Ashmanov &amp; PartnersAshmanov &amp; Partners Ashmanov & Partners Ashmanov & Partners («АиП», A&P) — 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. History. "Ashmanov & Partners" was founded in 2007 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. Statistics. 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. Products and services. Antispam. 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, , 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. SEO. Ashmanov & Partners was among the first Russian companies to provide search  engine optimization services commercially. Context advertising. Since 2002, Ashmanov & Partners have been developing various technologies assisting in placing advertisement. Education activities. Since 2002, the company organizes annual conferences on search engine optimization and online marketing with mostly case studies and workshops by industry's leading experts: The company also organizes its sections at Russian Internet Forum and (RIW). In 2006, Igor Ashmanov and Andrey Ivanov had their "Search engine optimization of website" book published by the . Kribrum. In 2010, Ashmanov & Partners and InfoWatch co-founded Kribrum (), a social media monitoring service for brand management, data leaks prevention and information security . Company's clients are large Russian and international companies with multiple brands who get from hundreds to tens of thousands mentions online daily, which makes it impractical to track them manually. Kribrum is capable of automatically analyzing text in English, Russian, and Arabic, and can be configured for particular industry's specifics. As reported by Vedomosti in 2013, monitoring a brand on social media with Kribrum costs between 50K and 200K rubles monthly. Kribrum's own subsidiaries are "Diktum" (founded in 2011, technologies for analyzing texts in natural language) and "Informatiс" (acquired in 2010, releases ORFO spell checker  used in e.g. Russian version of Microsoft Office. Development of ORFo was managed by Igor Ashmanov in 1991—1995. In March 2016, it was announced that a new federal-level social media monitoring and information attacks prevention system would be developed by Ashmanov & Partners and InfoWatch in Innopolis, Tatarstan. Later same year, Kribrum received a large investment from InfoWatch and the Foundation of The Ministry for Communications and the Media. AI and applied robotics. Since 2001, one of the main development direction in Ashmanov & Partners is artificial intelligence — creating a man-machine natural language interaction system. Owners. Ashmanov & Partners was registered  in 2001 as a privately held company and was reorganized into a private limited company in 2015. The majority shareholder is its founder and managing partner Igor Ashmanov. Minor shares are held by top managers — Alexey Ivanov (Semantic Mirror etc.), Alexey Tutubalin (search engine, highload systems), Kirill Zorky (artificial intelligence), Dmitry Pashko (web services for SEO) and Michale Volovich (applied linguistics, usability). Until 2013, 30% of the shares were held by Finam Holdings. Subsidiaries. Ashmanov & Partners has a number of subsidiaries, both acquired and started by the company. The subsidiaries are not part of any formal corporate group, but they  use resources by both Ashmanov & Partners and sibling companies. Some of these companies are: Ashmanov & Partners Ashmanov & Partners («АиП», A&P) — 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. History. "Ashmanov & Partners" was founded in 2007 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