Venture Capital as Catalysator for Cluster Innovation and Growth

1. Denis Kovalevich
Founder and CEO of TechnoSpark
Russia, Moscow, Troitsk innovation cluster
A new player
in cluster building

2. Most of the clusters want to grow
their own Apples from their startups

3. Most of the Apples want
to acquire startups, not Apples

4. Most of the Apples
became serial acquirers of startups

5. And most of the startups
wish to be acquired

6. Do we know any cluster,
who claim:
“My mission is to became a
serial dealer of startups”?

7. Do we know who could play the
new role in the cluster named
“Serial producer of startups”?

8. Venture building companies
= startup studios
= startup factories
create startups in a serial way,
start them from scratch,
develop and sell them.

9. The new types of cluster players: startup studious and venture-building companies

10. Venture builders are appearing in regions with low level of essential entrepreneurship

11. Venture builders integrate three deficits in one business:
investments + entrepreneurship + infrastructure

12. Started from ICT and Internet, now also in Industries 4.0, healthtech and cleantech

14. The driver of Troitsk innovation cluster – TechnoSpark venture-building company

15. Variety of TechnoSpark’
technology domains

16. What could one venture builder do for the cluster in 7 years:
70+ technology startups
20+ contract infrastructure companies
1 state-of-the-art fab
500+ direct jobs
X*500 indirect jobs
€100+ mln investments

18. EngineersEquipmentIntellectual
property
Startup-DATA Management Footprint
Customer
TechnoSpark sell startups as a LEGO:
the customer make decisions on the compound of the startup

20. Let’s ask ourself again:
do we have the strong
skeleton of the cluster?
Thank you for your attention!