Union-1

"Union-1" - the company as of 2018 owning a 20% share "Postgres Professional", the Russian DBMS developer with the open code PostgreSQL.

Other 80% "Postgres Professional" in equal shares are distributed between the leading developers (Major Contributor) PostgreSQL Oleg Bartunov, Alexander Korotkov and Fedor Sigayev and also Ivan Panchenko living in Russia.

History

2018: Dmitry Taraby's exit from among founders

In June, 2018 Dmitry Taraba stopped being the cofounder "Union-1", and 100% of the company began to belong to the investor "Postgres Professional" Anton Sushkevich again.

I redeemed back Dmitry's share and each of us decided to focus completely on the projects, - Sushkevich reported TAdviser

Further Anton Sushkevich intends to participate more in life "Postgres Professional".

The company became completely independent in the financial sphere, so its transformation from a startup in the company more subordinated to rules of corporate development began. Here, I hope, my experience will be useful. Plus colleagues achieved considerable promotion "Missile defense PostgreSQL" in international market that requires also my bigger involvement into a company performance

2016: Dmitry Taraby's involvement as the creditor

In 2016 "Union-1" connected founders and the former shareholders of NVision Group Anton Sushkevich and Dmitry Tarabu again.

Tarab was the chairman of the board of directors and the co-owner of NVision till 2014 when the company was sold to AFK "Sistema". The former colleagues in a conversation with TAdviser characterized it as the person able to open doors in high offices, but who is not submerged in technologies, parts of projects, etc.

Sushkevich worked as the CEO, and then the president of NVision. In 2014 he left the post, and by 2015 also sold the share in NVision and left the structure of Board of Directors. The former colleagues called Sushkevich an infrastrukturshchik, the global account manager knowing all parts of the most important projects.

Dmitry Taraba (on a photo on the right) through Soyuz-1 company became a co-owner "Postgres Professional"

"Union-1" it was created by Sushkevich in April, 2016. In May of the same year the 20% share in developer company of database management systems belonging to Sushkevich with the open code "Postgres Professional" passed to it. Since June 8 the co-owner "Union-1" became Tarab.

Anton Sushkevich attracted Dmitry Tarabu as the creditor "Postgres Professional" on the security of the share

As of June, 2016 Sushkevich possessed 67% "Union-1", Tarab - 33%.

As Anton Sushkevich explained TAdviser, Dmitry Taraba gave money which was necessary to develop "Postgres Professional". Under this money Sushkevich put a part of the share. "As soon as the project will become commercially successful, I will be able to return this share back", - he assured.