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.