KAMA FLOW at the Innovation Centres Forum 2024

On 3 December, KAMA FLOW partners took part in the Innovation Centres Forum, which kicked off in the Lomonosov cluster. 🎙Evgeny Borisov moderated the session "Tools for financing innovations: from microgrants to placement on the stock exchange". A recording of the broadcast is available at https://rutube.ru/video/c53cf67e58cb0e6b76003c6c92605701/ The discussion was attended by: - Anton Urusov, Vice President of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, - Maria Sutormina, CEO and co-founder of the Syndicate Venture Investors Club, - Alexander Gentsis, CEO of Diasoft Innovations, - Denis Tolstykh, Deputy Director General, ANO Engineering and Innovation Support Centre, - Anastasia Pavlenko, Deputy Executive Director - Director for Strategic Partnerships, Innopraktika. 🔍 What was discussed: - available financing tools for technology businesses at different stages of growth, - mechanisms of adaptation to current economic conditions, - expectations from the market situation on the horizon of 2-3 years. "Despite limited resources, the market is showing a growing number of promising projects. New challenges favour the emergence of modern financial instruments, such as IPOs, and direct investments are becoming a major trend." - Evgeny Borisov summarised the results of the meeting. 🎙Kirill Tishin moderated the section "Innovative startups: from idea to billion-dollar business". You can watch the recording here https://rutube.ru/video/fa3e3140f49b5f992cb38dc3cfb9bc98/ The discussion was attended by: - Alexei Filimonov, executive director of the National Executive Director of the National Association for Technology Transfer (NATT), - Pavel Novitsky, General Director of INTC "Aerospace Innovation Valley", - Vadim Slavin, Product Manager, Naimix Recruitment, - Andrey Lisitsa, CEO and founder of GoodsForecast. 🔍 What was discussed: - Ways to transform an idea into a billion dollar business, - managing limited resources, - overcoming staffing challenges, - capitalising on market conditions for successful growth. "The most important thing for knowledge-intensive startups is to determine where to spend resources, learn how to compete for human resources and use the market situation in their favour." - noted Kirill Tishin.