Zapusk.Tech investment platform for small businesses raised 12.5 million rubles from a private investor

As a result of the transaction, the entire investment platform is valued at 125 million rubles. Sorokina received 10% of the company.

Before the agreement, 90% belonged to the company’s founder Grigory Svetushkin, and another 10% to the investor Simple Investments LLC (in 2022, the company invested 1 million rubles in the platform). As a result of the transaction, Svetushkin’s share was reduced to 81%, Simple Investments LLC retained 9%.

Zapusk.Tech is a service for buying shares of private and non-public companies in Russia. The platform allows companies to attract equity investors by creating a joint-stock company, and the investor has the opportunity to buy a stake in a promising company at the pre-IPO stage, before the start of a public offering.

In the 10 months since the launch of the platform, Zapusk.Tech has carried out transactions worth more than 250 million rubles. The placements were made by the eco-hotel “Happiness in the Forest” (raised 162 million rubles), the innovative pyrolysis plant “InnTechPyrolysis” (42.5 million rubles), the network of drinking water vending machines “Nalei Voda” (14 million rubles) and other companies.

Zapusk.Tech is included in the register of investment platforms of the Bank of Russia. Both ordinary individual investors and professional financial market participants (brokers and banks) can participate in transactions on the platform.