Fast Lane Ventures

The mission of Fast Lane Ventures consists in search of the best and most perspective business ideas and young predrinimatel for the purpose of fast creation of significant and successful business projects with high investment attractiveness.

Unlike traditional venture funds Fast Lane Ventures not only makes own investments in implementation of the perspective ideas, but also will organize all process of creation of new businesses from scratch, acting as the investment and operational partner at the same time. The team of experts provides to startups a financial, organizational and managerial support at different stages of development. In the company the Fast 50 model allowing to start new business in 50 days is implemented. One company a month is on average created.

Investors

Key investors of the company are the Direct Group holding, the international investment fund eVentures Capital Partners and VTB Capital investment bank. Partnership with these investors provides the companies not only financial, but also reputation support, promotes cooperation with the leading world investment banks, allows to get access to the best international experience in the field of an Internet entrepreneurship. Among investors of the company there are also such investment funds as Kinnevik, Russia Partners, Intel Capital, UMJ Russia, ru-Net, etc.

The total amount of investments into Fast Lane Ventures and its portfolio companies for June, 2012 was more than $78 million.

Portfolio companies

For June, 2012 19 innovation Internet businesses working in the different fields of the market are created: online of trade, tourism, recruitment, lease and purchase of the real estate, health care, advertizing online, etc.

• Online store of the Sapato.ru footwear (till 2012)
• Website of collective purchases Kupibonus.ru
• Dating site Teamo.ru
• Online store of goods for the house of HomeFair.ru
• Online store of jewelry and accessories Juvalia&you
• Online-service for promotion of actions and sale of e-tickets of Eventmag.ru
• Online search engine of goods and services of Lokata.ru
• Internet portal of search of a commercial real estate Kommerstate.ru
• Social network Pinme
• Online service of armoring of housing of TravelRent
• The closed expert community OdinOtvet
• Service of short-term lease of housing RentHome.ru
• Online store of goods for sport and active holiday of Heverest.ru
• The Internet portal for search of the residential real estate of Domgeo
• Portal of online recruitment Upladder
• Internet resource about health and medicine of Vitaportal
• An online system for work with freelancers of Relevant Media
• TV-online store on Shopping live sofa (till 2012)

History

The company is founded in April, 2010 by a team of entrepreneurs with experience of investment into startups of a different profile. Among founders Oscar Hartman (KupiVIP) and Direct Group.

Oskar Hartmann's performance in 2010.