This past Friday Delimobil Holding S.A., a Luxembourg-registered, Moscow-based car-sharing company, filed for listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
BofA Securities, Citigroup Global Markets and VTB Capital will act as joint lead book-running managers while Banco Santander, Renaissance Securities and Sberbank CIB will be joint bookrunners, the company said, cited by Reuters.
A pioneer of the Russian car-sharing market since 2015, Delimobil now operates in Russia, as well as Czechia, Kazakhstan and Belarus, under the brands Delimobil, Anytime and Anytime Prime. Last year Delimobil’s Russian car-sharing business generated 5.3 billion rubles, with a net loss of 2.4 billion rubles (around $73 million and $33 million, respectively, at the average exchange rate of the year), according to Spark.Interfax data cited by the Russian media.
Delimobil has become the carsharing leader in Moscow city with a 44.2% market share in August 2021 vs. 37.7% for Yandex.Drive and 13.8% for BelkaCar, according to city government data cited by news agency Interfax. Other companies operating in Moscow include BelkaCar and Citidrive (formerly YouDrive, which Mail.ru Group took control of in 2019).
In July this year VTB-Capital, a division of the state bank VTB, paid $75 million to acquire a 15% stake in Delimobil, valuing the company at $500 million. Delimobil said it would use the fresh funding for further developments and a stronger position on the Russian market.
VTB Group had been a partner of Delimobil since 2019, providing leasing financing for the expansion of its vehicle fleet.
Car-sharing (also spelt ‘carsharing’) consists in renting cars for short periods of time, often by the hour. The owner of the cars may be an operator or private individuals renting their own vehicle. Car-sharing should not be confused with ride-hailing (e.g. Uber) or car-pooling (e.g. BlaBlaCar).
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