Promobit

Promobit (Bitblaze Group of Companies) is a Russian developer and manufacturer of servers and storage systems. The company was founded in 2009 in Omsk. As of June 2020, development centers are located in Omsk and Moscow.

Products and Services

Since its foundation in 2009, Promobit has been working to build high-performance storage systems and quickly provide a large amount of data. Initially, the company's activity was to provide services hosting - storing customer data on its own equipment. In order to increase the quality and efficiency of the service, a line of own server Bitblaze Ganymed platforms was developed. The company later developed storage systems Bitblaze the Sirius software and Bitblaze KFS series.

History

2024: Svyatoslav Kapustin bought 10% of Promobit

The owner of the Tramplin Ventures venture fund, Svyatoslav Kapustin, bought 10% of Promobit, which its press service announced in early April 2024. At the same time, its participants did not disclose the financial terms of the transaction.

As CNews writes with reference to the representative of Promobit, Svyatoslav Kapustin acquired 5% of the company from the investment group Kama Flow and from the founder of Promobit Maxim Koposov. Approximately the company, which is engaged in the development and production of servers, storage systems, workstations and laptops under its own brand, is estimated at 0.5 billion rubles.

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Analyst of the Finam financial group Leonid Delitsyn, in a conversation with CNews, estimated Promobit at 722 million rubles, and 10% of the company, respectively, at 72 million rubles..

I use my estimate of Bitblaze's revenue for 2023 of 150 million rubles and profit of 70 million rubles and use multipliers from Dell Technologies Inc., which gives an average estimate of 1.03 billion rubles, then apply a country discount of 30% and receive 722 million rubles, - the expert explained.

According to KamaFlow, by the beginning of April 2024, 74% in Promobit LLC belongs to Maxim Koposov, 10% - to Kama Flow partner Eduard Adamyan. Svyatoslav Kapustin has 10%. Another 5% belongs to Alexander Ivanov. Vladislav Bolkhovitin has 1%.

We see that in today's realities, technology teams supported by qualified venture capital can quickly grow into the flagships of technological sovereignty. Therefore, Kama Flow continues to actively work in the Russian technological market, making both new transactions and exits, "said Eduard Adamyan, partner of Kama Flow.[1]

2017

A subsidiary is registered on the territory of the Skolkovo IC.

2015

The devaluation of the ruble hit the cost of Bitblaze: with the growth of the dollar, the price of servers in popular configurations almost doubled - up to 250 thousand rubles. According to Yevgeny Teplyakov, commercial director, this paved the way for the commercialization of servers on the platform of the Russian Elbrus processor.

The first Bitblaze Rus with a domestic processor (Elbrus 2C +) was created in the company in the summer of 2014, its price was higher than on the Intel platform - 230 thousand rubles. against 130 thousand rubles.

2014

As of 2014, Promobit, based in Omsk, continues to combine 2 areas of activity - the provision of hosting services and the production of server equipment.

During 2014, the company implemented one-time projects with Yota, MTS and the administration of the Omsk region.

In 2014, the company sold 60 storage systems.

Revenue amounted to about 7.8 million rubles.

2013

Since 2013, the development of a server based on the domestic architecture "Elbrus" began.

In 2013, the company managed to sell 30 storage systems.

2012

In 2012, a server of a special design was developed for the needs of the Ministry of State and Legal Development of the Omsk Region.

2011

In 2011, Promobit began supplying Bitblaze servers to external customers.

The first prototype, Bitblaze, appeared on the eve of 2011. It was sold to the Omsk online cinema. It took three months and several hundred thousand rubles to develop it: there was enough income from the sale of hosting and video streaming services.

A server equipped with an Intel processor turned out to be relatively cheap: in a minimum configuration (120 TB, a 4-core processor with 8 GB of memory) - 189 thousand rubles, in a maximum (240 TB, an 8-core processor with 256 GB) - 394 thousand rubles.

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