Ushakov Mikhail

Biography

Mikhail Ushakov, from 2005 to 2009 worked in "Yandex" as the director of public relations.

From 2010 to 2011 Ushakov worked in Runa Capital as the adviser for online projects.

In 2011 Runa Capital received more than 50% for investments of $1 million into Mikhail Ushakov's companies Metabar - the developer of Sovetnik service, expansion of the browser who prompts where it is possible to purchase goods from the open page cheaper^[1].

The idea of Metabar - the designer of web applications using whom owners of the websites could create applications for the audience.

The Sovetnik service Metabar started in 2013. For the end of 2014 at it more than 2 million users, according to the company.

On November 27, 2014 Yandex released the alpha of the Browser, among its opportunities "The rich answer" is submitted — as well as Adviser, browser Answer on the basis of data of Yandex.Market recommends the beneficial price. And at the beginning of December, 2014 it became known that "Yandex" purchased Metabar company.

"Adviser" in the work from the very beginning was guided by data of Yandex.Market which shares income for cliques. Annual revenues of Metabar company were less than $1 million, Vedomosti knows. According to Runa Capital by the time of the declaration of the transaction of the company already profitable. In the last months revenue of Metabar grew for 30-40%, the creator Mikhail Ushakov says it. According to Card file, in 2013 revenue of the company - 12.9 million rubles, net profit - 6.9 million rubles, Kommersant writes.

It is the first exit of Runa Capital in Russia, the representative of Runa Capital Liliana Pertenawa told Kommersant. According to her, sale of Metabar brought to fund "repeated return on investment".

To "Yandex" the company cost several million dollars, but it is no more than $5 million, according to the source Vedomosti. "Yandex" purchased everything, except the legal person - intellectual property, a command and user base. All 11 people of the Metabara command passed to work into search engine.

Adviser for demonstration not only the best prices from Yandex.Market, but also for other areas is going to use "Yandex".

"We are going to use it for the choice of different goods and services, for example plane tickets", - the head of service of marketing of Yandex.Market Alexander Feoktistov told Kommersant.

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