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Russian Direct Investment Fund

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Total investments 38
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$55M
Portfolio companies 32
Rounds per year 3.17
Lead investments 12
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.16
Exits 4
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Logistics
  • Software
  • Transportation
  • Robotics
  • Health Care
Summary

In 2011 was created Russian Direct Investment Fund, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Moscow. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Russian Federation.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Russian Direct Investment Fund, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital China, Matrix Partners China, Kaspar Ventures, LLC. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Russia-China Investment Fund., Mubadala Ventures, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Vnesheconombank, Mitsui & Co.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Pharmaceutical, Health Care. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Russian Federation. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Zhaogang, ivi, OOO Cotton Way.

Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The real fund results show that this VC is 35 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. This Russian Direct Investment Fund works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2018.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

IXcellerate

Data Center
Information Services
Information Technology
Telecommunications
$190M25 Jan 2022 Moscow, Moscow, Russia

Dostavista

Courier Service
Delivery Service
Logistics
Same Day Delivery
Transportation
$35M30 Aug 2021 Moscow, Moscow, Russia

Tau Group

Automotive
Manufacturing
$5M04 Feb 2021 Turin, Piemont, Italy

Didi Woya

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
$300M28 Jan 2021 Beijing, Beijing, China

Motorica

Medical Device
Robotics
$4M19 Jan 2021 Moscow, Moscow, Russia

Elementaree

Delivery
E-Commerce
Food Processing
Hospitality
$5M02 Apr 2020 Russia, Moscow

Tau Group

Automotive
Manufacturing
$12M13 Feb 2020 Turin, Piemont, Italy

Travelata

Consumer
E-Commerce
Travel
23 Jan 2020 Moscow, Moscow, Russia

American Surgical Technologies

Health Care
$2M09 Nov 2019 Colorado, United States

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Total investments 38
Average round size 55M
Rounds per year 3.17
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 12
Follow on index 0.16
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.68

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

IXcellerate

Data Center
Information Services
Information Technology
Telecommunications
$190M25 Jan 2022 Moscow, Moscow, Russia

Dostavista

Courier Service
Delivery Service
Logistics
Same Day Delivery
Transportation
$35M30 Aug 2021 Moscow, Moscow, Russia

Tau Group

Automotive
Manufacturing
$5M04 Feb 2021 Turin, Piemont, Italy

Didi Woya

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
$300M28 Jan 2021 Beijing, Beijing, China

Motorica

Medical Device
Robotics
$4M19 Jan 2021 Moscow, Moscow, Russia

Elementaree

Delivery
E-Commerce
Food Processing
Hospitality
$5M02 Apr 2020 Russia, Moscow

Tau Group

Automotive
Manufacturing
$12M13 Feb 2020 Turin, Piemont, Italy

Travelata

Consumer
E-Commerce
Travel
23 Jan 2020 Moscow, Moscow, Russia

American Surgical Technologies

Health Care
$2M09 Nov 2019 Colorado, United States
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