Interros, Vladimir Potanina, together with the Minvostok Development of the Russian Federation, signed an agreement on the creation of the Venture Fund “Sunrise”, the main purpose of which is the development of innovations in the Far East, whose key task will be the development of high-tech companies in the Far East to solve industrial problems not only in the region, but also Russia and the world as a whole.
The appropriate agreement was signed on the Eastern Economic Forum (WEF) General Director of Interros, Sergey Batechin and Minister for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic Alexey Chekundkov.
As the General Director of Interros, Sergey Batechin, noted, the company pledged to invest 10 billion rubles in the next 5 years, and the first money will arrive this year. “All this in our opinion as an investment company, creates the critical mass of the necessary conditions in which major business is ready to come to the region is no longer just in the mining sector, but also in IT technology,” Bathechin emphasized.
According to Andrei Swingzov, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications, the introduction of modern digital technologies and innovative development of the region of the Far East and the country as a whole – this is a key factor in the development of the entire Russian economy: “The state has significantly focus on development The Far East, and the draft of the Venture Fund of Minvostok Development and Interros – another step in this direction. The active involvement of a large business in creating such projects is a very good sign that allows us to look at the development of IT and digital technologies in the region and in the country as a whole. “
Interros has recently been actively involved in innovative and scientific projects. Thus, the company in June announced the entry in the consortium of investors of the Atomyze platform in the consortium, which is engaged in the translation of physical assets in a digital form – and even earlier this year, Vladimir Potanin allocated 500 million rubles from personal funds to create a laboratory of programmable functional materials Konstantin Novoselov , Nobel Prize winner in 2010 physics.