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Over the past 20 years, Runet venture industry has gone a long way from being discrete unsystematic projects to being a well-structured venture market with sector-specialised venture funds, accelerators, vivid business angel community and projects with the global presence. In this chapter, we explore the market evolution, key industry participants and venture market dynamics and structure. This study addresses the following research questions: How does the Russian Internet market perform on important dimensions of new business development such as investors’ activity, regional distribution of investments, availability and amount of venture funding? What is the venture market structure in the Internet and IT sector? What is special about the Russian market? The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of the investments in the Russian Internet market with a focus on venture investments. We hope that this study will help researchers back up their research on the development of venture funding and emerging markets, with the data and an insight into the Russian market.
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Rozhkov, A., Zobnina, M. (2020). Investments in Runet. In: Davydov, S. (eds) Internet in Russia. Societies and Political Orders in Transition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33016-3_4
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