2Gis was launched in 1999 by Alexander Sysoev as one of the world's first providers of electronic maps for local businesses. Long before Google and Yandex unrolled their own map services, 2Gis quickly rose to become one of the country's most successful and innovative startups. Now employing more than 3000 people in its ten-storey HQ in Novosibirsk, 2Gis has produced more than 300 detailed commercial maps for cities in Russia, Kazakhstan, Italy, Cyprus, Czech Republic, UAE and other countries where 2GIs maps successfully compete with Internet giants from Silicon Valley.