Top 10 Finance Startup Investors in Russian Federation in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Finance startups based in Russian federation. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Finance companies from Russian federation. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Finance Startup Investors in Russian Federation in January 2026

Investor	Finance Russian Federation investments
Prostor Capital	3
Flint Capital	2
PULSAR	2
FINAM Global	1
Moscow Seed Fund	1
Runa Capital	1
QPDigital	1
Andrey Chernetsov	1
FinSight Ventures	1
Dmitry Shklyar	1

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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

Finance, Apps, Sales
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Russian Federation, United States

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.

Venture capital investments

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mitiga — Mitiga proactively stores and enhances forensic data so our experts can start incident investigations fast to get you back to business as usual
Vayu — Discover Vayu, the cutting-edge billing and revenue management platform designed to streamline operations and maximize efficiency for finance teams.
Bluebricks — Create and manage complex infrastructure setups, regardless of your underlying configuration, IaC, and cloud.

Pulsar Venture Capital, a business acceleration program, offers financing and mentorship to clean tech, robotics, and electronics startups.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Russian Federation, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Oyl — The happiest place on Bitcoin
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.

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

Credit, Gaming, Finance
Series A
United States, Russian Federation

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.

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.