Company

TDF International LLC was created in 2005 to take over all assets and operations of TDF LTtd, a company founded in 2003 to identify, assess, acquire and commercialize new technologies on a continuous basis. TDF seeks to diversify its technologies holding, both across sectors as well as within each sector, thus substantially reducing the risk to its stockholders normally associated with a single new technology or technology sector.

Each technology is pursued within a special purpose company (SPC) which TDF creates as a subsidiary for that particular technology. Currently 14 such SPCs have been incorporated in the US, and others will be incorporated on an ongoing basis. TDF holds no less than 75% in each SPC, and the inventor(s) the rest. This ensures that inventors retain the highest motivation for the long-term prospective success of their technology and of the SPC.

TDF stands apart from other companies involved in the business of new technologies in that: (i) TDF always retains the inventor as VP in charge of the further development of his/her technology; (ii) TDF follows a dual commercialization strategy, marketing some of its technologies to other companies, while exploiting others for its own account as projects independently funded and implemented within their respective SPCs; and (iii) TDF funds the continued development of its technologies, bringing them quickly to technical and commercial maturity, and then ensuring that they each remain at the technological forefront in their field.

TDF currently owns 21 technologies and all their worldwide intellectual property rights, selected from over 800 it has assessed, and plans to add no less than 10 additional technologies every year on an ongoing basis. So far it has concentrated its sourcing efforts on Russia, largely due to the wealth of technologies to be found in Russia, as well as the business relations its manager, Profidev LLC, has developed since 1997 with the scientific and research centers in that country, and the resulting deal flow. In that TDF benefited from the relatively advantageous terms on which Russian technologies could be acquired. However, any final development required, as well as the commercialization of the technologies takes place primarily in the West, thereby mitigating substantially any business risk that may be associated with Russia. In the near future TDF expects to widen its technologies acquisition base to the USA and other Western countries.