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Skillaz’s solutions are used by such companies as Gazprom Neft, KPMG, MegaFon, Sberbank, Uber and others. In 2017, the startup was distinguished as “one of Russia’s 12 best startups” at an international event.
Among the company’s shareholders are top managers from MegaFon, notes Vedomosti.
HeadHunter is the leader in the online recruitment segment in Russia as well as in
Russia’s Gazprom Media and US investor back catering startup from Moscow
EWDN in Moscow
The media arm of Russia’s gas giant, Gazprom- Media, Russia’s largest Russian media holding, has led a $2mn funding round for Catery, reports East-West Digital News (EWDN).
This Moscow-based catering startup, launched
in 2016, organizes deliveries to corporate clients. It operates in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Rostov-upon-Don and Nizhny Novgorod, based on partnerships with more than 500 restaurants.
According to a Catery representative, cited by business daily Kommersant, the deal also involved “a pool of foreign investors, including Bill Franke.”
Franke is the managing partner of Indigo Partners, a major US fund, which has invested in
several neighboring Russian-speaking countries. It was founded in 2000 under the name ‘National Job Club’. Starting from 2007, Yuri Milner’s Digital Sky Technologies (which later became Mail.Ru Group) bought stakes in HeadHunter, but Mail.Ru Group sold the company in 2016.
HeadHunter’s new owners are “investors close to Alisher Usmanov,” a key shareholder of Digital Sky Technologies and Mail.Ru Group, notes industry observer Yury Amnosov.
The media arm of Russia’s gas giant, Gazprom-Media, Russia’s largest Russian media holding, has led a $2mn funding round for Catery.
a range of airline companies across the world, including Avianova in Russia.
Franke could not be reached to confirm the information, but Kommersant saw his name in official Russian and Cypriot company registries. According to this official information, Gazprom Media owns a 14.6% stake in the company, while Bill Franke has 3%.
According to Catery, cited by Kommersant, the Russian catering market amounts to some $1.2bn per year.
In 2017, reports Kommersant, Gazprom Media invested 20mn rubles (around $300,000) in food de- livery startup Instamart in a media-for-equity deal.