Russian Venture Capital (RVC): A Report on Funding Priorities and RF Government Affiliations

Taia Global regularly produces custom reports on foreign research and development activities in Russia and China. Our most recent report examines Russian Venture Capital (RVC), an Open Joint Stock company (OAO RVC) with initial funding from the Investment Fund of Russia through the Federal Agency for STate Property Management (Rosimuschestvo). It's charter allows RVC to invest both domestically and overseas. RVC's Board of Directors limited investments by RVC to companies with products on the Russian government's critical technologies list.

This report is 17 pages long with graphics and two appendices, including the above-mentioned critical technologies list. We examined the background of RVC's executives as well as the firm's investments and its U.S. affiliations.

We are offering this report for a limited time to non-subscribers for $225. Interested parties may order via this link or by calling (855) 877-8242.

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Venture Opportunities in Cybersecurity - Repairing a Broken InfoSec Model

I'm really looking forward to acting as moderator for the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab - "Cybersecurity - Protecting Against The Unseen Enemy" - to be held at Stanford University on the evening of November 15, 2011. Here's a brief description from the website:

As the cyberspace grows beyond the personal computer to mobile devices, sensors, cloud applications, networked-devices, where are the opportunities and what are the next generation of cyber security start-ups doing to protect our data and systems?  Meet the brilliant entrepreneurs ushering in a new era of digital security.  

The old model of providing cybersecurity to both corporations and governments is broken and has been for a long time. Big InfoSec is struggling to not only provide protection that works but to be agile and responsive to the critical needs of their customers who may soon find themselves having to comply with SEC regulations on reporting network breaches and the risk of those breaches occurring. There's a huge opportunity for new ventures built upon new business models and I'm hopeful that this VLab will spawn some exciting outside-the-box innovations in that area. 

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