{"id":35627,"date":"2017-03-27T06:42:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T13:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/a-new-100-million-russian-investment-fund-is-targeting-ai-startups-globally"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:07:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:07:34","slug":"a-new-100-million-russian-investment-fund-is-targeting-ai-startups-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/a-new-100-million-russian-investment-fund-is-targeting-ai-startups-globally","title":{"rendered":"A new $100 million Russian investment fund is targeting AI startups globally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-100-million-russian-investment-fund-is-targeting-ai-startups-globally.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Global <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/2017\/01\/16\/why-2017-is-the-year-to-invest-in-artificial-intel.aspx\">AI investment fever<\/a> has hit Russia, with a recently launched $100 million fund making its inaugural investments.<\/p>\n<p>Announced in late 2016, the fund is backed by Larnabel VC, the venture arm of the Gutseriev family, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/mikhail-gutseriev\/\">one of the richest in Russia<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/vpcapital.com\/\">VP Capital<\/a>, the investment vehicle of Belarussian businessman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viktorprokopenya.com\/\">Viktor Prokopenya<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The joint fund is sector-agnostic. \u201cWe are interested in a wide range of companies that apply AI technologies in interesting, unique, and impactful ways. We don\u2019t restrict ourselves to specific industries or sectors. We are interested in every application of artificial intelligence, from fintech to entertainment, to education, and beyond,\u201d Prokopenya told East-West Digital News.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2017\/03\/27\/a-new-100-million-russian-investment-fund-is-targeting-ai-startups-globally\/\">https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2017\/03\/27\/a-new-100-million-russian...-globally\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global AI investment fever has hit Russia, with a recently launched $100 million fund making its inaugural investments. Announced in late 2016, the fund is backed by Larnabel VC, the venture arm of the Gutseriev family, one of the richest in Russia, and VP Capital, the investment vehicle of Belarussian businessman Viktor Prokopenya. The joint [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,32,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-education","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58300,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35627\/revisions\/58300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}