Sponsors

Premium sponsor	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.
Gold sponsor	Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a presence in more than 70 countries and employing more than 100,000 people worldwide. The Deutsche Bank Russia Technology Centre opened in 2001. There we design and develop the systems, software, and solutions that make millisecond transaction times cost effective and reliable. Every second, we face the technological challenges implicit in growth, market change, and constant competition. Our primary task is to make the Bank efficient and responsive today, while building the foundation to meet the demands of tomorrow. The Russia Development Center employs a staff of more than 700 full-time software engineers in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and is a pivotal part of the Deutsche Bank global technology landscape.
Gold sponsor	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.
Gold sponsor	JetBrains is the world’s leading vendor of professional software development tools for C#, Java, Ruby, PHP, JavaScript, Python, Objective-C and other languages and frameworks. Its products are routinely recognized by the industry and the community, with most recent including Dr. Dobb’s Jolt Award for Coding Tools 2013, Visual Studio Magazine 2012 Readers Choice Award, JAX Innovation Award 2012, and InfoWorld 2011 Technology of the Year Award. Since JetBrains was founded in 2000, over 1,000,000 developers have used their tools to dramatically improve code quality, boost their productivity, reduce daily routine and focus on better code design. JetBrains’ most renowned products include: IntelliJ IDEA ― a polyglot IDE supporting over 50 languages; ReSharper ― a must-have productivity extension for Microsoft Visual Studio; TeamCity ― a CI (Continuous Integration) and build management server; and YouTrack ― a smart issue tracker and agile project management system, among others. Committed to supporting the open source movement, JetBrains provides IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition, available since 2009 free of charge. This open-source IDE was selected by Google as the basis for their new Android Studio, Google announced at Google I/O 2013. JetBrains customers include thousands of world-famous companies such as Intel, Apple, Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, Boeing, Oracle, and Toyota, as well as hundreds of thousands of individual developers. JetBrains maintains its R&D labs in St. Petersburg, Russia and Munich, Germany; along with offices in Prague, Czech Republic; Boston, MA, USA; and Moscow, Russia.
Gold sponsor	SAP is at the center of today’s technology revolution, developing innovations that not only help businesses run like never before, but also improve the lives of people everywhere. As the market leader in enterprise application software, we help companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable more than 253,500 customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. SAP opened its office in Moscow in 1992. More than 20 years after, we have offices in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don, Kiev, Minsk, and Almaty with more than 1050 SAP employees working there.
Gold sponsor	SberTech
Silver sponsor	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, , www.firstlinesoftware.com.
Silver sponsor	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.
Silver sponsor	Qt is a leading cross-platform application and UI development framework for leading desktop, embedded and mobile operating systems. Qt uses standard C++ and is widely used for developing software applications with a GUI and also for developing non-GUI applications with features such as file handling, database access, XML parsing, thread management and network support. Qt’s powerful full-framework capabilities allows for the creation of highly-performing native applications as well as for hybrid development where the developer can choose which tools provide the best user experience. Digia is responsible for all Qt activities including product development, commercial and open source licensing together with the Qt Project under the open governance model. Digia has in-depth Qt expertise and experience from demanding mission-critical development projects and hundreds of in-house certified Qt developers. Together with our licensing, support and services capabilities, we operate with the mission to work closely with developers to ensure that their Qt projects are deployed on time, within budget and with a competitive advantage.
Hackathon Sponsor	Digital Design
Sponsor	Genesys is the leading provider of solutions that help businesses deliver an exceptional customer experience. The Genesys software suite handles customer conversations across multiple channels and resources — self-service, assisted-service, and proactive outreach — fulfilling customer requests and optimizing customer care goals while efficiently using resources. Genesys software directs more than 100 million customer interactions every day for 4000 companies and government agencies in 80 countries. These companies and agencies leverage their entire organization, from the contact center to the back office, while dynamically engaging their customers.
Sponsor	Luxoft is a leading provider of software development services and innovative IT solutions to a global client base consisting primarily of large multinational corporations. Luxoft’s software development services consist of core and mission critical custom software development and support, product engineering and testing, and technology consulting. Luxoft’s solutions are based on its proprietary products and platforms that directly impact its clients’ business outcomes and efficiently deliver continuous innovation. The company’s core resources are located in Central and Eastern Europe, where Luxoft has 15 delivery centers, 19 offices and presence in 12 countries, employing more than 7400 people as of the last public filing. Luxoft has principal executive office in Zug, Switzerland and is listed on New York Stock Exchange (LXFT US).
Silver sponsor	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.
Sponsor	Jelastic, Inc. provides enterprise software that re-defines the economics of cloud deployment and management. Jelastic has delivered the industry’s first Platform-as-Infrastructure solution, combining the flexibility of IaaS and the ease of use of PaaS within a single platform for a fraction of the cost of existing virtualized environments. Jelastic is a venture-backed enterprise software company that enables enterprises, OEMs and hosting service providers to unleash the full potential of the cloud to generate superior ROI and efficiencies. For more information or to start a free, two-week trial, visit us at www.jelastic.com.
Sponsor	Mediapark envisions, designs and develops custom made solutions that help business solve problems such as staff management, time reporting, client relations communication management and more.
Innovative sponsor	IBM has been a leading global manufacturer and provider of hardware, software, IT services, and consulting services for more than 100 years. It is the leading brand among technology companies. Throughout its history, IBM has been the world’s most prominent innovator. Support and promotion of research and development are part of the company’s strategy. Annually investing at least USD 6 bn in R&D, IBM has been obtaining more patents per year than any other company for 20 consecutive years. In 2012, IBM received more than 6478 patents.