Boris Belenky, Rolf’s former director of used vehicle business development, became a shareholder in fintech service CarCraft. The information was entered in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities on August 24, the RB.RU correspondent drew attention.
The company’s press service confirmed the changes in the composition of the participants. Belenky now owns 11.897% of Carcraft LLC. CarCraft’s CEO increased his stake to 23,806%.
Two years ago, the company’s board of directors approved a new development strategy to bring new products to market and scale the business. The Development Directorate was headed by Boris Belenky. He also created Momentum Pay, an industrial multi-banking platform. As a result, CarCraft grew more than 1,100%, the company said.
CarCraft’s partners are 10 banks and more than 500 car dealers. Now, according to the service’s own data, the number of financial transactions per month exceeds 9 billion rubles.
During the first half of 2023, the company’s revenue amounted to 214 million rubles, and net profit – 56 million rubles. CarCraft expects that by the end of the year revenue will reach 500 million rubles and net profit will exceed 100 million rubles.
- CarCraft was founded in 2016 and is positioned as the first platform in Russia for financing car stocks for car dealers. Through the service, car dealers can obtain fast financing from various sources (banks, microcredit companies, private investments).
- Private investor Dmitry Popov invested 18 million rubles in CarCraft. The transaction was completed in November 2018. The startup’s valuation was 110 million rubles. In 2021, it sold 13% to the former first vice president of Gazprombank, Daniel Zelensky, and another 3% to current shareholder Timur Rodionov.
Author:
Karina Pardaeva
Source: RB
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