Top 10 Impact Startup Investors in Russian Federation in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Impact startups based in Russian federation. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Impact companies from Russian federation. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Impact Startup Investors in Russian Federation in February 2025

Investor	Impact Russian Federation investments
Phystech Ventures	6
Moscow Seed Fund	3
Sergey Solonin	2
TealTech Capital	2
JOINT JOURNEY	2
Steel Storage Shelves	1
New Industry Ventures	1
PULSAR	1
Innovestor	1
Will Group	1

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Early supporters of global distribution in deeptech.

Investment focus

Software, Oil and Gas, Energy
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Russian Federation, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Arevo — Arevo enables ultrastrong, lightweight continuous carbon fiber products on demand.
Perfobur — Perfobur – a next-gen radial drilling technology that provides a new life to old and marginal oil wells. Perfobur gets access to oil rich side pockets by drilling up to 50m long horizontal perforation channels. The only radial drilling technology available in sandstones (50%+ of wells). 100% controlled trajectory of channels solves a majoremergency risk problem of state of the art jet drilling.
Welldone — WE MAKE DELICIOUS, NUTRITIOUS AND AFFORDABLE PLANT-BASED MEAT. AND WE ARE GOING WELL. Plant-based meat producer leveraging strong R&D and sourcing in Russia. We are building brand #1 in country to cater plant-based meat to 140+ mln people and to expand abroad. Targeting to reach price parity with meat in 2022 to address the wider consumeraudience.

The Fund for the Promotion of Venture Investment in Small Enterprises in the Scientific and Technical Sphere of Moscow was established by the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy of Moscow.

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Information Technology
Seed, Debt Financing, Funding Round
Russian Federation, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Vestem — Vestem is a biotechnology company that develops new bioveterinary cell therapies for regenerative therapy and next-generation pharmaceuticals for the treatment of pets.
Picvario — DAM systems allow centralizing, systematizing, searching, and sharing all types of digital files (images, video, audio, etc.). Picvario platform is a reliable storage of the files. Flexible management. API Integration
Qummy — Qummy produces and freezes dishes for restaurants using its patented Smart Ice technology, which preserves the dish's nutritional and organoleptic features.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

invests in the advancement of innovative start-ups .

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Fashion
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Russian Federation, United States

Portfolio highlights

FoodMiles — Food Miles is a digital service company that helps local producers and farmers in logistics and delivery of goods.
Charmstore — Charmstore is a women's clothing brand.
Poison Drop — Poison Drop operates an online multi-brand store of designer jewelry.

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.
Whizz — My Device is a subscription-based rental service provider for devices like electric scooters, bicycles, home sports equipment, etc.
inspace — inspace is the innovative platform that streamlines workplace management and optimizes space utilization. Elevate your workplace experience with inspace.

We invest in technology-intensive startups reimagining HR and Education. We are interested in co-investing with VC firms focusing on early stage startups.

Investment focus

Human Resources, Recruiting, Staffing Agency
Series A, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

VCV — VCV is an AI-powered recruiting bot that searches for candidates, calls them with questions using voice recognition, and then invites them to record a video interview. VCV can save recruiters over 20 hours of work with recruiting bots working 24/7 to find, chat, and interview.
VCV.RU — VCV is the first video interviewing service in Russia. It is an innovative system especially developed according to local features of hiring process that allows recruiting managers to conduct interviews while saving time and increasing company’s efficiency.
SmartUp.io — SmartUp is the ultimate platform for peer-to-peer knowledge creation, sharing and exchange.Conceived and developed by a seasoned team of founders and investors behind Founders Forum, Spotify, Siri, lastminute.com and others, SmartUp now hosts more than 150,000 members and is used around the world by startup founders, companies, innovators,business schools and curious entrepreneurs.SmartUp’s intuitive learning system provides communities engaging and fun ways to contribute and consume bite-sized pieces of knowledge and insight. Its powerful platform unlocks your community’s real knowledge to help every member unleash their potential.

New Industry Ventures was established by Gazprom Neft, Gazprombank, Russian Venture Company (RVC) and VEB Innovations. The Fund focuses on investments in technology companies specializing in the development of new materials, technologies, products and services for the oil and gas industry, petrochemical and energy industry, including alternativeenergy sources.New Industry was set up to spur the promotion of high-tech products in the Russian market and support innovative companies and start-ups that are important for the development of the oil and gas industry, the fuel and energy sector and the Russian industry. The priorities of the Fund are the development of technologies for the exploration, production, processing, transportation, distribution, use of hydrocarbons, energy transmission and storage, implementation of innovative solutions in the construction of industrial infrastructure, management of large-scale projects, etc. The investments also focus on resource and energy saving technologies, digital products, including 4.0. industry technology.

Investment focus

Software Engineering, Energy, Medical
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Russian Federation, China

Portfolio highlights

Skyeer — Skyeer provides cloud-based analytical software for construction and mining industries using ariel survey data in 2D and 3d formats.
Bioantibody — Bioantibody is a high-tech biotechnology firm specializing in the research and development of antigens, antibodies, and downstream detection reagents for diagnosis and therapy.
NVI Solutions — An IT company specializing in the development and implementation of software products based on artificial intelligence for industrial customers, as well as adapting them to specific production tasks and implementing them at real production facilities in Russia and abroad.Today, the company's solutions are used by leading production sites,banks, oil producing companies, large IT integrators.

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 — Oyl is a Bitcoin wallet designed to enable seamless trading of Ordinals, BRC-20 & Runes all 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 — Woo X is a high-performance crypto trading platform.

Innovestor is an active Finnish investment manager, focusing on venture capital, real estate, and energy storage. We also offer corporate venturing services.