The company “Swiftdrive Rus” Stanislav Yastrzhembsky, the son of the former press secretary Boris Yeltsin, launched the taxi aggregator “swiftdrive“, developed with the money of VTB?
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From the first of June, a new aggregator will appear on the taxi market – taxi “Swiftdrive”, which replaced Gett, which left Russia. Investments in the company at the current stage are estimated at 30 million rubles, and there are plans to increase this amount by about five times.
The correspondent of The Moscow Post figured out who is behind the company, where they get such money from and what to expect from new market players.
old acquaintances
According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, the founders of Swiftdrive Rus LLC are 3 individuals: Stanislav Yastrzhembsky, Yulia Petkevich and Alexander Kolosov. The company was founded in 2020 and has already earned more than 4 million rubles on government contracts, providing taxi services to schools and other budgetary institutions in Moscow.
The same trio appears on the list of founders or directors of OTK. Petkevich was the general director of the organization in 2016-2017. Yastrzhembsky and Kolosov are its co-owners.
The company was founded in 2014 and is engaged in the activity of “other land passenger transport”. There is a possibility that a new aggregator has grown from here. True, the office is not full of government contracts. For the entire time of its existence, only VTB Bank ordered from it twice.
Who liked VTB
True, he ordered for impressive amounts – the company as a whole earned more than 565 million rubles for the provision of transport services related to the transportation of passengers, luggage, goods and materials and correspondence. And its revenue from zero in 2015 grew to almost 300 million in 2019.
According to information from the Procurement Circuit website, OTC potentially has another contract with the bank – in amount exceeding both previously received combined – by 628 million rubles. The page indicates that according to the protocol, VTB plans to conclude an agreement with the OTK.
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In addition to VTB, the office tried to “break through” to other institutions with state participation, but it was provided everywhere. No wonder – the company is young, not well-known, with not very encouraging, at least until 2019, revenue indicators. Why did VTB like her so much?
From PR to Taxi
It is known that one of the founders of Swiftdrive Rus, Yastrzhembsky Stanislav Sergeevich, is a simple lawyer, but his father is a statesman, diplomat, former assistant to the President of the Russian Federation.
Sergei Yastrzhembsky was Boris Yeltsin’s press secretary. He was on good terms with the former mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, as evidenced not only by eyewitness accounts, but also by his own words. It is possible that with the change of the mayor, nothing essentially changed for Yastrzhembsky, and his possible acquaintance with Sobyanin paved the way for the son of a politician.
Dating on the dance floor
What is also important – Yastrzhembsky’s brother is a DJ. As, perhaps, in the past, the second founder of Swiftdrive Rus, Alexander Kolosov. At least about him in open sources contains just such information. It is likely that it was through his brother that the son of a politician met this young entrepreneur.
They also write that Kolosov was the founder and co-owner of a number of well-known nightclubs, such as the London nightclub, the Dance Farm bar and the Mr. Pit. Today, in addition to OTK, it develops a mental health service for employees of DigitalHealth companies, and is also working on a project to reduce the negative impact of food and agro-industry enterprises on the environment – EcoBSF.
The above information is reflected in the companies previously registered at Kolosov – London Club LLC and Luxury Music LLC, in the latter he worked with Vladimir Stanislavovich Yastrzhembsky and another DJ – Anton Zagryadsky.
Together with Vladimir and Stanislav Yastrzhembsky Kolosov, even before 2016, he was the founder of the SVS advertising company.
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Small offshore detail
The head of “OTK” is a certain Khanmamedov Murad Enver Ogly, who also headed Pep Rus LLC, owned by a British company.
Against “Yandex” and for the benefit in one bottle
In total, it turns out that the son of an influential politician and a versatile entrepreneur once again agreed on the basis of business development. Potentially included in the so-called “Kremlin pool” the head of VTB, Andrei Kostin, realized that here he was dealing, on the one hand, with a trusted person, and on the other, there was where to spend the budget.
