Diginavis Diginavis

Diginavis was registered on June 5, 2018 in Innopolis. The head and sole owner of the company is the ex-Minister of Communications and Mass Media Nikolai Nikiforov. The Company operates as a holding investment management company. The company's task is to manage projects and attract investments in its subsidiaries as the level of their technological developments develops and the accumulation of a critical mass of intellectual capital.

Together with Diginavis Nikiforov, another company was registered - Innopolis Development. According to the ex-minister, both of these companies will be engaged in "technological projects in a wide range of areas" - artificial intelligence, robotics, blockchain, biotechnology and even space technologies.

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2023: Revenue growth of another 622 %

As TAdviser found out, Diginavis, owned by ex-Minister of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov, increased revenue by 622% in 2022. In 2021, according to the Kontur. Focus service, it amounted to 362.8 million rubles, and by the end of 2022 it increased to 2.6 billion rubles. Net profit amounted to 16.1 million rubles.

All assets of Diginavis are located in the Innopolis special economic zone (Tatarstan). Photo - chelny-izvest.ru

Nikolay Nikiforov did not answer TAdviser's questions about the results of the year.

As of 2023, Diginavis directly owns stakes in ten companies that are engaged in software development and unmanned vehicles. There are practically no details about their activities in open sources.

2022: Revenue growth of 385.7%

As TAdviser found out, Diginavis, owned by ex-Minister of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov, increased revenue by 385.7% by the end of 2021. So, according to the service "Kontur. Focus," if in 2020 the revenue was 74.7 million rubles, then in 2021 it increased to 362.8 million rubles.

At the same time, the company left the loss-making zone: in 2021, the company showed 321.8 million rubles of net profit. In 2020, the loss exceeded 391.2 million rubles.

The owner of Diginavis, Nikolai Nikiforov, told TAdviser that the investment company has been investing in high-tech business since 2018, and in 2021 there was a cash flow from the activities of portfolio companies. According to him, today in the Diginavis portfolio there are about a dozen innovative startups that are engaged in developments in the field of AI, big data, unmanned vehicles and robotics. More than 100 employees work in them, 22 people worked in Diginavis itself as of 2021. All companies are localized in the Innopolis special economic zone [1] in Tatarstan.

As an investor, we work with startups in the long term. The first transactions and cash flow from assets have already gone, but the company will gain the necessary level of maturity only in 3-5 years. It is too early to say what we, as an investor, will do with assets, it depends, among other things, on the political and economic situation. Personally, I am sure that everything will be fine in Russia with the economy. It is not a fact that we will leave the capital of our portfolio companies at all. We have invested in a fast-growing market, so it is possible that it will be more profitable for us to simply receive part of the income from the companies' business, "Nikolai Nikiforov shared with TAdviser

In 2021, Diginavis invested 100,000 dollars in a dating app using voice messages. In TalkNow 2020, the company acquired a minority share of the cloud gaming service. In Loudplay 2019, Diginavis, together with Rostec, created. " In Center for the Organization of Movement of Unmanned Vehicles "(DPC BTS) the same year, Nikolai Nikiforov's investment company bought out a stake in the Zen.Car online service, as well as in the Aeropraktika company, which was engaged in the creation of a T-500 aircraft for air mimrabots.

2021: Investing $100k in audio dating app TalkNow

At the end of May 2021, it became known about the attraction of $100 thousand investments by the TalkNow service. The Diginavis company of the ex-Minister of Communications of the Russian Federation Nikolai Nikiforov has invested in it. This was reported by the press service of Innopolis (TalkNow is a resident of this special economic zone). Read more here.

2020: Acquisition of a minority stake in the cloud gaming service Loudplay

Former Minister of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov said that his company Diginavis LLC acquired a minority stake in the developer of the cloud gaming service Loudplay. He did not name the amount of the transaction. It was closed on April 20, 2020. This was announced on April 21, 2020 by Interfax. Read more here.

2019

Creation of a drone traffic control center together with Rostec

In July 2019, Rostec and Nikolai Nikiforov established the joint venture Center for the Organization of Movement of Unmanned Vehicles (DPC BTS), registered in Innopolis. Nikiforov, through his company Diginavis, owns a 41% stake in the BTS data center, and another 25% belongs to him through the Project 7 company, owned by himself and Diginavis. Read more here.

Purchase of share in Zen.Car service

In April 2019, Diginavis co-founded Zenkar, which runs the Zen.Car online service. According to the Contour-Focus database, she now owns 50% of the authorized capital of Zenkar. Read more here.

Innopolis Partner Status

In March 2019, the Supervisory Board of the Innopolis SEZ approved the assignment of partner status to Diginavis, which is 100% founded by ex-Minister of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov. This decision was announced by the official website of Innopolis.

It also says that Diginavis plans to invest in the creation of breakthrough developments in the field of "end-to-end" digital technologies. The volume of planned investments in the message is not specified.

Together with Diginavis, another company in which Nikolai Nikiforov has a stake, Resource, received partner status. Nikiforov owns a 25% stake in it through the Innopolis Development company.

Nikolai Nikiforov's company became a partner of the Innopolis SEZ "(photo - Yegor Aleev/TASS)"

The status of the partner differs from the status of the resident of the SEZ "Innopolis." Diginavis will rent offices at a preferential rate in the technopark named after Popov, but will not receive tax benefits.

After the SEZ Innopolis signs agreements with Diginavis and a number of other companies on technical and implementation activities, the number of residents of the special economic zone will increase to 83 companies, and the number of partners - to 11.

In addition to obtaining the partner status of Innopolis, in March Diginavis also acted as the founder of a number of new companies: Project 7, Project 10, Project 11, Project 24. In all of them, Diginavis owns 90% of the authorized capital, and 10% to Nikolai Nikiforov.

The activities of all these companies are related to software development, according to the Contour-Focus service.

In addition to Diginavis and the above companies, Nikiforov also acts as the founder of Soyuz and Innopolis Architekt in legal entities.