According to
SPARK-Interfax ,
Rambler & Co bought 51% of
RCO . It is also owned by Vladimir Pleshko (14.5%), Igor Fedotchenko (14%), Vladimir Strelnikov (10.5%), Pavel Polyakov (5%) and Alexander Antonov (5%). In 2013, RCO's revenue amounted to 38.6 million rubles. According to Nikolay Davydov, managing partner of Gagarin Capital, the amount of the transaction could amount to 75 million rubles "plus an option to buy the remaining 49%."
RCO solutions in the field of analysis and recognition of natural languages ​​allow categorizing large arrays of texts, combining documents of similar meaning into plots, extracting information (for example, references to organizations, people, geographical objects, brands, events, indicating participants and their roles). RCO supplies software and develops information retrieval and analysis systems. The customers of the company are corporations and state structures:
Gazprom , the
Ministry of Justice , the
Bank of Russia , the
Federal Security Service ,
Rosnano ,
MegaFon ,
Sberbank .
Deputy General Director of Rambler & Co Maxim Tadevosyan is confident that the acquisition of a stake in the RCO will help the holding company to advance "in the area of ​​combining intellectual content analysis and advertising technologies." “In addition, we aim to bring out a new unique boxed product in the Cyrillic segment of the Internet for the PR sector, which will help the industry to get analytics from different digital media in one place,
” he
told Kommersant.
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Many participants in the IT-market are aware of the need for technology to work with unstructured data. IDC research shows that by 2020 the amount of digital data in the world will exceed 35,000 exabytes, of which more than 80% are unstructured, notes
ABBYY senior vice president Maxim Mikhailov.
The Rambler & Co holding was founded on April 15, 2014. It consists of “Rambler” and “SUP Media”. By the end of 2013, Rambler & Co with revenue of $ 133 million ranked fifth in the ranking of Internet companies in Russia, according to Forbes magazine.