Solvery

History

2022: Attracting investment from RedMadRobot

The Russian service for the search for mentors in digital professions Solvery attracted investments from red mad robot. This became known on April 20, 2022.

As of April 2022, Solvery has more than 600 Yandex Raiffeisen Bank OZON X5 Group mentors from,,, and other large technology companies. More than a thousand hours of classes are held every month through the platform.

The peculiarity of the Solvery service is that IT and digital specialists of any level - from beginners to professionals - can find a mentor for themselves and engage in a one-on-one format. The main users of the service (about 50%) are novice specialists who have already completed courses or studied independently, but now pull up point knowledge and portfolios for employment. A quarter of mentoring requests come from Junior developers who already work in companies. Another quarter - from Middle-, Senior developers and B2B customers.

In partnership, Solvery and red_mad_robot will develop service in B2B and improve the technology platform.

We are building an ecosystem for the training of qualified digital specialists. We believe in the mentoring system and understand that the future is behind it, "said Alexei Makin, CEO of red mad robot.

For us, working with red mad robot is primarily about strengthening the team, "said Maria Konopelko, CEO Solvery. - We plan active growth in both C2C- and B2B-segments, so the experience of colleagues in working with corporate clients is very valuable for us.

In 2021, more than 100 companies became Solvery customers. From help with building IT departments to interviewing and training, enterprise customers address a variety of needs.

According to Solvery's own data, more than 13 thousand hours of classes with users from Russia, Holland, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Belarus and other countries have passed since the launch of the service.

The transaction amount is not disclosed. According to experts, the company's estimate for October 2022 is about 350 million rubles.

Earlier, angelic investors were Dmitry Kachmar, commercial director of Yandex, Aram Sargsyan, until October 2021, vice president of strategy at Yandex GO, and vice president of St. Petersburg Bank Mikhail Gavrilov.

2019: Foundation of the company

Solvery was created in December 2019, its founders are CEO Maria Konopelko and COO Anton Volkov.