Joint venture capital fund established by Sistema and RUSNANO in 2016 with focus on hi-tech projects.
Date of Foundation
2016 year
Sistema's stake
50 percent
The fund's size
100 mn $
Investment in a project
~ 10 mn $
Development Strategy
RSSA invests up to $10 mn for a non-controlling stake in growing companies with strong team, long-term competitive advantage, transparent business model, high potential for monetization and clear exit strategy in 4-6 years.
The size of the fund is $100 mn. Sistema and RUSNANO hold 50% each in the fund. The fund is open for outside investors. The average amount of a single investment is $3-10 mn.
Investment stages
A
Financing the project at the stage of entering the market, organizing mass production and hiring a full-fledged team.
B
Scaling a company after reaching predetermined targets and developing new sales markets, expanding in a occupied niche and increasing profit margins.
Investment focus
Innovative industrial solutions and hi-tech projects in growing markets:
Smart transport and buildings;
Security systems;
Innovation in energy;
Clean-tech;
Connectivity;
New technologies;
Advanced materials.
Portfolio
Geosplit
Developer of an innovative system for the monitoring of oil-producing well inflow profiles.
GeoSplit is a high-tech oilfield services company that offers well diagnostics after multi-stage fracturing. Oil wells are diagnosed through tracer analysis by introducing propping agents marked by reporting markers that are several microns in size. It has a number of competitive advantages in terms of price and accuracy.
Investment in 2017.
Texel
Texel is a software developer and manufacturer of professional 3D scanners for 3D models of people and large objects.
Texel has brought to the market several deep-tech solutions in the field of creating a parametric human model. In 2019, the team successfully passed the Founders Factory acceleration and attracted investments from Marks & Spencer (top 10 clothing manufacturers in the world), launching a series of pilots with the company. Texel is a Skolkovo resident, and its clients include the largest retailers and clothing manufacturers.
Investment in 2020.
Ivideon
The developer of the cloud-based video surveillance (VSaaS) and video analytics platform solution with event notifications and recordings stored either locally or in the cloud.
One of the best app for video surveillance, remote video monitoring and video recording for security cameras, DVRs and NVRs. The Ivideon platform solution allows not only to record and save video but also to analyse it, increasing the efficiency of business processes, marketing and sales, the level of security, transparency and competitiveness of companies.