Executive summary.
Spartak Investments is a Russian equity investment company. We provide extraordinary return to our investors by buying and developing businesses in Russia with the highest potential. The main driver for the value creation of the business in our portfolio is our knowledge and organizational/management skills. We know it is possible to create value with minor financial capital investments, especially in Russia where the management skills can be the main driver productivity. We focus on Russia market because there are extraordinary opportunities available as long as Russian companies’ remain largely inefficient in comparison to the companies in developed economies. SIF attracts private investors from all over the globe and build businesses using the best practices available in the industry. Our main source of value creation is our outstanding team of entrepreneurs. We all have advanced degrees from international universities and work experiences in the top consulting, investment and Fortune 500 companies.
Our mission statement: to improve a quality of life of people in Russian through the services and products companies in Spartacus Investment portfolio will provide, help people develop their entrepreneurial talent through building businesses with us, and to provide an outstanding return on capital, effort and talent.
We participate in industries, regions in Russia with the highest growth potential.
Portfolio companies target domestic and international markets. We screen the business opportunities intensively. Our criteria for selecting businesses are very rigorous and demanding: business has to start generating positive cash flows within a year; we invest only in the least capital intensive business; more than 50 percent of the value has to be created with knowledge skills, and organizational talent, payback period shall be no more than 3 years, we control our businesses mainly through majority ownership or participate in strategic decision making otherwise.
We use simple principles: we need to understand business we develop a hundred percent, the business model has to be simple and understandable, every team is assigned only one business project which allows us to keep focus but still grow fast.
Every business we create is intended to be a public company, sold or be kept as a profit generation unit. As Spartak Investments grows and achieves an estimated capitalization of several million dollars we plan to make it public.
As a side product of our investment activities our company also offers management consulting services to small and medium size businesses. The reason we want to provide these services is because it aligns with our mission statement of developing entrepreneurial talent, helps us to sharpen our skills and serves as sources of information about opportunities.
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