Skype investor and Last.fm has invested in Ozon
According to unconfirmed data, the shareholders of the Ozon online store have changed. Its owner Baring Vostok attracted a number of foreign investors to the project. Among them is the Swiss venture capital fund Index Ventures , RBCdaily reports today. Finam-IT experts do not exclude that Index Ventures bought the blocking package of the online store, paying about $ 15 million for it. Their estimate of the total cost of Ozon is approximately $ 60 million.
According to insider information, attracted investments will be used by the online store to solve problems with logistics and infrastructure development.
“Index Ventures is a cautious investor, he does not like to invest more than $ 20 million in projects,” says Finam-IT expert Viktor Galenko. According to him, as an investor, a company usually chooses startups. In its portfolio , among others, are the InfoSpace corporation, the music services Last.fm and Listen.com, shares in the companies MySQL, Skype Limited, etc.
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For Index Ventures, the Russian online store is a successful investment that can bring good returns, says Boris Ovchinnikov, head of research at Sup Fabrik. He added that the potential of the Russian e-commerce market is much higher than that of European counterparts, and there are not so many risks. These words are confirmed by the recently released “Yandex” study of retail trade in RuNet. Recall, according to the company, in 2006 the volume of retail sales grew by 42%, while in the West the corresponding figure was 25%.
According to insider information, attracted investments will be used by the online store to solve problems with logistics and infrastructure development.
“Index Ventures is a cautious investor, he does not like to invest more than $ 20 million in projects,” says Finam-IT expert Viktor Galenko. According to him, as an investor, a company usually chooses startups. In its portfolio , among others, are the InfoSpace corporation, the music services Last.fm and Listen.com, shares in the companies MySQL, Skype Limited, etc.
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For Index Ventures, the Russian online store is a successful investment that can bring good returns, says Boris Ovchinnikov, head of research at Sup Fabrik. He added that the potential of the Russian e-commerce market is much higher than that of European counterparts, and there are not so many risks. These words are confirmed by the recently released “Yandex” study of retail trade in RuNet. Recall, according to the company, in 2006 the volume of retail sales grew by 42%, while in the West the corresponding figure was 25%.
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