Top 10 Finance Startup Investors in Russian Federation (August 2026)

Prostor Capital – a Russian venture fund focused on profitable investments in dynamically growing companies of IT & Internet markets. The Fund was incorporated in 2011 by a group of private investors. A famous Russian investor and enterpreneaur Leonid Reiman and one of the leading top-managers of IT industry Sergey Merkulov are among itsco-founders and co-investors.Fund’s investment focus – the stable growth stage (round А and above) projects having ready technological product and fast-growing clients-and-users base. These are Russian IT and Internet companies with a big local or international sales market potential, interested in external investments for the achievement of a new development level. The priority is given to the companies with a technological component in the sphere of new financial and advertising services, cloud technologies, projects in the sphere of innovational education and digital medicine. Awarded as one the TOP 20 best Russian venture investment funds (source: Hopes&Fears).TOP 5 of the most active venture funds in the Russian market (source: the research of Firrma.ru with the support of JSC «RVC» and PwC). Currently Prostor Capital’s investment portfolio includes 14 companies: Dnevnik.ru, Umisoft, Softrust, Platiza, Credit Cards Online, Federal Finance, CPA Exchange, Evrika Group, Dulton Media, Infratel, Smart CheckOut, Penxy, Carfin, AdMoment.Prostor Capital ManagementSergey Merkulov, a Managing Partner, one of the leading Top-managers in IT-industry with over 20 years of managerial experience. He is responsible for the Fund strategy, cooperation with investors, as well as a number of sectorial segments are under his management. Alexey Solovyov, a Managing Director of the Fund. He is responsible for the Fund’s overall management, organisation and functioning coordination of the Managing Company and the Investment Committee; a BOD member of several portfolio companies. Stanislav Kosorukov, an Investment Director, managing the investment analytical practice, responsible for the search and evaluation of projects’ perspective, investment deals’ structuring and portfolio companies’ operational activity control.

Investment focus

Industry: Finance, Apps, Sales
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Russian Federation, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

Platiza — Online microfinance service that provides short-term payday loans. After online identification and scoring process funds can be trasferred to customer's debit card, Visa Qiwi Wallet or any e-commerce partner account for purchase settlement purposes. Funds are being posted within 5-10 minutes in case of positive decision.
Federal Finance — The online service of internet users identification. Provider of identification services to companies.
Federal Finance — The online service of internet users identification. Provider of identification services to companies.

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Pulsar Venture Capital is an active player of the global venture capital market with a strong network of experts both in Europe, USA, Asia, Latam and worldwide. Besides traditional investments, Pulsar Venture Capital's professional team specializes in accelerating the growth of new high-tech businesses and also works to grow the ventureinfrastructure, especially in developing economies. Pulsar Venture’s approach is based on three sectors: Smart Investment, Growth Consulting and Applied Networking We invest early in start-ups that have immense potential and are looking for the boost that comes from having the first check in the bank; access to a global network of markets, partners and potential customers; and unflagging support from a professional group of investors.

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

Total investments: 54
Round size: Seed $65k–$230k; Pre-Seed $60k–$3M
Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

Oyl — Oyl offers customers access to the latest trading tools in a single application. Oyl additionally provides an eponymous browser-based wallet enabling inscription swapping within the wallet.
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 — Founded in 2018, high-performance trading workspace. Built by traders for traders. Backed by YZi Labs @yzilabs (Previously Binance Labs) @WOO_X_Japan

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Venture capital investments

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 114
Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $2M–$20M
Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

CopySight AI — THE FIRST IP RISK SCORING & COPYRIGHT INFRASTRUCTURE FOR COMMERCIAL AI
Flo Health — Track your periods, ovulation, and pregnancy with the Flo app. Log your cycle symptoms so you can understand your body better.
Viewz — AI-native finance platform. One source of truth, agentic bookkeeping, real-time reporting. Built for financial leaders.

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Capital + Hiring + Infrastructure

Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, India, Russian Federation

Investor stats

Total investments: 66
Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3M; Series A $3M–$52M
Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

Uzum — Uzum is a digital services ecosystem to facilitate business growth, online shopping, convenient payments, and help with other day-to-day household tasks.
Visa2Fly — Online visa application- Apply for a tourist visa online to top destinations like Dubai, UK, USA, Singapore, etc. hassle-free with Visa2fly. 99.3% approval rate, fast processing.
xRobotics — Smallest and powerful pizza-making robot in the world. Top 3 ingredients: sauce, cheese and pepperoni. Adjustable volume 100-300 pizzas per hour.

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Investment focus

Industry: Finance, Consumer, Personalization
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Russian Federation

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

Airo — Airo offers dry cleaning and washing with convenient delivery.
CoinKeeper — CoinKeeper is personal finance app with intuitive touch interface and gamification system that rewards responsible spending and savings.CoinKeeper is like iPhone vs old mobile OS in finance management: 1. It's EASY to add transactions with simple gestures 2. It's VISUAL - all main financial figures are located on single screen 3.It's FUN and rewarding to track income and expenses with innovative game mechanics.CoinKeeper is available for iPhone/iPod touch, iPad and Android devices.

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

Investment focus

Industry: Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
Geography: United States, Germany, France

Investor stats

Total investments: 150
Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $1.5M–$15M; Series B $2.5M–$20M
Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $69M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

Spectrm — charles is the Conversational Marketing AI and CRM platform for brands to attract, convert, and retain customers via AI agents and marketing automations.
Qu & Co — Enabled by Nobel Prize-winning technology and a full-stack approach, Pasqal delivers cutting-edge quantum solutions worldwide
Lace Lithography — Lace is building the patterning technology that will power the next 100 years of semiconductor manufacturing.

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FINAM Global is a private equity and venture capital arm of Financial Analyst Investment Holding specializing in investments in growth capital, incubation, seed/start-up, early, mid, and late venture, later stage, and buyouts in mid- sized middle market technology companies. The firm primarily invests in technology, media, andtelecommunications sectors with a focus on consumer Internet, Internet retail, communications equipment, online services, production of software and games, payment systems, social networks, instant messengers, online advertising, e-commerce, publishing and digital media globally.It seeks to acquire control positions or significant minority interests in its portfolio companies and offers flexible financing structures, including additional share issues and buy-out opportunities. FINAM Global was founded by Victor Remsha in 2004 and is headquartered in Moscow, Russia.

Investment focus

Industry: Credit, Gaming, Finance
Stage:Series A
Geography: United States, Russian Federation

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Platiza — Online microfinance service that provides short-term payday loans. After online identification and scoring process funds can be trasferred to customer's debit card, Visa Qiwi Wallet or any e-commerce partner account for purchase settlement purposes. Funds are being posted within 5-10 minutes in case of positive decision.
Alawar Entertainment — Alawar Entertainment is neck-deep into the casual gaming industry with involvement in development, publication and distribution of games titles like The Treasures of Montezuma, Magic Ball, Snowy and Gamextazy. They work with game developers to create games for Alawar's own sites and they provide website owners with their own casual gamingsolutions. Alawar games can also be played on mobile phones. Alawar has plans to become a top five global casual games company. They are working on this goal furiously with over 60 development partners and publishing & promoting games through partners Real, Yahoo, Shockwave and CNet.The Alawar Games Showroom Network is one of the casual games solutions for website owners. It lets them put Alawar's whole game catalogue on their site via embedded code. Alawar pays website owners a fifty percent fee on each game sold. They also have Alawar Wrapper, which protects game content with demo time limits and game play limits, and Alawar Game Box, which is downloadable desktop client that keeps gamers updated with new games and news. In August 2007, Russian investment firm Finam Investment Holding acquired a minority stake in the company. Casual game competitors include Big Fish Games, MSN Games and their partner Yahoo Games.

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Andrey Chernetsov

Investment focus

Industry: Finance, Crowdfunding, Financial Services
Stage:Series A
Geography: Russian Federation

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

JetLend — JetLend is a crowdfunding platform through which private investors lend to small businesses.

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Dmitry Shklyar is the Founder of JobTop. Dmitry Shklyar attended Saint Petersburg State University of Finance and Economics in 2002.

Investment focus

Industry: Finance, Grocery, Crowdfunding
Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Geography: Portugal, United States, Russian Federation

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

Bairro Direct — Bairro developed a mobile application that allows fast delivery of supermarket products, food, and essential goods in the heart of the Portuguese capital, available between 10 am to 12 pm, ensuring that the user experience is always of high quality, regardless of the type of product desired or delivery time.
JetLend — JetLend is a crowdfunding platform through which private investors lend to small businesses.
Geeek club — Learn without realizing. Unique DIY bots and models. Made of PCB.

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