Top 10 Impact VC Funds in Russian Federation

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 10 VC 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 VC Funds in Russian Federation

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

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.

invests in the advancement of innovative start-ups .

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

B2BTRADE — B2BTRADE is an online trading platform for organizing wholesale sales and purchases
Charmstore — Charmstore is a women's clothing brand.
Poison Drop — Poison Drop operates an online multi-brand store of designer jewelry.

Will Group is a branding company

Investment focus

Recruiting, Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Lbose — Lbose is an internet based company.
LAPRAS — LAPRASis an Artificial Intelligence company.
Panalyt — Panalyt bridges the People-Data Gap, enabling real-time, uniform access to relevant people data, reports and insights for CxOs, HR and business managers.People data, including employee interactions and connections is combined with business data, catalyzing new insights and intelligence.Predictive analytics moves the business from reactive toproactive, identifying correlations and points of intervention.The People Enhanced Data movement empowers businesses to leapfrog to data-driven HR decision making, eliminating bias and improving engagement, sales effectiveness, productivity and, as a result, business performance.“Panalyt is the only multi-source analytics platform in our study that also offers ONA to analyze digital collaboration and communication based on passive data. The company further integrates sales and business data, allowing line managers to identify and focus on areas critical to them.” - RedThread Research's People Analytics Tech 2020 Report

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.

Welcome to Innovestor! We are a Finnish investment company focusing on venture capital, corporate venturing services, and real estate.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Manufacturing
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Finland, Denmark, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Capalo AI — We maximize the value of your energy storage systems. Now and in the future.
Kausal — Kausal helps cities turn their climate goals into action through a digital platform that enables smarter collaboration around key data.
Teitur Trophics — Teitur Trophics is a biotech company developing circular peptides for neurodegenerative diseases. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark.

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.

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).