Kanobu

History

2025: Entertainment media "Kanobu" and "Igromania" changed owner

According to Kontur. Fokus, on February 18, 2025, legal entities had an owner - IFSI JSC (general director - Vasily Ovchinnikov). Previously, both sites belonged to the entrepreneur Haji Makhtiev. The company announced this on March 5, 2025.

2015: Makhtiev becomes sole owner of Kanobu

In December 2015, it became known that Rambler & Co holding and the game publication Kanobu will share joint assets and cease to be partners, Vedomosti writes, citing its sources. Kanobu founder Haji Makhtiev confirmed the information: "This process has begun, it will end early next year."

that we were breaking up was actually made back in 2013. Almost immediately after the appointment of Peter Zakharov as the general director of the holding, it became clear that we disagree on the development of the project, "Makhtiev told Vedomosti, but did not disclose the details of the discrepancies [Zakharov left R & co. Already^[1]

Makhtiev told Roem.ru that he will have the media part of the project - Kanobu.ru and Ag.ru sites - and the rights to the trademark. The holding will receive the service part of the company - game portals epic.kanobu.ru and games.kanobu.ru. Makhtiev clarifies that the subprojects will remain on the previous domains.

Earlier, the publication was looking for an investor, but now it is not going to do this, says Makhtiev Roem.ru. Now the sole owner of the publication will be Makhtiev himself.

One of the readers of the message about the deal on the Roem.ru website left the following comment:

The story of Haji, the most interesting experience of divorce into grandmothers, which will definitely not be repeated for the next 3 − 5 years. I, as involved in one part of the transaction on the part of AG, can tell: at first, a project with a very unoriginal name stone-scissors-paper began with small investments by the Liberman brothers, then a little capital was poured by Edik Shenderovich from a kite, then the rambler losers with a pooch rogozhin bought all this business for 3 million the owners got through + prescribed all sorts of notes for haji in the form of option obligations and other bullshit. 4 years passed, and the project did not earn money destroyed AG, the best specialists left, Polyakov, Sultan, Yaropolk itd. Rambler tried in every possible way to squeeze out the gaji quarter, as a result they agreed to saw the company. The gaji emoji says that there is almost no one left in the company, so a server with screams. 3 million uni per month is a big lie, the kanobu audience is around 700 thousand per month. at the current stage, the project can be buried, without cash injections it will not take off on traffic and simply will not hire people and generate content. interpret this news as chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code with a smile on your face

2011: Rambler buys Kanobu from Kite Ventures fund for $4.5m

Rambler Holding bought a controlling stake in the Kanobu project from the Kite Ventures fund in 2011 for an unnamed amount. Gazeta.ru sources said that the share cost $4.5 million.

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