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Investment fund · since 2015

Capital for technology, and a route into China

KRIF works across the SCO space. We take an equity stake in projects we believe in, and we prepare the rest until capital becomes possible. The destination market is China, where our development hub is a partner network in Qingdao.

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Where capital, technology and freight actually move: the fund works across the SCO space, with China as the destination market.
01Two ways in

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There are exactly two doors into the fund. Which one is yours depends on one question: can your project already withstand an investor's scrutiny?

$1,000

Investment session

Two hours. We assess the investment attractiveness of your project and hand you a written conclusion: whether it is ready to raise, what is missing, and what has to be done before a round. If it is ready, we either make an investment offer ourselves or bring an investor to it.

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Investment committee

For a project that is genuinely finished: a presentation, the key figures, documents to back them. You fill in a detailed questionnaire, the application goes through scoring, and we tell you whether we are prepared to invest. A rejected application may be resubmitted after six months.

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02The fund in figures
12
projects taken to the Chinese market
$50
$ million raised in total
8
people in the fund's team
7
months on average from application to money received
03What we do

Three forms of one thing

The fund is set up to invest in projects and take an equity stake. Everything else exists to get a project to the point where that is possible.

01

We invest ourselves

We select projects against our own criteria and enter with the fund's capital for a stake, from $20,000 at pre-seed to $25,000,000 at growth stage. We take a seat in the corporate agreement and stay with the team through scale-up.

Investment criteria

02

We prepare and place

Where the fund does not invest alone, we package the project for institutional capital: financial model, valuation, corporate and IP structure, data room, pitch in three languages. Then we take it to investors.

How preparation works

03

We bring Chinese investors

After preparation and due diligence we introduce the project to Chinese funds, corporations, industrial parks and family offices, and we run the negotiation on the ground in Chinese.

The China practice

04Where China changes the answer

Why the Chinese market is the argument

A technology company priced against its home market alone is priced against a ceiling. The same company with a manufacturing partner, a distribution channel and a licence in China is a different asset — with a different valuation, a different buyer list and a different exit. Our position is that this shift, not a pitch deck, is what raises the money.

  • Access to industrial partners and contract manufacturing in Guangdong, Shandong and Jiangsu.
  • Entity registration, licensing, certification and the tax perimeter, handled on the ground.
  • Chinese investors who buy a market position, not a slide — funds, corporations, industrial parks, family offices.
  • Negotiation and documentation in Chinese, with our own people in the room.
06Institutions

We work with

The fund's work rests on standing relationships with chambers of commerce, trade councils and development institutions across the SCO space.

SCO Business CouncilRussia–China Business IncubatorAll-China Youth FederationRussian Union of YouthChina–Korea Business Incubator, QingdaoSino-German Ecopark, QingdaoAlego.Digital
07Next step
Two hours and a written verdict, or a full application and a decision from the committee. Both start on this page.