Region Estate
Since 2018
Russia
Central Federal District of the Russian Federation
Moscow
105082, Pochtovaya B. street, house 26b building 2, et a2 pom I of 13, 13a
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Owners
The main activity of Region Estate LLC for October 2019 is development. computer software Larnabel Ventures has a majority stake in Region Estate LLC[1]
History
2022: Rostelecom bought Region Estate
At the end of January 2022, it became known about the sale to Rostelecom of a controlling stake in the service for launching games in the GFN.ru cloud (Region Estate LLC), which is part of the EsEfAi holding (SFI, formerly Safmar Financial Investments).
According to Kommersant, citing the data of the financial audit of EsEfAi, an additional issue of shares of Region Estate LLC will be carried out as part of the transaction, which will be paid by the new participant. The representative of Rostelecom confirmed the information about the deal to the publication and noted that the company "considers the cloud gaming segment to be promising, which will show good growth rates in the coming years."
What share Rostelecom will receive in the GFN.ru is not specified, as well as the financial component of the transaction. According to the founder of the portal, rawg.io Haji Makhtiev, the cost of GFN.ru is about 3 billion rubles, and Rostelecom can invest about 1.5 billion rubles in the project.
The interlocutors of the newspaper noted that the funds raised will allow GFN.ru to purchase additional equipment and go abroad. Part of the money will be directed to repay the rights of the SFI claim for loans to the Region Estate company in the amount of 1.25 billion rubles. According to sources, the company has already repaid most of the loans from its own funds.
Despite the fact that GFN.ru uses the ready-made technology of the American Nvidia and does not invest in its own development, the company is operating at a loss. At the end of 2020, it amounted to 382 million rubles with revenue of 177 million rubles. The founder of Loudplay Vitaly Starodubov associated this with low tariffs, which, in his opinion, will increase when control passes to Rostelecom. Solovyov added that by the beginning of 2022, Russia has one of the 10 largest video game and e-sports markets in the world.[2]
2021:200 million rubles of investments from Safmar Financial Investments
July 22, 2021 at a meeting of the Board of Directors of PJSC "Safmar Financial investments it was decided to allocate 200 million rubles for LLC Region Estate (manages). cloud service GFN.RU gaming The funds will be used to develop the infrastructure of GFN.RU. This was announced by the Estate Region on July 27, 2021.
In particular, GFN.RU plans to purchase a fourth server cluster. Total investments in cluster equipment will amount to 300 million rubles. As of July 2021, the GFN.RU infrastructure includes three server clusters - two in Moscow and one in Yekaterinburg.
Launched in October 2019, GFN.RU quickly became one of the leaders in the cloud gaming market in Russia with an ever-growing active audience. One of the key competitive qualities of GFN.RU is stable access to investment. SFI Holding shares the optimistic forecasts of GFN.RU management for the development of the gaming industry in Russia, and we decided to finance the technological development of the service necessary for further growth at the expense of free funds, "said Avet Mirakyan, General Director of SFI Holding. |
Our task is to allow each gamer to play their favorite games, regardless of their device. This requires significant investment in the technical infrastructure of GFN.RU. The commissioning of a server cluster with current equipment will improve the quality of services for users in the east of the country and reduce the load on other servers, "said Eldar Vagapov, director of GFN.RU. |
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