Top 5 Android Startup Investors in Russian Federation in January 2026

Pavel Cherkashin is the Managing Partner at Mindrock Capital.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, iOS
Seed
United States, Russian Federation, Cyprus

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AdWired — AdWired is a mobile ads media network that works on every mobile platform.AdWired mobile media networks lets you find and engage the most receptive audience: smartphone and tablet users. Unique targeting features together with interactive banners lets you to reach highest ROI.Let your apps earn money for you right now! Join AdWired networkand show rich media banners to your customers. Leave sales to us or sale ads to your own advertisers.It takes only one hour to integrate AdWired to your app. SDK is available for all mobile platforms: iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7, Bada, Symbian, Blackberry. Full HTML5 support allows you to create fully interactive banners with audio and video clips.Using AdWired SDK you can not only deliver ads but also collect detailed app usage stats. You can setup any targeting you want based on that data.
GdeSlon — GdeSlon.ru is a Russia-based affiliate marketing network. On the advertisers' side we've got companies from Russia, USA and Europe. We are focusing on e-commerce but also accepting lead-based offers (such as registrations, surveys, etc). Our affiliates are primarily driving Russian and Ukrainian traffic.
GBooking — Easy-to-use and efficient online scheduling system in the cloud. Booking Widget for your site. Automated reminders for your clients.

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The Fund for the Promotion of Venture Investment in Small Enterprises in the Scientific and Technical Sphere of Moscow was established by the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy of Moscow.

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Information Technology
Seed, Debt Financing, Funding Round
Russian Federation, United States, Israel

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Vestem — Vestem is a biotechnology company that develops new bioveterinary cell therapies for regenerative therapy and next-generation pharmaceuticals for the treatment of pets.
Picvario — DAM systems allow centralizing, systematizing, searching, and sharing all types of digital files (images, video, audio, etc.). Picvario platform is a reliable storage of the files. Flexible management. API Integration
Qummy — Qummy produces and freezes dishes for restaurants using its patented Smart Ice technology, which preserves the dish's nutritional and organoleptic features.

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Black River Ventures (BRV) is committed to supporting passionate entrepreneurs who build disruptive, world-changing companies. We believe that only exceptional and capable teams can turn great ideas into outstanding businesses.Black River Ventures is investing into innovative companies across the European technology space, primarily in the IT andInternet segments. We are convinced that the European online audience of 400M+ people, the second largest market after China, provides appealing opportunities for Europe-born global companies.We partner with early and growth stage visionary companies aiming to become industry leaders. Our mission is to provide smart capital for long-term growth by leveraging the collective experience and expertise of the BRV team based in the EU and US.

Investment focus

FinTech, E-Commerce, SaaS
Series C, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

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TransferGo — Move and manage money between borders quickly and affordably with TransferGo.
Vesttoo — We connect the insurance industry and the capital markets by combining proprietary AI-powered technology with expertise in data science, insurance and finance so that insurers have the capacity they need and investors have opportunities to diversify with confidence.
MarketFinance — MarketFinance is a business finance company with offices in London and Manchester. The online platform enables businesses to access a range of flexible finance solutions — quickly and easily. This smart technology is backed by help from real people so business owners can save time and focus on growing their business.Since 2011, MarketFinance hasadvanced over £2.6 billion to companies across a range of sizes and sectors, providing working capital and finance for everything from paying staff and suppliers to launching new products or services and accelerating growth.MarketFinance is backed by Barclays, Santander InnoVentures, European venture capital fund Northzone (invested in Klarna, iZettle, and Trustpilot), private equity group MCI Capital (also invested in iZettle, Azimo, and Gett), and Viola Credit.

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Igor Ryabenkiy is the Managing Partner at AltaIR Capital. Igor is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor with over twenty years of successful executive and investment experience including Internet startups and IT companies. He has funded, developed, and exited a significant number of investment projects worldwide.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel, Russian Federation

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Sceenic — Sceenic offers solutions to power interactive viewing experiences. Through its "Watch Together" technology, media companies create watch together experiences for their audiences, offering friends and family a deeper, more engaging and interactive group viewing experience.
Cast Plus — CastPlus podcast advertising platform allows podcasters and advertisers to seamlessly work and collaborate together.
Superfly — Superfly is the global leader in alternative data solutionsbased on real-time, real-life online trasaction by our global consumers panel

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