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JSC Svetofor Group - is an operator of educational services in training of drivers and has the status of the resident of Skolkovo Foundation for the advanced developments in the field of distance learning. The company renders services in training of drivers of vehicles of all categories in the Russian Federation under a brand Svetofor using the developed educational IT platform. In the company for October, 2018 about 9000 people a year are trained (category B).

History

2021: Carrying out IPO

The Svetofor Group company, the resident Klastera of information technologies of Skolkovo Foundation, marked actions at the Moscow Exchange. On January 21, 2021 the Skolkovo Foundation reported about it.

Public biddings by ordinary shares of Svetofor Group began on January 18, 2021. Range of the market value of 100% of equity of the company according to independent assessment of BDO Unicon was 1.9-2.2 billion rubles. To placement about 3.7 million ordinary shares were offered. The UNIVER Capital company acts as the organizer of placement. Svetofor Group credit rating of ruBB from the RAEX agency with the stable forecast is assigned.

Svetofor Group - operator of educational services in the market of training of drivers which volume for January, 2021 is estimated at 70 billion rub a year. The company is going to use the funds raised through the IPO for development of services of distance learning in the B2C and B2B format.

The first resident went public Skolkovo. It is about Svetofor Group company

Our company provides services in training of drivers of vehicles of all categories based on own educational to IT of the platform. It is a training system completely interactive online which considers and analyzes in real time specific psychophysiological features of users. The platform can be used also in other spheres education online. told Artem Dogayev, the CEO of Svetofor Group

Before "Svetofor Group of the first among the Russian driving schools started the innovation platform of distance learning of drivers. The feature of technology is that in learning process a system estimates a set of behavioural characteristics of the pupil: concentration of attention, frequency of the addressing hints, fluctuations in the choice of answers. Thus, the program reveals specific behavioural features, for example, the tendency to risk also automatically chooses for the pupil the most optimal for it a training trajectory.

By January, 2021 tens of driving schools and training centers under the Traffic light brand in Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Leningrad Region, Podolsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Kursk and Chelyabinsk are started.

Educational technologies of the personalized training which consider specific psychophysiological features of listeners during educational process – one of the most perspective directions in education market, Ekaterina Ryzhkova, the head "Education" of a cluster of information technologies of Skolkovo Foundation notes.

Edtech the project of Svetofor Group - one of representatives in education market on training of drivers. The company did serious work for share placing at the Moscow Exchange, overcame everything the faced difficulties. noted Dmitry Starikov, the project manager Klastera of information technologies of Skolkovo Foundation

According to Starikov, this first IPO of the Skolkovo startup. He also hoped that the raised funds will provide rapid development of service.^[1]

2018: Debut placement of bonds on Moscow to the exchange

On October 23, 2018 Skolkovo Group reported that the Svetofor Group company carried out debut placement of bonds at the Moscow Exchange. The company attracted at investors 50 million rubles at the rate of 18% per annum. The Septem Capital investment company acted as the organizer of placement. The raised funds Svetofor Group is going to send IT platforms of distance learning to completion.

Svetofor Group for October, 2018 integrates 55 driving schools and training centers under a brand Svetofor in St. Petersburg, the Leningrad Region, Moscow, Podolsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Kursk and Chelyabinsk through which the company kommertsializut results of research activity In 2019 is going to bring number of educational classes to 100.

One of the most active consumers in the market are representatives of generation of millenials – the people born in an interval from the middle of the 90th in 2000th years. This digital generation which is in science and technologies actively interested. Other system of consumption is characteristic of them: they got used to receive all services via the smartphone. We are ready to these calls. More than 100 million rubles are already invested in development of our platform. The next stage – full completion of a product and start of mobile application. It will give the chance to comfortably see off the listener through all learning process, far off to control results of practical lessons and examinations. Artem Dogayev, owner and general direktor of AO "Svetofor Group"

Entry into the bonded market will allow the resident to receive Skolkovo the status of the full-fledged public company whose bonds are trading at the Moscow Exchange.

The company is going to direct about 40 million rubles of the raised funds to developments in the field of IT and 10 more million rubles – in commercialization and marketing. Development of a branch network will be financed by own means provided on these purposes.

Placement of bonds – the first step on the public market for the company. In the next year Svetofor Group is going to come for the IPO: carry out the assessment of the company and offer investors up to 25% of stocks within public placement.

2015

In 2015 the Svetofor Group company started the platform of distance learning of drivers. The feature of technology is that in learning process a system estimates a set of behavioural characteristics of the pupil: concentration of attention, frequency of the addressing hints, fluctuations in the choice of answers. Thus, the program reveals specific behavioural features, for example, the tendency to risk also automatically chooses for the pupil the most optimal for it a training trajectory. An analytical system is constructed based on neural networks using the mathematical algorithms developed jointly with specialists of department of medical psychology and psychophysiology of SPbSU.

2014

Since 2014 Svetofor Group is focused on increase in online sales of a distance program of training both to B2C-consumers, and B2B-users of the platform.

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