Auroid

The company "Avroid" is a Russian developer of software products for mobile devices.

History

2024: "Strigo Capital" bought "Auroid"

On April 9, 2024, it became known that the Strigo Capital Foundation, co-founded by the founder of the MyOffice developer Dmitry Komissarov, the former vice-governor of St. Petersburg Eduard Batanov and the owner of Fplus Alexey Melnikov, acquired a number of Fplus assets. There is no information on the amount of the transaction as of the specified date.

According to the Kommersant newspaper, the perimeter of the transaction included Avroid LLC and Hyperus LLC, previously owned by Fplus. The first of these enterprises specializes in the development of software for mobile devices. The company, in particular, has created a platform for managing isolated containers in the Aurora OS: the solution allows you to integrate Android environments and Android applications into Aurora. Another product of the company is Tavro, a mobile client of the Telegram messenger for Aurora. In turn, Hyperus offers a distributed platform based on a software-defined architecture to create a hyper-converged IT infrastructure.

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The Fplus holding bought Avroid and Hyperus in the spring of 2023. According to Komissarov, it was initially assumed that both companies would come under the management of Strigo Capital, but at that time the legal aspects had not yet been settled in the structure of the fund. By April 2024, the fund managed to raise the necessary amount of funds to maintain the development teams of the companies "Avroid" and "Hyperus." This allowed the transaction to take place. At the same time, F-Plus Equipment and Development LLC remains the majority shareholder in Avroid.

Komissarov emphasizes that both enterprises will continue to develop, including "in the development of native programs under the Aurora OS to order." This activity, coupled with the sale of licenses for the Avroid platform, is expected to allow Avroid LLC to show profit by the end of 2024.^[1]

2023: F + Tech bought Auroid

The Russian manufacturer electronic engineers F+ tech in April 2023 acquired two software developers:

• LLC "Auroid" - develops software for desktop and mobile OS (Android, iOS, Russian "Aurora," "Rosa," Red OS, Astra Linux, etc.);
• Hyperus LLC - develops IT infrastructure management systems.

Information about transactions is contained in the SPARK-Interfax system. F + tech confirmed to Kommersant the facts of making purchases and noted that the company plans to adapt mobile applications to Aurora and other Russian OSs, as well as independently port them to its devices.

F + tech has acquired two software developers

We expect that the development process management will be able to accelerate the expansion of the application pool for this OS, since now Aurora does not have enough software, - noted in F + tech.

According to the source of the publication on the IT market, by May 2023, only about 100 applications were adapted for Aurora. At the same time, as market participants interviewed by the publication indicate, it is difficult to find application developers for this OS in Russia.

Previously, the Aurora OS developed in a model similar to Apple, in which the OS developer performed porting and adapting the operating system for each released device, says Kirill Menshov, senior vice president for IT at Rostelecom. According to him, due to the expansion of the number of manufacturers, together with the Ministry of Industry and Trade, it was decided that manufacturers would port the OS and support it independently.

Sooner or later, all Russian companies will have to adapt their applications for Russian OS, says Valentin Makarov, head of NP Russoft. In his opinion, the new F + tech structure will be able to take "one of the key roles in adapting applications both for the Aurora OS and for other Russian[2]

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