GS Group is looking for new Zworykins and Edisons: the international holding opens its venture department

GS Group, a private international holding created in Russia, will support high-motivated entrepreneurs and startup teams at all stages of projects development. The investments of the Venture Projects Department established within the company’s structure will make from 500,000 to 300 million rubles for each startup. The total amount that GS Group plans to allocate for veture projects financing in 2013 and 2014 makes 1.5 billion rubles.

GS Venture – the Venture Projects Department of GS Group – offers complex support to authors of interesting business ideas: from investments and material and technical support to assistance in placing final products in the market, their advertising and promotion.

The target beneficiaries of GS Venture are innovation project teams, developers and all those who want to transform their innovative ideas and developments into profitable commercial projects. They may rely upon GS Group for a powerful technological and economic basis to implement their challenging and unusual startups. The basis for support of promising authors and teams will be provided by various business divisions of GS Group holding, as well as by the capacities of Technopolis GS innovation cluster located in Kaliningrad region (GS Group being its general investor).

GS Venture attracts profile projects, which provide new solutions in the fields of telecommunications, microelectronics and nanotechnologies, into Technopolis GS. GS Group holding, a leading developer in these fields and owner of many know-hows, is ready to support gifted authors of ideas who are just beginning to develop their projects.

“We are ready to finance the projects envisaging creation of brand new technologies in the telecommunication sphere”, Sergey Filimonov, head of the Venture Projects Department of GS Group, pointed. “We are also ready to consider and support development of cutting-edge ideas in other hi-tech fields”.

The company emphasizes that its interest area is not limited to TV broadcasting only, because today GS Group’s competences, besides launching international broadcasting projects, include development of hi-tech electronics, nanotechnologies, organization of efficient use of natural resources with applying environment-friendly and wasteless close-cycle production, logistics and trade, media content creation and a number of other fields. “If you propose a smart and brand new project, we will consider possibilities for its support without fail. By developing Technopolis GS, we see attracting gifted and promising specialists aimed at implementing their ideas as one of our key objectives”, a representative of the holding commented.

When working with GS Venture, the startup teams will receive not only coordination and assistance at all project consideration stages but also consultations of highly qualified experts, both from GS and from other leading companies in the industry.

Detailed information for candidates – developers, project teams and entrepreneurs – can be found at the website of the Venture Projects Department of GS Group:  www.venture.gs