Top 10 largest Internet companies in Russia for 2014 * Ratings

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For the fourth time, Forbes analysts rank the companies that conduct their business through the Internet. After analyzing the revenue for 2013, experts selected the strongest players in this market segment.

In today's review, we offer you Top 10 largest Internet companies in Russia. The list did not include online stores, which are dedicated to a separate rating.

10. Avito ($ 60 million)

As of the beginning of February, 17,466,208 announcements of various subjects were posted on avito.ru. The idea of the project belonged to the Swede Jonas Nordlander. Today Avito is the largest online trading platform in Russia and the best free classifieds site, with 400 thousand new announcements posted daily.

9. Superjob ($ 65 million)

One of the most popular recruitment portals of Runet was founded in 2000. Superjob has an average of 6 million visitors per month. In 2013, applications for iOS and Android were launched, allowing you to post vacancies and look for work. Thanks to this, the portal was included in our ranking of job search sites.

8.2GIS ($ 97 million)

20 million people use maps and electronic reference books of 2GIS. The company was founded in 1999 by Novosibirsk entrepreneur Alexander Sysoev and his wife Marina. Today 2GIS cards allow you to navigate in 250 cities of Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Italy and other countries.

7. Game Insight ($ 110 million)

The company develops and publishes its own computer games. A distinctive feature of all games from Game Insight is the principle of free-to-play. Those. you don’t have to pay for the opportunity to play, but bonuses are already available for money.

6. iFree ($ 130 million)

The company is engaged in the creation of mobile applications and other projects in the field of mobile, as well as NFC-technologies. IFree products are available in 100 different countries. In 2013, a cooperation agreement was signed with the Chinese company China Telecom.

5. Poster-Rambler-SOUP ($ 133 million)

This young company, founded in 2013, combined the well-known and highly profitable projects LiveJournal.com, Rambler.ru, Begun.ru, Lenta.ru, Gazeta.ru and Afisha.ru. The owners of the company were Alexander Mamut and Vladimir Potanin. The operational management of the new brainchild was undertaken by Alexander Mamut.

4. RBC ($ 156 million)

More than 50% of the company belongs to the Onexim group of Mikhail Prokhorov. RBC employs 1,500 employees. The company owns the information resource Rbc.ru, the business television channel RBC, the magazine of the same name, and the newspaper RBC Daily. In 2013, the company earned by selling the Salon Press publishing house, which specializes in publishing publications on the interior.

3. VKontakte ($ 215 million)

Every day this social network is visited by 60 million users. About 40% of the company is owned by Mail.ru Group, and 48% is owned by UCP Ilya Shcherbovich. The main source of the company's income is advertising, as well as the placement of various applications on the social network. In the near future, an IPO of the company is planned.

2. Mail.ru Group ($ 860.5 million)

Founded in 1998, the group of companies today is an employer for 3,000 employees. The main owner of Mail.ru is the NMT group, owned by billionaire Alisher Usmanov. The group of companies owns not only the eponymous mail service, but also the social networks Odnoklassniki and My World, ICQ and Mail.ru Agent, as well as shares in other projects.

1. Yandex ($ 1,238 million)

The largest Russian Internet company was founded in 2000. Today, 4,500 employees work for Yandex, and the popular search engine processes 250 million requests daily. The largest transaction in 2013 was the acquisition by Yandex of the resource Kinopoisk.ru for $ 80 million.