Motif neuromorphic technologies

"Motif Neuromorphic Technologies" ("Motif NT") is a company created in 2017 that processes visual information using deep, neural networks creates software and hardware systems for automatic visual control of product quality and control of personnel actions, etc., as well as the development and production of the first Russia neuromorphic chip - processor for hardware execution of neural networks.

History

2022: Kaspersky Lab bought 15% of Neuromorphic Technology Motif

On June 20, 2022, it became known about the sale of shares in the Motive NT company to Kaspersky Lab. Its participants did not disclose the cost of the transaction. It is alleged that investments in the development of "Motive NT" entered the perimeter of the transaction.

According to Arthur Shubaev, vice president of Advance Capital, the deal could amount to "several tens of millions of rubles" and was due to the demand for the development of high-tech products within the country.

Kaspersky Lab bought 15% of the developer of brain-mimicking chips

According to RBC, citing data from the SPARK-Interfax system, co-founders of Motiva NT, Konstantin Panchenko and Valery Kangler, sold 7.5% each. At the same time, they remained the owners of 27.5% of the company, and another founder of the company, Mikhail Katomin, had 30%.

As noted by the Director of the Department of Advanced Technologies, Kaspersky LabAndrey Dukhvalov joining the shareholders of Motive NT will give the company access to neuromorphic technologies to "form the global technological ecosystem of Kaspersky Lab." It will also include its own, operating system KasperskyOS software to counter cyber threats software and "."MyOffice

Dukhvalov added that the current investment in Motive NT is the first round of investments; in the coming years, Kaspersky Lab expects to increase its share.^[1]

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