Svarog Capital Advisors

Svarog Capital Advisors is one of the leading private equity firms in Russia and CIS with over $500m of capital under management. The firm was established as a private equity arm of the Renova Group under the Renova Capital name in October 2003. As a result of a management buy-out in 2007, Renova Capital was renamed Svarog Capital Advisors. Since 2004, our funds have invested in 13 companies with an aggregate transaction value of over $460 m. The firm’s investment approach is to provide equity financing to industry-leading companies with exceptional prospects and the ability to generate superior returns. Our core investment strategy is fostering company growth through entering new markets, expanding the business geography and consolidating fragmented markets.

Oleg Tsarkov

Managing Partner

Evgeny Rudakov Ph.D

Partner

5 past transactions

Competentum Group

Private Equity Round in 2008
Competentum is an international company with a primary focus on e-learning. Being a leader of the Russian e-learning industry, the Company also operates in the US market through a branch office in Seattle, Washington. Company provides a wide range of e-learning software and content developing services, including: Learning Management Systems (LMSs) for corporate and academic clients. Competentum develops and distributes the state-of-the-art e-learning solution «ShareKnowledge» worldwide. E-learning content. Competentum is actively expanding its portfolio of e-courses for academics clients and corporates. Vast experience and strong technology base also makes the company a perfect vendor for custom content creation. Key corporate clients are the leading CIS companies, including Vimpelkom, Lukoil and Uralsib. Examples of Academic clients are Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, Moscow International Affairs Institute. International coverage: Cengage Learning, Plato Learning, McGraw-Hill and Pearson.

Polair

Private Equity Round in 2008
Polair is one of the largest commercial refrigeration equipment producers in Russia. Its business has growing in the last few years driven primarily by the booming demand from the retail industry. Polair's production plant is located in the autonomous district of Mari El (Volga Region). A highly automated production process and considerable unloaded capacity provide both fast growth and cost efficiency. The company produces several product lines (refrigeration cabinets, monoblocks, split systems, cold rooms, etc) and is an undisputed leader in two segments of the Russian market - closed refrigeration cabinets and monoblocks. Polair has a geographically diversified dealer network across the whole of Russia and has already started a footprint expansion into the CIS market.

PROMT

Private Equity Round in 2008
PROMT is a provider of automated translation software. PROMT offers translation solutions for the home and business usage as well as for Internet and corporate intranets. PROMT provides machine translation for seven languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Russian, with a total of 24 translation directions for over 100 specialized domains.

The Auto Plus Group of Companies

Private Equity Round in 2008
Auto Plus is one of the leading autodealers in the Urals region. The company started operations with Russian car sales and foreign car repair in 1995. In 2004, taking advantage of the booming Russian car market, the company became an authorized dealer of several international car manufacturers and since then has opened a number of modern sales and service centers. Auto Plus is an authorized dealer of Toyota, Lexus, and Audi in Yekaterinburg city and the Sverdlovsk region (the federal district of the Urals). The company runs 4 new modern dealerships and one for used car sales and repair. Today, Auto Plus is the only official dealer of Audi and Lexus in Yekaterinburg and the only dealer of Lexus in the Sverdlovsk region.

SPSR-Express

Private Equity Round in 2007
SPSR-EXPRESS offers a broad range of services in relation to express delivery of documents, mail and cargo all over Russia and abroad. Apart from the basic express delivery offer, SPSR is developing specialized individual solutions tailored to their customers’ business.
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