Top 45 Education Startup Investors in Russian Federation in December 2024

Investor	Education Russian Federation investments
Inventure Partners	4
Moscow Seed Fund	4
Sergey Solonin	4
Flyer One Ventures	3
Digital Disrupt	3
Softline Venture Partners	3
Flyer One Ventures	3
Runa Capital	2
PRYTEK	2
VK (ex. Mail.Ru Group)	2
AdFirst.vc	2
Alex Nevinskiy	2
Maxim Basov	1
AVENIR	1
Sistema_VC	1
ProObraz	1
A.Partners	1
Mikhail Gavrilov	1
Denis Tsypulev	1
Decart Ventures	1
Redseed	1
CapMan	1
s16vc	1
YellowRockets	1
Russia Partners	1
KG Ventures	1
AltaIR Capital	1
Mikhail Tsyferov	1
Flashpoint	1
Grigory Firsov	1
Anton Volkov	1
Andrey Belozerov	1
HeadHunter	1
Stas Korostelev	1
101 Startups	1
Mark Ten	1
Levy Raiz	1
Baring Vostok Capital Partners	1
Profi.ru	1
Impact Capital	1
Kirill Belov	1
Vibranium Venture Capital	1
Kismet Capital Group (KCG)	1
Social Discovery Group	1
Vershina Capital	1

Inventure Partners is an innovative investment fund focused on funding disruptive technology startups. The fund looks for teams with a novel approach to business models, and companies that are able to solve real problems and remove inefficiencies in the market. Inventure Partners backs a wide range of ventures across the technology industry, andthe fund’s portfolio currently includes on-demand service Gett (GetTaxi), leader in US telehealth American Well, long-distance bus tickets platform Busfor, and others.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile, Apps
Series A, Series B, Seed
Russian Federation, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
Amwell — Telehealth services for health systems, health plans, employers, and physicians. Improving patient experiences with virtual doctor video visits.
Squirrel Province — Squirrel is a full-scenario living service platform that combines "clothing, food, housing, transportation, travel, shopping, and entertainment. It creates a shared value network and a closed loop between customers, platforms, and merchants by deeply integrating digital twin technology with the Internet of Things (IoT). system to continuouslycreate societal value.

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.

Sergey Solonin is the Chief Executive Officer of Russian FinTech Association.

Investment focus

Education, Video, Video Editing
Seed, Angel, Series A
Russian Federation, Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

NeuraLoom — By using neural network technologies and artificial intelligence, NeuraLoom allows users a quick and cost-efficient way to create narrated video presentations, with virtual characters, videos for online courses, Learning management system, Education and learning films without any expert knowledge or expensive equipment.
EBAC Online — EBAC Cursos Online is a fast-growing edutech company in Brazil. The company provides more than 50 courses in design, coding, marketing, data science to more than 15 thousand paying students. Students choose EBAC for the high relevance of courses and close collaboration with industry leaders.
SkillFactory — SkillFactory is a data science education startup offers a range of assets, including an online big data analysis and coding school.

Flyer One Ventures is an international early-stage venture capital firm focused on early-stage startups from CEE region. The fund invests in future-proof startups, founded by exceptional teams, and operating on global markets worth more than $10 billion. Flyer One Ventures funds startups in Mobile, Health Tech, EdTech, Fitness & Wellness, B2BSaaS, Gaming, FoodTech, and AI/ML industries and helps them scale on international markets. Founded by the co-founder of BetterMe and supported by Genesis Tech, Flyer One Ventures has deep expertise in Digital Marketing, Product, PR, Branding, and Recruiting. Along with the financial investment, Flyer One Ventures actively supports its portfolio companies, helping them optimize Digital Marketing campaigns, hire R&D staff, build user-friendly products, and fundraise Series A and Series B rounds. Flyer One Ventures' ultimate goal is to support early-stage startups in the geographies with low access to early financing and help them become global leaders by mentorship and daily support.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Cyprus

Portfolio highlights

Higgsfield — We're building a personalized AI video platform that unlocks the next generation of entertainment
RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
Field Materials, Inc. — Increase Margins and Cut Costs with Digital Procurement

Using our experience, networking and expertise, we help projects grow so that they change life around the world to the best.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Information Technology
Seed, Private Equity, Pre-Seed
United States, Russian Federation, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Uplify — Uplify makes it easy for any streamers to monetize their content as their audience grows and create new authentic content your followers will love.
OverPRO — Next generation eSports platform for players of any level
Monetizr — Rewarded and native brand experiences that enhance gameplay and activate your brand at scale.

Softline Venture Partners is a corporate venture fund of Softline Group. Since 2008, Softline Venture Partners have invested about US$20 million in 20 portfolio companies on Russia&CIS market. The amount of investment to one project is from $100 thousand to $1 million. As a stage agnostic investor, the firm works with companies across a widerange of technologies, such as cybersecurity, cloud computing, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things и Edge Computing.The possibilities and competencies of Softline Group as a service provider operating in 50 countries with more than 60000 customers and leading IT vendors, allows unique opportunities for the Fund's portfolio companies to scale business model and boost sales through developed Softline’s sales channels across the globe.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Russian Federation, United States, Belarus

Portfolio highlights

Exodrive — Exodrive provide telematics-based solutions for insurance providers, leasing firms, corporate and taxi fleets, and car-sharing services.
Kickidler — Kickidler is employee monitoring software that explores employee PC activity levels, increases productivity and finds growth points. Start free trial to try the best employee tracking tool.
Workclass — Apply for any jobs and get hired in 24 hours now!

Flyer One Ventures is an international early-stage venture capital firm focused on early-stage startups from CEE region. The fund invests in future-proof startups, founded by exceptional teams, and operating on global markets worth more than $10 billion. Flyer One Ventures funds startups in Mobile, Health Tech, EdTech, Fitness & Wellness, B2BSaaS, Gaming, FoodTech, and AI/ML industries and helps them scale on international markets. Founded by the co-founder of BetterMe and supported by Genesis Tech, Flyer One Ventures has deep expertise in Digital Marketing, Product, PR, Branding, and Recruiting. Along with the financial investment, Flyer One Ventures actively supports its portfolio companies, helping them optimize Digital Marketing campaigns, hire R&D staff, build user-friendly products, and fundraise Series A and Series B rounds. Flyer One Ventures' ultimate goal is to support early-stage startups in the geographies with low access to early financing and help them become global leaders by mentorship and daily support.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Cyprus, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

99math — 99math is e-sports in school math! Global online tournaments for kids. They get excited and start achieving in math.
Peech — text to speech
Cooper Pet Care — Cooper Pet Care - Compare and buy the best pet insurance at lowest price. Give your pet the protection they need.

Runa Capital is a global venture capital firm built by serial entrepreneurs that invests in early-stage software startups around the world...

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Ubitium — Ubiquitous computing, universal RISC-V microprocessor
Akhetonics — Creating the first all-optical RISC Processor
Twenty — Experience the forefront of open-source CRM. Packed with advanced features, customizable workflows, and community support. Transform customer relationship management seamlessly and efficiently.

Prytek is a technological infrastructure as a service group driven by AI. Prytek builds vertically integrated ecosystems by combining top tier managed service companies and leading proprietary technologies under one roof via a decentralized organizational structure. We build infrastructure, outsource operations and provide managed services forFinancial institutions, Universities, and Enterprises. The group is divided into two arms: the Corporate Arm which comprises of controlled service companies and the Technology Arm which comprises of minority stakes in start-up tech companies. The goal of the Corporate Arm is to build businesses, while the Technology Arm’s goal is to develop products for the Corporate Arm and generate equity value for Prytek.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ThriveDX — Enter the world's premier EdTech provider and discover ThriveDX's cyber security training and digital skills programs. Contact us to learn more!
CYREBRO — CYREBRO is your online centralized interactive SOC platform that integrates all your security events with strategic monitoring, threat intelligence and IR
TritonExec — TritonExec is a global executive search firm specializing in chief executive, board & senior talent for businesses experiencing growth

Mail.ru Group was founded by Yuri Milner and is the largest Internet company in the Russian-speaking world. It is one of the largest Internet companies in Russia, and the world's seventh largest Internet business in terms of page views. Mail.ru Group operates two of the three largest Russian language social networking sites(Odnoklassniki.ru and Moi Mir@Mail.Ru), the two largest instant messaging networks in Russia (ICQ and Agent), Russia's leading email service, Russia's second largest Internet portal and Russia's largest online games company.Mail also holds strategic equity stakes of 32.49% in vKontakte, Russia's largest social networking site, and 25.09% in QIWI, formerly OE Investments, one of Russia's leading payment-processing companies. It also holds small minority stakes in Facebook, Zynga and Groupon.

Investment focus

Social Media, Mobile Apps, Education
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Russian Federation, United States, Cyprus

Portfolio highlights

Uchi.ru — Uchi.ru offers online courses for school students.
O2O Holdings — Formed by a JV between Sberbank and Mail.ru Group, provides an O2O services platform focusing on key areas of food and transportation.
AliExpress Russia — AliExpress Russia is a leading cross-border and domestic e-commerce platform in Russia.

AdFirst.vc is a venture capital firm designed to co-invest with other VCs in early and expansion stage start-ups. They perform Marketing Due Diligence ads tests for start-ups and help the investor evaluate the reachable audience, check the marketing competencies of the team, and reduce the cost of attracting customers. Testing allows to confirm thecompany's capitalization and eliminate marketing risks. In the future, they oversee the marketing strategy of the project in order to control KPI.

Investment focus

E-Learning, Mobile Apps, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Russian Federation, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Adapty — The all-in-one service for in-app subscriptions. Develop, optimize and grow apps with iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, Unity and Web support.
Synchronization — Synchronization is an online education platform.
Akademiya Peremen — Akademiya Peremen is an educational platform that focuses on the life style segment of health, beauty, style, and psychology.

Alex is a co-founder of Somersault Ventures. Over his 15+ years in VC, Alex has gone from investing in hard science of fuel cell and biotech that makes everything greener to software that brings tailored automation to most overlooked and backward industries and all things B2C, from PropTech to FinTech to EdTech and more. Most of Alex’s journeyhappened as a partner at I2BF Global Ventures, but along the way, he has also managed to co-found the #1 independent alternative lender in Eastern Europe (acquired by the #1 in all of Europe) and make a name for himself as an angel investor.When not pondering what churn needs to be for valuations to make sense, Alex could be found teaching his 3-year-old daughter where to find unicorns in London. Alex holds an MSc in Finance and Risk from the London School of Economics and a BSc in Biophysics and puts both to good use.

Investment focus

Education, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Intento — Machine Translation and multilingual Generative AI platform for global businesses. We deliver immediate, tailored, and personalized language experience in all the software systems your customers and teammates already use, supporting over 650 languages.
Kodland — We teach children a practical skill that will be useful in the future: computer literacy creation of sites and games, programming. Classes are held online, and instead of boring tests, children create real projects.
SimpleEstate — SimpleEstate is a commercial real estate investment platform that allows any investor to invest in professionally selected properties through a collective investment mechanism to obtain a stable rental income and increase capital

Maxim Basov

Investment focus

Health Care, Apps, Health Diagnostics
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Russian Federation, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

AVENIR helps small Russian businesses with advice, love, and money. It was founded by Boris Zhilin and Olga Masyutina in 2015.

Investment focus

Internet, EdTech, Medical
Funding Round, Seed
Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Passteam — Passteam - electronic card service in Russia and the CIS. Passteam allows businesses to use Passbook technology to interact with customers. Passteam is simple Oh, convenient and affordable way to use Passbook / Wallet coupons and cards in business.
NaPopravku — We want to simplify healthcare, to make it more convenient and patient-friendly. In the future we see NaPopravku as TripAdvisor for healthcare - online platform which helps patient to navigate complicated world of medicine fast and easy. An app which patient uses to understand his symptoms, to find right provider through reviews, to make anappointment instantly online, to easily manage medical records from many providers in one pocket, to get help and advice if needed during treatment from experts or patients like him. And even more! As a first step we focus on appointments and reviews. We build integrations with practice and hospital management systems to make real-time booking service available. We dream big, but we focus - integrations, integrations and integrations!
Synchronization — Synchronization is an online education platform.

Venture capital firm that backs growth-stage technology companies.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

NFWare — The World's Fastest Network Functions Virtualization. High-Performance NFV applications for carriers, data centers and enterprises
FinalPrice — New era in travel. Your search stops here and your savings begin! Private travel club for travel enthusiasts and professionals
KisanHub — KisanHub Agri-Food Supply Chain Software helps Producer Groups to transform their supply chain and improve margins with greater visibility and data driven insights. With all your supply and procurement data together in one convenient dashboard, you can better predict supply and make the most of demand. Choose from a suite of software modules thatwork seamlessly to provide fast access to crop progress, weather information, satellite imagery, stock levels and delivery schedules.

ProAbraz is a management company in the field of modern educational technologies.

Investment focus

Education
Series A
Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Otus.Ru — Otus.ru is a high-tech startup in the field of education. Their mission is to make learning meaningful, realizing the relationship between employers' expectations, the competences of specialists and the capabilities of teachers. They do not teach the basics, but offer in-depth knowledge. For achievements in this area, the OTUS team receivedthe Runet-2018 Award in the Education and Personnel category. The company was founded in 2017 by Dmitry Voloshin and Vitaly Chibrikov and has an official license to conduct educational activities.

A.Partners invests globally in early-stage startups. We believe that successful business models arise in different regions often simultaneously and we can leverage this phenomenon. Nonetheless, we are especially keen on emerging markets, such as LatAm, MENA, and SEA.

Investment focus

Education, Mobile Apps, EdTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Russian Federation, Peru

Portfolio highlights

InTone — We Reduce Accent. In a single click.
Refocus — Making people in SEA master new skills from scratch and land their first job in IT
Crabi — Full stack, digital car insurance

Mikhail Gavrilov is a CEO at StockBattle. He attended Education Kazan State University.

Investment focus

Wellness, Education, Psychology
Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Solvery — Solvery provides service for recruiting mentors in digital hard skills.
Therappy — Improve your psychological health with self-therapy courses by certified psychotherapists

Denis Tsypulev

Investment focus

EdTech, Education
Seed
Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Amlab — Amlab is an education platform that offers online courses for people of creative specialties.

We are a globally focused, early and growth stage venture capital firm that supports innovative solutions

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Indonesia, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Treeswift — Treeswift utilizes robotic and machine learning technology to build forestry tools.
iSchoolConnect — iSchoolConnect uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to help students apply to the right educational programs across the globe. iSchoolConnect's recommendation engine help identify the right DREAM, REACH and SAFE school for students. It then uses document recognition, essay and SOP grading models, video interview analysisalgorithms to help create the best application experience for students. Thanks to it's technology backbone, iSchoolConnect also helps schools by transforming their admissions processes through AI and automation. A conversational AI Assistant controls and helps navigate students through each step of the process.
EdenFarm Indonesia — EdenFarm Indonesia merupakan Start Up B2B, Pemasok bahan makanan mulai dari produk segar hingga sembako untuk restoran, warung nasi, hingga toko grosir.Menjual berbagai bahan pangan untuk usahamu mulai dari restoran hingga warung nasi

We help ambitious and talented entrepreneurs go global

Investment focus

Software, Transportation, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

FertilAI — FertilAI is a healthcare company developing technologies that improve the success rate of fertility treatments, elevate the patient experience, and increase clinics ability to scale. The company’s AI algorithms automate the process and assist physicians in making the best clinical decisions during treatments. The algorithms are seamlesslyintegrated into the company’s Fertilane platform. This allows effective communication between clinics, doctors, and patients using doctor/patient apps and admin webapps tailor made for the fertility workflows. FertilAI is based in Israel and was founded by a collaboration of technology experts and leading REIs including Prof. Ariel Hourvitz, Dr. Ettie Maman, and Dr. Micha Baum.
Firefly — Firefly provides the cloud infrastructure management tools missing from traditional CMDBs
Immersive Fox — Immersive Fox develops a text-to-video B2B service to generate video content for companies remotely. It also creates AI-generated microlearning videos from any text for learning management systems and corporate communication.

CapMan is a leading Nordic private assets management and investment company. They have built value in unlisted businesses, real estate and infrastructure for 30 years. They serve investors in the private assets class on a broad scale. Their roots are Nordic but their handprint and their networks are international.At CapMan, they build betterorganised, managed, and financially stable companies, because this contributes to overall economic well-being. More jobs and innovations equal better conditions for the society. Similarly, they invest in real estate and infrastructure, because they believe that functional high-quality environments and utilities are cornerstones for functioning societies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Private Equity, Funding Round, Series B
Finland, Russian Federation, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Groweo — Groweo focus on smart, efficient growth through software and services is crucial for businesses looking to thrive in today’s competitive landscape.
Tana — Tana provides machines and equipment for the mechanical processing of solid waste. The company manufactures landfill compactors and recycling machinery. Tana uses electrical control systems and artificial intelligence solutions in its equipment. An online inquiry form is available on the company website.
TerraWise — TerraWise is an experienced and trusted partner for various types of infrastructure construction projects. The company focuses on delivering demanding projects related to environmental construction and specialized quarrying, offering a complete set of services in each area. TerraWise’s key value proposition is based on expertise, high-qualityresults and commitment to agreed schedules.

s16vc is an early-stage founder-centric angel fund. The fund focuses on early stage technology investments, operating globally in Europe, and the US. We have brought together more than 80 founders & operators to support early stage companies in their growth. Fund partners are active founders and operators: - Oleg Bibergan - Co-founder &Co-Managing Partner at s16vc, venture investor & corporate finance executive with 15 years of experience spanning early, growth, and late stage deals as equity investor with GS SSG, Kismet Capital Group, and personal angel portfolio- Aleks Shamis - Co-founder & Co-Managing Partner at s16vc. Ex-Deputy CEO at Borzodelivery.com (global on-demand delivery business, operating in 10 countries)- Mike Peregudov - Founder & CEO at Pivot.ws (EdTech startup in the US market), Food Party (exit to Yandex)- Leo Batalov - Partner, Global Co-Head of Emerging Growth Companies & Venture Capital at DLA Piper, top international law firm- Egor Rudi - Founder & CEO at Profi.ru (leading services marketplace in Eastern Europe), Co-founder at Hands.ru (first Uber-like marketplace in home improvement market)- Tolya Marin - Founder at Payment systems (fintech company with profit per employee > PayPal & 20m installs/ 5m MAU)- Andrey Khusid - Founder and CEO of Miro, the world's most popular visual collaboration platformBeing founders ourselves, we are confident that people succeed, not ideas, and feel immense respect for every founder who perseveres to the point of creating impact and monetizable value. We invest in teams who share our values: - People succeed, not ideas- Community, not individual- Trust- Transparency- Intrinsic motivation to help- Pay forward- Beginner mindset

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Playgama — Playgama is a fast-growing distributor of HTML5 games, connecting developers to an audience of 220 million monthly active players. We simplify game distribution and monetization, allowing developers to focus on creating exceptional games while we handle the rest. With open-source SDK, games distributed thought Playgama can reach players acrossleading high-traffic platforms, ensuring global exposure—from Europe to Asia and USA.
Wordsmith AI — Wordsmith offers the best AI tools for legal teams, including AI-powered contract review, document generation, and legal chatbots. Trusted by top companies, Wordsmith helps lawyers streamline workflows, speed up legal processes, and increase productivity.
Passionfroot — A workspace where you can manage your creator business and organise your finances so that you can optimise your creator-work-life balance.

Venture Capital Fund

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

YaizY — YaizY offers Passion to Profession experiential-learning courses for K-12 students, providing schools and districts with live, asynchronous and CTE courses
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.

Russia Partners, a pioneer in private equity investing in Russia and the CIS, has over $1 billion of assets under management. The firm, one of the oldest and largest private equity firms in Russia and the CIS, consists of a highly-specialized team of approximately 20 investment professionals and approximately 40 total employees in two offices(Moscow and New York). The senior investment professionals combine high levels of education and on-the-ground work experience in Russia with advanced Western education and experience with Western firms. Since its founding in 1991, Russia Partners has become the leader in attracting and managing long-term private equity investments from U.S. and foreign institutional investors into the region. The firm has managed investments in more than 60 companies since its inception, the most notable of which include MTV Russia, EPAM Systems, Syktyvkar Pulp & Paper, MDM Bank, Orient Express Bank, Parallels, MD Medical Group, Invitro and KupiVIP. Russia Partners’ success has come from its focus on supporting management and entrepreneurs of growing businesses, not only with capital, but also with unique insight, experience and perspective. Russia Partners views its entrepreneurs as long-term partners, and strives to ensure the ultimate long-term success and viability of their business. Russia Partners is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Siguler Guff & Company, LP, a multi-strategy private equity investment firm serving corporate and public employee benefit plans, endowments, corporations, government agencies, financial institutions, family offices and high net worth individuals. Siguler Guff and its affiliates, which have over $10.0 billion in assets under management, invest opportunistically in sectors of market inefficiency.

Investment focus

Software, Fashion, Open Source
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Russian Federation, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Plesk — The only tool you need to build, secure and run your sites and apps - and quickly scale to the Cloud! Choose simplicity - Get your Plesk now.
Odin — The leading platform to effortlessly scale and optimize your subscription business. Unlock new revenue streams and monetize with CloudBlue.
Maximum Education — Maximum Education is an education and technology company that delivers educational services and products to students and partners. It was founded in 2013 by Michael Magkov, Pavel Belorusskiy, and Alexey Chalimov. Maximum Education is headquartered in Moscow, Russian Federation.

Corporate venture capital fund of the Kirovsky Zavod

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, PaaS
Seed
Russian Federation, Serbia, Romania

Portfolio highlights

Ivitech — IVITECH financial platform works in SEA region and develop unique scoring models for risk evaluation and risk management.
TraceAir — Construction platform providing drone flights, 3D mapping, analytics, and data processing services to accelerate site work.
Pro Control — Pro Control specializes in the field of industrial automation, electric motor drives and electrical installations.

We foster innovation and work together to find and grow breakthroughs all over the world

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Israel, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

IVM Markets — IVM is a content creation and product optimisation technology partner for players in the structured products industry. Our impartial nonconflicted technology helps democratise structured product content and allows for the design of the ideal investment idea for any situation. Unlike an aggregator, IVM doesn't just search products, it helps youdesign and refine the ideal products and then gain access to them at the right price.
FuseBase (formerly Nimbus) — FuseBase (formerly Nimbus Platform) - Free Online Collaboration Software for Remote Teams. Build your wikis, client portals and more with the FuseBase (formerly Nimbus Platform) collaboration tool ? A perfect space for online work
Elly Analytics, Inc. — Full-automated marketing dashboards as a service

Mikhail Tsyferov

Investment focus

EdTech, Training, Education
Funding Round
Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Synchronization — Synchronization is an online education platform.

Venture capital serves as funding for emerging, inventive enterprises poised for rapid expansion.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GeoX — GeoX is an Aerial Imagery AI analytics company. We produce geospatial Property Data which is used for Underwriting & Claims in the US and European insurance industries. GeoX unique proposition is in 3-dimensional extraction technology which provides rich information about every property. GeoX also produces 3D building datasets from aerialimagery for complete geographies using automated processes. 3D building models are digital representations of the properties, and in conjunction with aerial imagery allows every staff member in any insurance discipline to see the property visualization, and get a good understanding of the structure, its dimensions and characteristics without visiting in the site. GeoX uses propriatetary and Patented technology for the 3D extraction.domains: Insurtech, Smart cities
iDWELL — iDWELL (www.idwell.com) is a revolutionary CRM cloud software and tenant app, especially designed for the next generation of real estate management. It enables the automation of routine processes, and bundles as well as optimizes all communication between the stakeholders of a property, including service providers, asset managers, landlords,tenants and property managers. Currently, more than 750,000 apartment units are managed with the assistance of iDWELL.The iDWELL ticketing system and the connected tenant app automates routine maintenance tasks with regards to handling and reporting damages. This allows iDWELL customers to focus on more important and revenue-generating tasks. The iDWELL marketplace provides further opportunities to service tenants and landlords while generating revenue.
Rep AI — Shopify's #1 AI Concierge (chatbot) for eCommerce. Rep converts more traffic (CVR), increases sales (AOV), and can handle up to 97% of your support tickets.

Grigory Firsov

Investment focus

Art, iOS, Education
Angel
Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

BUBL Kids — BUBL is a new brand representing a series of educational products for children who grew up in the era of iOS, YouTube and the new media – the era where the competition for the child’s attention is unprecedented.We do not fight the future. We create products which help develop fundamental skills in the modern environment.Bubl utilizesdigital art methods coupled with gaming mechanics to develop children’s perception of links between color, sound and shape.Our first app, Bubl Draw, is a tool that uses music to draw. It helps perceive the links between colours, sounds and shapes.Download Bubl Draw here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bubl-draw/id719169017?l=en&mt=8

Anton Volkov

Investment focus

EdTech, Training, Education
Funding Round
Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Synchronization — Synchronization is an online education platform.

Andrey Belozerov (born 17 November 1980) is a Russian manager, entrepreneur and investor with a portfolio including SpaceX, Momentus, Pitchme and others. Expert in the field of digital technologies and digital transformation, co-founder Digital Disrupt investment club, United Nations Development Program expert.

Investment focus

Apps, EdTech, FinTech
Seed
Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Digital Disrupt — Using our experience, networking and expertise, we help projects grow so that they change life around the world to the best.

HeadHunter is a website that helps companies find employees, and job seekers find suitable job opportunities. It provides online recruitment services in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. HeadHunter was launched in 2000 and is based in Moscow, Russia.

Investment focus

Computer, Software, E-Learning
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
Russian Federation

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YouDo.com — YouDo.com is a marketplace that helps consumers find and hire local professionals for home repairs.
Hrlink — Make your HR department absolutelly paperless. Reduce costs up to 30% and makes it 100% safe! Know more
Edstein — Learning and assessment software for retaining your most valuable employees

Stas Korostelev

Investment focus

EdTech, Fashion, Consumer
Series A, Funding Round
Russian Federation

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Capsula — Capsula is an online clothing and fashion store that provides personalized styling and delivery for customers.
Synchronization — Synchronization is an online education platform.

101Startups is an investment firm based in Spain that specializes in early-stage startup companies. The company is an investment fund which aims to invest in early stage digital and new technology companies.

Investment focus

Internet, Mobile, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Spain, United States, Russian Federation

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CL3VER — Award winning Barcelona startup, CL3VER is a cloud based platform that allows engineers, architects, and other design professionals to create interactive 3D presentations to engage clients and prospects throughout the complete sales and marketing cycle. CL3VER presentations offer an engaging way to explore design projects or products from anyangle and evaluate design alternatives. CL3VER presentations require no 3rd plugins to work on any device, thereby providing a ubiquitous experience for their customers in viral campaigns, online marketing, POS and Product configuration/personalization. In essence their technology is a WebGL and HTML5 based 3D engine. Interactive presentations created with CL3VER work in all browsers so the content can be shared via a link through emails, social media or they can be embedded on a website via iFrame. By importing 3D models from most common modeling software, CL3VER allow real-time 3D rendering in the cloud. The scene can be edited using highly realistic materials and by changing environment, lighting and cameras to create realistic scenes. Using the CL3VER API the scene become more interactive allowing the inclusion of animated annotations so the CL3VER scene itself contains all the useful information for the target user.
Quantion — Quantion is a Digital Innovation Factory: Quantion promote and accelerate innovation projects and digital transformation of organizations. To achieve this, our value proposition is based on accompanying our clients from start to finish: - Quantion offer innovative and relevant strategies to turn our clients' great ideas into reality. -Quantion are the bridge between the most innovative startups and traditional companies so they can collaborate together and achieve success. - Quantion develop innovative and cutting-edge solutions to efficiently align business and technology. - Quantion are specialized in new and emerging technologies, as well as in agile development, to respond to the needs of organizations in a digital world.
500Markets — Add more credibility to your site - get a premium domain today. Straight-forward shopping experience.

CEO at Sports.ru, major sports media in Russia, and an angel investor.

Investment focus

EdTech, Fashion, Consumer
Series A, Funding Round
Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Capsula — Capsula is an online clothing and fashion store that provides personalized styling and delivery for customers.
Synchronization — Synchronization is an online education platform.

Business executive and entrepreneur. Brings in an extensive cross-industry experience in strategic planning, business development and finance. Served in executive roles in a number of public and private companies. Co-founder of JSCapital, an israeli investment consulting firm. Loves books, swimming and travel.

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, Personal Development
Seed
Russian Federation

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Dragon Family Company — Dragon Family is a platform that helps the child to develop interpersonal skills through unique teaching skills.

Baring Vostok Capital Partners Limited is a venture capital and private equity firm based in Russia. It invests on early venture, acquisitions, buy-outs, growth capital, later-stage, mid-market, and medium-sized enterprises that operate in sectors such as natural resource extraction, particularly oil and gas; competitive industrial companiesthat operate in local or export markets; mass media and telecommunications; utilities; construction materials; specialty manufacturing; real estate development; residential real estate development; internet; software; retail; and service management. Baring Vostok Capital Partners was founded in 1994 and is based in Moscow, Russia with additional offices in Limassol, Cyprus and Gernsi, Channel Islands.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Private Equity, Series B
Russian Federation, United States, Poland

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Kodland — We teach children a practical skill that will be useful in the future: computer literacy creation of sites and games, programming. Classes are held online, and instead of boring tests, children create real projects.
Mindbox — Innovative platform for collecting, analyzing, and managing customer data from various sources, boosting marketing efficiency and increasing revenue.
Jiffy Grocery — Grow your business with Jiffy SaaS platform which includes app/website, picking, delivery, supply chain & replenishment services

Profi.ru is an online marketplace that allows users to find freelancers and professionals in categories such as tutors, doctors, beauty masters, artists and musicians, handymen, personal trainers, and driving instructors.

Investment focus

EdTech, Education
Seed
Russian Federation

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Tutgood — The TutGood online platform allows your child to receive quality lessons in all school subjects. Convenient video chat, interactive whiteboard and notes on each topic make the classes comfortable and effective. The platform provides special features for parents. You can always see the history of the child's lessons with the teachers and themarks that he gave to each of them.

Impact Capital is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in high-tech companies

Investment focus

EdTech, Medical, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Russian Federation, United States

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ProgKids — Create Minecraft worlds with code by drag and drop visual blocks in Snap! or Python
EVO Avatar — EVO Avatar is a robotics developer based in Moscow
Omnic Consulting Group — Optimize your logistics with parcel lockers.

Angel investor in IT and hardware startups Managing partner at Impulse VC (impulsevc.com)

Investment focus

Art, Digital Media, Productivity Tools
Series A, Seed, Angel
Russian Federation, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Endel — Personalized soundscapes to help you focus, relax, and sleep. Backed by neuroscience.
BUBL Kids — BUBL is a new brand representing a series of educational products for children who grew up in the era of iOS, YouTube and the new media – the era where the competition for the child’s attention is unprecedented.We do not fight the future. We create products which help develop fundamental skills in the modern environment.Bubl utilizesdigital art methods coupled with gaming mechanics to develop children’s perception of links between color, sound and shape.Our first app, Bubl Draw, is a tool that uses music to draw. It helps perceive the links between colours, sounds and shapes.Download Bubl Draw here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bubl-draw/id719169017?l=en&mt=8
Sports.ru — Tribuna Digital is a group of international projects in the sports media sector. We bring football fans together and supply them with quality content 24/7.Our goal - to give every user the most relevant content and services, for which we are widely using our analytical capabilities. We are traditionally well represented in social networks,and our application is dominated by Russian-language Mobile.Our editorial staff is working with the best journalists in the country and creates the loudest materials of Russian sport. Social network "Tribune" brings together more than a million people are discussing sports in their blogs, forums, and statuses. Among the participants of the "Tribune" - well-known journalists, TV presenters, athletes, and coaches, as well as the representation of sports clubs and sports niche publications. With our own blogging platform, our users receive extra tools for sharing their own opinions and emotions with other fans. Among our products are mobile apps, websites, and social media accounts, such as:Sports.ru – Russian flagship project of the digital sports publisher Tribuna Digital: a platform for dialogue about the sport in all its forms. Monthly audience Sports.ru more than 13 million users. We aim to deliver information and communication to help sports fans in all niches and on all technological platforms. Statistical Sports.ru base - the most detailed in Russian, which helps us to maintain a wide range of fantasy-games based on real data. Sports.ru create the best advertising special projects in the field of sport, applying a deep knowledge of the audience to meet the challenges of our clients. For more information about special projects, the audience potential of advertising formats and conditions.Tribuna.com – a global community of football fans and innovative digital media. We communicate with our audience worldwide in six languages and make our products available anywhere it’s convenient for our users. We believe that we can make a significant impact on the way people follow and support their favorite football clubs.Betting Insider - social network for gamblers, where tips are published by hundreds (soon, thousands) of players. Bet tips are handily organized for each football match (other sports will be added soon). You can like and comment on each bet. Betting Insider is the easiest way to get football predictions for free. Also, Betting Insider gives you an opportunity to make a name for yourself as a tipster. Soon, we’ll provide top-performing tipsters an option to sell their betting tips.

Vibranium.VC is a venture fund based in Silicon Valley, led by an international team. Its investment focus is on early-stage SaaS startups with US HQ. Vibranium.VC aims to identify future champions and support their rapid growth and global expansion.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

AppMagic — Mobile market intelligence tool
IVM Markets — IVM is a content creation and product optimisation technology partner for players in the structured products industry. Our impartial nonconflicted technology helps democratise structured product content and allows for the design of the ideal investment idea for any situation. Unlike an aggregator, IVM doesn't just search products, it helps youdesign and refine the ideal products and then gain access to them at the right price.
HuLoop Automation, Inc. — HuLoop Automation offers an AI-powered, no-code, unified automation platform that helps clients drive transformation, and achieve revenue growth, cost savings, and productivity gains by automating mundane, repetitive activities.

Kismet Capital Group is a private investment group with a highly scalable investment platform. The group is focused on creating a leading SPAC platform in EMEA, operating existing telecommunications and related assets, investing directly in private companies with no target investment horizon as well as investing in world leading investment funds asa limited partner.

Investment focus

DIY, Marketplace, Productivity Tools
Series A, Series B, Series E
France, Algeria, United Kingdom

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Attest — Attest is a fast-scaling, SaaS business based in London and New York, and backed by investors including NEA, one of Silicon Valley's most prolific venture capital firms with over 225 portfolio company IPOs since 1977.Attest is a consumer research platform that delivers consumer data that drive predictable and repeatable growth to businesses.The Attest platform enables businesses to engage directly with >110 million consumers across >45 countries, starting in 90 seconds. Attest enables businesses to learn, measure, and grow ever-faster, across marketing, product, brand, innovation, competition, pricing, and beyond.Great companies put consumers and data at the heart of every decision. Attest makes this possible for anyone in any business, continuously, on a global scale. Clients use Attest to crack their greatest growth problems and fill the most valuable gaps in their knowledge, informing real decisions with fresh new inputs every day.
Yassir — Access on-demand daily services like ride-hailing, food and grocery delivery, and payments with Yassir, your super app.
Kodland — We teach children a practical skill that will be useful in the future: computer literacy creation of sites and games, programming. Classes are held online, and instead of boring tests, children create real projects.

Social Discovery Group is the world's largest group of social discovery companies. It unites more than 40 brands, an investment fund and a venture studio.

Investment focus

Apps, Internet, Mobile
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, China

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My NFT Wars — My NFT Wars is an innovative open-market collectible game with a strong emphasis on RPG and strategy elements. Collect heroes and build your strategy for victory in PVP and PVE battles. Join the world, full of the never-ending struggle for resources, territorial conquest, and political domination.
Woebot Health — With Woebot Health, you can deliver instantly accessible, chat-based mental health support to patients and members, with the goal of offering the tools and insights to enhance their care experience, improve population health and increase provider efficiency.
Zhonghui Laser — Zhonghui Laser is an emerging technology company dedicated to the development and manufacture of advanced lasers.

Vershina Capital is a venture capital fund with the focus on innovative business models and growing markets. We provide our financing and expertise to early stage startups in online education, foodtech, e-commerce and saas business models.

Investment focus

Software, EdTech, Education
Secondary Market, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Russian Federation, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Bairro Direct — Produtos em minutos
MetroSpeedy — MetroSpeedy is a leading technology based local delivery company providing on-demand, same day or scheduled delivery services.
Xway (FRIPPERWAY) — Сервис для продажи товаров на крупных маркетплейсах