A fund built around one destination
KRIF was founded in 2015 to move technology and capital across the SCO space. The fund invests for an equity stake, prepares companies for capital, and puts them in front of investors — above all Chinese ones.
What the fund is
KRIF is an investment fund. It puts its own capital into technology projects and takes an equity stake in them. The second practice — preparing a company until capital becomes possible — exists because a well-prepared company is a better asset, including for the fund itself.
The fund does not describe itself as a consultancy. Consulting is what a fund does when it has no conviction. KRIF takes positions, and paid services are provided on request rather than as the main business.
Where the fund works
The fund works across the space of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. Its key development hub in China is a partner network in Qingdao — the people who register the entity, hold the negotiation and sign the documents on the ground, in Chinese.
Where we look
- Robotics and Industry 4.0 — industrial robots, production software, equipment.
- Electric transport and charging infrastructure.
- IT and software with an export model.
- New materials.
- Medicine.
- Export-oriented business — raw materials, agriculture, food.
- Manufacturing, including crafts and eco-products, and exhibition activity.
Track record
The fund's projects have been presented to the President of the Russian Federation at INNOPROM and in Perm, to the Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, and at SPIEF, the APEC SME Business Forum, Smart China Expo, the World Economic Forum and the Russian Investment Forum. The fund has held working meetings at Haier, DongFeng Motors, Sieyuan Electric, TGOOD Electric and PNC.
