Top 50 Financial Services Startup Investors in Russian Federation

Investor	Financial Services Russian Federation investments
Life.SREDA	7
Flashpoint	6
Sberbank	4
PULSAR	4
Flint Capital	3
Moscow Seed Fund	3
Softline Venture Partners	3
Prostor Capital	3
Prokofiev Alexander	2
LETA Capital	2
FinSight Ventures	2
LVL1 Group	2
Target Global	2
Inventure Partners	2
JOINT JOURNEY	2
Larix	1
Ruslan Gafurov	1
Katya Kovalenko	1
QPDigital	1
Boğaziçi Ventures	1
Jose Marin	1
Digital Disrupt	1
FJ Labs	1
Euroventures	1
Cem Sertoglu	1
SBI Group	1
VK (ex. Mail.Ru Group)	1
Mark Gerson	1
Jeremie Berrebi	1
Wave Digital Assets	1
Chamath Palihapitiya	1
Sergey Vassilyev	1
Vadim Dymov	1
Vershina Capital	1
Admitad	1
USM Holdings	1
FINAM Global	1
Runa Capital	1
Jose Marin	1
Ascent Venture Partners	1
Axia8 Ventures	1
FUND FOR SUSTAINABILITY AND ENERGY (F4SE)	1
AVENIR	1
Blockchain.com Ventures	1
Almaz Capital	1
Nalu Capital	1
VTB Bank	1
Michael van Swaaij	1
Andrey Belozerov	1
Fosun International	1

Life.SREDA is one of the first and leading Fintech-focused VC funds with the vision of building and connecting fintech-ecosystems across the World

Investment focus

FinTech, Mobile, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
Russian Federation, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Lenddo — Lenddo is the world's first online community that empowers the emerging middle class to use online social connections to demonstrate their creditworthiness and access affordable, life-improving financial services.
Ayannah — Ayannah is a leading provider of affordable and accessible digital financial services to the world's emerging middle class, many of whom are migrants and/or unbanked.
SoftPay Mobile — SoftPay Mobile International is a leading Mobile Point of Sale (mPOS) solution and Payment Facilitator company in Southeast Asia. SoftPay's mPOS solution enables businesses and individuals to accept credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, JCB, Amex, China UnionPay), debit cards, bank cards, loyalty cards and all other kinds of card payments anywhereat anytime. Our mPOS solution is highly secure and has achieved numerous certifications to give merchants and customers peace of mind when processing payments.

Flashpoint is an international technology investment firm that manages venture capital, secondary buy-out and venture debt funds.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Algori — Improving FMCG growth with the fastest and most granular insights from 45,000 shoppers in Spain
Hotelmize — Our Big Data Solutions for the booking Industry identify and take advantage of booking price volatility, automatically increasing your profitability.
Welcome Pickups — Book a trusted local driver to pick you up and introduce you to your next destination, pre-order travel essentials.

Sberbank today is the largest credit institution in Russia and CIS, accounting for 26% of the aggregate Russian banking assets and 30% of banking capital. According to The Banker magazine, as of July 01, 2010, Sberbank was ranked 43th in the world in terms of Tier 1 capital.Established in 1841, Sberbank has grown into a universal commercialbank with diversified businesses. Sberbank is the biggest taker of deposits in the country and the key lender to the national economy. As of January 01, 2011, Sberbank accounted for 47,9% of retail deposits, 31% of consumer loans and 31% of corporate loans in Russia.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Corporate Round, Funding Round
Russian Federation, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Eruditor Group — Bringing businesses and freelance professionals online
Veon — Veon is an international communications and technology company, headquartered in Amsterdam, and driven by a vision to unlock new opportunities for customers as they navigate the digital world. Present in some of the world’s most dynamic markets, Veon provides more than 200 million customers with voice, fixed broadband, data and digital services.Veon’s heritage as a pioneer in technology is the driving force behind a major transformation focused on bringing the digital world to each and every customer. Veon offers services to customers in 14 markets including Russia, Italy, Algeria, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Georgia, Laos, and Zimbabwe.
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.

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 — Trade Bitcoin, Ordinals and BRC-20s all within your 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
Beauty Tech — Beauty Tech is an application with a variety of consumer DNA tests, as well as personalized cosmetics, dietary supplements and nutrition kit

Venture capital investments

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cyolo — Zero trust depends on securing high-risk access. Cyolo extends modern controls to remote workers and third parties, OT and legacy apps, in just minutes.
Circles - Online Group Support — Circles is a revolutionary emotional support platform that ensures no one has to overcome life’s challenges alone. Circles enables people to be heard, understood and supported by others who are going through the same issues in their lives, such as the loss of a loved one, parenting issues or divorce. By connecting users in safe, intimate andprivate groups led by professional facilitators, Circles helps people heal. Circles groups meet live for 60-minute video meetings and also have the ability to message via online chat at any time. Circles users can also access personalized content, including self-help exercises, blogs and webinars, all at no extra cost. To learn more about Circles or to sign up for a free trial, visit circlesup.com.
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.

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, Information Technology, Advertising
Seed, Debt Financing, Series A
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.
Tamburin — Tamburin is a platform which allows marketers to evaluate and predict the effectiveness of advertising and optimize budgets.
U2y.Tech — U2y.Tech is a full-cycle factory that uses an on-demand method to produce apparel for businesses.

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!

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.

Prokofiev Alexander is the founder of KudaGo.

Investment focus

Payments, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Platim — Platim offers mass payment solutions to freelancers and self-employed.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Gaviti — Gaviti is an automated receivables platform that accelerates cash flow and improves DSO by an average of 30%.
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.
C Teleport — Book, change and cancel business and marine travel 100% online. Control budget and track expenses all in one place.

Capital + Hiring + Infrastructure

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series A, Seed, Secondary Market
United States, India, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Betr — At betr, It provides tools to support responsible play and give you control over your gambling. It encourage you to use these tools to keep the experience fun and within your personal limits.
Qase — Qase is a modern test management platform for manual & automated QA testing & reporting that helps your team deliver a higher quality product, faster.
Betterhalf — Best matrimony app in India with AI matchmaking. Get compatible life partner from lakhs of genuine, Govt ID and selfie verified profiles of brides & grooms. Download Betterhalf marriage app now!

LVL1 Group is a private investment management firm, operating across different asset classes and geographies. We were founded with entrepreneurial spirit at our core, with a natural passion for venture investing, working closely with founders to forge meaningful strategic relationships and helping them to succeed. We are not bound by mandates andinvestment periods, which allows us to be flexible and opportunistic. We look for companies that aim to make a strong global impact, particularly in Online Travel, Gaming, eSports, Content and Community Platforms.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Resq — At ResQ, we're obsessed with simplifying the repairs and maintenance experience so you can focus on doing what you love. Talk to a ResQ Expert today!
Appetito — Buy all your groceries and household essentials from your online supermarket. Order from the comfort of your home at your finger tips.
Jiffy Grocery — Grow your business with Jiffy SaaS platform which includes app/website, picking, delivery, supply chain & replenishment services

Target Global is a venture capital firm that invests in tech companies across their lifecycles. Target Global follows a lifecycle approach, investing in tech companies. Their partners have been investing for more than 15 years in the digital technology space, backing some of the European success stories.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Finom — Finom is an online payment solution for companies and freelancers that helps entrepreneurs manage their finances. It's easy to use, secure, and covers all business needs.
Robovision — Take control of your AI vision with Robovision's award-winning platform to manage vision intelligence in smart marchines
Saleor Commerce — A headless, GraphQL-first e-commerce platform delivering ultra-fast, dynamic, personalized shopping experiences. Find out why developers love it.

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, United States, France

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.

Active investment firm that calling founders with a great product vision across diverse industries

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Russian Federation, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Renova — AI-driven no-code platform for insurance industry.
Altris.AI — AI for Ophthalmology & Optometry is the future of eye care. It will set high diagnostic standards for the industry and bring better patient outcome as a result. Together we will solve the preventable blindness problem.
Whizz — My Device is a subscription-based rental service provider for devices like electric scooters, bicycles, home sports equipment, etc.

LARIX is a fund created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs and aims to align itself with the most active founders globally who believe in digital transformation and want to take action to capture this value.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, B2B, AgTech
Seed, Series A
France, Germany, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

FOODZA — Foodza is a B2B food-distribution platform that connects farmers, food producers and importers directly with Retail and HoReCa businesses across CIS region. We are creating an innovative technology-driven logistics platform that enables on-demand harvesting of vegetables, fruits and also meat and dairy production. Foodza provides mobile-app andweb-based interfaces that help farmers interact directly with retailers in a fast and easy way, and we also manage "door-to-door" logistics and fulfillment solutions inspired by the on-demand power of internet applications. Our mission is to remove all middlemen in the food supply industry, return farmers higher income and provide retailers with higher quality fresh produce.
Everoad by sennder — Based out of Berlin, sennder was founded in 2015 by David Nothacker, Nicolaus Schefenacker and Julius Koehler. In 2020, Everoad, the French leader in digital freight forwarding based in Paris and founded by Maxime Legardez, merged with sennder to become Europe's leading digital freight forwarder. By merging with sennder, Everoad becomes"Everoad by sennder". Our mission as a data-based technology company is to revolutionize the logistics and transport industry by connecting small freight companies with large business groups. By introducing technology, we remove the challenges and inefficiencies associated with the transportation of goods across Europe, while increasing the degree of transparency in the marketplace and helping it to move more seamlessly.Since its foundation, sennder has raised over €120m from leading investors including, Accel, Lakestar, HV Holtzbrinck, Project A, Next47, SCG and Perpetual. In 2020, sennder also made a JV with Poste Italiane in Italy and acquired the European activities of Uber Freight. sennder has strategic partnerships with industry giants Scania and Siemens to guarantee continuous innovation and services using the most up-to-date technology.With a team of over 500 people in 7 countries, we move +50,000 loads across Europe, each month. sennder's teams are passionate about modernizing the freight market, an industry valued today at nearly €400bn, only in Europe.
flaschenpost — flaschenpost is a German company offering on-demand beverage delivery. The unique business model has been extremely successful; currently, flaschenpost operates 21 hubs serving more than 130 cities across Germany and delivers more than 60,000 crates per day (as of June 2020). Thanks to an efficient routing algorithm and optimized logistics,flaschenpost delivers within 120 minutes of the order, right to the customer’s door.

Gafurov Ruslan is a Co-Founder of ZakaZaka.

Investment focus

FinTech, Internet, Insurance
Seed
Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

INSSMART — INSSMART is an electronic insurance service company that helps intermediaries to sell more policies and earn money.

Katya Kovalenko

Investment focus

Database, Consulting, Health Care
Seed, Convertible Note
Switzerland, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

DeNet — DeNet connects computers, and devices into a single network creating a database of hundreds of thousands of devices, accessing unlimited storage and processing
ConsenSys — Build next-generation apps, launch blockchain-based financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web with ConsenSys' Ethereum product suite.

Venture Capital Firm 2.0 focused on Deep Tech, It-logistics and Digital Healthcare industries.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Ukraine, United States, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Promin Aerospace — Democratizing space and making it available to every country, organization and person.
Onlizer — Onlizer allows connecting services and automates processes fast and efficient without coding.
Drope.me — We connect gaming companies, micro streamers and their communities in performance marketing campaigns.

Boğaziçi Ventures has been established in 2015 with the purpose of supporting entrepreneurship to take their global success to a next level. We aim to invest in technology start-ups which have talented teams by providing business models and looking for funds and mentoring support for future exponential growth.BV Growth fund will only focus on thetechnology startups established in Turkey at the growth stage while having the ambition to get into the global market.BV Crypto fund will be closed with a minimum fund size of $50M to invest in cryptocurrency and blockchain projects. People are interested in investing in cryptocurrency, especially new initial coin offerings (ICO), but they don’t know which one is reliable. We have an extremely capable team dedicated to cryptocurrency. Our analysts search hundreds of ICO projects, follow their communication, investigate the commitment of their teams, make interviews and if they have a chance, even visit them at their locations to give a much better decision.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Retter — Develop fast, powerful web apps
Lokum Games — Lokum Games is a mobile game development company.
Buddy Performance — Your all-in-one solution for supercharging employee engagement and transforming your organization into a thriving hub of productivity, innovation, and job satisfaction.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Borzo — Borzo is a global delivery service that enables intracity same-day delivery. Our algorithms optimize numerous parallel deliveries taking into account the geographical routes, packages’ contents, couriers and many others to ensure the feasibility of the same-day delivery. The services are available in 10 countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia,Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam and are used by 3 million customers ranging from SMEs to enterprises.
Printify — Sell custom t-shirts, phone cases, and 800+ products with your designs printed on demand. We will handle printing and shipping to your customers.
Menu Next Door — Menu Next Door's chefs are enthusiasts from all walks of life who want to share their talents. So you'll always enjoy freshly-made, delicious meals originating from all over the world.On Menu Next Door, you'll find these quality meals at affordable prices because they're homemade and prepared locally with no delivery charges.It's great food for the many, not the few.What brings people together more than food? Community is the magic ingredient in Menu Next Door.Meeting your chef and getting the chance to talk to them about the dish they've prepared is what makes this something more than just a takeaway.

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 — Engage with niche Gen Z and Millennial audiences through the fastest-growing mobile in-game advertising platform. Easy to set up and scale for all brands!

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Mama — Hispanic super market with ready-to-eat food, frozen goods, and Venezuelan snacks at a great price. Delivered to your door across the US. From pantry to tropical fruits and homemade desserts, it's all in here!
ValidMind — ValidMind is the most efficient solution for governance & risk management of AI and LLMs. Automate model documentation and validation for all model types.
Midas — U.S. Treasuries, On-chain.

Budapest-based Euroventures is one of the longest-established and leading independent private equity and venture capital firms in Central Europe, with a proven ability to achieve international exits over two decades in a fast-changing environment. It has advised or is advising five investment programmes totalling over €180m since 1989, with a focuson funding INNOVATION and GROWTH in Hungary and Central Europe. The investors in Euroventures funds have been international institutional Investors. Euroventures' nearly 50 current and former portfolio companies illustrate the commitment to provide steady support through the cycles of the regional and global economy. Its professional team members have many decades of private equity / venture capital experience between them. Recent investments have targeted growing businesses with innovative technologies in the fields of medtech, big data, security, and IoT among others. Euroventures has had an outstanding track record in supporting its portfolio companies entering global markets. As a result, it has delivered highly successful exits, including IPOs (Vienna, NASDAQ, NYSE) and several dozens of trade sales to international corporations. Euroventures is a founding member of the Hungarian Venture Capital Association and complies with the conduct, governing principles and valuation/reporting guidelines of Invest Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Hungary, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Antavo Enterprise Loyalty Cloud — Antavo Loyalty Cloud is the most powerful loyalty program technology on the market. Our scalable, pure-play tech integrates easily thanks to robust APIs.
Daytrip — Get to your next destination. Discover beautiful places that would otherwise remain hidden.
Prefixbox — Prefixbox makes eCommerce search easy. Easy to integrate search modules increase conversion rates and online revenue within weeks.

Cem Sertoglu is an internet and technology venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He is currently a partner at Earlybird Venture Capital, a European venture investment firm focusing on technology and health technology companies.He is also a managing partner at Young Turk Ventures, an internet-focused investment firm. From 2008 to 2009, Sertogluwas a partner at iLab Ventures, the venture capital arm of AccessTurkey Capital Group that is focused on early-stage through late-stage growth equity investments, primarily in on-line consumer services companies and technology-driven business services companies in Turkey.Prior to these, Sertoglu founded SelectMinds, a provider of cloud-based, social talent sourcing apps that allow companies to use social networks such as Facebook to recruit employees. He served as its CEO from 1999 to 2005. The company was bought by Oracle in 2012.Sertoglu's investment highlights include: GittiGidiyor, the first major Turkish internet exit to eBay in 2011; YemekSepeti, the leading online meal delivery marketplace in Turkey; Grupanya, Turkey’s leading daily deal business; and Wikimart.ru, a leading Russian e-commerce platform. Other investments include: HipWay, CivicSolar, Lofty, Lime&Tonic, Gezlong and Vivense Home & Living.Sertoglu attended the University of Texas at Austin and received his bachelor's degree in Economics in 1993. He also attended Robert College from 1982 to 1989. He publishes a blog on Venture Capital and technology, titled SortiPreneur.

Investment focus

Marketplace, E-Commerce, CRM
Seed, Series A, Series D
United States, Turkey, Germany

Portfolio highlights

HipWay — Hipway is an online travel company maintaining two websites - hiplcub.ru and hipway.ru. Hipclub.ru - is a private online travel club running 10-15 flash sale deals per week. The deals include hotel stays and hotel+flight packages. Hipway.ru - is a travel package specialist offering wide range of hotel+flight packages of Russian touroperators. Hipway recieved angel funding from superangels such as Michael van Swaaij and Chamath Palihapitya in 2010.
idemama — Idemama is an online platform that provides its users with web and graphic design services. It is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Lime&Tonic — Consumer demand for unique ways to spend scarce leisure time is increasing. Hospitality merchants (particularly restaurants) struggle to attract and retain consumers. Delivery of services is not personalized due to exceedingly high labor costs. Via mobile, L&T curates online marketplace focusing on discovery (vs. search) of the bestculinary experiences and unique activities. $2.0 trillion leisure sector with a nice focus on the $160bn fine dining and $227bn activities segments.Proven success with leading merchants including Mandarin Oriental, Intercontinental, Four Seasons, Park Hyatt. Over 1,600 experiences created since company launch.www.limeandtonic.com

SBI Group aims to become a corporate entity that provides a variety of one-stop financial services over the Internet now that two major events, the Financial Big Bang resulting from deregulation, and the Internet Revolution resulting from IT innovation, have radically transformed the financial industry.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Etaily — Etaily provides complete end-to-end omni-channel eCommerce services to ensure brands will successfully thrive in the digital economy
Bluwhale — Unlock Web3 Wallet Potential with AI Insights. Supercharge Your Business Growth
BLOCKSMITH&Co — BLOCKSMITH&Co. is developing and distributing of Game&SocialFi services such as blockchain technology, crypto assets and virtual currency utilising NFTs on the Web3

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.

Mark Gerson is a co-founder of GLG. He is the Chairman of United Hatzalah, the network of first responders that treat victims of pre-hospital trauma in Israel, and the co-founder and Chairman of the Africa Mission Healthcare Foundation, which supports the work of medical missionaries performing clinical care throughout Africa. In addition, Mr.Gerson is a co-founder and co-Chairman of Thuzio, Chairman of Axial Markets and author of The Neoconservative Vision: From the Cold War to the Culture Wars (Madison Books: 1996) and In the Classroom: Dispatches from an Inner-City School That Works (Free Press: 1997).He graduated summa cum laude from Williams College and received his JD from Yale Law School.

Investment focus

Enterprise Software, Travel, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Russian Federation, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Siftery — Siftery is a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks. Siftery compares companies with similar stacks and looks for differences to make some recommendations.
Umi Kitchen — Find the best kitchen equipment & gadgets for cooking and baking. We make all kinds of recipes from appetizers to desserts & explore comprehensive buying guide.
Greats — GREATS designs classically inspired sneakers for men and women using luxury high quality materials and construction. Free exchanges and returns.

Jeremie Berrebi is the CEO and Founder of MeetB. He previously worked at Fresh Planet as a Co-Founder. Jeremie Berrebi attended Yeshiva Netivot Olam.

Investment focus

Mobile, SaaS, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, France, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Aniways — Aniways has an SDK for adding "intelligence and interaction" to mobile communication services, giving any chat/IM/social networking service an amazing way to monetize their traffic. Aniways allows users to easily add dynamic, expressive and fun emoticons to their conversations.
Optix — Optix is the leading coworking software to enable coworking owners and operators to manage, measure, and grow their business.
Immediately — Immediately is mobile sales enablement, designed for the always-on workforce.Sales can no longer be a 9-5 job; over 70% of lost deals are due to slow reaction time. Immediately brings the full sales workflow into one mobile app designed to enable capturing opportunities and closing deals in real time. From getting intelligence on leads, tosending instrumented emails, to making and logging phone calls and updating opportunity status. Immediately is the sales rep’s best weapon. We plug into Google Apps and Salesforce to integrate seamlessly with existing workflows.We believe the future of sales is not CRM, but a beautiful data-driven, highly automated, and platform-agnostic integrated sales experience. Creating it is our passion. Our customer is the closer - and we believe that in sales, everyone should be a closer.

Wave Digital Assets offers early-stage investment, asset management, treasury management, and strategy consulting to further the growth of the crypto and digital asset ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

IYK — IYK inspires people to live in the moment by bridging immersive physical and digital experiences.
1Kin Labs — Get early access to in-development games, claim rewards, and take your digital assets with you wherever you go - all with a single sign-on.
Fluree — Fluree is an open-source, blockchain-backed Data Management Platform for Web3 apps. Fluree empowers connected, trusted, and intelligent data ecosystems. Fluree is built on W3C semantic web standards in order to facilitate trusted data interoperability.

Chamath Palihapitiya is the Founder and Managing Partner of Social Capital. He previously worked at BMO Nesbitt Burns as an Associate of the Interest Rate Derivatives Group. Chamath Palihapitiya attended the University of Waterloo.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Proterra — Building innovative battery technologies to power a better, more sustainable world.
Berkshire Grey — AI-Enabled Enterprise RoboticsAutomate your most expensive processes to fulfill customer orders and stock your shelves at a fraction of the cost and time. Trusted By Top Global Brands Trusted by Top Global Brands "Berkshire Grey took a very different approach to automation than we had seen from other suppliers. BG invested the time necessary to
Sunlight Financial — Sunlight Financial is a premier, technology-enabled point-of-sale finance company. Sunlight partners with contractors nationwide to provide homeowners with financing for the installation of residential solar systems and other home improvements. Sunlight’s best-in-class technology and deep credit expertise simplify and streamline consumer finance,ensuring a fast and frictionless process for both contractors and homeowners.

Sergey Vassilyev - COO @ DSU Project

Investment focus

Apps, Health Care, Consumer Electronics
Pre-Seed, Seed
United States, Brazil, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Mystro — Mystro drivers are safer and earn up to 30% more money.
BestDoctor — BestDoctor is a healthcare company that creates tech insurance products for people and for businesses. Among insurtech companies in Europe it has the 2nd highest number of users. Within 4 years, the company has become a strong player in the b2b-market through innovations in risk management, customer-centric product development and digital medicalservice.Every day, our doctors perform more than 30 telemedicine consultations, and more than 200 insured users are treated in partner clinics across the country. So our smart algorithm records and processes this data to optimize risks and prices.More than 100 corporate clients from IT, retail, pharmaceuticals, travel, media and other industries are already using our solution.Due to this, in 2019 BestDoctor was included in the world ranking of “Top 17 Health Insurance Startups”.
Habitat Logistics — Habitat Logistics powers delivery for restaurants. We provide a turnkey delivery system and can fulfill orders from customers who call-in, as well as from 3rd-party online ordering services such as Grubhub, Zuppler (Conshohocken-based), Snackpass, and others. The company only delivers to restaurants that are within 10 minutes of a customer’s home,saving them time on long deliveries. Restaurants ping Habitat when they have delivery needs and the company sends a driver to complete the delivery. Habitat says they are growing 17 percent month over month, currently collecting $110,000 monthly revenue by charging restaurants per delivery.

Vadim Dymov - Founder @ Dymov Sausage Works

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance
Series A, Series B
Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

MoneyMan — MoneyMan is a digital finance company that offers automated payday loan services 24/7. The company concentrates its research and development efforts on developing innovative risk assessment models, big data processing, and developing secure applications for both web and mobile platforms. The company was founded by Alexander Dunaev and BorisBatine in 2011 and is based in Moscow, Russia.

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 — 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

Admitad provides opportunities for long-term partnershipand the development of your business.

Investment focus

Marketing, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Russian Federation, United States, Cyprus

Portfolio highlights

Pampadu — Pampadu is an IT startup on online insurance.
RevGlue — Become a successful affiliate with RevGlue monetisation tools designed for content creators, influencers and affiliates to create instant affiliate websites and monetise existing web, mobile and social followers.
White Label — White Label is a coupon window service for online publications. White Label provides promo-code displays that the platform offers gives media resources an additional channel for monetizing the audience, and partner brands open up access to native sales attraction from the sites of leading media.

USM Holdings (USM) is a diversified international holding company with significant interests across the metals and mining, telecoms and internet sectors. The group was established in 2012 to streamline and consolidate the various projects of Alisher Usmanov and his partners, which are the result of over 20 years of illustrious entrepreneurial andbusiness development activities.

Investment focus

Internet, Apps, Banking
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Russian Federation, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Bnext — Bnext is a fintech platform headquartered in Madrid, Spain.Bnext is the first supermarket for financial products, it reflects a new way of banking that challenges traditional banking from its foundations. With Bnext users can do almost everything they do with a bank, without having to use a bank. It allows them to create their own currentaccount in a matter of minutes, with nearly all the functionalities of an account in a traditional entity. Additionally, users can include their external accounts and hence have all their financial information on a single platform, regardless of the provider. However, the real innovation in Bnext lies on its Marketplace. Here, users have access to a wide range of financial products from fintechs and banks. The offering suplliers are meticulously selected in order to best fit the client's needs. On the platform, the user can scan through all different products, purchase them and control his acquisitions, all without ever leaving the app. Instead of charging the customer endless commissions and trying to sell as many products as possible, Bnext has developed a model that allows to really collaborate with the fintechs and get the best available offers on the market. The fintech portfolio to date includes real estate investment firms, mutual fund investment, loans and crowdlending, microloans or crowdfunding. Bnext is progressively integrating the most leading products in the market to expand the offer and thus become the first bank without balance.
ESForce Holding — ESforce Holding is an e-sports organization, covering key industry areas from the organization of international competitions and creation of professional content to publishing, advertising, and retail and merchandising. ESforce Holding is best known to the e-sports world for its work with the likes of Natus Vincere, Virtus.pro, and SK Gaming.
InPlat — InPlat's mission is to make payments on the Internet convenient for buyers and sellers using modern technologies.

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.

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, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

PandasAI — PandasAI is a Python library that integrates generative artificial intelligence capabilities into pandas, making dataframes conversational
Sismo.io — Sismo enables users to aggregate their identity and selectively disclose personal data to apps with Sismo Connect - the crypto-native SSO using ZKPs.
SeeChange — SeeChange is an AI software company and leader in real-time visual intelligence solutions.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Borzo — Borzo is a global delivery service that enables intracity same-day delivery. Our algorithms optimize numerous parallel deliveries taking into account the geographical routes, packages’ contents, couriers and many others to ensure the feasibility of the same-day delivery. The services are available in 10 countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia,Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam and are used by 3 million customers ranging from SMEs to enterprises.
Printify — Sell custom t-shirts, phone cases, and 800+ products with your designs printed on demand. We will handle printing and shipping to your customers.
Menu Next Door — Menu Next Door's chefs are enthusiasts from all walks of life who want to share their talents. So you'll always enjoy freshly-made, delicious meals originating from all over the world.On Menu Next Door, you'll find these quality meals at affordable prices because they're homemade and prepared locally with no delivery charges.It's great food for the many, not the few.What brings people together more than food? Community is the magic ingredient in Menu Next Door.Meeting your chef and getting the chance to talk to them about the dish they've prepared is what makes this something more than just a takeaway.

Ascent is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage, emerging technology companies.At Ascent, they don’t jump on the latest trends in general technology. Instead, they remain dedicated to investing in a singular space with enormous market potential -- enterprise IT innovation.Their singular focus on enterprise IT, combined withtheir 28 years of experience and over 100 early stage investments, has yielded powerful results that speak to their deep knowledge, expertise, commitments and networks. Today, enterprise IT is in the midst of tremendous disruption. Between the shift to the cloud, mobility, consumerization of IT, data analytics and entirely new security architectures, both major challenges and tremendous opportunities abound. Over the next decade, the enterprise IT market will be transformed by these disruptive trends, providing lucrative opportunities for innovative early stage companies to emerge, develop new markets, and become the dominant IT companies of the future.They have a firm-wide commitment to backing companies that have courageous ideas about how technology can transform business and create market-leading companies along the way. Their partners, funds and extensive network are dedicated entirely to supporting companies in the enterprise IT arena, and helping them to be the best they can be.Ascent invests in early stage companies in the east coast with initial investment ranging from $2 million to $5 million.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
United States, Canada, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

RapidMiner — RapidMiner builds a software platform for data science teams that unites data prep, machine learning, and predictive model deployment. Organizations can build machine learning models and put them into production faster than ever before on a single platform. RapidMiner eliminates the complexities of cutting edge data science by making it easy todeploy the latest machine learning algorithms and innovative technologies like Tensorflow, Hadoop, and Spark. More than 300,000 data scientists in over 150 countries use RapidMiner products on-premise or in the cloud to drive revenue, reduce costs, and avoid risks.For more information, visit www.rapidminer.com.
BestDoctor — BestDoctor is a healthcare company that creates tech insurance products for people and for businesses. Among insurtech companies in Europe it has the 2nd highest number of users. Within 4 years, the company has become a strong player in the b2b-market through innovations in risk management, customer-centric product development and digital medicalservice.Every day, our doctors perform more than 30 telemedicine consultations, and more than 200 insured users are treated in partner clinics across the country. So our smart algorithm records and processes this data to optimize risks and prices.More than 100 corporate clients from IT, retail, pharmaceuticals, travel, media and other industries are already using our solution.Due to this, in 2019 BestDoctor was included in the world ranking of “Top 17 Health Insurance Startups”.
Connectbase — We give the connectivity industry location insights & automated tools to help them win more deals. Transform your network buying & selling.

Axia8 Ventures is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in both digital asset and equity.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Singapore, United States, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Bware Labs — Bware Labs provides an interface between Blockchain APIs consumers and node providers with integrated payment options and verified reliability, all embedded within our platform and protocol service.
IQ Labs — IQ Marketplace offers unique NFTs with exclusive utilities, boosting your in-game experience. With flexible renting parameters and multiple payment options, rent without collateral and unlock the full utility of NFTs. Say goodbye to gas fees with our gasless renting feature and multiply the value of NFT collections with our multi-utility renting. Explore now
Kyoko.finance — KYOKO. A cross-chain GameFi NFT lending market for guilds and players.

FUND4SE is a venture capital fund based in Singapore, licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (Capital Markets License #CMS100808) and focused on investing in disruptive sustainability and energy-efficient technologies within renewable, clean and green energy markets for energy generation, transfer, storage, supply and consumptionefficiency; commercial buildings, industrial facilities and transport management, operation and maintenance efficiency; and energy management optimization, artificial intelligence and blockchain

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Green Building
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Australia, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

INOVUES — INOVUES transforms existing building facades and windows into high-performing systems that incorporate the latest energy-saving and smart glass innovations without removal or replacement. Through its patented insulating glass retrofit technology, INOVUES offers building owners a high-ROI, non-disruptive solution to save up to 40% on energy consumption, improve occupant thermal and acoustic comfort, and increase the value and sustainability of the building.
Insurion — Insurion is a insurtech company focus on implementing parametric insurance products to insurance companies.
Waste Labs — Artificial Intelligence for waste collection and circular supply chains

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.

Blockchain.com is the most popular place to securely buy, store, and trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other top cryptocurrencies.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Japan

Portfolio highlights

PolySign — PolySign develops state-of-the-art, secure, scalable infrastructure for financial institutions to fully leverage their digital assets. The company also develops a secure and scalable infrastructure for financial institutions to fully leverage their digital assets. They aim to integrate with existing financial organizations and global markets, andrigorously embrace the highest standards for regulation.
Elementus — Elementus is a data-first Web3 company empowering organizations to unify, explore, and operationalize the blockchain with the highest degree of confidence.
Matter Labs — Matter Labs is driven by a mission to accelerate the mass adoption of public blockchains. The company started out of scientific curiosity, the joy of engineering, and a deep conviction, the most impactful way to improve the world today is to provide an open and free alternative to its existing, deeply flawed financial system.

Almaz Capital is an international venture capital firm investing in early stage, capital efficient technology companies. A unique bridge fund headquartered in Silicon Valley, Almaz Capital connects Eastern European/former Soviet engineering and entrepreneurial talent to the U.S. market and helps build global businesses. The firm invests inhigh-growth sectors such as artificial intelligence and blockchain applications, data engineering, cybersecurity, industrial IoT, networking architecture and infrastructure. Its investors include Cisco, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group. Founded in 2008, Almaz Capital has invested in over 30 portfolio companies and has had nine exits to date.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
United States, Russian Federation, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

PLATMA — PLATMA is a workspace for developing low/no-code solutions with ready-made constructors that reduce the need for large resources and decrease time to market
ZEDEDA — ZEDEDA provides a simple and scalable cloud-based orchestration solution that delivers visibility, control and security for distributed edge computing.
WORKERBASE — Agile manufacturing to increase production flexibility and ensure business continuity. Intelligent process execution for the connected worker to increase operational flexibility and reduce costs in Industry 4.0

Nalu Capital is for crypto natives investing in DeFi. We believe in catching the next wave by actively managing the portfolio whilst taking a patient approach.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

UNXD — UNXD is a curated NFT marketplace for the best of digital luxury and culture. Featuring NFTs from Dolce&Gabbana, Jacob & Co., and more.
DeNet — DeNet connects computers, and devices into a single network creating a database of hundreds of thousands of devices, accessing unlimited storage and processing
Agoric — Agoric is a framework that provides security and ease in programming smart contracts, beyond anything available today. Agoric’s mission is to provide a secure smart contracts framework to the entire blockchain ecosystem. With Agoric, which makes it easier to build and deploy smart contracts in JavaScript, millions of programmers worldwide will havesafer, simpler tools to build smart contracts and applications. In addition, composability enables rapid development and competitive advantage. With secure smart contracts, we envision unprecedented, widespread forms of global cooperation, and entrepreneurs creating fundamentally new businesses enabled by digital assets. Agoric is here to make that opportunity a reality.The Agoric team includes world-class technologists, economists, business leaders and community builders on a quest to bring smart contracts into the future. Members of the Agoric team have been professional collaborators in smart contracts technology for over 30 years, and have now reunited to enact this mission. Agoric has collaborated with Cosmos and other well-known projects, and is backed by Outlier Ventures, Kilowatt Capital, gumi Cryptos Capital, MetaStable Capital, Lemniscap, Xpring, Rockaway Blockchain and the Interchain Foundation, as well as additional funding from Naval Ravikant and Polychain.

VTB Bank, its subsidiary banks and financial organizations comprise a leading Russian financial group offering a wide range of financial and banking services and products in Russia, the CIS and select countries in Europe, North America, Asia and Africa. VTB Group has more than 30 banks and financial companies in more than 20 countries. As of 31October 2015, the Group was the second largest financial group in Russia by assets (RUB 12.62 trillion) and by customer accounts (RUB 7.32 trillion).

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Private Equity
Russian Federation, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Selvery — Selvery provides a SaaS platform to create & manage customized content to help bridges the gap between the product owner & the sales channel
CleverDATA — CleverDATA is a service for personalizing advertising and communications based on Big Data & AI.
MD Audit — MD Audit provides a platform for quality control and standard compliance monitoring including processes and employees.

Michael van Swaaij is an Advisor, and ex-Chairman Skype and attributed with the launch of eBay & AOL in Europe

Investment focus

SaaS, Travel, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Russian Federation, Israel

Portfolio highlights

HipClub — Our first project was conceived HipWay.ru in April 2009, when we, its creators, not for the first time confronted with the problem of organizing your own holiday, we decided to create a project that will be useful for those looking for a fun and unconventional holiday. And thus, in contrast to the large number of already existing at the time oftravel social networks, forums and so on, we will set a goal that will be exactly hipway.ru shop travel, with the possibility of booking and payment online. A year later, in April 2010, appeared hipway.ru - the first project that brings together all the most interesting and unusual travel in one convenient directory, with the possibility of booking and payment online.Immediately after starting hipway.ru ranked sites day rambler.ru, it is absolutely without our knowledge - the unprecedented influx of visitors we have learned from that page hipway.ru opened a few seconds and broke off from the phone calls. Project immediately had to switch to a new server and organizers inspire and start looking for investors. Up to this point the project was funded entirely by private funds.In parallel with the search for an investor we planned to start a second project - hipclub - private club offers a great vacation c exclusive discounts. We gave the project to the development of our IT-team and continued to search for funding.In mid-2010 we were lucky - we got a great project investors - Javier Pérez-Tenessa, founder of eDreams, Michael van Swaaij, former CEO Skype and eBay top manager and several other equally wonderful "business angels". These people are now helping us not only financially, but also valuable advice.In October 2010, we launched hipclub, who became the first Internet cafe, specializing in tourism and leisure. In a short time hipclub not only got wide coverage on the Internet , but also got great reviews from its customers that we are particularly pleased, as it was initially the main task of both projects is to create a travel company with the best customer service.
Scramble — Investing made easy with Scramble - P2P lending platform offering secured loans to vetted European brands. Start your investment journey effortlessly, ensuring a smooth and secure path to build your investment portfolio.
Ovo Automotive — OVO Automotive is providing Cloud based App Delivery Platform for Connected Cars, driving open innovation for in-vehicle interactions, experiences and services.Auto makers, Google and Apple are locked in a battle to control the last unconquered screen - the in-vehicle dashboard - for direct interaction with captive audience and monetizing newconnected vehicle services. OVO Automotive provides a novel platform for delivery of apps to the in-vehicle screen, which enables customer interaction independent of automakers, Apple and Google. Our platform enables fleet owners, car dealers, smart mobility service players and connected car service providers to interact with their customers directly on the go, thus improving customer experience and creating new revenue streams. Our automotive grade cloud platform enables the delivery of any connected car app directly to any in-vehicle interactive touchscreen dashboard in a secure and transparent way, providing drivers and passengers a rich connected vehicle experience.

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.

Fosun International Limited is a Hong Kong-based investment holding company engaged in financial, property, steel, and healthcare businesses. The Company has nine segments. Insurance operates and invests in insurance businesses. Investment is engaged in strategic investment, private equity investment, venture capital investment, and secondarymarket investment.Fosun International Limited was founded in 1992.

Investment focus

Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Saphlux — Saphlux develops, manufactures, and supplies semi-polar gallium-nitride (GaN) materials for nitride-based solid-state lighting and power devices. Major applications include high-power blue LEDs, green LEDs, Micro-LEDs, laser diodes, VCSELs, IGBTs, etc. Benefits of semi-polar materials have long been proven in addressing the fundamentalbottlenecks in first generation c-plane GaN materials such as efficiency droop, green gap, and wavelength shift in LEDs and lasers. However, the mass-production of large-area, high-quality and low-cost semi-polar GaN materials has been rather challenging.Based on the research from the Nitride Group at Yale University, Saphlux was founded in 2014 by Prof. Jung Han and Dr. Chen Chen to resolve these problems. The company successfully developed the world's first stacking-fault-free semi-polar GaN-on-sapphire materials. Raised over $11 million from Venture Capitals, Saphlux has now built a dedicated production line to mass-produce 4-inch (20-21) GaN-on-sapphire templates for industry clients.
Litecore — Litecore is a manufacturer of optoelectronic devices and processors for broadband, large data centers, and information security.
Lanvin Group — Lanvin group is a fashion industry that oversees the labels lanvin, caruso, wolford, sergio rossi, and st. John knits. It is offering this assistance along with in-depth information about and connection to the fashion markets.