The Rounds investment platform (until May 2022 – STRK), which allows small and medium-sized companies to attract investors to online capital, sold 5% of its shares to the current shareholder, a native of the investment company Freedom Finance * Vladimir Kozlov. A Rounds representative told RB.RU about the deal.
The company raised 18 million rubles and is now valued at 360 million rubles. The transaction was made on its own Rounds platform. As a result, the founders of the project own 64.5%, 11 investors – 28.6%, employees – 6.9%.
According to the data of the Kontur.Focus system, the sole owner of Rounds LLC is OTS-Platform JSC. The representative of Rounds explained that investors acquired a stake in parent OTS-Platform JSC (data on JSC is not displayed in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities).
“Funds raised will be used to finance current activities and further development of Rounds’ IT infrastructure. In particular, it is planned to implement a secondary market for shares of previously placed companies, the possibility of collecting an order book for upcoming placements, as well as disclosing information on the activities of companies to inform investors”, said Anton Utekhin, CEO of Rounds.
- Now the service allows you to trade in shares of private and non-public companies in Russia in an online format by creating a JSC. The investor has an opportunity to acquire a stake in a promising company at the stages of preSeed, Seed, Series A, B, C, preIPO. The money received from the sale of shares, the company can immediately use to finance its development.
- In 2021, Rounds raised 37.5 million rubles from 9 investors (the company publicly announced investments of 31 million rubles and six investors, the company’s valuation amounted to 185 million rubles, and the names of the investors were not disclosed) . Now it is known that in 2021, the founder of the Banki.ru service, Philip Ilyin-Adaev, became one of the investors.
- Since the start of work in August 2021, transactions worth 700 million rubles have been carried out through Rondas. According to its own data, the largest placements are ALMAR diamond mining with an amount of 200 million rubles and CarMoney – with 225 million rubles.
- Rounds is included in the register of investment platforms of the Bank of Russia and the Association of Investment Platforms of Russia.
*currently operating under the Tsifra Broker brand.
Author:
anastasia mariana
Source: RB
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