AvantLab development center located in St. Petersburg, Russia, but their services are oriented to Western market, for the most part.

in the Netherlands:

After gaining sufficient experience as ordinal software developer and project manager in western software outsourcing companies ( Novavox ( Switzerland ), debis Systemhouse (now t-systems ) ( Germany ) and BuzMe.com (now RingCentral, Inc ) ( USA ) ), Yaroslav Bykov decided to set up his own company. He has a computer science background ( System Engineer ) and received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Sciences (2001) at the St. Petersburg Institute of Informatics and Automation, Russian Academy of Sciences. After some time of searching of first clients, he has found a dating agency, called OneHello (2003), in the Netherlands. Yaroslav and his developers in St. Petersburg implemented a number of features and services for OneHello's broad range of activities. After approximately one year of successful joint work, OneHello was bought by an even bigger international company ( RSVP ). Unfortunately, the new owner didn't hold much interest in further development. The good job and reputation of AvantLab company, however, attracted Proteon Web-Architects, who initially implemented OneHello web portal and work in close collaboration with AvantLab. Later, one more customer from the Netherlands supported AvantLab with new projects, this company was Halotec Interactive, the development and integration firm.

These two customers from Netherlands supply new projects and continue investment in the form of teaching new technologies to AvantLab employees.



in Finland:

In September 2004 Yaroslav Bykov has met the Finnish organization FinPro, that encourage AvantLab to go to Finnish market. In November 2004 Yaroslav Bykov was invited to Helsinki, to the seminar “Experience and the possibilities for Finnish companies” within the FinPro's Russia ICT Connector Project.

In April 2005 Yaroslav Bykov participated in “outsourcing Russia Event” in Oulu, Finland. This meeting demonstrated the growing interest of Finns in many high-tech areas, in particular in mobile phone industry.

In June 2005 two experienced C/C++ developers started to learn development in Symbian OS (for mobile phones) to gain experience and good reputation to AvantLab. The company has completed the projects, and they were estimated high and company earned good reputation. References can be provided on your request.

In September 2005 Yaroslav Bykov visited the ICT Helsinki week, where he accumulated information about the potential clients.