Top 15 Biotechnology Startup Investors in Russian Federation in September 2025
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Biotechnology startups based in Russian federation. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Biotechnology companies from Russian federation. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Biotechnology Startup Investors in Russian Federation in September 2025
| Investor | Biotechnology Russian Federation investments | 
|---|---|
| Torrey Pines Investment | 3 | 
| Skolkovo Foundation | 2 | 
| Konstantin Stiskin | 1 | 
| Human stem cells institute PJSC | 1 | 
| Universe Ventures | 1 | 
| YellowRockets | 1 | 
| LETA Capital | 1 | 
| Phystech Ventures | 1 | 
| AltaIR Capital | 1 | 
| PULSAR | 1 | 
| SYGMA.Novosibirsk | 1 | 
| Xploration Capital | 1 | 
| Maxim Basov | 1 | 
| Lever VC | 1 | 
| Moscow Seed Fund | 1 | 
            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.
          
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            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.
          
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          - Software, Information Technology, Robotics
- Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Russian Federation, United States, Israel
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        - 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.
            Konstantin Stiskin is the Co-Founder and Supervisory Board member at Finom.
          
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          - Software, Apps, Health Care
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Russian Federation, United Kingdom
                          Portfolio highlights
              
        - Genotek — The company delivers genetic tests that help people to live healthier (predisposition tests), save lives (inherited deseases) and help in family planning (carrier screening).
- Play Piper — The Piper Computer Kit is the ultimate D.I.Y. computer-building experience, for ages 8-13. Build a REAL computer from start to finish while playing Minecraft: Raspberry Pi Edition to learn how to code and make STEAM connections to the real-world.
- Mobalytics — The all-in-one gaming companion that analyzes your performance and gives you insights to level up your game.
            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.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Medical, Genetics, Biotechnology
- Seed
- Russian Federation
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        - Histograft — Histograft is a bio-medical manufacturer of gene-activated osteoplastic material intended for bone grafting in surgical dentistry & surgery.
            Universe Ventures provides its clients with early-stage venture capital and startup acceleration services. It actively works with entrepreneurs on a daily basis.Universe Ventures conducts a joint acceleration program with MSU Business Incubator, while supporting its customers in hiring, fundraising, sales, marketing, and design. It was founded in2013 by Alexey Zhestkov.Universe Ventures is headquartered in Moscow, Russia.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Big Data, Genetics, Biotechnology
- Seed
- Russian Federation
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            Venture Capital Fund
          
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          - Education, B2B, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Russian Federation, United States, Estonia
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        - 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.
            Our goal as an investment firm is to deliver high returns to our investors by financing improvements in the world through IT and new technologies.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Russian Federation, Israel
                          Portfolio highlights
              
        - Gaviti — Gaviti is a receivable management solution that empowers the receivable collections task owners. Gaviti helps companies to accelerate cash-flow, reduce write-offs and increase productivity X10. This is achieved via: Visualization - quickly understand your receivables with a clear dashboard and insights screen. Automation - efficiently engage allyour delinquent clients with smart, personalized workflows. Optimizatione - improve results over time with data-driven collections process optimization.
- ShapesXR — Design in 3D for VR, AR, or MR apps together in real-time. Build interactive prototypes and present to stakeholders. Import from Figma and export to Unity.
- Whizz — My Device is a subscription-based rental service provider for devices like electric scooters, bicycles, home sports equipment, etc.
            Early supporters of global distribution in deeptech.
          
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          - Software, Oil and Gas, Energy
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Russian Federation, United Kingdom
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        - 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.
            We foster innovation and work together to find and grow breakthroughs all over the world
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Israel, Russian Federation
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        - Litero AI — Litero helps you research, write, paraphrase and cite. Effortlessly.
- Cloud Retail — Grow your business with Jiffy SaaS platform which includes app/website, picking, delivery, supply chain & replenishment services
- Final Round AI — Final Round AI is an AI-driven platform designed to fundamentally change the job search process.
            Pulsar Venture Capital, a business acceleration program, offers financing and mentorship to clean tech, robotics, and electronics startups.
          
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          - Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Russian Federation, United States, Ireland
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- Q Platform — Q Platform is a First globally connected fintech- multi-banking platform in Russia and CIS.Its platform for banks provides access to the whole ecosystem of fintech solutions available on the market with detailed analysis; allowing quick integration and management. The platform for Fintechs allows to enter new markets and works with new audiencesin different countries using interbank distribution model.The company was founded in 2017 and based in Moscow, Russia
- Woo X — Woo X is a high-performance crypto trading platform.
            Material-based startups building and selling. A subsidiary of JSC RUSNANO.
          
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          - Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics
- Seed
- Russian Federation
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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
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - E-Commerce, Delivery, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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        - 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
            Maxim Basov
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Health Care, Apps, Health Diagnostics
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- Russian Federation, United States
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        - Welltory — Your personal data analyzed and transformed into powerful insights that keep you on track for lifelong health
- Elementaree — Elementaree makes food personal every day and delivers it on a subscription basis to the doorstep. We create personal food programs catered to particular needs and goals whether it’s about losing weight, creating tasty meals for your family or increasing your body muscles. Unique personalized programs at cost of a standard grocery check. We adoptour expertise in building value chains which allows us to customize at scale. A never-repeating variety of everyday menus and personalized add-ons catered to customers' specific needs.
- Synchronization — Synchronization is an online education platform.
            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.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, China, United Kingdom
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        - 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.
- XOXO Soda — XOXO Soda is a plant-based drink with prebiotic fiber that is low in sugar and calories.
- 50CUT — Mush Foods is an Israeli-based food tech company, growing edible mushroom mycelium to create innovative and sustainable animal-free protein as an ingredient for the food and beverage industry. We harness the fantastic power and innate intelligence of mushrooms to face future global challenges and provide sustainable groundbreaking food solutions tothe food of the future.
            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.
          
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            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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