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As Forbes has learned, the Russian developer of information security solutions RTK-Solar has decided to support projects at early stages of development. To this end, the Rostelecom subsidiary is creating an acceleration program, to which it will allocate up to 1,100 million rubles by 2025 — 2-5% of the 22 billion rubles in information security technologies announced last year. Finding suitable candidates to join their capital is not easy now — RTK-Solar will have a lot of work, experts warn: despite the opening window of opportunity and the fact that the information security market is being reshaped due to the departure of foreign vendors from the country, the choice of projects in this area is still small

RTK-Solar is creating an honduras whatsapp resource acceleration program for investing in early-stage companies. "In 2021, we planned to develop by creating our own in-house products," Igor Kheresh, director of the asset management and M&A department at RTK-Solar, tells Forbes. "A year ago, we announced the start of a large investment program: 22 billion rubles with a horizon until 2025 for the development of cybersecurity technologies - promising startups, more mature companies, and our own developments."

However, a year later, the company revised its approach. "Now we understand that this will not provide us with the necessary pace of development, since our own developments are long, expensive and not always effective. Therefore, we added such a direction as entry into the capital of certain Russian infobase players," says Heresh. "Not all mature companies can offer the quality products that we need. Therefore, we decide to invest in companies at earlier stages. For this, we are creating an acceleration program, we will have internal tracking, which will allow young companies to become more mature." According to Heresh, the company's strategy initially included all areas - inhouse R&D, M&A, and startups: "In order to cover the entire vertical, we move consistently. But we announce the start of activity gradually, when the first results appear, when we are ready to scale this area."

When working with new technologies and products (disrupt), 2-5% of investments are usually directed to high-risk initiatives in order to test development hypotheses, RTK-Solar clarifies: "We plan to do about the same." Thus, the company can direct 440-1100 million rubles to the acceleration program. There are not many projects that are potentially of interest to RTK-Solar, so there is no point in introducing restrictive selection criteria, Igor Kheresh reasons: "We are ready to consider a wide range of niches and products, including those with a return in 3+ years." There are already startups with which RTK-Solar is working out a form of partnership and support, but the company refused to disclose their names until the deal is completed. "With our acceleration program, we are launching a million fry that can grow into full-fledged companies," Kheresh hopes.