Russian actress and former State Duma deputy Maria Kozhevnikova invested 50 million rubles in the Butler apartment building management service. This was reported to RB.RU by a representative of the startup.
After the transaction, Kozhevnikova’s share in the company amounted to 20%. Based on the amount of the actress’s investment and the share received, the entire company is currently valued at 250 million rubles.
- Butler was launched in 2021 by co-founders of car-sharing Citydrive (formerly YouDrive) Boris Golikov, Andrey Kuprikov and Alexey Nurdinov.
- The service provides a platform for holding general meetings of owners online, sells services for the improvement of common property, and also offers solutions for evaluating and monitoring the work of management companies.
- According to the company’s own data, during its operation more than 800 apartment buildings throughout Russia have been connected to Butler. In total, more than 23 thousand residential and non-residential premises are registered in the system, whose total area exceeds one million square meters. meter.
- According to the Kontur.Focus system, the revenue of Remote Industries LLC (Butler’s legal entity) at the end of 2022 amounted to 1.7 million rubles against 12.6 million the previous year, the net loss reached 23 million rubles.
Butler CEO Boris Golikov called cooperation with Kozhevnikova “a powerful support in the fight for market transformation.” “[Это] an opportunity to attract not only funds for business development, but also public attention to the problems of housing and communal services,” Golikov noted.
The company will use the investments received to expand the business and develop new areas of activity.
Maria Kozhevnikova is a Russian actress who became famous for her role as Alla Grishko in the comedy series “Univer”, a member of the State Duma Committee on Culture from December 21, 2011 to October 5, 2016.
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Anastasia Marina
Source: RB
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