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VEB and SREI approve principal terms and provisions to establish Russian-Indian IT and Innovation Fund

12 December 2017

With the support of Roscongress Foundation, Vnesheconombank, VEB-Innovations and an Indian company SREI Infrastructure Finance Ltd signed an agreement on the terms and conditions to establish a Russian-Indian IT and Innovation Fund with the target size of investors’ commitment amounting to USD 200 million. This contract has become a real example of implementing the provisions of the Memorandum of Understanding on the support of the Russian export and the development of Russian-Indian cooperation between Vnesheconombank and Srei Infrastructure Finance Limited signed at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2017.

On the part of Vnesheconombank, the Agreement was signed by the Chairman Sergey Gorkov, on the part of VEB-Innovations - by the Director General Kirill Bulatov, and on the part of SREI Infrastructure Finance Ltd - by the Chairman and Managing Director Hemant Kanoria.

The Fund is designed to attract investment in innovative companies focused on the development of cooperation between Russia and India. Particular emphasis will be placed on promising inventions based on a strong scientific and technological base of Russia and India. This will help facilitate an innovative transformation of both economies. The Fund will also help build up trade in Russian and Indian cutting-edge technologies and their transfer to other countries. The parties have already started to identify projects for the Fund’s pipeline, which will include projects of Russian innovative companies.

As a next step, the parties will proceed to creating a corporate structure of the Fund, with operating activities scheduled to begin prior to the end of Q2 2018.

Apart from the Fund, VEB and SREI are actively promoting Russian high-technology exports in the Indian market.

“We expect the Russian-Indian Fund to help boost trade and economic cooperation between our two countries. Such platform is of crucial importance as it will facilitate a pipeline of projects and joint assessment and financing of these projects. For many IT companies, the Russian market is not enough for distributing their products. And cooperation with SREI will help them enter the market of India and the Asia-Pacific region”, said Vnesheconombank Chairman Sergey Gorkov. 

“Information technologies and innovations are very quick processes, and our cooperation is also rapidly evolving. In June, we signed a memorandum of understanding. And next year the Fund will be ready to make the first investment”, said SREI Chairman and Managing Director Hemant Kanoria.

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