Co-owner of the DocsinBox restaurant service (DocsInBox) and founder of Yalla Market Leonid Dovbenko received shares of his partner Alexander Buravtsov in Get It LLC and Service Inspector LLC, RB.RU has learned. One of the founders of the analytical platform Dsight, Arseniy Dabbakh, called the transactions part of a “big story.”
DocsInBox co-owner Dovbenko acquired partner shares in two IT companies
Author: Ekaterina Strukova
In the first company, Dovbenko acquired 49%, consolidating a 100% stake, and in the second he bought 6% and increased his share to 30%. Both companies develop software for the restaurant business. Dovbenko and Buravtsov did not respond to RB.RU’s request at the time of publication of the material.
What did Dovbenko buy?
- Get It was founded by Leonid Dovbenko in March 2023; in August he transferred 49% to Alexander Buravtsov. For 2023, the company received revenue of 16.5 million rubles and net profit of 1.2 million rubles.
Get It created the Get Kiosk services for self-service in restaurants and Get Hr for scanning the biometric data of catering employees. The company’s website states that its clients include the Papa John’s pizzeria chain, Burger Club establishments, the Skolkovo golf club and others. Get It has been operating on the international market for 8 years, as stated on the website.
- “Service Inspector” is an accredited IT company; it is part of the “Open Service” group. The geography of clients includes the territory of all of Russia, as well as Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Belarus, the Czech Republic, France, the USA and other countries. The company’s revenue in 2023 amounted to 29.1 million rubles, net profit – 10.4 million rubles.
Service Inspector has created an application for passing checklists. In this company, in addition to Dovbenko, who now has 30%, co-owner and general director Igor Lazutkin acquired a 4% share, and now he has 20%. Alexander Buravtsov withdrew from the capital of the company, where he owned 10%. Mikhail Nemtsan and Igor Sychev also remained participants, with 25% each.
Both transactions took place in October.
- Alexander Buravtsov, according to the website of the Federation of Restaurateurs and Hoteliers (FRiO), worked as the commercial director of Open Service, participated in the launch of 150 catering establishments, and headed the representative office of the FRiO in Irkutsk.
- In April 2024, Dovbenko invested in Open Service, becoming one of the founders of Open Service Vologda LLC.
- In October, the DocsInBox service, using funds raised from IIDF, bought the geopromotion platform Pointer; the IT company is engaged in local marketing. The asset was valued at 150–200 million rubles. Commenting on the deal to Forbes, the entrepreneur said that the acquisition should provide “a synergistic effect, given the active growth of both companies over the past year.”
Experts about Dovbenko’s plans
Dovbenko commented on the transactions one of the founders of the Dsight analytical platform Arseniy Dabbakh.
“Leonid Dovbenko is a famous person and founder of Yalla Market, who has seen ups and downs. After the failure of many startups in last mile delivery, he was able to “restructure” the company and raise capital. It seems to me that he wants to build an IT company around the hospitality market (HoReCa) and all these projects complement each other well. This segment is quite large and not digitized enough,” Dabbah said.
According to the expert, it is possible that Leonid Dovbenko wants to build a large international company in this area, and he is now trying to combine the components of an IT solution, taking advantage of agreements with companies where he is an investor or majority shareholder.
“Accordingly, these companies are interesting for investments, but for Leonid they are of particular interest and I think that companies are also interested in participating in the big story that Leonid Dovbenko is building,” Dabbakh said.
IT services, similar to those developed by Dovbenko’s companies, can take the industry to a new level, told RB.RU consultant and owner of the Megaset74 enterprise Evgeniy Kondakov. While new technologies are not familiar to all restaurateurs, automation is especially poorly represented in the regions.
“Those who are now investing in the future in this area are great fellows. This is the future. The use of such technologies will greatly increase the level of establishments; there will be no need to hire extra employees and control everything manually,” Kondakov stated.
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