UCP Investment Group is one of the largest financial investment groups in Russia and was established in 2006 by Ilya Sherbovich and partners to manage their own assets and those of their co-investors. Mr. Sherbovich is the firm's beneficial owner controlling a stake of over 70%. UCP employs around 60 highly qualified specialists and has accumulated a wealth of investment experience while simultaneously proving the reliability and effectiveness of its investment strategies in turbulent market environments. Assets under management currently exceed three billion US dollars. Read more...
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Sum&Substance
https://www.sumsub.com/
https://www.sumsub.com/
Sum&Substance is an independent developer of solutions for remote identification and verification of customers, partners and employees. Unique Sum&Substance data mining and computer vision technologies help online service providers around the world manage risk, increase trust and comply with state antifraud regulation and KYC mandates for industry and best practice. Sum&Substance clients include some of the largest online service providers for the sharing economy, search platforms for finding employees and service providers, taxi services, dating platforms, e-commerce and fintech companies.
Nayara Energy
https://www.nayaraenergy.com/
https://www.nayaraenergy.com/
Nayara Energy is a fully integrated international oil company with strong presence across the hydrocarbon value chain from refining to oil retail. Nayara Energy was formed when Rosneft, the largest public oil & gas company in the world and an investment consortium led by global commodity trading firm Trafigura & UCP Investment Group, acquired Essar Oil Limited in August 2017.
Transneft
http://www.transneft.ru
http://www.transneft.ru
Transneft is a Russian transportation monopoly, oil and oil-product trunk pipelines operator in Russia. Transneft is the largest pipeline company in the world, operating in excess of 69 thousand km of oil and oil-product trunk pipelines, and 500 oil pump stations, as well as about 23 Mcm storage tank. The Company transports about 85% of Russian crude production and more than 27% of Russian oil products, as well as significant amounts of hydrocarbons and oil products of CIS countries. Transneft oil pipelines link major Russian oilfields with refineries and export markets of Europe and Asia, directly and via seaports.
Inter RAO Group
http://www.interrao.ru
http://www.interrao.ru
Inter RAO Group is a diversified energy holding that manages assets in Russia, Europe and the CIS. Inter RAO operates in the following business segments: electric power and heat generation, supply business, power industry engineering, export of power industry equipment and management of distribution grids outside Russia. Inter RAO is a leading energy export and import operator in Russia. The company supplies electricity to Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Finland, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Mongolia and Ukraine. Inter RAO also controls a number of energy companies abroad, including thermal and hydroelectric power stations, electric grid and energy trading companies.
Eurasia Drilling Company Limited
http://www.eurasiadrilling.com
http://www.eurasiadrilling.com
Eurasia Drilling Company Limited (EDC) is a leading drilling and well services contractor. EDC is engaged in drilling, building, repair and reconstruction of oil and gas wells for all assignments in licensed areas of Lukoil, Rosneft, Gazprom Neft, Bashneft, Russneft and other oil and gas companies. The company also provides drilling services on the shelf of the Caspian Sea. EDC is one of the largest independent drilling companies in Russia, by the number of drilled meters.
Pension Fund Nasledie
http://npfn.ru
http://npfn.ru
Pension Fund Nasledie (formerly known as Norilsk Nickel Pension Fund) is one of the largest pension funds in Russia. As of today, the Fund Nasledie is a part of Pension Fund Gazfond Pensionnyie Nakopleniya, with more than 373 billion rubles in pension savings.
Stroygazconsulting Group
http://www.sgc.ru
http://www.sgc.ru
Stroygazconsulting Group (SGC) has more than 20 years of experience in construction. The main business lines of the SGC’s subsidiaries are: construction of oil fields, gas fields and condensate fields, compressor stations, trunk pipelines, roads and bridges, railways and metro. The company operates throughout Russia and employs more than 60 thousands people. The SGC’s heavy machinery and equipment fleet is one of the largest in the industry. It includes more than 14,000 units of Caterpillar, Komatsu, Hitachi, JCB, Mercedes, Kato, Liebherr, Ural, GAZ, KamAZ and other domestic and foreign producers.
Fashion Continent
http://www.incity.ru
http://www.incity.ru
Fashion Continent is a vertically integrated Russian fashion retailer that designs, produces and sells women’s and kids clothes as well as lingerie at affordable prices, through its own chain of stores operating under INCITY, INCITY KIDS and DESEO brands. The company was founded in 2003 and since then, developed into a leading fashion brand with over 360 stores in more than 140 cities of Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Moldova and Belarus. INCITY brand is one of the Top-5 largest brands in Russia and is one of the most recognizable brands, according to research by Nielsen. The brand is positioned in affordable fast fashion segment. Fashion Continent designs 100% of its collections in-house, which then are produced by third party suppliers in China, Bangladesh, Italy and Russia, under Company’s strict quality control. The company’s headquarters are based in Moscow. Its design, production and distribution centers are located in Moscow, Alma-Ata, Guangzhou and Shanghai. The number of employees exceeds 3000 people. Selling space of its leased stores varies from 250 to 700 sqm.
Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant
http://www.zinc.ru
http://www.zinc.ru
Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant is a vertically integrated company with a full technological cycle of zinc production: from ore mining and enrichment to output of finished products in the form of refined zinc and alloys based on it. The company accounts for more than 60% of Russian and about 2% of global zinc production. The London Metal Exchange has registered the trade mark CZP SHG (CHELYABINSK ZINC PLANT SPECIAL HIGH GRADE), which guarantees the purity of metal not less than 99.995% in terms of zinc content. Products with the brand CZP are used in various industries: for galvanizing steel sheet, metal structures and automative industry, in chemical industry and machine building.
VKontakte
http://vk.com
http://vk.com
VKontakte is the largest social network and the most popular website in Russia. Thanks to its team of top-notch developers, the company is one of the highly-recognized global technological leaders. VKontakte is one of Russia’s largest advertising platforms.
Lebedyansky
http://www.pepsico.ru
http://www.pepsico.ru
The largest packaged juice producer in Russia, with a market share of over 30%. Prior to 2008, Lebedyansky was also one of the leaders in the Russian baby food market. Juice production capacities are located in the city of Lebedyan, Lipetsk region. Lebedyansky produces juice in all price segments. Its brand portfolio includes juices «Ya», «Tonus», «Fruktovy Sad» as well as mineral and drinking water brand «Lipetsk buvet». In 2008 PepsiCo and Pepsi Bottling Group acquired a 75,53% stake in Lebedyansky for $1,4 billion. According to terms of the deal, the juice unit was sold to PepsiCo, while babyfood and mineral water production units were spun off to form a standalone company Progress Capital.
Southern Kuzbass
http://www.mechel.ru/sector/mining/yuzhnij_kuzbass
http://www.mechel.ru/sector/mining/yuzhnij_kuzbass
Southern Kuzbass Coal Company (part of Mechel Group) includes several mining and processing enterprises. The total designed capacity of the company's enterprises for underground and open-pit coal mining is 21.8 million tons per year, for coal enrichment 17 million tons per year. Southern Kuzbass Coal Company produces coking and steam coal concentrates, anthracites, coals for PCI and middlings, which are supplied in an enriched and graded form (97% of total production) to the domestic and export markets.
Saint-Petersburg Exchange
http://www.spbexchange.ru
http://www.spbexchange.ru
St. Petersburg Exchange is the only specialized stock exchange in St Petersburg and in the North Western region of Russia. Shareholders of St. Petersburg Exchange are about 200 professional participants of the securities market, including banks, brokerage and investment companies from different regions of Russia, which serve more than 290,000 customers.
Severalmaz
http://www.severalmaz.ru
http://www.severalmaz.ru
Severalmaz’s main activity is mining the largest in Europe primary diamond deposit named after M.V. Lomonosov. The Company has core industrial divisions engaged in extraction, transportation and processing of raw materials, geological prospecting, as well as auxiliary workshops. Severalmaz extracts more than 2 mln carats of diamonds per year.
Uralmash NGO Holding
http://www.uralmash-ngo.com
http://www.uralmash-ngo.com
Uralmash Oil & Gas Equipment Holding (UNGOH) is the Russian leader in production of drilling rigs with market share over 30%. UNGOH designs and produces all types of modern drilling rigs, a wide range of oil and gas modular and complete equipment, and also provides the after-sale services. Most of the drilling rigs fleet currently operating in Russia had been produced by UNGOH.
Russian Trading System (RTS)
http://www.rts.ru
http://www.rts.ru
Russian Trading System (RTS) was one of largest Russian exchanges through to December, 2011, until the merge with Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX) formed ‘Moscow Exchange MICEX-RTS’ (‘Moscow Exchange’ (MOEX), since 2012). The major benchmark for the Russian stock market, RTS Index, was first introduced on 1 September, 1995, and is currently calculated by MOEX.
United Capital Partners Oil & Gas Fund
https://www.ucpfund.com
https://www.ucpfund.com
Companies NGP Severo-Karasevskoe, NGP Vostochno-Yaraynerskoe, Oiltech-productinvest, Tailixneftegaz and Petra Invest-M, which own oil field exploration licenses in Yuzhno-Zapolyarnoye, Sredne-Chaselskoye, Severo-Russkoye, Anomalnoye, Severo-Yamsoveyskoye and Zapadno-Tazovskoye license zones.
Gazprom neftekhim Salavat
http://salavat-neftekhim.gazprom.ru
http://salavat-neftekhim.gazprom.ru
Gazprom neftekhim Salavat (formerly Salavatnefteorgsintez) is one of Russia’s major petrochemical and oil refining complexes. The company's core businesses are the production and sales of oil refining products, petrochemical and mineral fertilizers products. The company produces more than 75 different products, 50% of which are bulk products.
Monocrystal
http://www.monocrystal.com
http://www.monocrystal.com
Monocrystal is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of synthetic sapphire for high-tech applications in electronics, optical devices and metallization pastes for solar cells. The company exports 99% of its products to 25 countries. Monocrystal controls about 20% of the global synthetic sapphire substrates market and 10% of the global photovoltaic pastes market. The company’s capacities are based in Stavropol, Belgorod and China. The company develops and supplies top-quality innovative products to leading global manufacturers of LEDs, integrated circuits and solar cells.
Progress Capital
http://www.progressfood.ru
http://www.progressfood.ru
One of the leading Russian baby food brands with market share of approx. 15% and a turnover of $140 million. Prior to 2008, it was a unit of Lebedyansky juice producer. The company operates a state of the art manufacturing facility, located in Lipetsk region, as well as has a nationwide distribution footprint. The main brand, Frutonyanya, has a very high recognition in the Russian market.
National Credit History Bureau
http://www.nbki.ru
http://www.nbki.ru
National Credit History Bureau (NBKI) has the largest base of credit histories in Russia. NBKI accumulates data about all borrowers living in large cities and small towns with existing or already repaid loans. NBKI consolidates credit information, provided by banks, microfinance organizations, credit consumer cooperatives, pawnshops and other creditors. NBKI has long-term relationship with all top-100 Russian banks.
YouDo.com
http://www.youDo.com
http://www.youDo.com
YouDo.com is online on-demand service marketplace which matches users with independent household and business service providers in safe and effective way. YouDo helps people and businesses solve their everyday problems, as well as provides an opportunity to earn extra money. The Company was founded in 2012 and since then, it has raised several rounds of investments from venture capital investors. The Company operates in Moscow and Saint‑Petersburg. The most popular services provided via YouDo are cleaning, home repairs, freelance, trucking and courier services. The service providers bid for the orders placed by users, which ensures high-quality services at the lowest available price. The company was founded by Alexey Gidirim and Denis Kutergin and the key investors are Sistema VC, Flint Capital, Sergey Solonin and UCP.
Sum&Substance
https://www.sumsub.com/
https://www.sumsub.com/
Sum&Substance is an independent developer of solutions for remote identification and verification of customers, partners and employees. Unique Sum&Substance data mining and computer vision technologies help online service providers around the world manage risk, increase trust and comply with state antifraud regulation and KYC mandates for industry and best practice. Sum&Substance clients include some of the largest online service providers for the sharing economy, search platforms for finding employees and service providers, taxi services, dating platforms, e-commerce and fintech companies.
Nayara Energy
https://www.nayaraenergy.com/
https://www.nayaraenergy.com/
Nayara Energy is a fully integrated international oil company with strong presence across the hydrocarbon value chain from refining to oil retail. Nayara Energy was formed when Rosneft, the largest public oil & gas company in the world and an investment consortium led by global commodity trading firm Trafigura & UCP Investment Group, acquired Essar Oil Limited in August 2017.
Transneft
http://www.transneft.ru
http://www.transneft.ru
Transneft is a Russian transportation monopoly, oil and oil-product trunk pipelines operator in Russia. Transneft is the largest pipeline company in the world, operating in excess of 69 thousand km of oil and oil-product trunk pipelines, and 500 oil pump stations, as well as about 23 Mcm storage tank. The Company transports about 85% of Russian crude production and more than 27% of Russian oil products, as well as significant amounts of hydrocarbons and oil products of CIS countries. Transneft oil pipelines link major Russian oilfields with refineries and export markets of Europe and Asia, directly and via seaports.
Inter RAO Group
http://www.interrao.ru
http://www.interrao.ru
Inter RAO Group is a diversified energy holding that manages assets in Russia, Europe and the CIS. Inter RAO operates in the following business segments: electric power and heat generation, supply business, power industry engineering, export of power industry equipment and management of distribution grids outside Russia. Inter RAO is a leading energy export and import operator in Russia. The company supplies electricity to Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Finland, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Mongolia and Ukraine. Inter RAO also controls a number of energy companies abroad, including thermal and hydroelectric power stations, electric grid and energy trading companies.
Eurasia Drilling Company Limited
http://www.eurasiadrilling.com
http://www.eurasiadrilling.com
Eurasia Drilling Company Limited (EDC) is a leading drilling and well services contractor. EDC is engaged in drilling, building, repair and reconstruction of oil and gas wells for all assignments in licensed areas of Lukoil, Rosneft, Gazprom Neft, Bashneft, Russneft and other oil and gas companies. The company also provides drilling services on the shelf of the Caspian Sea. EDC is one of the largest independent drilling companies in Russia, by the number of drilled meters.
National Credit Bureau
http://www.nbki.ru
http://www.nbki.ru
National Credit Bureau (NBKI) has the largest base of credit histories in Russia. NBKI accumulates data about all borrowers living in large cities and small towns with existing or already repaid loans. NBKI consolidates credit information, provided by banks, microfinance organizations, credit consumer cooperatives, pawnshops and other creditors. NBKI has long-term relationship with all top-100 Russian banks.
YouDo.com
http://www.youDo.com
http://www.youDo.com
YouDo.com is online on-demand service marketplace which matches users with independent household and business service providers in safe and effective way. YouDo helps people and businesses solve their everyday problems, as well as provides an opportunity to earn extra money. The Company was founded in 2012 and since then, it has raised several rounds of investments from venture capital investors. The Company operates in Moscow and Saint‑Petersburg. The most popular services provided via YouDo are cleaning, home repairs, freelance, trucking and courier services. The service providers bid for the orders placed by users, which ensures high-quality services at the lowest available price. The company was founded by Alexey Gidirim and Denis Kutergin and the key investors are Sistema VC, Flint Capital, Sergey Solonin and UCP.
OJSC Fashion Continent
http://www.incity.ru
http://www.incity.ru
Fashion Continent is a vertically integrated Russian fashion retailer that designs, produces and sells women’s and kids clothes as well as lingerie at affordable prices, through its own chain of stores operating under INCITY, INCITY KIDS and DESEO brands. The company was founded in 2003 and since then, developed into a leading fashion brand with over 360 stores in more than 140 cities of Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Moldova and Belarus. INCITY brand is one of the Top-5 largest brands in Russia and is one of the most recognizable brands, according to research by Nielsen. The brand is positioned in affordable fast fashion segment. Fashion Continent designs 100% of its collections in-house, which then are produced by third party suppliers in China, Bangladesh, Italy and Russia, under Company’s strict quality control. The company’s headquarters are based in Moscow. Its design, production and distribution centers are located in Moscow, Alma-Ata, Guangzhou and Shanghai. The number of employees exceeds 3000 people. Selling space of its leased stores varies from 250 to 700 sqm.
Pension Fund Nasledie
http://npfn.ru
http://npfn.ru
Pension Fund Nasledie (formerly known as Norilsk Nickel Pension Fund) is one of the largest pension funds in Russia. As of today, the Fund Nasledie is a part of Pension Fund Gazfond Pensionnyie Nakopleniya, with more than 373 billion rubles in pension savings.
Stroygazconsulting Group
http://www.sgc.ru
http://www.sgc.ru
Stroygazconsulting Group (SGC) has more than 20 years of experience in construction. The main business lines of the SGC’s subsidiaries are: construction of oil fields, gas fields and condensate fields, compressor stations, trunk pipelines, roads and bridges, railways and metro. The company operates throughout Russia and employs more than 60 thousands people. The SGC’s heavy machinery and equipment fleet is one of the largest in the industry. It includes more than 14,000 units of Caterpillar, Komatsu, Hitachi, JCB, Mercedes, Kato, Liebherr, Ural, GAZ, KamAZ and other domestic and foreign producers.
Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant
http://www.zinc.ru
http://www.zinc.ru
Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant is a vertically integrated company with a full technological cycle of zinc production: from ore mining and enrichment to output of finished products in the form of refined zinc and alloys based on it. The company accounts for more than 60% of Russian and about 2% of global zinc production. The London Metal Exchange has registered the trade mark CZP SHG (CHELYABINSK ZINC PLANT SPECIAL HIGH GRADE), which guarantees the purity of metal not less than 99.995% in terms of zinc content. Products with the brand CZP are used in various industries: for galvanizing steel sheet, metal structures and automative industry, in chemical industry and machine building.
VKontakte
http://vk.com
http://vk.com
VKontakte is the largest social network and the most popular website in Russia. Thanks to its team of top-notch developers, the company is one of the highly-recognized global technological leaders. VKontakte is one of Russia’s largest advertising platforms.
Lebedyansky
http://www.pepsico.ru
http://www.pepsico.ru
The largest packaged juice producer in Russia, with a market share of over 30%. Prior to 2008, Lebedyansky was also one of the leaders in the Russian baby food market. Juice production capacities are located in the city of Lebedyan, Lipetsk region. Lebedyansky produces juice in all price segments. Its brand portfolio includes juices «Ya», «Tonus», «Fruktovy Sad» as well as mineral and drinking water brand «Lipetsk buvet». In 2008 PepsiCo and Pepsi Bottling Group acquired a 75,53% stake in Lebedyansky for $1,4 billion. According to terms of the deal, the juice unit was sold to PepsiCo, while babyfood and mineral water production units were spun off to form a standalone company Progress Capital.
Southern Kuzbass
http://www.mechel.ru/sector/mining/yuzhnij_kuzbass
http://www.mechel.ru/sector/mining/yuzhnij_kuzbass
Southern Kuzbass Coal Company (part of Mechel Group) includes several mining and processing enterprises. The total designed capacity of the company's enterprises for underground and open-pit coal mining is 21.8 million tons per year, for coal enrichment 17 million tons per year. Southern Kuzbass Coal Company produces coking and steam coal concentrates, anthracites, coals for PCI and middlings, which are supplied in an enriched and graded form (97% of total production) to the domestic and export markets.
Saint-Petersburg Exchange
http://www.spbexchange.ru
http://www.spbexchange.ru
St. Petersburg Exchange is the only specialized stock exchange in St Petersburg and in the North Western region of Russia. Shareholders of St. Petersburg Exchange are about 200 professional participants of the securities market, including banks, brokerage and investment companies from different regions of Russia, which serve more than 290,000 customers.
Severalmaz
http://www.severalmaz.ru
http://www.severalmaz.ru
Severalmaz’s main activity is mining the largest in Europe primary diamond deposit named after M.V. Lomonosov. The Company has core industrial divisions engaged in extraction, transportation and processing of raw materials, geological prospecting, as well as auxiliary workshops. Severalmaz extracts more than 2 mln carats of diamonds per year.
Uralmash NGO Holding
http://www.uralmash-ngo.com
http://www.uralmash-ngo.com
Uralmash Oil & Gas Equipment Holding (UNGOH) is the Russian leader in production of drilling rigs with market share over 30%. UNGOH designs and produces all types of modern drilling rigs, a wide range of oil and gas modular and complete equipment, and also provides the after-sale services. Most of the drilling rigs fleet currently operating in Russia had been produced by UNGOH.
Russian Trading System (RTS)
http://www.rts.ru
http://www.rts.ru
Russian Trading System (RTS) was one of largest Russian exchanges through to December, 2011, until the merge with Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX) formed ‘Moscow Exchange MICEX-RTS’ (‘Moscow Exchange’ (MOEX), since 2012). The major benchmark for the Russian stock market, RTS Index, was first introduced on 1 September, 1995, and is currently calculated by MOEX.
United Capital Partners Oil & Gas Fund
https://www.ucpfund.com
https://www.ucpfund.com
Companies NGP Severo-Karasevskoe, NGP Vostochno-Yaraynerskoe, Oiltech-productinvest, Tailixneftegaz and Petra Invest-M, which own oil field exploration licenses in Yuzhno-Zapolyarnoye, Sredne-Chaselskoye, Severo-Russkoye, Anomalnoye, Severo-Yamsoveyskoye and Zapadno-Tazovskoye license zones.
Gazprom neftekhim Salavat
http://salavat-neftekhim.gazprom.ru
http://salavat-neftekhim.gazprom.ru
Gazprom neftekhim Salavat (formerly Salavatnefteorgsintez) is one of Russia’s major petrochemical and oil refining complexes. The company's core businesses are the production and sales of oil refining products, petrochemical and mineral fertilizers products. The Company produces more than 75 different products, 50% of which are bulk products.
Monocrystal
http://www.monocrystal.com
http://www.monocrystal.com
Monocrystal is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of synthetic sapphire for high-tech applications in electronics, optical devices and metallization pastes for solar cells. The company exports 99% of its products to 25 countries. Monocrystal controls about 20% of the global synthetic sapphire substrates market and 10% of the global photovoltaic pastes market. The company’s capacities are based in Stavropol, Belgorod and China. The company develops and supplies top-quality innovative products to leading global manufacturers of LEDs, integrated circuits and solar cells.
Progress Capital
http://www.progressfood.ru
http://www.progressfood.ru
One of the leading Russian baby food brands with market share of approx. 15% and a turnover of $140 million. Prior to 2008, it was a unit of Lebedyansky juice producer. The company operates a state of the art manufacturing facility, located in Lipetsk region, as well as has a nationwide distribution footprint. The main brand, Frutonyanya, has a very high recognition in the Russian market.