharmaceutical companies are ready to invest more than $ 1 billion in the production of their products in Russia in order to obtain the status of local producers.
21.06.2010The achievements of genomics will make medicine more personalized in the near future, but there are both scientific and economic obstacles on this path, according to the participants of the panel session "What's after the genome?", which took place on Friday as part of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
21.06.2010The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on the reorganization of the Russian Nanotechnology Corporation (Rusnano) into an open joint stock company.
04.06.2010The plant of the company "Farm-Holding", engaged in the production of peptide drugs, will be located next to four other pharmaceutical sites in Pushkin.
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