Top 50 Enterprise Angel Investors in Russian Federation in December 2024

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

Oskar Hartmann currently works as an Angel Investor for YAP. He previously worked at Flaschenpost SE as an Investor. Oskar Hartmann attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.

Bogdan Iarovoi is a Managing Partner of SmartHub Investments.

Pavel has over 10 years of investment banking and private equity experience.Prior to joining InVenture Partners, Pavel held the position of Vice President at the leading private equity fund in Russia and supervised portfolio companies in sectors such as telecommunications, real estate, retail and information technologies since 2010.Before thatPavel served as a Chief Financial Officer at Tsargrad, a Russian regional developer, in 2007-2010.Before Tsargrad Pavel worked at MDM bank and participated in the IPO of Irkut Corporation.

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

Started my first IT business in 2009. With the team of talented experts in development, marketing, sales, and business development launched Enaza - a platform for carriers to increase their value-added services by offering games, music, software to the carrier customers. Sold this business to Softline in 2017.Co-founder of Playkey - a cloudgaming platform, that helps people to play computer games on low-end computers and laptops. Acquired great expertise from 2013 on cloud gaming and streaming technologies.Specialties: Marketing, Internet projects, business administration, cloud gaming, games, and digital distribution.

Alexander Borodich is a pioneer in the fields of innovation and blockchain world, Alexander was named "The Most Active Business angel in Russia" by Russian Venture Company, he is Chiefs Dream Officer and managing partner of marketing communication agency Future Action, founder of fifth largest in Europe crowd-investing platformVentureClub.co, founder of Russian cryptocurrency and investor in more than 70 projects.

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Pavel Cherkashin is the Managing Partner at Mindrock Capital.

Angel Investor, CEO & Founder Parkly, ex-CTO Avito (Classified #1 in Russia),

Partner at Begin Capital (early stage VC in UK)

Denis Smetnev - Co-Founder @ Vimbox

Igor Gurkovsky

Ivan Dubrovin

Alexander Rabinovich

Batuhan Dasgin

Boris Ryabov is a Co-founder, President at Steamology Inc. He attended the University of Warwick - Warwick Business School.

Katya Kovalenko

Güimar is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor as well as Venture Partner at FJ Labs.

Mike Peregudov is a General Partner at s16vc - values-driven founders for founders fund

Esther Dyson - Founder @ Way to Wellville

Lawrence W. Lepard

Igor Matsanyuk is one of the visionaries behind the global game market. He founded IT-Territory in 2004 to develop online games, which grew to become the largest game holding company in Eastern Europe, becoming Astrum Online Entertainment. In 2009, Astrum Online Entertainment merged with the Mail.ru Group, and Igor became the first vice-presidentand a significant shareholder of the unified company. The unified company was taken public via an IPO in 2010, at which point Igor left to pursue new ventures. Igor is currently one of the world’s most successful internet entrepreneurs.

Marco Valta is an Entrepreneur and Investor with over 12 years experience in the tech/web industry. As an internet investor, Marco has a portfolio of more than 150 companies including Appnexus, Soldo, Revolut, Prima, Bolt, Flexport, Deliveroo, Space X, Brex, Fabfitfun, Cloudkitchens, Raya, Playco, Public, Coinbase, Pacaso, Relativity, Monthly.

Mikhail has over 15 years of strategic planning, business development, private equity and venture investment experience.Mikhail is the co-founder of Bright Capital. Prior to 2010, when Bright Capital started to function, Mikhail worked at Rusnano (Russian leading venture investor with over 10 bln USD capital base) as a Managing Director,Project Office Director and Executive Advisor to CEO and various positions in private equity and advisory assignments in CIS, UK and the Middle East.Mikhail holds a PhD in management.

Andrew Tsytsenko is a CEO/Co-founder – Motify App. He attended Université Paris Dauphine - PSL.

Jose Marin started his professional career as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.In 1999 he co-founded DeRemate.com (eBay model for Latin America). The company raised 75 M USD, did a partial cash-out sale to Terra and later merged with Mercado Libre that went Public in Nasdaq .Currently Jose is co-Founder and co-CEO of IGExpansion. IG takes successful internet business models into emerging markets (main focus Brazil). IG builds one project per year and will not build more than 6 (investing the first 3 to 5 M USD per project). 5 of the 6 are already operating being Viajanet (Expedia for Latam) its biggest success.Jose is also founder of Serendipity Investments, company that has invested in >70 start-ups. Before this, Jose invested in projects such as Bazee (auctions sold to eBay in 2005) and eDreams (European Travel site sold to TA Associates in 2006) obtaining top tier returns.Jose is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA and an MA in International development Economics from Stanford.

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.

Teodoro D'Ambrosio is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Biocentis. He previously worked at Hotelscan as a Co-Founder and Chairman. Teodoro D'Ambrosio attended the University of Trieste.

Gafurov Ruslan is a Co-Founder of ZakaZaka.

Sergey Gribov is a General Partner at Flint Capital.

Eugene has over 9 years of corporate finance, management consulting and engineering experience.Before Xploration Capital, Eugene held the position of investment director in Finstar Financial Group with strong focus on fintech and InVenture Partners specializing in disruptive technology startups across industries. He also worked in InvestmentBanking department of Morgan Stanley, focused on technology sector.Prior to that Eugene has done fixed income research in BCP Securities. Eugene has also spent 3 years as a consultant in McKinsey and Company and before that worked as an automotive engineer at Scania AB in Sweden.Eugene holds MBA from Columbia Business School.

Founder of Paliani Business Consulting & CoinsPaid MediaI have been working as a business consultant for 12 years. Help projects grow, attract investment, increase sales, and conduct effective marketing and PR campaigns. Through my experience, I've gained a unique combination of skills from working with IT and crypto projects,traditional businesses, and government agencies.

Jose Marin started his professional career as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.In 1999 he co-founded DeRemate.com (eBay model for Latin America). The company raised 75 M USD, did a partial cash-out sale to Terra and later merged with Mercado Libre that went Public in Nasdaq .Currently Jose is co-Founder and co-CEO of IGExpansion. IG takes successful internet business models into emerging markets (main focus Brazil). IG builds one project per year and will not build more than 6 (investing the first 3 to 5 M USD per project). 5 of the 6 are already operating being Viajanet (Expedia for Latam) its biggest success.Jose is also founder of Serendipity Investments, company that has invested in >70 start-ups. Before this, Jose invested in projects such as Bazee (auctions sold to eBay in 2005) and eDreams (European Travel site sold to TA Associates in 2006) obtaining top tier returns.Jose is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA and an MA in International development Economics from Stanford.

Roman Abramovich is a Russian businessman, investor and politician. He is the main owner of the private investment company Millhouse LLC and owner of Chelsea Football Club, an English Premier League football team.According to Forbes, Abramovich's net worth in 2015, was US$ 9.1 billion (2015). This makes him the 12th richest person inRussia and the 137th richest person in the world.

Konstantin Klyuka

IT-Businessman

Anton Antich manages Veeam's corporate and sales operations teams, facilitating the company's planning and execution rhythm, and providing metrics, analytics and management reporting. He also oversees business-process optimization and its implementation in backend IT systems, as well as the global maintenance-renewal business.Antonjoined Veeam in 2011 as a regional director responsible for growing the emerging markets region. He has over 15 years of sales-management and business-development experience with an analytical skill set and a metrics-driven approach to business operations.Before Veeam, Anton was a regional manager for VMware, in Russia and CIS countries. He also drove alliances business to the Russian subsidiary of Microsoft and consulted on strategy and growth issues for several startups.During the early stages of his career, he was responsible for emerging mobile and wireless product lines’ business development at Novosoft. In addition, he ran marketing at a Moscow IT-consulting company. He has a degree in chemical physics from Novosibirsk State University, where he focused on carbon nanotubes and grapheme research.

Philip Ilyin-Adaev is the CEO and Founder of Banki.ru.

Alexandr Chernyak is a Board Member for Allset and a Co-founder of Carprice and Smartprice.

Len Blavatnik is an American businessman, currently living in New York and London, including at a home on Kensington Palace Gardens.Born in the Soviet Union, he attended University in Moscow. He emigrated with his family from Russia to the U.S. in 1978, and became an American citizen in 1984. He received a master's in computer sciencefrom Columbia University and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School in 1989. In the West, he is known as Len Blavatnik.In 1986 he founded Access Industries, a New York-based international industrial group, of which he is Chairman and President. Access has long-term strategic holdings in Europe, North and South America. Initially, he moved into Russian investments, just after the fall of communism. With a friend from University, Viktor Vekselberg, he formed the Renova investment vehicle, and the two joined with Mikhail Fridman's Alfa Group to form the AAR venture. Access has diversified its portfolio to include investments in industries such as oil, aluminum, petrochemicals and plastics, telecommunications, media, and real estate.AAR gained a controlling stake in Russian oil company TNK through privatisation auctions, then in 2003 sold a 50% stake to British Petroleum to form TNK-BP, one of Russia's largest oil companies, for which he serves on the board of directors.Access Industries bought petrochemicals and plastics manufacturer Basell Polyolefins from Royal Dutch Shell and BASF in August 2005, and subsequently merged it with Lyondell Chemical Company to create LyondellBasell Industries, the world's third largest chemical company based on net sales.On January 6, 2009, the U.S. operations of LyondellBasell Industries filed for bankruptcy.On April 30, 2010, LyondellBasell announced its emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a significantly improved financial position. As part of its exit financing, LyondellBasell raised $3.25 billion of first priority debt as well as $2.8 billion through the rights offering jointly underwritten by Access Industries, Apollo Management and Ares Management. Blavatnik also has interests in UC RUSAL, the world's largest aluminum producer, where he sits on the board, and Warner Music Group.Mr. Blavatnik provides financial support and remains engaged in numerous educational pursuits. In addition to corporate directorships, Mr. Blavatnik sits on boards at Cambridge and Tel Aviv University, and he is a member of Harvard University's Committee on University Resources.An active philanthropist, Mr. Blavatnik and the Blavatnik Family Foundation have been generous supporters of The National Gallery of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate, the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Academy of Arts, the Prince's Trust and numerous other leading cultural and charity institutions. Mr. Blavatnik also sits on, inter alia, the board of directors of the 92nd Street Y in New York, The White Nights Foundation of America and The Center for Jewish History in New York. He is also a member of the Board of Governors of The New York Academy of Sciences, and a Trustee of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.In 2007, Mr. Blavatnik created the New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists to acknowledge the excellence of the most noteworthy young scientists and engineers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.In 2010, Mr. Blavatnik committed £75 million to establish the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. The Blavatnik School of Government will train outstanding graduates from across the world in the skills and responsibilities of government. Mr. Blavatnik's gift is one of the most generous in Oxford University's 900-year history.The Blavatnik Family Foundation is also the sponsor of the "Joseph R. Beyrle - A Hero of Two Nations" exhibit at the Russian Museum. The exhibit consists of 260 artifacts from the life and military career of Joseph Beyrle, an American soldier during World War II.In Forbes' The World's Billionaire's List of 2010 he was listed in 93rd place with an estimated fortune of $7.5 billion.

Petr Zhukov - Co-founder and CEO @ Indigo Capital Partners

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

Anton Anohin

Victor is a serial entrepreneur with two exits as CEO & Founder.

Alexander Sysoev

Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.

Alexei Matveychuk

George Solovev

Chris Herndon is a serial entrepreneur and amateur investor that is jamming on some hare-brained schemes that he hopes will someday dent the universe. Chris is the Co-Founder of Apartment List and served as President from 2011 to 2015. Prior to Apartment List, Chris spent several years as an investor at GTCR Golder Rauner and Goldman Sachs. He is aco-founder of the 40 Acres Group, an Austin-based real estate investment firm. He is also a co-founder of Philanthropedia, an online resource for strategic donors that was acquired by Guidestar in 2011. Chris has an MBA from Stanford University and a bachelors from the University of Texas at Austin. Hook 'em Horns!