State University — Higher School of Economics

Investing in Deeptech

In 2012, Axel was formed to satisfy a market need for standardized communication in MWD/LWD systems in challenging environments. Axel’s tools are used in 17 companies from 9 countries including offshore projects in the North Sea. It offers MWD/LWD data processing algorithms and delivers the highest data transmission rate among independent MWD/LWD providers leading to faster and more accurate drilling.

Axel

Board Member

Founded in 2010 by alumni of Heriot-Watt Univesity and Shell, today Geonaft is the leading supplier of 24/7 real-time drilling optimization: geosteering, geomechanics (1D and 3D), petrophysics, fracking design provided in a single software platform. Geonaft’s solutions allow 5x well productivity increase and 3x drilling time reduction.

Geonaft

Phystech Ventures (PV) is an early-stage deeptech VC firm, with a focus on next-gen computing, life sciences, energy, mobility, and space. Phystech Ventures was founded in 2013 to invest in deeptech across the globe. It specializes in Seed and Series A investments, and tends to be the first institutional investor in its portfolio companies, with more than 30 investments to date.

Phystech Ventures

Partner

Conceived by some of the brightest minds hailing from the Computational Mechanics Department of Moscow State University, Fidesys is the developer of a full-stack Computer-Aided Engineering software suite. CAE Fidesys is an easy-to-use and effective tool for performing a full cycle of strength analysis — loading a CAD-model and its analysis, meshing, setting loads and the material mechanical properties, selecting and setting a FEM-solver, model calculation, and results visualization.

Fidesys

BoardMaps is a software solution that digitizes meetings for boards and executive teams. It assists managers in preparing critical issues before meetings and then focuses meetings on decisions, with everyone being on the same page. The software ensures post meeting continuity by allowing triggering subsequent action items and monitoring progressuntil critical matters are successfully resolved.

The company was acquired by iDeals in 2019.

BoardMaps

Pre-seed Investor

M&A and fundraising support + research and analysis for venture capital and high-tech industries. $30M+ in deals closed across tech sector.

Atom Partners

Co-Founder & CEO

The largest newspaper printing business in Eastern Europe in terms of production capacity that had successfully undergone a massive business optimization project both during and in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.

Ivan Protopopov