East-West Digital News
Investors now have a new instrument to identify and assess startups: the Russian Startup Index (RSI), which was tested for the first time last week at the Open Innovations international forum in Moscow.
Link to Russian Startup Index (RSI)
The index rates each startup with a combination of letters, from “AAA” (most attractive) to “D” (expected to fail), in a way that recalls the rating of companies or states by financial rating agencies. RSI is based on a sophisticated methodology that includes information declared by, or collected from, the startups themselves as well as individual assessments by industry experts.
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