Biforcom Tek

In 2023, the company received state assistance, follows from the explanations for its balance sheet and financial accounting. The company has allocated a subsidy of 345 million rubles to cover part of the costs of developing basic technologies for the production of priority electronic components and electronic equipment. Another subsidy - 520 million rubles - is intended to financially provide part of the costs of creating an electronic component base and modules. In addition, a subsidy of 13.3 million rubles covered part of the costs of issuing shares and bonds and paying coupon income on bonds placed on the stock exchange.

And the new co-founder of Biforkom Tek, JSC New Solutions, in 2023 contributed to the company's property in the amount of 3.6 billion rubles.

The explanations to the balance sheet and financial accounting of Biforkom Tek state that the company independently carries out import operations for the purchase of components and materials of imported production. Accordingly, changes in exchange rates affect the cost of production. In 2023, Biforkom Tek entered into large contracts with customers, in which prices are determined at a fixed exchange rate.

Products and Services

The company specializes in the development and design of a wide range of telecommunication and information equipment from service routers to remote workplace equipment. All this equipment, including software for it, is developed and manufactured in Russia.

One of the most popular lines of our products today is MCR access routers, designed to organize the last mile and build superimposed communication networks using our own SD-MAN technology - aggregation of cellular and terrestrial communication channels, centralized control and Zero Touch Provisioning technology.

History

2023

3rd place in the top 10 fastest growing IT companies in Russia

Biforkom Tek took 3rd place in the top 10 fastest growing IT companies included in the ranking of the Largest IT Companies in Russia TAdviser100, prepared by TAdviser in June 2024 based on the companies' revenue for 2023. Read more here.

Data for 2023

The company's new co-founder

According to the database of legal entities Kontur.Fokus, "in October 2023, Biforkom Tek had a new co-founder - JSC" New Solutions, "which received 15% in the authorized capital of the company. Apex Management JSC now has a share of 85%.

A little earlier, in August 2023, the founder of Biforkom Tek Oleg Larionov, who at that time owned a share of 1.67% of the authorized capital, left the direct co-founders. According to the explanations to the balance sheet and financial accounting of the company for 2023, Oleg Larionov in the reporting period worked as managing director of Biforkom Tek and was a member of the company's board of directors.

From August to October 2023, Biforkom Tek was 100% owned by Apex Management.

Launch of the production of switches and routers for 933 million rubles

On April 13, 2023, the mayor Moscow Sergei Sobyanin and deputy chairman Governments of the Russian Federation Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov took part in the launch ceremony of the production of telecommunications equipment by Biforkom Tek. To implement the project worth 933 million in the territory of the rubles special economic zone (SEZ) "," Technopolice Moscow a production complex with an area of ​ ​ 3.4 thousand square meters. m. There is a production of switches for, data centers routers and automated workplaces.

The main activities of Biforcom Tek include research and development, software development, equipment design and production, engineering and service. At the enterprise in the SEZ "Technopolice Moscow" 129 jobs were created with an average monthly salary of 198 thousand rubles. As noted on the website of the mayor of Moscow, consumers in the capital buy about 70% of the products of Biforkom Tek, and the remaining 30% share goes to other regions of the Russian Federation.

For the production of telecommunication equipment, a production complex with an area of ​ ​ 3.4 thousand square meters. m.

Earlier, Biforkom Tek placed three-year bonds on the Moscow Exchange totaling 250 million rubles. The funds raised were used to develop the production of IT and telecommunications equipment on the territory of the SEZ "Technopolice Moscow." In particular, the money went to the purchase of equipment and new developments, including software. It was noted that about 80% of the company's revenue is brought by its key clients - Sberbank, Rostelecom and the United Energy Company. Routers manufactured by the enterprise account for 60% of the Russian market.^[1]

2022:375% revenue growth

The revenue of Biforkom Tek in 2022 increased by 375%, to 5.2 billion rubles, according to the database of legal entities "Kontur. Focus." Net profit amounted to about 2.4 billion rubles. In the ranking "TAdviser100: The largest IT companies in Russia 2023," such an indicator allowed the company to take 97th place (the revenue from the financial statements for 2021-2022, excluding VAT, was taken into account ).

According to data for 2022

The main activity of Biforkom Tek is the production of switching equipment: routers, switches, etc. The company also conducts research and development work on the development of communication equipment.

The company owns patents for SD-MAN secure data transmission technology and is included in the unified register of telecommunications equipment of Russian origin of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

According to the explanations to the balance sheet and financial accounting of the company, published in the database of the Federal Tax Service, the average number of Biforkom Tek employees at the end of 2022 was 94 people. A year earlier - 56 people.

"Biforkom Tek" received a record revenue in 2022 "(photo -" Biforkom Tek ")"

More than 4.9 billion rubles in 2022 brought the company the sale of products, goods, works and services. Among the revenues of Biforkom Tek, subsidies and grants in the amount of about 189.3 million rubles are also indicated.

At the same time, as of the end of 2022, the receivables of Biforcom Tek include the debt of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia to the company for subsidies from the federal budget to cover part of the costs of creating a scientific and technical reserve for the development of basic technologies for the production of priority electronic components and radioelectronic equipment in the amount of 429 million rubles.

Also included in the receivables as of the end of 2022 is the debt of the Ministry of Industry and Trade under a subsidy to cover part of the costs of creating an electronic component base and modules in the amount of 726.7 million rubles.

According to the results of work for 2021, Biforkom Tek in 2022 distributed net profit to pay dividends to the company's participants in the total amount of about 238 million rubles. And according to the results of work for 9 months of 2022 - net profit for the payment of dividends to company participants in the total amount of about 696.7 million rubles.

In 2023, the company added to the list of organizations with which it cooperates. Among them, for example, appeared the Russian developer of the OS "Red Soft" and the integrator Tegrus.

In 2022, Biforkom Tek did not publicly report on large implemented projects with customers. In 2023, B4com brand goods can be seen in open tenders of the cloud services provider Rostelecom Digital Technologies (purchase with a maximum price of 990 million rubles), the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, X5 Group.

2021

Revenue - 1,087 million rubles

At the end of 2021, the revenue of Biforkom Tek amounted to 1,087 million rubles.

Development of a new type of router and a new class of routers

In 2021, the founder and co-owner of the company Oleg Larionov in an interview with the Yango.Pro portal said that the main product of Biforcom, which makes a profit at that time, is routers. They account^[2] more than 60% of sales on the Russian^[3] market^[4]"Now, for example, we have received the largest contract in Sberbank for the supply of routers," he said.

{{quote 'In addition, we are currently developing a new type of router. This will be another Cisco and Huawei "killer." It will run on our SD-MAN technology. In Russia and Europe, we are considered leaders in the number of SD-WAN implementations.
Now we are adding a new class of routers to the line - first of all, we are talking about routers with 5G support. We plan to release a release in September. And next year we expect to bring to the market a new type of high-speed router for mobile operators. This is a more powerful device, two or three companies in the world do such things now.

The second basic product of Biforkom is switches. We already have one family of five types of switches that can be used in offices, campuses, and so on. Now we are testing this type of equipment and are planning to launch sales this year.}}

At the same time, the development of a high-speed switch for data centers is in the process. We are talking about speeds of 100-400 Gbps. The data center market is actively growing, per year it will grow by about 10 thousand new resistance committees. For Biforcom, this is a very promising story.

The third type of solution is personal computers (thin clients). As of 2021, Biforcom produces two types of thin clients with Intel processors. The need for such devices on the Russian market is at least 150-200 thousand units per year, Oleg Larionov cited. Biforcom is in the process of developing two more types of next-generation thin clients. These devices can already be sold on the B2C market.

2020: Joining the ANO Telecommunications Technologies

The company "Biforcom Tek," specializing in the development and production of high-tech telecommunication devices, became part of the Consortium of ANO "Telecommunications Technologies" (ANO TT), formed by the state corporation "Rostec," PJSC "Rostelecom" and the group of companies "Element." This was reported on June 15, 2020 in the ANO TT.

2019: Start of work at Technopolice Moskva site

On July 15, 2019, the Department of Investment and Industrial Policy of the city of Moscow announced that the organization for the development and serial production of high-tech telecommunications devices will begin its work in the special economic zone of the Moscow Technopolice. Biforkom Tek LLC became a resident of the SEZ in June 2019.

{{quote 'author = said Alexander Prokhorov, Head of the Department of Investment and Industrial Policy of Moscow|For the first 4 years of work in the capital - from 2019 to 2022. - the company will invest more than 120 million rubles in the Moscow economy. The investor will also create 59 highly paid jobs for citizens. In Moscow, a solution will be introduced based on secure data transmission technology that meets world standards in its characteristics. This will satisfy the needs of Russian companies to replace outdated equipment and reduce the dependence of Russian business and state corporations on foreign suppliers, }}

As a result of the project, Biforkom Tek plans to introduce hardware solutions based on SD-WAN technologies (software-defined distributed networks) and a 6LoWPAN with secure data transfer, which meets world standards and requirements for a similar class of equipment in terms of its characteristics. This will cover the needs of the largest Russian companies to replace outdated traditional equipment, remove dependence on foreign equipment suppliers and significantly reduce the cost of operating data transmission networks.

As of July 2019, the company's share in the target market segment in the Russian Federation is about 10%.

Among the devices that the company plans to produce on the territory of the SEZ:

• Wireless routers 4G/5G with multi-modems for outdoor use with increased signal gain of cellular carriers and for indoor use.
• Multi-service routers for software-defined access networks that greatly simplify commissioning, network management, create a secure network, and speed up the creation and implementation of services.
• Wireless/wired IoT - base stations, radio adapters and sensors for various purposes, used to transfer information from metering devices to data accounting systems, as well as to automate the process of collecting, storing and processing information.

The status of a resident of the SEZ of Moscow allows the company to become part of the ecosystem of innovative enterprises on a single site, where it is economically feasible to carry out technical and implementation activities and promptly solve production, administrative and logistics issues,

2015: How to create a Cisco "killer." Formation of the company

According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Biforkom Tek was formed in 2015. The founder and co-owner of the company Oleg Larionov in an interview with the Yango.Pro portal talked about the background of the appearance of^[5] company^[6]

{{quote 'In the late 90s, we had a fashion for working abroad in our country. There was a very strong technical school in Russia, many programmers, scientists, engineers, mathematicians left to work in the West. This wave also captured me. So I got to Cisco Systems in San Jose. It is one of the largest IT companies in the world specializing in the field of high technology. There I had to constantly and very closely interact with various customers (as it turned out later, this is a super useful skill in business). We managed to work with such giants as Google, Facebook, Apple, eBay.
The career was going great, but at some point I wanted a change and a new challenge. There were options to go to Singapore or Europe, and I chose Russia. An interesting proposal has just appeared - to lead the development of the MTS transport network. I was responsible for the strategy, operation, quality of the transport network, participated in the construction of 3G, 4G networks. It was a very interesting experience. When you become a top manager, you begin to treat processes and business as a whole differently.

And as often happens, after a big career in large corporations and training at Executive MBA, the idea of ​ ​ starting your own business matures. It was just 2014, Russia at that time had already begun to take a course on import substitution. I always had a dream to create something of my own - new and interesting. So in 2015, Biforkom was born.}}

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