Top 10 Biotech VC Funds &amp; Investors in Russian Federation (June 2026)

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

Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, Russian Federation, The Netherlands

Investor stats

Total investments: 32
Round size: Seed $3M–$3.1M
Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2017

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Mondego Bio — Headquartered in Portugal’s main biotech park, Biocant, Mondego Bio is developing best-in-class protein tyrosine phosphatase non-receptor type 2 (PTPN2) inhibitors, providing a potential immuno-oncological therapy with an improved safety and tolerability profile.
BIMINI Biotech — BIMINI Biotech is a startup that develops innovative therapeutic strategies for oncology. It is developing therapeutic strategies that target the growth hormone receptor (GHR) and its interaction with insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) for oncology, metabolic diseases, and aging.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Leiden, TheNetherlands.
Avelas Biosciences — At Avelas Biosciences, their mission is to advance a new standard-of-care in cancer surgery by providing a real time luminous map for oncologic surgeons, leading to improved surgical results and better outcome for patients.

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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

Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Russian Federation, United States, Israel

Investor stats

Total investments: 44
Round size: Seed $14k–$1.9M; Grant $115k–$3M; Pre-Seed $3k–$25k
Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

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.

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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

Industry: E-Commerce, Delivery, Software
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 21
Round size: Seed $505k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3M; Series A $1M–$16M
Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow

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Open Mineral AG — Technology-enabled global metal commodity trade & market intelligence platform.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

Total investments: 38
Round size: Seed $200k–$2.6M; Series A $1M–$16M
Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $48M in 2018

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.

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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

Industry: Software, Advertising, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
Geography: Russian Federation, United States, Israel

Investor stats

Total investments: 84
Round size: Seed $40k–$363k; Debt Financing $80k–$267k
Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

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.

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Venture Capital Fund

Investment focus

Industry: Education, B2B, EdTech
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Geography: Russian Federation, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

Total investments: 15
Round size: Seed $21k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $30k–$655k
Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

YaizY — YaizY offers: Career readiness courses with certifications, Project-based, hands-on curriculum, Flexible teaching model, Interactive digital learning platform
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.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Medical, Genetics, Biotechnology
Stage:Seed
Geography: Russian Federation

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Histograft — Histograft is a bio-medical manufacturer of gene-activated osteoplastic material intended for bone grafting in surgical dentistry & surgery.

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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

Industry: Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, China, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 51
Round size: Seed $700k–$8.1M; Pre-Seed $500k–$850k; Series A $1.5M–$24M
Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

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.
Melt&Marble — Melt&Marble, formerly known as Biopetrolia, was founded patent holding firm for co-founder Professor Jens Nielsen’s research group.

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Investment focus

Industry: Big Data, Genetics, Biotechnology
Stage:Seed
Geography: Russian Federation

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

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