The amount of venture capital investment in Russia decreased by 25%, the number of transactions by 7%
In the first nine months of 2015, 241 venture capital deals worth 33.9 billion rubles were conducted in Russia. In sum, this result is a quarter less than the same period in 2014, and seven percent less than the previous year in terms of the number of transactions.
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According to the report of the Internet Initiatives Development Fund, the venture capital market in Russia has declined in terms of the number of transactions and in their total amount, Vedomosti reports . If in 2014, for the first nine months, 258 transactions took place, in 2015 - 241 transactions. The difference touched the amount of transactions: it fell from 45.4 billion rubles to 33.9 billion.
Most of this trend affected deals in the later rounds: these are only ten deals in nine months. Late rounds and mergers and acquisitions in unit terms account for 4% of the total number of transactions, but at the same time they account for 73% of the market.
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Investments in the pre-planting stages increased by 36% to 253.3 million rubles, notes Margarita Zobnina, head of the research department of the Federal State Institute of Information Research, notes.
Dmitry Chikhachev, the manager of Runa Capital, adds that in the later rounds many projects are focused on the Russian market, and in the early stages startups are focused on international markets. According to Chikhachev, investor interest has fallen to enter the Russian market.
Photo: “Vedomosti”
According to the report of the Internet Initiatives Development Fund, the venture capital market in Russia has declined in terms of the number of transactions and in their total amount, Vedomosti reports . If in 2014, for the first nine months, 258 transactions took place, in 2015 - 241 transactions. The difference touched the amount of transactions: it fell from 45.4 billion rubles to 33.9 billion.
Most of this trend affected deals in the later rounds: these are only ten deals in nine months. Late rounds and mergers and acquisitions in unit terms account for 4% of the total number of transactions, but at the same time they account for 73% of the market.
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Investments in the pre-planting stages increased by 36% to 253.3 million rubles, notes Margarita Zobnina, head of the research department of the Federal State Institute of Information Research, notes.
Dmitry Chikhachev, the manager of Runa Capital, adds that in the later rounds many projects are focused on the Russian market, and in the early stages startups are focused on international markets. According to Chikhachev, investor interest has fallen to enter the Russian market.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/297376/
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