The three Russian founders of 1xBet, Roman Semiokhin, Sergey Karshkov and Dmitry Kazorin, are all from the city of Brjansk, some 370 kilometres west of Moscow, although all three currently live in Cyprus.

BetDeluxe is an Australia-based bookmaker that offers sports and racing betting with futures bets, protest payouts and more. Popular on-track bookmaker, Noah Rose, licensed with the Victorian Bookmakers Association, founded BetDeluxe in a bid to expand his offering to punters both on and off the track.