Technology Investment Fund

History

2023: Investment in the NTC "Drive Technology"

On December 29, 2023, Investment Management LLC Technological Investment Fund (FTI), owned by the head of Innopraktika Katerina Tikhonova and her first deputy Natalya Popova, announced the acquisition of a 10 percent stake in the Chelyabinsk Scientific and Technical Center "Drive Technology ." The financial terms of the agreement are not disclosed as of that date. Read more here.

2021: Foundation Creation

In November 2021, it became known about the creation of the Technological Investment Fund in Russia. This is a project of the director of Innopraktika Katerina Tikhonova (the media call her the daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin), as well as her first deputy Natalya Popova.

The investment partnership announced this project RBC with reference to its sources. Natalya Popova, through the press service of the Innopraktika Foundation, confirmed the information to the publication and noted that the new fund is intended "for sowing investments startups in the amount of about 3 million per rubles project."

Katerina Tikhonova created the Technological Investment Fund

Rounds of seed investments, as a rule, provide for the allocation of small funds to companies in the early stages, RBC notes. Investment partnerships are created by managing partners who manage the portfolio of assets and capital, and can also attract third-party investors. Among the funds that work in this status are the National Technology Initiative Fund, the Skolkovo venture capital fund group, several pre-IPO funds of the Da Vinci investment group, the Russian-Belarusian venture capital investment fund, the Far Eastern Fund for the Development and Introduction of High Technologies, etc.

According to RBC sources, the FTI Investment Management company will manage Katerina Tikhonova's partnership, she will specialize in seed investments in startups.

Katerina Tikhonova said earlier in 2021 that the scientific and technological sphere, in particular breakthrough technologies, as well as companies in the SME sector, may be of particular interest for investments.

Natalya Popova, in addition to working at Innopraktika, holds the post of public ombudsman for the protection of the rights of high-tech companies. In August 2021, at a meeting with the board of the National Champions Association, she called for a bet on fast-growing technology companies.^[1]

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