Nanotechnologies

State-owned investment corporation Rusnano struggles with “disproportionate debt”

November 29, 2021

Earlier this month Rusnano, the state-owned investment corporation set-up in 2007 to nurture nanotechnologies and related innovation, admitted it had accumulated a “disproportionate debt,” reports TheBell.io. On Friday, Nov. 19, the Central Bank ordered the Moscow Stock Exchange to suspend trading of Rusnano’s bonds, while company management were reportedly locked in debt restructure negotiations. Unsurprisingly, …

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Russian-founded graphene nanotube leader aims to raise up to $800 million through SPAC merger

October 11, 2021

OCSiAl, the Russian-founded global graphene nanotube leader (pronounced ‘Oxial’), intends to get listed on a Western exchange until the end of this year by merging with a SPAC. The company aims for a $3 billion valuation, its co-founder Yuri Koropachinsky told Forbes Russia last week.  “We’re having very deep discussions with nine SPAC companies,” he said.  SPACs are becoming trendy among Russian-founded …

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Russian-founded graphene nanotube leader valued at $2 billion, inks investment agreement with Daikin

August 4, 2021

OCSiAl, the Russian-founded global graphene nanotube leader, has inked an investment and business cooperation agreement with Japanese giant Daikin Industries. The companies disclosed  OCSiAl’s valuation (“about $2 billion”) but not the terms of the share subscription deal.  Pronounced ‘Oxial,’ OCSiAl refers to four chemical elements: oxygen (O), carbon (C), silicon (Si) and aluminum (Al). Touted as the …

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Russian corporate fund backs US company to “revolutionize metal performance at the nano-scale”

November 12, 2020

In mid-December Severstal Ventures, an investment vehicle created last year by the Russian steel and mining giant Severstal,  announced an investment in US company Modumetal. The corporate fund has got a minority stake along with existing shareholders Vulcan Ventures, BP Ventures, Founders Fund, Steel Dynamics, ConocoPhillips, Chevron Technology Ventures and others.  Based in Seattle, Modumetal claims …

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Rusnano exits US Wi-Fi chipset provider Quantenna with high return

February 18, 2019

Rusnano, the Russian state-controlled nanotechnology corporation, has exited Quantenna Communications, a US-based provider of high-performance Wi-Fi solutions, six years after an investment of around $20 million in the company. Revealed by SEC documents and confirmed by Rusnano, the exit transaction took place December 2018. The Russian firm received some $43 million in exchange for its …

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Rusnano used for Russian intel activity in Silicon Valley, says US media

September 8, 2018

“Russian intelligence has had an intensive interest in San Francisco stretching back to the beginning of the Cold War,” wrote Zach Dorfman in Politico this summer in an in-depth article about foreign intel activity in Silicon Valley. Russians initially aimed at gathering information on local military installations, but as Silicon Valley transformed itself into a …

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Laser-plasma technology startup secures $1.8 million from Russian industrial group

August 23, 2017

Russian startup Optogard Nanotech has secured 110 million rubles (some $1.8 million at the current exchange rate) in equity financing from Garant, a Russian group investing in industrial projects, as reported by Skolkovo Foundation. Optogard Nanotech has developed a laser-plasma technology for strengthening the surfaces of metals and alloys, such as the inside of pipes. The Optogard …

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Rusnano prepares to launch Russian-Arabic tech fund

March 28, 2017

Rusnano is considering to launch a Russian-Arabic direct investment fund, business daily Vedomosti wrote last week, confirming earlier reports. The Russian state-owned nanotech giant has already identified a group of potential investors from the Middle East, Lyubov Timofeeva, Senior Analyst at Business Strategy Department at Rusnano, told the business daily. Vedomosti has learned from an …

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Rusnano in discussions with Asian and Middle-Eastern investors to launch new tech funds

January 11, 2017

Rusnano, Russia’s nanotech giant, aims to create two new investment funds in the first half of this year. The state-owned corporation is holding talks with potential co-investors from China and the Middle-East, said its executive director Boris Podolsky in an interview with news agency Prime in late December. The cooperation may involve Japanese institutional investors as well, …

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Rusnano teams up with Chinese corporation to launch $500-million nanotech fund

March 2, 2017

Rusnano, Russia’s national nanotech investment corporation, and Zhongrong International Trust, a major Chinese investment and banking corporation, have agreed to launch a joint investment fund in the field of nanotechnologies. Signed last week, the agreement contains some legally binding clauses, Rusnano Senior Managing Director Ashot Maryan told Russian business daily Vedomosti. The partners will provide their equity investments in equal portions and …

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Russia and China consider creating joint nanotech fund

March 2, 2017

Rusnano, the Russian state-owned corporation dedicated to nanotechnologies, has proposed the creation of a joint Russian-Chinese fund for investing in this sector, head of the corporation Anatoly Chubais stated. According to Chubais, the proposal was made at a recent session of the first Russian-Chinese commission on investment cooperation between Russia and China. “The idea is …

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Two major US high tech firms stop supplying Russian partners

March 2, 2017

US corporation Applied Materials has refused to supply equipment for Crocus Nanoelectronica, the plant which will manufacture magnetoresistive random access memory (MRMA) chips in Moscow, head of Rusnano Anatoly Chubais said in an interview with ITAR-TASS. Crocus Nanoelectronica is a joint venture between Rusnano, the Russian state corporation dedicated to nanotechnologies, and French high-tech firm Crocus Technology. The …

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