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Ashmanov & Partners

Ashmanov & Partners («АиП», A&P) is a Russian privately held company specializing in Information technologies, online marketing, software development (i.e., search engines), and AI-powered software. Founded in 2001 by Igor Ashmanov and ex-Rambler managers, it has multiple subsidiaries in the same industry.

Ashmanov & Partners was founded in 2001 by Igor Ashmanov who, a month prior to that, left the position of chief executive officer at Rambler, a web portals in Runet at the time.

Having little-to-no start-up capital, Ashmanov launched his own company and was joined by former colleagues from Rambler who later became business partners.

Over 300 people are currently employed in three offices of the company in Russia. As reported by The Firm's Secret magazine in 2011, Ashmanov & Partners serviced over 1,000 clients monthly and had a total market share of 5—10 % in Russian on-line marketing industry.

In 2007, the annual gross volume of Ashmanov & Partners was estimated by Finam Holdings at US$2.5 million. According to annual web studios' rating by Factus, based on publicly available tax reports, gross volume of Ashmanov & Partners in 2015 was over ₽300 million, VAT not included.

In 2001, Ashmanov & Partners developed antispam technologies and got a contract from Kaspersky Lab. The first version of Spamtest for FreeBSD and Linux, as well as public Spamtest.ru service were released in 2002. A year later it was integrated into Mail.ru, and the up-to-date version of the product is currently used by large companies such as Beeline, MTS, Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange, Masterhost, Peterlink etc.

In 2005, the project was acquired by Kaspersky Lab for estimated US$3 million. Later, Spamtest became part of Kaspersky Linux Mail Server Security.

Ashmanov & Partners was among the first Russian companies to provide search engine optimization services commercially.

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