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Saudi Prince and rapper Jay Z has invested $20 million in Russian app

The app for booking private jets JetSmarter has raised $20 million from a group of investors, among them the Prince of Saudi Arabia, the famous rapper and top executives from Goldman Sachs and Twitter. About it reports Rbc.

Sergey Petrosov, founder of JetSmarter, believes that the difficulties with the purchase of a private jet and inconvenience of ordering personal flight leaving a niche for the service. Monthly subscription fee for using the app is $800 per month, or $9000 annually with no limit on the amount of flights.

“JetSmarter is a company operating in relevant topics sharing economy. Investment in this project can be promising, as the company makes available services that they previously could use only a very narrow layer of society,” he assessed the prospects JetSmarter portfolio Manager of the Foundation for Internet development initiatives (FRIA) Sergey Villains.

The raised funds will be spent on expanding the number of available routes and the opening of offices in Asia and South America. According to Petrosova, the current investors were initially clients of JetSmarter. Today, according to information on the official website of a startup, the company has six offices in Dubai, Zurich, new York, Moscow, Saudi Arabia and Florida, and flights are available in 170 countries.

Mobile JetSmarter app available for iPhone, iPad and Android devices and allows you to book a flight in the right direction, to book a place on a private flight, a route which is already defined, or independently selected multicast route for the trip.

The service works throughout the world, excluding war zones and other places that are dangerous for air travel. Additional service JetSmarter — transportation from the airport to the destination of the passenger.

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