Prostor Capital
Suschevskaya St 25c1, Moscow, 127055, Russian Federation
Overview
Prostor Capital – a Russian venture fund focused on profitable investments in dynamically growing companies of IT & Internet markets. The Fund was incorporated in 2011 by a group of private investors. A famous Russian investor and enterpreneaur Leonid Reiman and one of the leading top-managers of IT industry Sergey Merkulov are among its co-founders and co-investors. Fund’s investment focus – the stable growth stage (round А and above) projects having ready technological product and fast-growing clients-and-users base. These are Russian IT and Internet companies with a big local or international sales market potential, interested in external investments for the achievement of a new development level. The priority is given to the companies with a technological component in the sphere of new financial and advertising services, cloud technologies, projects in the sphere of innovational education and digital medicine. Awarded as one the TOP 20 best Russian venture investment funds (source: Hopes&Fears). TOP 5 of the most active venture funds in the Russian market (source: the research of Firrma.ru with the support of JSC «RVC» and PwC). Currently Prostor Capital’s investment portfolio includes 14 companies: Dnevnik.ru, Umisoft, Softrust, Platiza, Credit Cards Online, Federal Finance, CPA Exchange, Evrika Group, Dulton Media, Infratel, Smart CheckOut, Penxy, Carfin, AdMoment. Prostor Capital Management Sergey Merkulov, a Managing Partner, one of the leading Top-managers in IT-industry with over 20 years of managerial experience. He is responsible for the Fund strategy, cooperation with investors, as well as a number of sectorial segments are under his management. Alexey Solovyov, a Managing Director of the Fund. He is responsible for the Fund’s overall management, organisation and functioning coordination of the Managing Company and the Investment Committee; a BOD member of several portfolio companies. Stanislav Kosorukov, an Investment Director, managing the investment analytical practice, responsible for the search and evaluation of projects’ perspective, investment deals’ structuring and portfolio companies’ operational activity control.
- Total investments
- 3
- Lead investments
- 3
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 0
Sector focus
- Finance
- Financial Services
- Impact Investing
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- AdMoment
Led · Equity · Nov 2013
AdMoment presents itself as "today’s leading player in the Russian market for programmatic mobile ad buying." The startup has developed real-time bidding (RTB) technology that enables advertisers to automatically define targeting based on parameters such as location, time, device type, connection type, and app category. Its data-driven approach is intended to boost campaign performance while reducing campaign management and optimization effort. AdMoment was founded in August 2012 and launched its first ad campaign in January 2013. The company says it has managed over 100 campaigns to date and processes approximately five billion ad requests each month. It operates in a rapidly growing Russian mobile advertising market, which the article cites as around 90 million mobile users and market-size estimates rising from $40M in 2012 to at least $111M (or $150M per AdCamp) in the current year.
- VitaPortal
Led · Series A · Oct 2012
VitaPortal provides online and mobile tools and content aimed at helping users live healthier lifestyles, offering more than 30 health measurement and personalization tools. It also supplies content for Russian-speaking physicians and subjects all published materials to a medical review process by certified physicians. The company reports that more than one million people used its services in the past six months. VitaPortal emphasizes user-profile-based personalization and offers online health management tools. It is developing a physician and hospital ranking system to help users make informed healthcare choices. The startup positions itself to meet rising demand for quality online healthcare services in Russia. VitaPortal offers a centralized website delivering reliable health and medical information, with every article reviewed by specialty care providers or medical institutions. The site publishes roughly 50 new articles daily and is modeled on the U.S. website WebMD. During an initial test period the portal attracted more than 400,000 visitors and currently reports over 10,000 unique visitors per day; management projected 3.5 million users by the end of 2011. The company plans to expand its range of special services and to launch a dedicated website for doctors. VitaPortal is led by CEO Azamat Ulbashev and was launched by venture group Fast Lane Ventures. Financially, the project has received seed investments totaling more than $1 million.
- Infratel
Led · Series A · Aug 2012
Infratel offers a cloud-based telephony service that lets businesses add click-to-call functionality to Facebook pages and websites. The company provides a Facebook app that calls a pre-programmed phone number and a website widget whose code adds a “Click to Call” button. Users pre-program a phone number and the service is billed by minutes used; Infratel offers two tiers: a Facebook-only plan or a combined Facebook and web offering. The company emphasizes easy, distributed deployment as a differentiator versus social CRM providers like Salesforce.com and RightNow (acquired by Oracle). Infratel has raised $3 million in funding from Prostor Capital and Runa Capital. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article.
Team
No current team members are available.