Kirill Varlamov

16.06.2022

SPIEF 2022

Financial and Digital Services: A New Consumption Model

A new term is emerging – WealthTech, which means wealth management. It is beginning to expand, creating with it a comprehensive set of services. It’s not only about balancing money between deposits, but also tools that allow you to trade, balance your portfolio, use any other financial services (such as payments, buying insurance, or whatever). <...> We need to create highly expanded tools with a full set of services. And ultimately, some super apps will appear that will win in this competition

16.06.2022

SPIEF 2022

Financial and Digital Services: A New Consumption Model

In Russia, we are slightly ahead of the global average with our banks and fintech services. And the rest of the world seems to be catching up with us a little now. So maybe we’re at a slightly different stage here. I mean, maybe we’ve already passed the peak. Or not. My personal feeling is that we have not

16.06.2022

SPIEF 2022

Thirty Years of Innovation Policy in Russia: Lessons and Prospects in Relation to Creating Tech Champions

We need to create a self-sufficient ecosystem. Anchor technology companies, technological champions, beacon companies should be created in Russia. They should be high-tech leaders and large enough, with a turnover approaching RUB 1,060 billion. How does one grow such companies? We conducted an analysis, and the only ecosystem that has financial liquidity is the US market. There is no need to be fascinated by the American breakthrough market economy. There are often technological breakthroughs solved in a targeted way, which means that an entrepreneur can be selected there. But people must have done something else somewhere in the world, right? We also found quite interesting tools in Chile and China. They create superagents companies, which are in fact investment funds. What do we propose to do in Russia, especially in the current conditions? We have state capitalism, it is neither bad nor good, but it complicates the issue of innovation. We propose to identify national priorities and record them as a task. This can be a task in any area (in the field of communication platforms or transport, for example). This state task is a market as well. And we should look for investors for these particular tasks. As soon as we have clear priorities with recorded state tasks, we can inform the scientific and technical complex of such demand

16.06.2022

SPIEF 2022

Thirty Years of Innovation Policy in Russia: Lessons and Prospects in Relation to Creating Tech Champions

The innovation system in Russia today is a sphere that produces knowledge. The state spends quite a lot of money on fundamental science. And this knowledge is used in economic circulation to a small extent. Another problem is that technology growth goals were often set. This was done while such objects could not be held any longer. Technologies do not turn into companies and do not remain in the national jurisdiction. Our system is capable of producing innovations, and we have many companies that have become unicorns. But almost all of them are not Russian companies now. The problem is that as soon as a company breaks through a certain level of innovation, it is forced to move to another jurisdiction. The first reason is the need for access to the market. And the demand for innovation in Russia is extremely low. The second reason is access to capital. Let's say you found a cool niche as an innovator. This company needs to be pumped up with resources very quickly. We have barely one twentieth of the money needed to promote innovation in Russia. This should not be budget money or grants. They cannot replace capital investment. The third issue is access to personnel. We need not only programmers, we need marketing specialists, product managers who are able to package this product and offer it to the market

24.05.2018

SPIEF 2018

Digitalization Unlocking New Opportunities in Agro-Industry

Start-up lives in short cycles: test the hypotheses, understand customers’ needs. The agricultural sector by definition has very long sampling cycles, in addition to seasonal dependency. If you did not manage to test something this season, you can only test it in a year from now. In a start-up environment, you do not always have a chance to make it to the next year

26.05.2018

SPIEF 2018

One in a Million: In Search of Russian ‘Unicorns’

nternet Initiatives Development Funds invests in start-ups and education, and endorses legislative initiatives. More than 150 thousand people have enrolled in our educational programs in 5 years of the Fund’s work, we have accelerated about 15 thousand projects, invested in about 400 projects,

24.05.2018

SPIEF 2018

Pitch Session for Startups: New Areas of Growth for Business and Government

At the Foundation for the Development of Internet Initiatives we work with start-ups. We could not but pay attention to the fact that in our country the interaction between start-ups and large corporations is rather poorly organized

23.01.2018

Russia House in Davos 2018

Russia and the Global Digital Agenda

“The technologies of virtual, augmented reality are very interesting, there are technologies in the sphere of the Internet of things, but of course, most implementations that we see and real breakthroughs in technologies that change the processes, increasing efficiency tenfold, sometimes even more, are the technologies of machine learning and big data,”

23.01.2018

Russia House in Davos 2018

Russia and the Global Digital Agenda

“The so-called opening legislation is a big task. Last year, the law on telemedicine was adopted, allowing the opportunity that the market had been waiting for 23 years, to provide medical services remotely,”

23.01.2018

Russia House in Davos 2018

Russia and the Global Digital Agenda

“The big challenge is the big data market. Our estimation of the market of big data trade in Russia alone, the capitalization of this market is around $40 billion,”