Facancy

Facancy - HR startup was created in 2020 by Alena Vladimirskaya and Sergey Druzhinin, who invested about 5.5 million rubles in the project. Facancy is a mailing service with vacancies that are selected taking into account the user's personal data. The focus of the startup is on middle and senior managers.

Specialists manually select vacancies based on more than 200 sources - LinkedIn, Glassdoor, thematic groups on Facebook, Telegram, VKontakte and others. After that, the list of vacancies analyzes the algorithm and determines which of the candidates they will suit. In order to receive mailings with vacancies on Mondays, the candidate must complete a questionnaire of five questions.

History

2021: Raising $300K

On July 26, 2021, it became known that Facancy had attracted $300 thousand in investments from QiwiBoris Kim, co-founder of QiwiBoris Kim, Bitrix director Sergei Ryzhikov, former Alfa Bank board member Alexei Marey, business angels Ivan Tyagunov, Alexander Sysoev and Yegor Gilev. As Alena Vladimirskaya, co-founder of Facancy, wrote on her Facebook page, the round was closed when assessing the business at $3 million.

The funds received are planned to be spent on scaling business in Russia, as well as new functions, including paid ones.

Russian HR startup Facancy raised $300 thousand from Qiwi co-founder Boris Kim and others

We publicly announced in fb [Facebook] the start of attracting the round 3 months ago. The conversion from my post was great: 31 people responded. After negotiations, 12 people reached the stage of studying the documents. We refused three because we did not agree on an understanding of the strategy. Three refused us - two at the last stage decided not to invest in Russian services at all, with one we separated at the stage of signing documents, "Vladimirskaya wrote on her Facebook page.

According to Alena Vladimirskaya, by the time the investment began, 38 thousand people were actively using the service with an average mailing opening of 46% of all users. By July 2021, 11 people work in the startup.^[1]

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