Throughout the time when the income of Russian IT companies was calculated, the last year was the most successful for them. Total revenue amounted to 8.5 billion dollars for the 10 largest Internet companies in Russia. Forbes rating has been publishing articles about the largest companies in this market for 4 years. It is worth noting that most of the top ten firms were created primarily for activities on the Internet.
10th place. Exist
This online store sells spare parts. Last year, the company had a corporate conflict, several owners of the company, who had a 50% stake, wanted to get out of the business and get $ 25 million for three, but Domoratsky (the owner of the second 50%) offered only 10 million. However, the situation was resolved - the LLC company A + A Exist-Info bought out a stake in Domoratsky. He himself took up the development of a new project.
9th place. Superjob
In the 2000s, a resource was founded that was supposed to help some citizens find a job, and the second - labor. Since at that time there was practically no competition, the portal quickly occupied its niche in Russia and has not left it until now.
Not so long ago, for this site, leaders released an application for operating systems such as Android and iOS. At the moment, about 6 million people use this site monthly, and for all the time there were almost 1,000,000 employers. Last year, the company earned $ 65 million.
8th place. "2 GIS"
The 2GIS company, which was created by a married couple from the city of Novosibirsk in 1999, was included in the list of "Largest IT Companies in Russia". This business was based on the issuance of electronic cards; to date, 2GIS has issued cards to almost all cities of the CIS and European countries. An important feature of the company - cards are free. Spouses receive income from advertising.
In 2013, the activities of 2GIS expanded, now with the help of various services it is possible to order tables in restaurants online, book tickets and more. At the moment, the user audience of this company exceeds 20 million users, and net income over the past year amounted to $ 97 million.
7th place. Game insight
The creator of this company is Alisa Chumachenko. Before the girl decided to organize her project, she was an employee of Astrum (today it is already part of the mail.ru Group).
The main principle of this company is the creation of computer games that are free, however, to get additional bonuses, a person will have to pay.
Over the entire period of its existence, Game Insight has created more than 50 games, this number includes games for a mobile phone and applications on social networks. The company is expanding very quickly and makes its products available in many world countries. The users of this company are more than 250 million people. Net income was $ 110 million.
6th place. Lamoda
Sixth place is occupied by the youngest company, which was able to get into the list of 10 largest Internet companies in Russia. It was founded in 2011, its creator are several German entrepreneurs. After all the actions were focused on mobile sales, the company went up sharply, 60% of all purchases are made through mobile phones.
At the moment, the portal has more than two million products. At the same time, when the largest Black Bird online sale was held, Lamoda sold 500,000 items. Today, the company's value is $ 301 million.
5th place. Ozon group
Initially, the company was like an online bookstore, then it began to expand slowly. Today, almost everything that can be sold is sold here.At the same time, ozon.ru sells 4.1 million products. At the same time, this company is growing further, last year the conversion increased by 0.6%. The company's value is $ 302 million.
4th place. Wildberries
Wildberries was created 13 years ago by a regular English teacher Tatyana Bakalchuk and her husband. At this time, they managed to raise the portal to 4th place in the Forbes rating and deservedly get into the list of “The largest IT companies in Russia”. Every day, 100,000 products are bought on the site. This company works directly with clothing manufacturers and official distributors.
However, it is worth noting that this is the most closed company, the owners do not communicate with the press and do not attend various events. The cost of this company is 419 million dollars.
3rd place. Avito
So, in the list of "The Largest Internet Companies in Russia", Avito is the well-deserved third place in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Over the past year, the average monthly audience of the portal grew by 16%, an incredible figure.
The company receives income from various sources: advertising, cooperation with partner stores, services and more. At the end of 2016, the company's value is $ 2.54 billion.
2nd place. Mail.ru Group
The company was founded in 1998, for many years now it has been a leader in the list of "The Largest IT Companies in Russia". Mail.ru is still developing advertising on social networks and mobile devices. All major projects continue to grow, the most profitable project continues to be VKontakte, whose revenue over the past year grew by 41%.
However, despite the excellent progress, Mail.ru Group continues to invest in new segments, so last year they acquired a mobile game developer and food delivery service, spending about 130 million on all. Today, Mail.ru Group is estimated at $ 4 billion.
1 place. Yandex
The list of "The largest Internet companies in Russia in 2016" closes Yandex. Although last year Arkady Volozh (CEO) lost the championship ranking, but quickly managed to rehabilitate himself and regained its rightful first place. The company is trying to find all new methods of non-advertising earnings and creates new services. So, last year a personal search engine for tickets was launched, Yandex.Market turned into a real trading platform and more. In 2017, Yandex plans to continue to continue financing new technologies, such as neural networks and much more. At the end of last year, the company's value was $ 7.6 billion.
Conclusion
The largest IT companies in Russia are becoming more experienced every year and create new, incredible things. After all, the Internet is only developing, so this market is not yet complete. Many companies know this and are doing everything possible to simplify the lives of ordinary people.