Recruitment agency
HeadHunter and Digital Sky Technologies direct investment fund each acquired a 20% stake in the
Free-lance.ru project. The importance of this transaction is difficult to overestimate, because the largest freelance project of Runet is now directly through the recruitment agency for large customers. For the site created in 2005, this is a great success.
According to a press release from HeadHunter, negotiations between the partners have been going on for quite a long time, and as a result, an agreement on mutually beneficial cooperation was signed. In the joint plans of the companies, the further development of Free-lance.ru services is planned, as well as the involvement of large companies in the search for remote workers.
Attendance Free-lance.ru is from 15,000 people per day, the database contains about 100,000 freelancers and customers.
Yuri Virovets, CEO of HeadHunter, says: “We are striving to expand our presence in the personnel market, and partnership with the leading portal in the field of remote work is an important step in this direction.”
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Anton Mazhirin, project manager at Free-lance.ru, believes that such a partnership will expand the opportunities for hiring remote workers, as well as fully reveal the positive aspects of remote collaboration. ”
To all this, we must add that Digital Sky Technologies is one of the most successful venture capital funds in the Russian Internet business. Recently, they profitably
sold a package of 30% of Mail.ru portal shares to a foreign investor
for $ 165 million . Earlier this year, the fund
acquired a stake in HeadHunter . Digital Sky Technologies is controlled by the executive director of NCH Advisors, Grigory Finger, and the former top manager of the Menatep group and the Neftyanoy concern, Yuri Milner, the latter acting as the managing partner.