Colife

Colife is a coliving home rental service launched in 2018.

History

2023: Lanit Ventures bought 25% of Colife

At the end of February 2023, it became known about investments Lanit Ventures in Colife. As part of the deal, the corporate venture capital fund "" Cheek will receive 25% of the colony service. Financial the terms of the agreement are not disclosed.

With the support of the Lanit group, Colife plans to make greater use of data analytics, artificial intelligence and cloud computing, Lanit Ventures said.

Lanit Ventures invested in Colife service

This will improve the quality of customer service, provide a convenient, fast personalized service and, importantly, accelerate entry into new markets and scaling, the venture capital fund said in a statement.

Before the deal with Lanit Ventures, the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (USRUL) reported that 45.75% in the capital of Colife manager Colife LLC belongs to the co-founder of the project Yuri Provkin, 44.25% - to co-founder Artem Babinov, 10% - Dmitry Bronnikov.

2022

At the end of December 2022, the community manager of Colife Nikita Fedorov said that the service offers more than 300 apartments that were rented out by room (for example, a one-room apartment on Tverskaya, 6, costs 140 thousand rubles a month), as well as the so-called "Colife house," positioned as the first full-length building-coliving in Russia with functional apartments, coworking and unlimited coffee for long-term rent. The house has 58 rooms available for rent, co-working area, bar and service.

In 2022, the company moved its head office to Dubai. In the same year, the startup entered the Turkish market. Almost 63 thousand euros were invested in the launch of the service in Istanbul.

According to Fedorov, the main audience of Colife is students (30%), representatives of the IT industry (50%) and guys from creative spheres (20%). All of them are about 20-35 years old.^[1]

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