Bartello

Bartello is a Russian food company founded in 2018 by former Afisha executives Danila Nikolaev, Yegor Zakharov and Andrei Moskovsky. The service allows visitors to bars and restaurants to make orders and pay for them without having to wait for the waiter or in line at the bar counter. To do this, the user must select an institution from the list, and then - a dish from the menu. When it is ready, the user will receive a notification.

History

2022: Attracting 72 million rubles of investments from MTS

On April 11, 2022, MTS announced the investment of 72 million rubles in Bartello. The Russian mobile service, with the help of which users can independently book a table, make and pay for an order in popular bars, clubs and restaurants, will be used by MTS to develop a mobile application for buying MTS Live tickets.

According to the MTS press service, with the help of the Bartello solution, users of the mobile application for buying MTS Live tickets can issue online orders during events at concert halls and clubs in Moscow and Yekaterinburg, pick up their order without queues in the bar, as well as receive service in VIP lodges without the need to contact the site staff.

MTS invested 72 million rubles in Bartello

The company plans to ensure the possibility of making online orders in the MTS Live application at concert venues in other cities, as well as at music festivals and open-air. In the future, the products of MTS Bank and MTS Cashback can also be integrated into Bartello.

The partnership with the Bartello service will allow MTS Live to attract a new audience, better know customers and their preferences. It is important for us to give customers a new experience of interaction with MTS Live in the sphere where Bartello has expertise. We are already moving towards phygital services, actively developing digital and physical experience of interaction with our users. Our task is to accompany the client of entertainment products all the way, from the selection and purchase of a ticket, to the presentation of related services as part of events and the integration of fintech services of the MTS ecosystem, said MTS Entertainment CEO Mikhail Minin.

According to Bartello founder Danila Nikolaev, the investments of the MTS corporate fund will help scale the service and make it even more efficient and useful for users.^[1]

2019: Qiwi invested 6 million rubles in Bartello

At the end of November 2019, Qiwi announced the investment of 6 million Bartello rubles through its venture capital division Qiwi Venture. What share of payment service will receive in a food startup is not specified.

Under the terms of the agreement, Bartello will have access to Qiwi's payment infrastructure, including acquiring, payment service and banking billing. In addition, Qiwi intends to help Bartello with the development of the project.

Qiwi announced the investment of 6 million rubles Bartello through its venture capital division Qiwi Venture

By the end of November 2019, the Bartello application was downloaded more than 40 thousand times. It is available for mobile operating systems iOS and Android. More than 45 restaurants and bars in Moscow and St. Petersburg are connected to the service. The company intends to increase the number of new institutions and launch service in other large cities of the Russian Federation.

Bartello not only has an excellent product that helps restaurants and bars unload the resource and increase revenue, and visitors save time, but also good prospects - both in terms of connecting new partners and expanding the presence, and opportunities for synergy with our business, "says Andrei Protopopov, CEO of Kiwi JSC. - Qiwi sees great potential in the HoReCa segment and the application of payment solutions of the company in it. At the same time, the project with Bartello is one of many that we have initiated and are developing in this market.

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