Zapusk.Tech (Capitalization)

History

2024: Attracting 12.5 million rubles

The Zapusk.Tech investment platform, which allows small and medium-sized businesses to attract investors in capital online, sold a 10% stake in the company for 12.5 mln.₽ at a valuation of 125 mln.₽. The buyer was a private investor Oksana Sorokina. The company announced this on April 18, 2024.

Zapusk.Tech is a service for buying shares in private and non-public companies in Russia. The platform allows companies to attract investors in capital (share in the company) online through the creation of JSC, and the investor is able to acquire a stake in a promising company at the Pre-IPO stage before its public offering. The money received from the sale of shares, the company can immediately use to finance its development.

Before the transaction, 90% belonged to the founder of the company Grigory Svetushkin, another 10% of Simple Investments LLC. As a result of the transaction, Svetushkin left 81%, LLC "Simple Investments" retained 9%, another 10% from Oksana Sorokina.

In the 10 months since the final launch of the platform in 2023, more than 250 mln.₽ of transactions have been made through Zapusk.Tech So, for example, among the accommodations held - the eco-hotel "Happiness in the Forest" attracted 162 mln.₽, the Innovative Pyrolysis Plant. InnTechPyrolysis attracted 42.5 mln.₽. The chain of drinking water machines "Naley Voda" attracted 14mln.₽, and the largest chain of hairdressers "Chio Chio" conducted a technical deal with 61 current investors at a nominal price to prepare for the round, where it plans to attract 100 mln.₽.

Earlier, in 2022, the platform attracted 1 million rubles (10% of the company) from Simple Investments LLC. The money went to open an investment platform. Now 10% of the company is 12.5 million rubles.

Zapusk.Tech allows you to invest in a real operating business with the potential for multiple growth for ordinary private investors with amounts ranging from 100 thousand rubles or more. Everything takes place online - there is no need to go anywhere. At the same time, the risks here are lower than in the same venture capital market - our clients are companies that are preparing to enter the IPO. These are not newcomers, but already successfully operating business, which is at the stage of scaling their business model - said Grigory Svetushkin, CEO Zapusk.Tech.

Zapusk.Tech is included in the register of investment platforms of the Bank of Russia. Both ordinary individual investors and professional participants in the financial market (brokers and banks) can take part in transactions on the platform.