Acquisitions, divestments and joint ventures of Sberbank

2024

Purchase of the Algoritmika programming school

In October 2024, it became known about the acquisition by Sberbank of the Russian part of the Algoritmika programming school for children. The deal, completed a few months ago, is estimated by experts at about ₽1 billion. The founder of the school, Andrei Lobanov, will focus on the development of the international business line. Read more here.

Purchase of EdTech platform "Netology" and online school "Foxford"

Sberbank closed the deal to acquire the Netologiya educational platform and the Foxford online school. This became known in mid-October 2024. Read more here.

RM Management bought the L-153 shopping center in Moscow from Sberbank

RM Management acquired the L-153 shopping center in Moscow from Sberbank. The deal was closed at the end of July 2024, according to data from the SPARK-Interfax service. Read more here

Sberbank bought 40% of Gorno-Altaysk airport from AFK Sistema

Sberbank bought 40% of Gorno-Altaysk airport from AFK Sistema and became its sole owner. This was announced on April 23, 2024 by the chairman of the board of the credit institution German Gref without specifying the details of the transaction. Read more here.

2023

Purchase of 10% of Euroonco

Sber bought 9.99% of the Euroonko network of cancer clinics, which became known at the end of August 2023. According to the SPARK-Interfax system, Sberbank Investments acquired a stake from Euroonko CEO Khvichi Akubardia, who, as a result of the transaction, owned about 70% of the company (the rest from entrepreneur Alexander Sviridov). Read more here.

Investing in a Logistics Software Developer

On February 1, 2023, Sberbank announced its investment in Trucker logistics software developer. No terms of the transaction were disclosed, however, according to Interfax, citing data from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (Unified State Register of Legal Entities), Sberbank Investments received 1% of Tractor Group LLC. At the same time, neither the volume of investments nor the estimated value of the startup within the framework of the concluded investment agreement are named. Read more here.

Sale of a stake in the Segmento advertising IT platform

The venture capital fund AFK Sistema became the sole owner of the Segmento advertising IT platform. This became known in early February 2023. Read more here.

2022

Attracting a consortium of investors, which will receive over 50% stake in O2O Holding

To buy out a stake VK in the joint venture, O2O Holding Sberbank attracted a consortium of unnamed persons, investors which will receive more than 50% of the company. Around the holding it is planned to combine assets bank in the region; e-commerce reducing the share of Sberbank should reduce the risk, and sanctions will also allow not to divert funds to the development of a non-financial direction. This became known on August 24, 2022. More. here

Refusal to buy the Stockmann chain of stores

On May 12, 2022, it became known that Sber refused to buy the Stockmann chain of stores, the cost of which is estimated at 1-1.5 billion rubles. Read more here.

Agreement with Stockmann

Sberbank and Panchenko Yakov intend to sign a binding agreement on the acquisition by Sberbank of a 100% stake in STOCKMANN in the first half of 2022 after a comprehensive investment audit. Sberbank announced this on January 26, 2022. Read more here.

2021

Sale of 25.07% stake in VisionLabs to MTS structure

On December 13, 2021, Sberbank informed TAdviser about the sale of a 25.07% stake in VisionLabs B.V. to Intema, a subsidiary of MTS AI (MTS AI LLC, part of MTS PJSC). VisionLabs specializes in the development of AI solutions in the field of computer vision. Read more here.

Purchase of FuelUp virtual fuel card service

On November 22, 2021, Sberbank announced the purchase of the Fuelup service. Thanks to this acquisition, the bank began to develop its own fuel platform. Read more here.

Sale of 36% of MF Technology for 12.8 billion rubles

In November 2021, Sber announced the sale of 36% of MF Technologies, which controls 57% of VK (formerly Mail.Ru Group). A package worth 12.8 billion rubles was bought by Gazprombank. It is planned to close the deal by the end of 2021 after obtaining the consent of the Federal Antimonopoly Service. Read more here.

Buying a domain games.ru

In mid-October 2021, it became known about the sale to Sberbank of the games.ru domain, on which the portal with free online games previously worked. There was also a gaming forum and industry news was posted, now the domain address does not work. Read more here.

Investing in O2O Holding, a food tech company

On October 7, 2021, it became known about additional investments in O2O Holding. Sber and Mail.ru Group contributed 12.2 billion rubles to the capital of their joint venture (JV), as a result of which the total investment in this business reached 43 billion rubles. The partners split this funding equally. Read more here.

Purchase of the pharmaceutical company Niarmedic

On September 15, 2021, the sale of Niarmedic to AFK Sistema and Sberbank for 1 ruble was announced. The symbolic value of the transaction is due to the large debts of the pharmaceutical company - about 5.9 billion rubles. Read more here.

Closing Jivo Platform Acquisition

On August 13, 2021, Sberbank announced the completion of the transaction for the purchase of the Jivo communication platform (Live Site LLC) - the bank received 100% of the company. The founders of the platform will continue to work in the company: Timur Valishev - in the role of general director, Nikolai Ivannikov - technical director. Read more here.

Buying a stake in voice assistant developer for gamers GOSU Data Lab

In early August 2021, it became known about the transfer of GOSU Data Lab under the control of Sberbank. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Sberbank, a member of the state bank, received 75.6% of the startup, and SberGames CEO Alisa Chumachenko retained 14.6%. Another 9.7% of the shares remained with the co-founder and operating director of GOSU Data Lab Alexander Mikheev. Read more here.

Sale of Eurocement for 161 billion rubles

July 16, 2021 Sberbank announced the sale of "" to the Eurocement Mikhailovsky construction Materials Combine (MKSM). The transaction cost amounted to 161 billion. rubles More. here

Closing a deal to acquire a stake in InSales

On July 1, 2021, Sberbank announced the closure of the transaction for the purchase of the InSales platform (Inches Rus), which provides services for the development of online trading. As part of the deal, Sberbank received a stake of 80% in InSales, 20% remains with its three founders and top managers. Read more here.

TeleSport Group sports rights owner purchase

On June 16, 2021, Sberbank announced the purchase of TeleSport Group, which is one of the largest players in the sports marketing market. Read more here.

Buying a platform to communicate with customers

On June 7, 2021, it became known about the sale of Live Site LLC to Sberbank at a price that the companies did not disclose. As Kommersant writes with reference to an interlocutor close to the deal, we could talk about an amount of 1.5-2 billion rubles. Read more here.

NPF Sberbank buys Renaissance Pension Fund

On June 1, 2021, the sale of NPF Renaissance Pension JSC to the non-profit pension fund of Sberbank was announced. The transaction, the value of which is not announced, will be closed after receiving regulatory approvals and fulfilling other standard closing conditions for such transactions, the Renaissance Pensions press service reports. Read more here.

Purchase of 25% in "Enlightenment"

On May 18, 2021, it became known that Sber, ВЭБ.РФ and RDIF were buying 25% each from Enlightenment. As part of this transaction, 100% of the publishing house is estimated at 108 billion rubles, so the acquisition of 75% will cost buyers 81 billion rubles if it does not take place as part of an additional issue. Read more here.

Purchase of Muzlab audio service

On April 19, 2021, Sber announced the purchase of Sound Streaming Service (formerly SberSound) Business (formerly Muzlab) at a price that the participants in the transaction did not disclose. The sold service will be combined with the "Sound Streaming Service (formerly SberSound)," which will significantly increase the audience of the latter and strengthen its position in the B2B segment. Read more here.

Acquisition of 80% stake in InSales

On April 12, 2021, Sberbank told TAdviser that an online trading management platform from InSales (Inches Rus) was joining its system - the parties signed a legally binding documentation on the transaction. Read more here.

Intention to create a fund with RVC to invest in technology startups

Sberbank and the Russian Venture Company (RVC, part of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, the sovereign fund of the Russian Federation) on April 8, 2021 announced their intention to create a joint fund with a total volume of $100 million for investments in technological and science-intensive startups.

Investments will be made in startups located in the Russian Federation or planning to enter the Russian market in the near future. The parties plan to support the development of companies with the involvement of a wide network of international partners of RDIF and synergy with projects that are part of the Sberbank ecosystem.

The creation of an investment fund in startups at an early stage is the first step towards the implementation of the Innovative Development Strategy of the Russian Federation and the reform of development institutions developed by the Government of the Russian Federation. Previously, such an element of support and development of small innovative businesses in Russia did not exist. Together with RDIF, we want to form a culture of technological and science-intensive entrepreneurship in Russia in order to grow unicorn startups that will be competitive on the world stage, "said German Gref, President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank.

As part of the transfer of RVC under the management of RDIF, we plan to actively work on investments in new funds. We are pleased to announce our intention to create the first fund together with Sberbank within the framework of the updated RVC management model. We believe that thanks to the experience and expertise of our companies, new opportunities will be created for the selection, support and development of promising projects that will make a significant contribution to the creation of innovative technologies and will become important drivers of growth in the Russian economy, "said Kirill Dmitriyev, General Director of the Russian Direct Investment Fund.

The creation of a joint fund with Sberbank is an important part of RVC's new strategy aimed at breakthrough growth of venture capital investments and strengthening Russia's position in the global high-tech market. We are joining forces with partners to fully realize the potential of Russian innovative startups, increase their competitiveness and turn into global technological leaders in the future, "said Anatoly Braverman, First Deputy General Director of the Russian Direct Investment Fund.

Investing in URent scooter rental service

On April 7, 2021, AFK Sistema announced the investment of 200 million rubles in the URent scooter rental service. The deal was concluded through the Sistema SmartTech fund, which is part of the state corporation. Sberbank also invested in the service. Read more here.

Purchase of 57.9% of interactive video creation service "Interactive video technologies"

On April 2, 2021, it became known about the purchase by Sberbank of 57.9% of Interactive Video Technologies LLC, which is developing the Movika interactive video service. The buyer was Digital Assets LLC, a member of the bank. Read more here.

Purchase of the developer "Yo-mobile" - the company "Yo-engineering"

In mid-February 2021 on the sale of LLC Yo-engineering"." To Sberbank The largest Russia credit institution acquired 100% of the E-mobile developer from the Belarusian company Keiji Impex through Digital Assets, controlled by LLC, according to the data of the "" system. SPARK-Interfax More. here

Investing 5.7 billion rubles. in "Sberbank Eapteka"

On February 10, 2021, Sber Eapteka announced Zdrav.Expert announced the completion of the transaction for joint investment in it by Sberbank and the R-Pharm Group of Companies. The ummah of Sberbank's investments in the framework of the transaction amounted to 5.7 billion rubles. Read more here.

Intention to invest 35 billion rubles in goods.ru

On January 28, 2020, the M.Video-Eldorado Group announced to TAdviser that it had signed an agreement of intent with Sber and founder and co-owner of goods.ru Alexander Tynkovan to jointly develop the marketplace goods.ru. As part of the deal, Sberbank intends to invest about 35 billion rubles. It will also acquire a part of the shares of goods.ru owned by M.Video-Eldorado Group as of January 2021. Read more here.

2020

Buying a house management platform Doma.ai

At the end of December 2020, Sberbank announced the acquisition of the platform Doma.ai. Under the terms of the agreement, the largest credit institution in Russia will receive 78.04% in the startup, and its founder Ilya Sotonin will retain 21.96%. The deal is scheduled to close in February 2021, its value has not been disclosed. Read more here.

Acquisition of a 29% stake in Evotor for 2.1 billion rubles

ATOL On December 23, 2020, the company "" announced TAdviser the closure of the transaction with Sberbank the sale of 29% of shares in LLC "" owned by ATOL Management Company. Evotor The parties signed binding documentation and closed the deal. The deal amounted to 2.1 billion. rubles More. here

Investing in a service to protect brands from advertising in the negative context of Watchout! AI

On November 26, 2020, it became known about Sberbank's investments in Watchout! AI. The largest credit institution in Russia received an 8 percent stake in a startup, which was estimated at 125 million rubles as a result of the transaction. Read more here.

Consolidation of 100% of Eurocement Group shares

Sberbank, in agreement with the "previous beneficiary," consolidated 100% of the shares of GFI Investment Limited, the parent company of the Eurocement group, follows from the bank's report for the third quarter of 2020 under IFRS, which was published on Thursday, October 29. RBC announced this on the same day. Read more here.

Acquisition of a stake in Eaptek

On October 22, 2020, Sber Eapteka told TAdviser that as part of the transaction, Sberbank and the R-Pharm Group of Companies, after receiving the necessary antimonopoly approvals, will acquire 45% of the company's shares, while the founder and CEO of Eapteka Anton Buzdalin will retain 10%. Read more here.

Investing 6 million rubles in the Smart Resident company

On October 21, 2020, it became known that Sberbank invested 6 million rubles in the Smart Resident company in exchange for 5% in the project. The largest credit institution in Russia conducted a deal through its subsidiary, Digital Technologies. Read more here.

Purchase by Cetel Bank from BNP Paribas

On October 15, 2020, Sberbank announced the purchase of a 20.8% stake in Cetelem Bank from a subsidiary of the French financial group BNP Paribas Personal Finance. As a result of the transaction, the largest credit institution in Russia becomes the sole owner of Cetel Bank. Read more here.

Acquisition of "Sound"

Sberbank on September 23, 2020 informed TAdviser about the creation of an audio streaming service based on an independent player - the Sound company. As a result of the transaction, Sberbank will receive a 100% stake in Sound. Mikhail Ilyichev, who headed Sound from 2014 to 2017, will be re-appointed General Director of the service. Read more here.

Investing another 2 billion rubles in Rambler Group and receiving a controlling stake

On July 29, 2020, Sberbank announced an additional investment of 2 billion rubles in Rambler Group. As a result of the transaction, the state bank becomes the owner of a controlling stake in the Internet holding. Read more here.

Investing 10 million rubles in the developer of virtual characters Malivar

July 21, 2020 Sberbank announced TAdviser the acquisition of 8.06% of the company Malivar in exchange for an investment of 10 million. rubles Malivar became one of the winners of the joint Sberbank Accelerator 500 Startups in December 2019, and is also a member of the international Nvidia Initiative Program for -. AIstartups More. here

Creation of an enterprise with Soyuzmultfilm for the development of the animation industry

Sberbank and FSUE Soyuzmultfilm created a joint venture - Soyuzmultfilm LLC. Sberbank announced this on July 15, 2020. Read more here.

Purchase of Rabota.ru for 1.2 billion rubles

On July 7, 2020, the details of the sale of the group Rabota.ru Sberbank a year earlier became known. The purchase of a 100% stake in ZAO Work for You with subsidiaries cost the state bank 1.195 billion rubles. Read more here.

The section of joint assets with Yandex: Market and Beru go to Yandex, Yandex.Money - to Sberbank

As it became known to TAdviser on June 23, 2020, Sberbank and Yandex decided to share joint assets. In particular, Sberbank, as part of the development of the ecosystem, intends to sell Yandex 45% in Yandex.Market B.V., which operates in Russia under the brands Yandex.Market, Beru, Supercheck and others. In addition, Sberbank fully buys from Yandex its share (25% + 1 rubles) in Yandex.Money and will rebrand it by the end of 2020. Read more here.

Acquisition of controlling interest in 2GIS

On June 11, 2020, Sberbank announced that it had signed binding documents on investments in the development and acquisition of a controlling stake in 2GIS.

According to the company, according to the results of the transaction, in which O2O Holding LLC also participates, the share of Sberbank will be 72%, the share of O2O - 3%, the founders and management will retain a share of 25% in the company. Read more here.

Plan for the division of assets with Yandex

On June 2, 2020, it became known that Sberbank and Yandex in the next few days may stop cooperation in two areas at once. According to information from an unnamed source, this will affect the Yandex.Money and Yandex.Market services, moreover, one of them will go to the company, and the second to the bank.

The "division" of property could be the result of a deterioration in relations between Sberbank and Yandex in 2018, when the company categorically rejected the bank's attempt to acquire a controlling stake in it. Due to rumors about the possible sale of Yandex paper, they fell in price, and this forced the founder of the company Arkady Volozh to promise that he would not part with his shares.

There are also disagreements between Sberbank and Yandex regarding the management of a joint venture based on Yandex.market. Partners have different views on which businesses should have growth goals and which performance indicators should be looked at first.

When asked about possible changes, Yandex representatives said that the company is considering "a possible restructuring of its ownership in joint ventures."

As a result of a possible termination of cooperation, Yandex will no longer be related to the Yandex.dengi service. The 25 percent share that the company owns at the beginning of June 2020 will go to Sberbank, which will make it the owner of 100% of the service.

According to the terms of the current partnership agreement, while Yandex has a stake in Money, it cannot independently develop third-party financial projects. Breaking the agreement with the bank and losing a stake in the service will remove this restriction.

The Yandex.dengi project was launched almost 18 years ago, in July 2002. This is a full-fledged payment system, which includes the ability to pay for almost any goods and services both using the user's electronic wallet and using a physical plastic card tied to this wallet. The project also has its own mobile application along with a fully functional web interface. Integration of the service with Sberbank began after less than nine years, in February 2011. From that moment, it became possible to replenish the account in the search engine payment system through Sberbank ATMs. Thus, Yandex.dengs became an Internet payment system that connected to Sberbank.

Sberbank has owned a 75 percent stake in Yandex.deneg since December 2012. This acquisition cost the bank $60 million. Yandex retained the blocking package (25% plus one ruble).

The source did not disclose the financial side of the possible transaction to transfer Yandex its share in Sberbank's own brainchild.

Yandex.market is an online trading platform on which a buyer can compare offers from different sellers for the same product and choose the right one. It began its work in November 2000, and as of June 2, 2020, it has its own mobile application and delivery service. Yandex.market remained part of Yandex for a long time, but in March 2016 it was separated into an independent subsidiary. The purpose of this step was to provide greater independence to the unit, whose revenue at that time grew faster than for Yandex as a whole.

In December 2017, Sberbank announced its intention to buy out half of Yandex.market in the amount of 30 billion rubles. and create a joint venture with a total value of 60 billion rubles. The plan was fulfilled, and the partners owned 45% of the company, and the remaining 10% was held by management.

Yandex may buy out its share of Yandex.market from Sberbank (as of June 2, 2020, it includes the trading platform of the same name and the Beru marketplace). According to the source, Yandex will be forced to pay for the share of Yandex Bank at a market price, but the exact amount of the transaction has not yet been disclosed. In April 2020, SberCIB analysts estimated Yandex.market at 90.6 billion rubles.

As a result of the reorganization, the IT giant will become the sole shareholder of Yandex.market, not counting the shares owned by the company's management. This will allow him to develop this business area on his own.

Yandex may invest money raised by it in early 2020 through the placement of bonds worth $1.25 billion in the buyout of Sberbank's stake in Market. At that time, the IT giant did not specify the purpose of their placement.

The money, according to the source, may be required by the company not only to buy out a stake in Market, but also to further develop the ecosystem. He also said that an additional source of funds for the company could be an open market placement of up to 5% of its class "A" shares (one share accounts for one vote), for which, according information to the source, the company is preparing.

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Against the background of deteriorating relations with Yandex, Sberbank began to develop joint services with another Russian IT giant, the VK holding (formerly Mail.ru Group). A number of these projects are direct competitors of Yandex services.

In particular, we are talking, including about Delivery Club - a food delivery service competing with Yandex.eda. In addition, Sberbank and Mail.ru Group have a Citimobil project engaged in passenger transportation, as well as Yandex.Taxi. In July 2019, in the midst of the scandal between Yandex and Sberbank, the latter planned to create a joint venture (JV) with Mail.ru based on these services.

In December 2019, the parties officially announced the closure of the transaction as part of the formation of a strategic partnership in the field of digital technologies for the food market and transport solutions. This transaction included the acquisition by Sberbank of 36% in the capital of MF Technology, which controls 58.3% of the Mail.ru Group's votes, as well as the formation of a joint O2O platform ("from online to offline") in the field of technological solutions for the market for the delivery of food and ready-made food, taxis and car sharing.

In addition to this, Mail.ru and Sberbank bought the express delivery service for products and household goods "Samokat," a competitor to Yandex.stavki. The parties reported this in April 2020^[1]

Purchase of 8.06% in the Legium electronic document management service for 10 million rubles

On May 25, 2020, it became known about investing 10 million rubles Sberbank in. Legium We are talking about the first deal to invest the state bank in startups that won its 500 Startups 2019 accelerator. More. here

Purchase together with Mail.ru Group of control in the express delivery service "Scooter"

The joint venture Sberbank VK (formerly Mail.ru Group) in the field transport and technologies in the field of food distributions acquired a controlling stake in the express delivery service of groceries and household goods. " Scooter Sberbank announced this on May 21, 2020. TAdviser More. here

2019

Signing of binding documentation with GPB on the purchase of a 35% stake in MF Technologies

On November 19, 2019, Sberbank announced the signing of binding documentation on the acquisition of 36% in MF Technologies JSC, which controls 58.3% of VK (formerly Mail.ru Group) voting shares, from Gazprombank JSC (in the amount of 35%) and Rostec state corporation (in the amount of 1%) and becomes an equal partner in this company. Read more here.

Signing of a non-binding agreement with GPB on the purchase of a minority stake in MF Technologies

On October 29, 2019, Sberbank announced the signing of a non-binding agreement on the acquisition of a minority stake in MF Technologies (ITF) from Gazprombank. Read more here.

Bash Today service investment

On September 6, 2019, it was announced that the Russian event venue rental service Bash Today attracted investments from Sberbank and a group of business angels. Bash Today is a graduate of the first Russian-American accelerator of Sberbank and 500 Startups. The transaction was the first conversion of Sberbank into a share of convertible loans issued to startups of the first wave of the accelerator. The amount of investment and valuation of the startup in the round was not disclosed.

Sale of DenizBank in Turkey with a loss of $800 million

On July 31, 2019, Sberbank closed the sale of DenizBank operating in Turkey to the Emirates NBD banking group. According to experts, both in stable currencies and in relation to capital, he sold the asset cheaper than he bought.

DenizBank became the property of the Arab financial group Emirates NBD, Sberbank said. For 99.85% of the shares of the Turkish bank, the largest Russian bank raised 170.7 billion rubles, which at the current exchange rate is equivalent to 14.9 billion lira or $2.69 billion.

According to the original agreement concluded in May 2018, Sberbank was supposed to receive the dollar equivalent of 14.6 billion lira ($3.18 billion), as well as a certain percentage on the purchase price for the period from November 1, 2017 to the date of closing the transaction. Then Sberbank hoped to gain $3.4-3.8 billion from the transaction.

However, coordination by various regulators was delayed, so in April 2019, Emirates NBD and Sberbank entered into a new agreement, according to which Sberbank receives 15.48 billion lira instead of dollars.

The discrepancy of 0.6 billion lira between the previously announced sale price and the total revenue in the press service of Sberbank was explained to Kommersant by both the costs of conducting the transaction and the peculiarities of calculating the exchange rate (the bank clarified that the transaction was closed in dollars).

At the same time, under the new conditions, Sberbank took the profit of the Turkish bank, but did not receive a percentage on the purchase price. Thus, under the updated agreement, the transaction price became more in lira, but less in dollars.

Sberbank bought DenizBank in mid-2012 from the Franco-Belgian group Dexia for 6.47 billion lira ($3.53 billion). Then the Turkish bank was valued at 1.33 of the capital. The bank was profitable, but the head of Sberbank, German Gref, previously explained that he was getting rid of this asset only because of sanctions. Based on the current sale price, DenizBank is valued at 1 capital (as of December 31, 2018). Against the stable dollar, the sale price was also lower than the purchase price. "In dollars, the loss on the transaction amounted to about $800 million," estimates Lyudmila Kozhekina, director of bank ratings at Expert RA.

Sberbank itself prefers to evaluate its investments in rubles. According to his calculations, he invested 148 billion rubles, which is 22.7 billion rubles. less than the amount of revenue from the sale. Sberbank will be able to use this gross profit from the transaction when generating reports according to Russian accounting standards. According to IFRS, due to currency revaluation against the background of the impairment of the Turkish lira, Sberbank's profit, according to its preliminary calculations, will decrease by 70 billion rubles.

"A negative currency revaluation of 70 billion rubles will affect the financial result of the group in connection with the disposal of DenizBank from the group due to the peculiarities of accounting," explains Lyudmila Kozhekina. "At the same time, this revaluation has already been taken into account in the group's capital." Thus, the disposal of DenizBank will reduce the risk-weighted assets of the Sberbank group by 9% (about 2.9 trillion rubles), which will lead to an increase in the adequacy of the basic capital of the first level by more than 120 basis points, specify in Sberbank.

Closing the deal to acquire 51% of the CST shares

Sberbank, Gazprombank and Digital Horizon closed a deal in which Sberbank acquired a 51% stake in the Speech Technology Center. This was reported on August 5, 2019 by Sberbank. Read more here.

Shiptor acquired by Sberbank and will become part of SberLogistics

On July 30, 2019, Sberbank announced the acquisition of the logistics company Shiptor, which will become part of the SberLogistics business. On the basis of the aggregator, the SberLogistics platform will be built, integrated with all Sberbank systems and ecosystem services. Read more here.

Sberbank invests in 5 startups following the second set of the SberUp accelerator

July 26, 2019 Sberbank announced the summary of the second set of internal corporate accelerators. As SberUp part of the Demo Day, the nine best teams presented their projects to the jury chaired by Hermann Gref the top managers of Sberbank and. Russian venture capital company More. here

Sberbank and Mail.ru Group signed an agreement on the creation of a Russian O2O services platform

On July 25, 2019, Sberbank and VK (formerly Mail.ru Group) announced plans to create a Russian O2O service platform (online-to-offline) in the field of food and transport. The joint venture will operate in the two largest digital consumer markets in Russia, the total volume of which will exceed 1 trillion rubles on the horizon of 3 years, with an expected average annual growth of more than 30%. Participation in the company will be distributed among partners in a ratio of 50/50 percent. Read more here.

Purchase of 25% of PeiZakat

On June 11, 2019, Sberbank announced the signing of an agreement with PeiZakat LLC, according to which the bank acquires 25% of the company. PayZakat is a platform for collecting and distributing mandatory and voluntary payments collected by the Muslim community in favor of the poor and needy. Read more here.

Purchase of 46.5% Rambler Group for 11 billion rubles

On April 23, 2019, Sberbank announced the purchase of a 46.5 percent stake in Rambler Group. Under the terms of the agreement, digital products and services of the media holding (Okko, the cinema "Art," Rambler.ru, Rambler.Cash desk, as well as the publications "Лента.ру," "Газета.ру" and other projects) will be integrated into the ecosystem of Sberbank. Read more here.

Purchase of the "Speech Technology Center"

On April 12, 2019, Sberbank informed TAdviser about the conclusion of a deal with Gazprombank and venture capital company Digital Horizon, in which it acquired from Gazprombank a 51% stake in the CST group of companies, a Russian developer of biometric technologies. Digital Horizon also entered the capital of the CST. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. It is planned to close it by the end of May 2019. At the same time, Gazprombank remains a strategic shareholder of the CST and will continue to actively participate in the further development of the company. Read more here.

Purchase of recruitment service Rabota.ru

On April 1, 2019, Sberbank announced that it was acquiring 100% of the group of companies managing the job search and recruitment service from the current owners Rabota.ru. By the time of the communication, the parties signed legally binding documents. The expected closing date is May 2019.

On June 4, 2019, Sberbank announced the closure of the transaction to acquire 100% of the group of companies managing the job search and recruitment service Rabota.ru. The Internet portal has entered the bank's ecosystem, which is expected to create a large-scale market player based on the existing company. Read more here.

2018

Purchase of a 100% stake in Intercomp, a business process outsourcer

November 27, 2018 Sberbank announced TAdviser the closure of the acquisition of the company, Intercomp a market player in outsourcing business processes. Russia The bank bought a 100% stake in the company from a group of investors led by the fund "." Elbrus Capita The parties signed legally binding documents in September 2018. The deal was closed after receiving regulatory approvals, including from and. Bank of Russia FAS More. here

Purchase of a majority stake in the developer of the messenger "Dialogue"

On March 30, 2018, Sberbank announced the acquisition, as part of the construction of a digital ecosystem, of a majority stake in Dialogue, the developer of the corporate messenger dialog enterprise. The funds raised by the Dialogue team intends to spend on the further development of its technological solution and optimizing the protection of messenger users from cyber threats. Read more here.

2016: Failed purchase attempt for mobile operator Yota

On September 7, 2016, it became known about Sberbank's plans to organize its own virtual mobile operator. This decision was made after allegedly unsuccessful negotiations with MegaFon on the purchase of the Yota operator.