Sistema SmartTech, Sistema’s venture capital fund, invests 200 million rubles. to the Checkbox delivery service. Representatives of both sides reported this to Vedomosti. According to them, Sistema SmartTech in the course of the transaction will redeem both the shares of the owner of the service, JSC Samokart, issued during the additional issue, and part of the securities belonging to the current owners of this company. As a result, the fund’s share in the company will amount to 18.6%. The received investments are planned to be directed to further development and improvement of the service, as well as to expand the geography of its work, says the co-founder of Checkbox Kirill Evdakov, without specifying details.
Checkbox was founded by Evdakov together with businessmen Vladimir Ostapenko and Roman Levitsky in 2019. All three were partners in the Fasten taxi service. Later, Vladislav Varlashin and Sergey Litvinenko, who came from the Krasnodar distributor Transazia, became Checkbox’s co-investors. In 2020, 70 million rubles. the development of the service was provided by the Tiltech Capital fund, among the co-owners of which is Andrey Krivenko, the founder of Vkusvilla. Today Checkbox operates in Moscow and St. Petersburg. It cooperates with more than 2,000 online stores, in particular with Vkusville, Baskin Robbins, Samsonite, Blue Sleep, Ecomarket, UniZoo, Kuchenland, etc. Revenue for 2020, according to SPARK-Interfax , amounted to 69.2 million rubles, net loss – 91.2 million rubles. The company did not provide data on the number of processed orders.
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