Russian Venture Company (OJSC RVC) is a government fund of venture funds.

RVC is one of the Russian Federation’s key tools in building a national innovation ecosystem. RVC’s mission is to promote Russia’s domestic venture capital industry by capitalizing venture funds, most of them privately-owned. In general, RVC operates via public-private partnerships, with RVC committing up to 49% of a venture fund’s capital, with the remainder to be committed by private investors. In addition, RVC acts as a “think tank” for the Russian venture capital industry to originate public policy ideas for the benefit of the venture capital sector.

As of April 2012, RVC has backed twelve funds with a capitalization, collectively, of RUB 26 billion (USD 880 million). RVC’s stake in these funds is, collectively, RUB 16 billion (USD 540 million). These funds are:

• Bioprocess Capital Ventures (RUB 3,000 million, or USD 103 million)
• Leader Innovations (RUB 3,000 million, or USD 103 million)
• Maxwell Bio-Tech (RUB 3,061 million, or USD 104 million)
• New Technologies (RUB 3,061 million, or USD 104 million)
• RVC Seed Fund (RUB 2,000 million, or USD 68 million)
• S-Group Ventures (RUB 1,800 million, or USD 61 million)
• Tamir Fishman CIG Russian Fund (RUB 2,000 million, or USD 68 million)
• VTB Venture Fund (RUB 3,061 million, or approxUimately USD 104 million)
• RVC Infrastructure Investment Fund (RUB 2,000 mln, or USD 68 million)
• RVC Biopharmaceutical Investment Fund (RUB 1,500 mln, or USD 52 million)
• Russian Venture Capital I LP (RUB 300 million, or USD 10 million)
• RVC IVFRT LP (RUB 1200 million, or USD 40 million)

Also as of April 2012, these RVC-backed funds collectively had a portfolio of 111 companies in which they had invested capital of RUB 9.2 billion (USD 308 million).

RVC was established pursuant to Order No. 838-r of the Russian government on June 7, 2006, and is 100% owned by the Federal Agency for State Property Management (Rosimuschestvo). It has an authorized capital of RUB 30 billion (about USD 983.2 million).

In the years to come, RVC is expected to play a pivotal role in the development of the Russian venture capital industry.

Established in 1993, EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE:EPAM) is a leading global software engineering and IT consulting provider with delivery centers throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Headquartered in the United States, EPAM employs over 7,300 IT professionals and provides services to clients worldwide using a global delivery model through its client facing and delivery operations in the United States, Belarus, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine, UK, Germany, Kazakhstan, Sweden, Switzerland, and Poland.

EPAM’s core competencies include complex software product engineering for leading global software and technology vendors, as well as development, testing, maintenance, and support of mission critical business applications and vertically oriented IT consulting services for Forbes Global 2000 corporations.

EPAM is recognized among the top companies in IAOP’s “The 2011 Global Outsourcing 100”, featuring EPAM in a variety of sub-lists, including “Leaders — Technology (Hardware & Software)” and “Leaders — Entertainment & Media”. The company is also ranked among the best global service providers on “The 2011 Global Services 100” by Global Services Magazine and NeoAdvisory, which includes EPAM in the list of the world’s “Top Outsourced Product Engineering Vendors” for the 3rd year running.

For more information, visit www.epam.com

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices. Additional information about Intel is available at newsroom.intel.com and blogs.intel.com.

Intel is a trademark of Intel Corporation in the United States and other countries.

T-Systems, a strategic performance unit of Deutsche Telekom Group, is one of the world’s leading ICT providers. Its core business is development, implementation, support and modernization of information systems in various fields. The company renders a full range of IT-infrastructure outsourcing services, including desktop services and hosting of applications in T-Systems’ own high-quality data centers.

Over 400 international companies are among T-Systems clients, including leading world market players: Shell, BP, Phillips, Daimler, Lukoil, Russian Railways, Sheremetyevo International Airport, Volkswagen and others.

T-Systems operates in more than 20 countries and employs over 50 000 specialists. The company has been represented in Russia since 1995. Its offices are located in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Visit www.t-systems.ru for more information.

Microsoft is a world leader in the sphere of IT software and solutions. The firm is one of the largest global corporations, with representation in over 190 companies, and employees approximately 92,700 worldwide. Microsoft opened its first representative office in Russia in 1992. Today, the company has operations in all regions of the country and has offices in 58 cities.

Luxoft, a principal subsidiary of IBS Group, is a provider of advanced application and software engineering outsourcing services for global and regional enterprises. Luxoft builds partnerships with its clients, such as Boeing, IBM, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Harman, Avaya, Alstom, and Sabre, based on the culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and deep domain expertise. Luxoft offers international delivery capability through its network of state-of-the-art delivery centers in North America, Eastern Europe, and Asia. Luxoft’s customers benefit from the right mix of technology skills, industry knowledge, proprietary processes and methodologies, and a choice of engagement models.

With over 5600 employees located in 16 locations around the globe, it is outstanding people that are the driving force behind Luxoft’s continued success. We grow and develop talent by leveraging top-notch instruction programs and a complete state-of-the-art Training Center, which allows employees to sharpen their skills by accessing over 200 general training courses as well as customer-specific education classes.

Luxoft has a deep Agile expertise that includes enterprise-level projects.

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First Line Software is a premiere provider of custom software development and technology enablement services, with a focus on data management, cloud computing, online media, and enterprise content management. First Line provides recognized expert services to industry leaders and growth technology companies in North America, Europe and Asia. Headquartered in the US, First Line operates multiple software development centers in Russia and employs 300 staff globally. First Line’s culture is grounded in subject matter expertise, technical excellence, and proven methodologies, with a strong focus on Agile. First Line has been recognized as a Rising Star in the global ranking of top 100 outsourcing providers by International Association of Outsourcing Professionals® (IAOP®).

Contacts: +1.877.737.7178, sales@firstlinesoftware.com, www.firstlinesoftware.com.

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset—information—in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.emc.com.

With more than 380,000 customers—including 100 of the Fortune 100—and with deployments across a wide variety of industries in more than 145 countries around the globe, Oracle offers an optimized and fully integrated stack of business hardware and software systems.

Engineered to work together, from servers and storage, to database and middleware, through applications, Oracle systems:

• Provide better performance, reliability, security, and flexibility
• Lower the cost and complexity of IT implementation and management
• Deliver greater productivity, agility, and better business intelligence

For customers needing modular solutions, Oracle’s open architecture and multiple operating-system options also give customers unmatched benefits from best-of-breed products in every layer of the stack, allowing them to build the best infrastructure for their enterprise.

JetBrains has a passion for making developers more productive. We design intelligent development tools to simplify your challenging tasks, automate the easy ones, and help you develop with pleasure.

We increase productivity. By focusing on making routine tasks more efficient, we increase developer productivity. Less time is spent on manual refactoring. Navigating complex code bases becomes child’s play. Static analysis helps find issues before they are even compiled!

We promote good design principles. JetBrains tools encourage developers to adopt good coding and design practices, resulting in a clearer and more maintainable code base as well as more robust applications.

We help enforce standardization. Following the same conventions and standards across teams can improve productivity by allowing all members to understand code better and be able to work more efficiently.

We offer a pack of tools for .NET developers, top notch integrated development environments for Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript and Objective C, as well as team productivity tools for continuous integration and issue tracking.
For more information, please visit jetbrains.com

Parallelsis a global leader in hosting and cloud services enablement and desktop virtualization software. The company is organized into two business units: Hosting and Cloud Services Enablement; and Desktop Virtualization and Mac Business Unit.

Hosting and Cloud Services Enablement Business Unit:
Parallels enables service providers of all sizes to quickly launch and profitably deliver a widest range of hosting and cloud services for small and medium businesses (SMBs). More than 5,000 service providers rely on Parallels to deliver cloud services to more than 10 million SMBs in 125 countries. The company’s customers and partners include traditional hosters, communication service providers, value added resellers (VARs), distributors, and Web designers. Parallels is focused on enabling Web presence and Web applications services, communication and collaboration services, infrastructure services, and software as a service (SaaS) business applications. Parallels flagship service integration mechanism – APS – is a free and open application packaging standard that creates a simple and fast way for cloud services providers to offer new services, including aggregated services provided by third parties. Parallels also works with and enables hundreds of independent software vendors (ISVs) to sell their services through the service provider channel.

Desktop Virtualization and Mac Business Unit:
Parallels makes it possible and simple for businesses of all sizes and consumers to run any technology they need on a variety of platforms without compromise. More than three million people worldwide rely on Parallels Desktop to simplify their computing experience. Parallels Desktop for Mac, the company’s award-winning desktop flagship product that empowers people to run Windows and Mac applications side-by-side on a Mac without rebooting, has a commanding 78 percent market share in desktop virtualization on a Mac. Parallels Server for Mac, the world’s only server virtualization solution for the Mac, transforms Mac hardware into a multi-purpose platform that can run Mac OS X and other operating systems (OSes), such as Microsoft Windows and Linux, side-by-side without rebooting. Parallels’ groundbreaking virtualization solutions for Windows include Parallels Workstation Extreme, the world’s only workstation virtualization solution that enables direct assignment of hardware to virtual machines for running the most demanding and graphically intensive 64-bit and 32-bit programs on multiple OSes for individual or multiple simultaneous users.

Micro Focus products transform the software assets that run your business, helping you to maximize the quality, efficiency and value of your business-critical applications. For over 30 years Micro Focus has provided innovative software to help you develop, test, deploy, assess and modernize the applications that power your business. Our Enterprise Mainframe Solutions, Testing and Management software ensures your business applications can respond rapidly to market changes and embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk. With over 18,000 customers, including 91 of the Fortune Global 100 companies, Micro Focus products are used by over two million licensed users worldwide.

Infostroy is a ISO 9001:2008 certified company was founded in Kharkov, Ukraine in 2000. The name of our company reflects its main activity areas: Information Systems, Technologies, Research, Outsourcing for You – INFOSTROY. We develop custom software solutions for our clients in areas of E-Commerce, Communications, Energy and Utilities, Manufacturing, Education and E-Learning, Healthcare and Medicine, Publishing and Advertisement. We have many international clients, including the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Russia. Infostroy provides services in Software Outsourcing, Reengineering and Refactoring, Clouds and SaaS Solutions Development and Embedded Systems Development.
www.infostroy-software.com