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September 26, 2007
Euro VC Fund News: DFJ Goes To Russia and UK Gets Giant Cleantech Fund
Draper Fisher Jurvetson sent the alarm:clock euro the news that it is continuing to create its 'global network' with a new $150M fund for Russia. Like it did in Europe with Esprit, it has a local partner. In this case it is VTB, a commercial banking group with over $52B in assets. Four partners are named: Andrey Zyuzin, Andrey Morozov, and Sergey Romashov and Alexandra Johnson (in Silicon Valley).
"DFJ has been observing the Russian start up environment for the last several years. It is safe to say that with the influx of institutional money, governmental support, and the migration of management talent of Russian origin back to Russia, the ecosystem for technology startups is now emerging,” said Tim Draper, Founder and Managing Director of DFJ.
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The UK's Climate Change Capital closed a huge €200M fund to invest in clean energy companies. Its limited partners include Alpinvest, Robeco, HSBC, USS, Alliance Trust, Bankinter, Woelbern Group and Harcourt. We recognize the names of a few of the partners as attendees of the Zurich Energy Fair. While most of the partners have joined CCC from the private equity sector, there is one who jumped from another cleantech fund Bruno Derungs, formerly of the Swiss fund Emerald Technology Ventures (fka SAM Private Equity).
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