Venture capital company 2FISH Capitals and a group of private investors IZBA VC invested 34 million rubles in the express delivery service Darkstore at Home. A representative of the service reported this to RB.RU.
The project budget exceeded 160 million rubles. The current round is the second in the company’s history. In August 2022, Darkstore at Home raised money from a group of private investors and the development company Samolet.
The lead investors in the current round were 2FISH Capitals and IZBA VC; several investors from the last round also invested in the company: co-founder and former CEO of Master Delivery Igor Shiyanov, angel investor Alexey Dmitriev, former top manager of Russian Post and head of digital business Alfa.Bank” Vladimir Urbansky.
The company will use the funds raised to further expand warehouse infrastructure, launch its own courier service and develop additional software.
- “Darkstore at Home” is a network of urban warehouses for online retailers with the ability to deliver orders to the end customer within 30 to 60 minutes. The company was founded in 2021 by Kirill Chekanov and Grigory Tareev (both now have a 35.9% stake in the project).
- The service allows you to rent warehouse space from 1 shelf for 3 thousand rubles and directly integrate your own warehouse management system with a B2B client’s website or application via API. This allows customers to manage orders, see what’s left on shelves and choose the most economical delivery method.
- Over the past year, Darkstore at Home has multiplied its hosting capacity by 4.5. Currently, customers have at their disposal 12 warehouses in 9 cities of Russia: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Volgograd, Krasnodar, Ufa, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Novosibirsk with a total capacity of 6 thousand shelves.
- According to Rusprofile, the net loss of Ekom Global LLC (legal entity Darkstore at Home) amounted to 5.1 million rubles at the end of 2022, revenue – 76 thousand rubles.
Author:
Anastasia Marina
Source: RB
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