Citydrive co-founder Golikov and actress Kozhevnikova increased their shares in PropTech startup Butler

Golikov, also known as the creator of the Citydrive car-sharing service, increased his stake in Remote Industries from 27.45% to 39.95% on August 19, at the same time as Veronica Dvorkina, who held 12.5%, left the company’s capital. Kozhevnikova increased her ownership percentage from 21.25% to 27.5% in June, while new investor Evgeny Kopyrkin reduced his stake from 25% to 18.75%. Another 13.8% of the company continued to belong to co-founder Andrey Kuprikov.

The startup did not comment on the changes in shares. On April 23, 2024, the company closed a round of financing, raising 80 million rubles from Evgeny Kopyrkin for a 25% stake.

• In September 2023, the company reported that Kozhevnikova received 20% of the startup for 50 million rubles, although at that time the actress already owned 12.5% ​​of Remote Industries, she received them in July, and increased the stake to only 21.35% in December 2023.
• Kuprikov is Kozhevnikova’s business partner; she invested in his LLC KIK (electric scooter sharing Lite), whose founders are Marina Borisovna Golikova and Alexey Nurdinov. The latter was among Butler’s co-founders, but sold the stake.

The Butler startup provides a platform for holding online general meetings of owners, sells services for improving the common property, and also offers solutions for evaluating and monitoring the work of management companies. The house is managed through the Butler mobile app, where owners can create discussions, vote on the general meeting agenda, and raise money for improvements.

According to the company’s own data, during its operation, more than 800 apartment buildings across Russia have been connected to Butler. In total, more than 23 thousand residential and non-residential premises are registered in the system, the total area of ​​which exceeds one million square meters.

Voskhod Foundation Partner Artur Martirosov considers the direction chosen by Butler to be promising, but only if one of the conditions is met.

The Russian PropTech market will grow by 27.8% in 2023, according to Smart Ranking analysts. The total revenue of the 70 largest companies amounted to almost 11 billion rubles, with the highest revenue growth being shown by smart home services, facility management and rental services.

• The market leader was the developer of a cloud platform for smart buildings and a line of IoT devices for smart homes, Ujin, with a turnover of 959.3 million rubles (+66.7%). In second place was the developer of engineering software Askon, with a revenue of 750 million rubles. In third place was the design company We-On with a turnover of 705 million rubles (+11.4%).

In July, MTS Vice President for Business Development Oleg Aldoshin said the market had passed the formation phase and was showing double-digit growth rates.

“We see the active formation of standards for smart homes. Thus, since 2021, the volume of commissioning of “smart” homes in Russia has increased more than fourfold, and the share of houses with elements of a “smart” home has already exceeded 10%,” Aldoshin said in a statement. MTS press release.

MTS has also developed the Dispatcher24 application, which offers automation of interaction with the management company and the transfer of all household services to the application.

In 2023, Remote Industries earned revenue of 2.5 million rubles, but suffered a loss of 30 million rubles.