Top 10 Biotech VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Russian Federation in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 10 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Biotech startups based in Russian federation. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Biotech companies from Russian federation. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Biotech VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Russian Federation in April 2025

Investor	Biotech Russian Federation investments
Torrey Pines Investment	3
Skolkovo Foundation	2
Moscow Seed Fund	1
Xploration Capital	1
Phystech Ventures	1
Lever VC	1
YellowRockets	1
Human stem cells institute PJSC	1
LETA Capital	1
Iskra Ventures	1

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Torrey Pines Investment, founded in 2002, is a specialty life-science investment company located in San Diego.Torrey Pines has a team of investment professionals with extensive experience in entrepreneurship, venture capital and operations. Our firm has created biopharma incubators investing in early development stage assets from internationalpharma and biotech partners in CNS, oncology, and virology areas to bring them to commercial success through pharma partnering and M&A.We are committed to capitalizing on the unique opportunities in biotech and pharma, where we can add value in development or regulatory strategy by utilizing resources of our portfolio CRO companies. We seek to leverage our industry knowledge, network of industry and financial contacts, and internal resources to assist our portfolio management in developing and executing their business strategy. Our bottom line is to help our companies achieve growth, build value and realize wealth.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Russian Federation, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Mair Therapeutics — Mair Therapeutics main goal is finding and creating a small-molecule ion channel activator to treat Parkinson's disease, a preclinical drug discovery business.
Lomond Therapeutics — Targeting escape mutations in hematological cancers with first and best in class medicines.
MAIR PHARMACEUTICALS — Mair Pharmaceutical creates innovative processes and produces well-known unique substances for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical firms worldwide.

Skolkovo Foundation is a Russian organization that fosters startups and venture capitals focused on the areas of energy, IT, biomedicine, nuclear, and space. The IT cluster develops strategic directions of information technologies, including search systems and cloud calculations. The biomed cluster supports and develops innovations in the field ofbiomedical technologies. The energy Efficiency cluster supports innovations and advanced technologies, aimed at the reduction of energy consumption by industrial and residential objects as well as lower energy consumption by communal services and municipal infrastructure facilities. The space technologies cluster handles space projects and the development of telecommunication technologies based on space tourism, satellite navigation systems, and more. The nuclear technology cluster supports the creation of new products for power markets, development of new materials, and designing of complex technological systems.In order to carry out its operations, Skolkovo Foundation manages Skolkovo Innovation Center, Technopark, Skolkovo Institute of Technology (Skoltech), and Skolkovo city.Several companies, including Boeing, Cisco Systems, EADS, GE, Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Siemens, Nokia, and Samsung have signed R&D partnership agreements with Skolkovo Foundation.Skolkovo Foundation was founded in September 2010 and is based in Moscow, Russia.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Robotics
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
Russian Federation, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

4Blind — Help to socialize and improve the health and well-being of people with visual disabilities with the help of technologies.
Antilatency — Positional tracking system for VR/AR, Virtual Production, Drones and Robotics. Unlimited area, unlimited number of tracking targets, user-friendly system.
VideoOculograph — VideoOculograph offers noninvasive eye pathologies diagnostics and treatment services.

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

ploration backs ambitious founders building next-generation platforms, digital ecosystems and SaaS companies worldwide.We go at great length to study markets, gain consumer and competitive insights and market intelligence. This enables us to identify hidden opportunities and be a knowledgeable, and valuable partner to early stage companiesWeare hands on, where founders need us the most and we support our best portfolio companies in subsequent rounds, making us a meaningful partner and a long term partnerXploration Capital is founded by a group of dreamers, idealists and in some way misfits. With more than 50 years of combined experience in investing, consutling and fudraising for entrepreneurs and companies from early stages to IPO, we decided to embark on an Xploratory journey into the future.We deeply care about how life is going to look like for next generations, as Lincoln once said, “The best way to predict your future, is to create it”, so we decided to make our lives mission in helping those who want to change the world - succeed.We have invested, exited and advised on more than US$5 billion worth of transactions, helping some of the most iconic companies launch, sacale and exit

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Delivery, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Careerist — Careerist is the connecting bridge between people without tech or coding background and the U.S. tech industry. We quickly train and apply our students for simple well-paid jobs like software testing, while helping them grow into more advanced roles.
Immigram — An immigration platform for IT specialists and entrepreneurs. We help professionals in the IT sector to move to the UK via getting the Tech Nation Endorsement and applying for a Global Talent Visa
Mirai Flights — Business aviation in the Mirai Flights' mobile app. Private charter flight at a fixed price: search and compare aircraft jets of different classes, book and pay online

Early supporters of global distribution in deeptech.

Investment focus

Software, Oil and Gas, Energy
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Russian Federation, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Arevo — Arevo enables ultrastrong, lightweight continuous carbon fiber products on demand.
Perfobur — Perfobur – a next-gen radial drilling technology that provides a new life to old and marginal oil wells. Perfobur gets access to oil rich side pockets by drilling up to 50m long horizontal perforation channels. The only radial drilling technology available in sandstones (50%+ of wells). 100% controlled trajectory of channels solves a majoremergency risk problem of state of the art jet drilling.
Welldone — WE MAKE DELICIOUS, NUTRITIOUS AND AFFORDABLE PLANT-BASED MEAT. AND WE ARE GOING WELL. Plant-based meat producer leveraging strong R&D and sourcing in Russia. We are building brand #1 in country to cater plant-based meat to 140+ mln people and to expand abroad. Targeting to reach price parity with meat in 2022 to address the wider consumeraudience.

Lever VC is a U.S.-Hong Kong venture capital fund founded by Managing Partner Nick Cooney and investing in early stage companies in the alternative protein sector (plant-based and “clean”/cell-based meat, egg and dairy companies). Lever VC operates globally, with offices in Hong Kong and the U.S. and staff in the US, Hong Kong, Europe, andIsrael. Entrepreneurs and startups interested in connecting with Lever VC about possible investment can reach the team and submit information about their company at http://www.levervc.com.Managing Partner Nick Cooney is the Co-Founder and former Managing Trustee of New Crop Capital, a private venture capital trust vehicle investing in the alternative protein space, and is Co-Founder of the Good Food Institute, the world’s largest non-governmental organization working to grow the alternative protein space. The General Partners at Lever VC have deployed over $1.5 billion in capital over the past decade across a variety of sectors, including over thirty deals in the alternative protein space.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, China, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Gavan — Transforming the way proteins are delivered. Our technology extracts high purity proteins from source while maintaining their physical structure unharmed and preserving their high functionality.
HerdDogg — HerdDogg is passionate about livestock. Its innovative data platform sits at the intersection of agtech, the internet of things, and global food security. Our patented DoggTags and DoggBone, together with our Animal Traceability Platform, help producers make more money from every animal they raise. The HerdDogg system enables animal tracking,welfare monitoring and traceability in an easy-to-use application. For more information, visit herddogg.com.
Clever Carnivore — Clever Carnivore is a cell-cultured meat startup that uses stem cell biology, recombinant protein, and bioengineering to create cost-effective lab grown meats. With the company's high-efficiency model, cruelty-free, environmentally friendly, and cost-competitive technology it aims to produce sausage, burgers, and chicken nuggets.

Venture Capital Fund

Investment focus

Education, B2B, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Russian Federation, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

YaizY — YaizY is a live online education platform that allows 8-to-17-year-olds to explore their passions, develop future-proof skills and competencies focused on innovation, leadership, design, and multimedia arts.YaizY exists to help students identify and explore their natural aspirations through advanced and diverse courses that seek to bridge the gapbetween today’s traditional educational system and what’s needed to succeed in the job market of tomorrow. Turning passions into professions, YaizY curates a child’s learning path based on their interests, goals, and achievements. Our outcome-based curriculum offers flexible course selection to spark or nurture kids' curiosities and encourages a test-drive experience through real-world applications, with the ultimate goal of building a personalized learning path that inspires the next generation of designers, innovators, and thought leaders.YaizY was founded in 2019 by a global team of entrepreneurs, industry experts, and professionally trained, award-winning educators with decades of international experience - all on a mission to become the most trusted online learning platform inspiring students to turn their passions into professions.
Traive — Traive is an ag-fintech that unlocks credit to farmers by connecting them to lenders and providing ML-based credit risk assessment and monitoring. Traive brings farmers state-of-the-art technology to offer a novel and fair credit risk assessment, opening the door for affordable funding for their businesses. For lenders, Traive provides adifferentiated analysis applied over alternative farming and individual data, while allowing access to a much larger and diversified portfolio of borrowers.
GoalProfit — GoalProfit is the world’s first low code retail optimization platform empowering retailers to build customized intelligence applications. It was founded by former IBM executives, Maxim Morozov and Oleg Sidorkin. GoalProfit is on a mission to make big data solutions available for all retailers and help them to survive in a new post-covid reality.

Human Stem Cell Institute (PJSC "HSCI") - a Russian public company founded in 2003 and works in the field of modern biomedical technology and health care. HSCI develops and implements in medical practice (commercialization and promotion of the market), innovative medicines, as well as high-tech medical services.