Russian Venture Company (OJSC)
Russian Venture Company (OJSC) (RVC or Russian Venture Company) is a government fund of funds and a development institute of the Russian Federation, one of Russia's key tools in building its own national innovation system.

Russian Venture Company was established by Russian Government on June 7, 2006 (Order No. 838-r). Its mission is to encourage Russia’s own VC industry and boost capital of VC funds. RVC’s role is that of a government fund of venture capital funds channeling public incentives to venture capital and financial support to the hi-tech sector, and of a Russian VC industry development institute.

RVC’s authorized capital — RUB 30 011 320 700 (about US$ 1022 mln.) — is 100% owned by the Federal Agency for State Property Management (Rosimuschestvo). The Board is composed of seven directors, including Elvira Nabiullina (Russian Minister of Economic Development), Andrey Fursenko (Russian Minister of Education), Igor Artemyev (Head of Antitrust Committee), Sergey Guriev (Rector of Russian Economic School), Yigal Erlich (founder and Managing Partner of Yozma Group), Esko Aho (Prime Minister of Finland in 1991-1995, current member of the Executive Committee of Nokia Group), and Igor Agamirzian, CEO of RVC.

RVC operates through private-public partnerships that take form of private VC funds: 49% of their capital is contributed by RVC—to be matched by 51% from private investors.

RVC backed VC funds’ investment priorities focus on technologies from the Critical Technologies List approved by Russian President.

So far, these funds include: VTB Venture Fund (RUB 3,061 mln i.e. about US$ 104 mln.), Bioprocess Capital Ventures (RUB 3,000 mln i.e. about US$ 102 mln.), Maxwell Bio-Tech (RUB 3,061 mln i.e. about US$ 104 mln.),), Leader Innovations (RUB 3,000 mln i.e. about US$ 102 mln.), Tamir Fishman CiG Russian Fund (RUB 2,000 mln i.e. about US$ 68 mln.), S-Group Ventures (RUB 1,800 mln i.e. about US$ 61 mln.), New Technologies (RUB 3,061 mln i.e. about US$ 104 mln.), Seed Fund (RUB 2,000 mln), RVC Biopharmaceutical Investment Fund (RUB 500 mln, to be increased to RUB 1.5 mln), RVC Infrastructure Investment Fund (RUB 500 mln, to be increased to RUB 2 bln), RUSSIAN VENTURE CAPITAL I LP (RUB 300 mln), RUSSIAN VENTURE CAPITAL II LP (RUB 600 mln).

As on early March 2010, 12 RVC backed funds run a portfolio of 60 companies, invested capital totaling more than RUB 6 bln i.e. about US$ 200 mln. more...

TheAngelInvestor
The Magazine for alternative business investments across Russia. «The AngelInvestor» is the magazine for inside information on what is happening in the angel investment and venture capital worlds. «The AngelInvestor» is Russia's Number 1 source of industry news, resources and Entrepreneur business investment proposals.
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Institute for the Development of Financial Markets
The Institute's main activities include:
*Organizing and holding public events, such as: conferences, seminars, round tables, forums, and presentations;
*Training students to successfully pass qualifications exams, upgrading qualifications of working securities market experts, and conducting professional seminars;
*Organizing corporate courses and consultation seminars both in Moscow and in Russia's regions.

Utilizing highly skilled tutors - who are actively engaged in financial markets - in the training process facilitates effective qualitative training of market participants.

Institute employees are a stable and experienced team - having successfully carried out more than a dozen large-scale projects, as well as having organized and held a large number of professional conferences, congresses and forums. The Institute's conferences have always been well attended by a large, varied and professional audience; these conferences have also received extensive coverage from leading Russian and foreign mass media. The Institute's organized events, which include both Russian participants and foreign partners, including: investors, leading representations from major exchanges, state officials, and journalists, have made it possible to create a convenient meeting ground where representatives of Russian business and their foreign counterparts can get together for mutual cooperation.

The Institute for the Development of Financial Markets (IRFR) is currently engaged in a number of exciting projects focused on advising a wide range of Russian companies on appropriate mechanisms and best-practice techniques for attracting investment. Among the long-term and multi-stage targets are:
*Upgrading regional economic and investment policy;
*Creating favorable, long-term conditions for investment into the Russian economy as a whole;
*Actively using financial market mechanisms to attract investment;
*Organizing effective inter-regional economic cooperation.

RVCA
Objectives and goals of RVCA activities:
*Creation a positive political and entrepreneurial environment for investment activities.
*Representing the RVCA members interests at the government level, in press, in financial and industrial markets within the country and abroad.
*Information support and communicative grounds establishment for the Russian venture market participants.
*Building a cluster of highly qualified professionals for the venture business companies.

Russian Association for Entrepreneurship Education
The Russian Association for Entrepreneurship Education (RAEE) was founded in 2008 to foster entrepreneurship through university education, research, and international collaboration between professors, entrepreneurs, investors, and policy makers. RAEE membership is open to all individuals and organizations interested in enhancing entrepreneurship development.

Membership Benefits Include:
*Global networking and collaboration opportunities
*Access to best practices in teaching methodology, cases, urriculum, etc.
*Participation in international conferences and training programs
*Research grants
*International faculty exchange and career opportunities
*Publications
*Recognition and award programs
*Personal and professional development
*Access to members-only areas with materials to support entrepreneurship educators.

Business Incubator Higher School of Economics
Business Incubator was founded in 2006 by students and professors of State University – Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow, and has quickly become a catalyst for student entrepreneurial activities far beyond its HSE walls.

The Incubator concurrently hosts up to six startup teams. Startups get a fully equipped office space, administrative and consulting support. They also enjoy free participation at HSE and industry events, and take full advantage of networking opportunities provided by the Incubator’s team.

In just 3 years since its inception, the Incubator became a starting ground for a number of well-known student companies: SmartKniga, Skillopedia.ru, Native Speakers Club, Roomix, PensiaMarket, TimePad, and others.
Business Project Competition

Business project competitions serve an important purpose of popularizing entrepreneurship among students, searching for talented young entrepreneurs and “Next Big Thing” ideas.

HSE {10K} was initiated in 2006 as an analog for the MIT(100K) competition. It is a contest of students’ business projects – be it an idea or a young company.

Startup of the Year is another popular contest that attracts ambitious young entrepreneurs. They not only have to defend their business model, but present the audience with a short video about their startup. Winners of HSE {10K} and Startup of the Year receive cash prizes and a two-year residency at the Incubator.

The Incubator also runs less formal contests and business games:

* Iron Entrepreneur started as a team-building tool for HSE{10K} and spread virally throughout the country.
* Flip-Chat is very popular among technology students, as it allows to generate and present business ideas without an emphasis on presentation skills.

The Incubator partners up with other organizations to run regular business and networking events for startups and young entrepreneurs: BIT contest, Startup Weekend, Startup Point, Harvest (Greenfield.ru project) and many others.

The Incubator capitalizes on the leading role of HSE as a provider of entrepreneurial knowledge. It runs courses in entrepreneurship as well as stand-alone seminars provided by real entrepreneurs. Over 60% of participants come from other schools (mostly technology-oriented), and almost all of them participate in other events organized by the Incubator. Currently, the Incubator offers the following courses in entrepreneurship:

* How to Start a Successful Business, or Entrepreneurship 101,
* Business Laboratory,
* Creative Thinking in Business.


HSE{sun} is a yearly summer conference for Russian entrepreneurial support organizations. The Incubator invites participants from other schools, technology parks, venture firms, private businesses and multinational corporations to discuss common challenges in fostering entrepreneurship, and collaborate on designing a more effective support infrastructure for innovative businesses.

The Primorsk Chamber of Commerce and Industry
The All-Union Chamber of Industry’s division was established in Primorsky Region on 25 April, 1964

The Primorsk Chamber of Commerce and Industry has made great progress for forty years of its operations, with the lines and scope of its business considerably extended. The Primorsk CCI has evolved from a small branch employing three persons into a large-scale structural unit and has formed a staff displaying a high level of proficiency and inherent discipline.

The Primorsk CCI is a non-governmental and nonprofit institution which unites its members to gain the goals and objectives defined in the federal Law on the Russian Federation’s Chambers of Commerce and Industry and in its Articles of Association.

The Primorsk CCI contributes to the formation and development of socially focused market economy by representing, and acting for the benefit of, national entrepreneurs on both the home and the foreign markets in order to improve the standard of living of the inhabitants in Primorsky Region.

Today the Primorsk CCI’s membership list includes more than one hundred large and small-scale entities of different legal status in respect of their ownership, such as Vladivostok Commercial Sea Port PLC, Far Eastern Shipping Company PLC, RIMSCO Pte Ltd., TURNIF JSC, Dalintorg GUE ARA, Vladivostok State-Owned Department Store PLC, Zarya PLC, Spasskcement PLC, etc. The members of the Chamber are the most reliable partners that may be recommend for cooperation to Russian and foreign associates or investors.

The activities of the Primorsk CCI are aimed at promoting and strengthening interregional cooperation (the Chamber Association of the Far Eastern Federal District) as well as at developing direct ties between Russian institutions and foreign associates. The Chamber has greatly expanded international relations with its partners in the Pacific Asia region.

The emphasis on high-grade service has been the governing principle in the operation of the Primorsk CCI. In August 2003, a certificate was issued to the Primorsk CCI to attest the conformity of its service to the ISO 9001 International Standard.

Association of Personnel Search Consultants
Association of Personnel Search Consultants (APSC) is the largest and the most reputable professional union of recruiters on the territory of the Russian Federation, the CIS and Eastern Europe. The activity of APSC is targeted at providing effective employment of high-profile specialists in the era of market economy.

The APSC mission is to assist the development of the civilized personnel search market in Russia.

The tasks of APSC are:
*formulating professional ethic standards for APSC members;
*providing members of the Association with professional information;
*assisting in upgrading qualification of specialists within the framework of the Association;
*building up and upholding high professional reputation of APSC members;
*representing and protecting the common interests of APSC HR community in the relations with government authorities;
*interacting with international personnel search consultants' organizations.

The composition of APSC:
*More than 100 best personnel search and selection agencies from 26 Russian cities (from Vladivostok to Kaliningrad) as well as recruiting agencies from Belarus and the Ukraine;
*5 regional departments and 8 clubs "Territoria personala";
*Research and Training centers.

The history of APSC:
*1991 "The Izvestya newspaper" published the article "Headhunters" by Vasiliy Zakharko.
*1996 Creation of APSC on the non-commercial basis.
*1997 Foundation of Professional Ethics Commission.
*1997-1998 Well-known American, Canadian and European recruiters held seminars for recruiters in Moscow, Krasnodar, Minsk, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk.
*1998 APSC performed enormous assistance to recruiting agencies in preserving and developing personnel search business during the economic crisis in Russia.
*2000 Organization of the First International Congress in Kiev "Eurasia" employment in the 21st century" with the assistance of International Labor Organization.
*2001 Establishment of the Board of Experts of APSC.
*2002 Registration of the Internet site www.apsc.ru.
*2004-2005 Adoption of the Code of Interpersonal relations of HR market participants after the wide discussion in 20 Russian cities.
*2005 Working out of "The Program of personnel search market development".
*2006 Accomplishment of All - Russian project "Enhancement of efficiency of graduate employment in the era of market economy".
*2006 Creation of Media clubs network "Territoria personala" in 8 Russian cities.

ANCOR
ANCOR Holding is the largest professional search and staffing services company in Russia and the other CIS countries. ANCOR has been operating in the field of recruitment and staff leasing services since 1990 and has acquired a deserved reputation as a leader of the business niche. Our network includes over 40 offices: in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan. ANCOR Holding is a private Russian joint-stock company. Today ANCOR renders a wide range of staffing services for companies, which operate in all business spheres. Our services are: professional search and selection, business support personnel search, cross-country search, mass recruitment, outstaffing, temporary staffing, staff leasing, shift-staffing. In partnership with the other companies – Unistaff Payroll Solutions and CASE – ANCOR supports clients in all the stages of HR management cycle. Unistaff Payroll Solutions specializes in payroll and HR administration services. Business activities provided by CASE are as follows: assessment, personnel training, salary and benefit surveys, labor market research, reward system, HR policy audit, HR system development, outplacement, labor law consulting. ANCOR’s client list includes over 1,600 international and local companies. We placed over 1560 candidates (permanent employment) in the second quarter of 2010. The revenue of the holding in the second quarter of 2010 exceeded the figure for the similar period of the previous year on 25,4%.

OmniGrade
The OmniGrade Rating Monitoring Agency:

*A Professional Company
Our employees are all top class professionals in the sphere of factoring, commodity markets, information technologies and financial analysis. We know what is essential to be able to fully assess any customer; objectively, impartially and in depth.

*An Innovative Company
We offer a new business model intended to meet the challenge of the current economic situation and to help protect economic entities. And we will continuously improve our business model, impartially and actively, based on our assessment of ongoing developments in the business environment.

*A Multinational Company
We consider all regions, countries and continents to be our operational area.
Our Mission

To create conditions for stable, reliable, confident and mutually beneficial relationships between businesses at any time and in any economic circumstances.

Imperia Kadrov
IMPERIA KADROV has been successfully going at personnel search market of Russia since 1995.

During the years past IMPERIA KADROV has deservedly reached the status of one of the personnel search market leaders. And today the list of our Customers includes Russian and international key companies representing various chief business segments: Retail, Finance and Banking, Industry, Fuel-energy complex, Building and Development, Informational technologies and Telecommunications, Advertisement and PR, Consulting, Trade, Medicine and Pharmacy.

Our Customers value individual approach and professional team involved in the working process running with us, which makes possible solving different targets successfully in the shortest periods of time:
*Recruiting services: personnel of different degrees and levels search.
*Outstaffing / Temporary personnel provision: personnel costs optimization.
*Consulting services: efficient business support.

The complete list of our Customers today includes over 1000 brand-names. Daily we provide them with more then 50 employees.
In November 2008 we inaugurated our new office in Krasnodar.
In 2009 we opened new branch office in St.-Petersburg.
IMPERIA KADROV is member of Association of Personnel Search Consultants, American Chamber of Commerce and Moscow International Business Association Service-bureau.
During the working process IMPERIA KADROV follows ethical principles included into the agency’s Ethical code rigidly.
IMPERIA KADROV mission: We connect employers who need a professional team with employees looking for favorable job.
IMPERIA KADROV history is a continuous Story of Success. The Story of Success of people, who found their vocation and made a career. The Story of Success of our Customers, who found with our assistance valuable employees and qualified specialists. The Story of Success of the company’s Employees, many of which started with us reached the career light on the top.

OUR ACHIEVEMENTS:
In 2008 IMPERIA KADROV was awarded with Moscow Population State Placement Service Government Certificate of Honor.
In 2007-2008 IMPERIA KADROV was among the top-three in RBC annual ratings of Russian recruiting companies.
In 2006 IMPERIA KADROV was awarded by Protection of Consumers Russian Fund Diploma “For contribution to civilized consumer market of Russia forming” during the festivals “The best in Russia”, “The best in Moscow”, “The best in Moscow area”.
In 2005 IMPERIA KADROV got the prize “For the most loyal Customers” as a result of the recruitment market research organized by Personnel Management Magazine.
In 1997-1998 recruiting services market of Russia researches made under the order of Reconstruction and Development International Bank showed, that IMPERIA KADROV has the leading positions between personnel search agencies in the spheres of top management, accounts and finance, sales, ads and marketing and logistics vacancies filled. IMPERIA KADROV got the highest mark from the Customer companies when they called us the agency, operating with which was the most effective.