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2023
Appointment of Vasily Popov as General Director
On November 1, 2023, the Drivee taxi ordering service announced the appointment of Vasily Popov as the new CEO of the company. He replaced Marina Arzhakova, who decided to take up her own projects. Read more here.
Transfer of Russian business InDrive to Indels
The inDrive taxi ordering service transferred the Russian business to the Kazakh company Indels and decided to change the name of the platform in the Russian Federation and the CIS to Indels. This became known on April 10, 2023.
The fact that the "Development Center" software(legal entity inDrive in) Russia is now owned by Indels is evidenced by the data of the "" system. SPARK-Interfax Previously, the company belonged to Softforming LLC, and even earlier the head structure for the Software Development Center was the Cypriot structure Suol Innovations Ltd, which owns the international business InDrive, the newspaper notes. "Indels" belongs to the former operating director of InDrive in Russia Marina Arzhakova and three other individuals, the publication learned from the extract of the register of legal entities of Kazakhstan.
According to RBC interlocutors, the decision to separate Russian and international business was made against the backdrop of sanctions. It is clarified that InDrive formally left Russia, although no official statements were made on this matter. According to RBC sources, the company can do this at the end of spring 2023.
By April 10, 2023, the new Indels team consists of 200 people, its plans include the development of a taxi service application. From the description of one of the vacancies on the Карьерист.ру platform, it follows that the Software Development Center plans to operate under the Indels brand, which calls itself a peer-to-peer startup application in Russia with accreditation as an IT company, the publication says.
Against the background of Western sanctions, InDrive began their relocation to Alma-Ata. In March 2023, the founder of InDrive Arsen Tomsky, in an interview with the regional publication SakhaDay, said that the company had released about 1,000 people from Russia to Kazakhstan.[1]