Rusbase

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History

2016: Rusbase redeems RB.ru

After the announcement of news of closing of RB.ru Maria Podlesnova (CEO of Rusbase) and Natalya Moiseenkova (CEO of RB.ru) began to conduct negotiations on acquisition of an asset with the Rusbase company. An important desire of both sides was to preserve the results of the 10-year work of the team RB.ru. The transaction was closed on May 24, 2016. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed. More details here.

By May 2016, the audience of the publication grew 4 times and amounted to 400 thousand unique visitors per month, who view more than 1.1 million pages.

2014: Revenue 2.5 million rubles, loss - 81 thousand rubles

According to the results of 2014, according to the Kontur.Focus system, the company's revenue amounted to 2.5 million rubles. Net loss - 81 thousand rubles. According to the company itself, revenue amounted to 10.9 million rubles. in the absence of profit.

2012: Launch of the Venture Business Website rusbase.vc

Rusbase was launched in October 2012 after attracting a seed round from the investment company Black Ocean (NYC). At that time, Rusbase was an industry publication on venture capital business, an investor search service and a database of all transactions on the market.

2013: First month of break-even

For the first time, Rusbase achieved operational breakeven in October 2013. The sources of monetization were both media placements and the sale of data and services for investors.

2014: Launch of events, break-even

In 2014, a new direction was launched - events. Due to which the business was self-sustaining all year and did not require additional investments. You can see the financial results of two years of work by clicking on the link.

2015: Additional investment and relocation to rusbase.com

In connection with the economic crisis at the end of 2014, it was decided to expand the audience both through new content and through the creation of new directions. In April 2015, for these tasks, Rusbase attracted additional investments from Black Ocean (NYC), and also moved from the rusbase.vc domain to the domain rusbase.com.

2016: Moving to the rb.ru domain

In June 2016, Rusbase announced the purchase of Viadeo Independent Media assets related to the business publication Rb.ru. As a result of the transaction, Rusbase moves to the rb.ru domain, preserving the 10-year history and readers of the past owner. The audience of Rusbase, according to the company, increases 3 times.

See also

• Media about IT and telecom (Russian market)