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2023

Support for drone developers - they will receive 30 billion rubles

The National Technology Initiative (NTI) Fund will allocate about 30 billion rubles to startups in development in the field. unmanned aerial vehicles The funds will be used to support the release of ready-made commercial solutions until 2030. This was announced on November 21, 2023 by Natalia Erdem, Project Management Director of the NTI Foundation.

According to her, the financing of drone developers will be carried out in the form of grants, they differ from other subsidies that the departments operate. The fund's task is not to do research or development work, but to implement a project that will result in a product released on the market so that it achieves commercialization, Erdem said.

The National Technology Initiative (NTI) Fund will allocate about 30 billion rubles to startups engaged in developments in the field of UAVs

According to Vedomosti, the NTI Fund is an operator of state subsidies related to the development of technologies. He will support projects both for the development of the UAVs themselves and components, but startups will have to undergo an open selection. A scientific and technical council will appear on the basis of the federal project management system, which will be able to formulate tasks, and contests will be announced for them.

It is planned to support 275 startups engaged in the creation of UAV prototypes. They will be able to receive up to 30 million rubles. Another 70 million rubles will be distributed among 80 developers of prototypes, but 50 manufacturers of serial samples were most lucky - the NTI fund will allocate a total of 300 million rubles to them.

30 billion rubles is a sufficient amount of investment for the development of unmanned aviation technologies with its competent distribution, emphasizes Pavel Kamnev, commercial director of Laboratory of the Future. Thus, it turns out about 5 billion rubles for each year: although the money is not huge, but with such a budget there is a chance to build something, added Vitaly Munirov, General Director of Kursira, market expert at NTI Aeronet (AeroNet^[1]

Creation of a venture capital fund

The NTI Project Support Fund (National Technology Initiative) and Popov Radio Corporation JSC have created the NTI Sovereign Technology Venture Fund (FST NTI). This became known in early April 2023. Read more here.

2022

Official announcement of the creation of a company to provide drone transportation services

On June 16, 2022 , the State Transport Leasing Company (GTLK) and the National Technology Initiative Project Support Fund (NTI) signed an agreement on the creation of a new company that will provide services for aerial photography and monitoring of facilities, as well as for the transportation of goods by unmanned aircraft. Read more here.

Vadim Medvedev - the new general director of the NTI Foundation

On January 19, 2022, it was announced the appointment of Vadim Medvedev as the new general director of the National Technology Initiative Project Support Fund (NTI Fund). In this post, he replaced Kirill Ruzhensky. Read more here.