Baring Vostok Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm established in 1994 and headquartered in Moscow, Russia, with additional offices in Limassol, Cyprus, and Guernsey, Channel Islands. The firm focuses on investing across a range of sectors, including natural resources, telecommunications, media, utilities, construction materials, specialty manufacturing, real estate, and technology. Baring Vostok engages in various investment strategies, such as early venture funding, acquisitions, buyouts, and growth capital, targeting medium-sized enterprises in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The firm is known for its significant involvement in the energy, software, and consumer services sectors, and typically prefers investments ranging from 30 million to 200 million, focusing on companies with enterprise values between 100 million and 200 million.
Center of Financial Technologies, Inc. is a company that develops software solutions and platforms for the finance sector and other industries. Established in 1991 and headquartered in Novosibirsk, Russia, the company also maintains offices in Moscow, Yekaterinburg, St. Petersburg, Almaty, Kazakhstan, and Chisinau, Moldova. It specializes in creating and replicating high-tech solutions for credit and financial organizations, offering a variety of processing services and training programs for bank employees. Its clientele includes banks operating in Russia, the CIS countries, and various Russian retail networks.