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Top 15 Payments Startup Investors in Russian Federation in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Payments startups based in Russian federation. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Russian federation. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Payments Startup Investors in Russian Federation in January 2026

Investor	Payments Russian Federation investments
Life.SREDA	3
PULSAR	2
Prokofiev Alexander	2
Red Building Capital	1
Mr. Block	1
Leonid Rumyantsev	1
Moscow Seed Fund	1
Shima Capital	1
The Spartan Group	1
Inventure Partners	1
Almaz Capital	1
Axia8 Ventures	1
Batuhan Dasgin	1
USM Holdings	1
Victor Koch	1

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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.

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.

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.

Red Building Capital invests in early-stage tech startups which contribute to migration from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0, such as Blockchain, Cyber Security.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

MetaCRM Inc. — AI-Driven. Web3-Ready. 10X Growth Potential. Billions in Data Insights. MetaCRM offers the solutions needed to unleash the full potential of your project.
GoFreight — GoFreight, is a web-based SaaS for international freight forwarders. Since its inception in 2016, GoFreight has helped freight forwarders of all sizes to digitalize their operation and process management, covering all shipping methods from sea to air to land.Through data visualization, automation, freight tracking, instant booking and quotation,GoFreight makes the once analog management process significantly efficient and helps freight forwarders to truly benefit from digitalization.
Balthazar NFT Gaming — Balthazar is on a mission to empower the biggest community of gamers to create a self-sustaining,

Mr.Block is a blockchain community that creates a connection between international projects and another country. It believes that this is crucial to growing a healthy market for blockchain and cryptocurrency.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Sports, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Canada, Israel, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Lambda Finance — Lambda Finance converts bitcoin's spare liquidity into btcusd.
Puffer Finance — Puffer Finance operates as a blockchain infrastructure company.
Mighty Bear Games — Mighty Bear is a Singapore-based studio building the next generation of massively multiplayer online mobile games. The team is a collective of games industry vetarans from the likes of King, Ubisoft, EA, Lucasarts, Disney, Gameloft, and Jagex. Mighty Bear make games that combine the depth of desktop gaming with the accessibility of mobile -"Mobile games without compromise".

Leonid Rumyantsev is the CEO of Platim.

Investment focus

Payments, Software, Financial Services
Seed
Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

3RM — Verified contact at any decentralized organization. Manage new business, partnerships, and engagement across organizations like never before.
ELYZIO — MENA's Leading Developer & Publisher for Indies
Cedro Finance — An Omnichain Liquidity Protocol that connects fragmented liquidity across chains for greater capital efficiency.

We advise, invest and build with the best entrepreneurs in Web3.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CLST — Buy & sell Bitcoin and cryptos with our easy and seamless Uncollateralized lending. Tust the world's finest crypto borrowing, trading or exchange platform
Kaia — Kaia is a public blockchain that utilizes Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) for enhanced reliability and performance.
Tarta Labs — Tarta Labs is dedicated to building a next-generation anime IP ecosystem and aims to innovate within the anime gaming space by blending engaging narratives, high-quality visuals, and community-driven gameplay experiences.

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, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

2can — 2can (ZAO Smartfin) mobile terminal is the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Square service; this is a special application for smartphones (based on iOS and Android platform ) and a card reader, which turns a smartphone into a terminal for accepting Visa and MasterCard payment cards. 2can is a Russian startup created specifically for the development,implementation and operation of the payment service via smartphones. 2can Service was launched on the Russian market at the end of September 2012 and became the first Russian mobile acquiring service to comply with the relevant security requirements for card payments imposed by Visa and MasterCard international payment systems.2can is the first Russian mPOS-service that sertified dual card reader (EMV+Magstripe) with VisaReady and PCI-DSS.
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.

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, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Russian Federation, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Nomagic — Nomagic provides robotic systems to automate repetitive pick-and-place tasks in warehouses with efficiency, flexibility and reliability.
Dubformer — All-in-one tool: Go global effortlessly with monetization-ready dubbing that sounds like real humans. Cost-effective AI localization.
specter automation — Construction is the second least digitized sector in the world with 96% of all data being unused. Although detailed planning data is created upfront, a lack of suitable digital tools prevents its transfer to the construction site. SPECTER’s web-based construction management software uniquely incorporates the core components of constructionplanning, reducing the organizational burden on construction management and helping to meet project timelines and budgets.

At Axia8 Ventures, we back early-stage founders bold enough to innovate in emerging Web3 frontiers.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Oh Gamers — Oh Gamers is a developer and operator of an online community platform for Web3 gamers. The company evaluates high-quality Web3 games and delivers information to blockchain game users.
Raiinmaker — Multi - Chain Layer 2 Network. Powered by AI, Secured by Bitcoin.
Conductive.ai — Conductive.ai is an engagement platform for game developers to motivate players to increase player lifetime value.

Batuhan Dasgin

Investment focus

Database, Web Hosting, Data Storage
Seed
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
Essential — Essential is building intent-based infrastructure & tooling to accelerate the transition from value extraction to intent satisfaction.

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.

Victor Koch is a technologist, serial entrepreneur, investor and portoflio manager. Over the past 11 years, Victor has successfully closed more than 80 secondary PE transactions with the following names: Robinhood, Stripe, Toss, Redis, Twilio, Xiaomi, iQiyi, PinDuoDuo, Tilray, Livongo, Agora, Bandwidth, Kuaishou Technology, DataRobot, Chime,TransferWise, Oatly, Hims, Wise, Kopi Kenangan, Coursera and etc.He was also one of the early investors in Stripe, Grab, Robinhood, iQiyi, Elastic and other companies.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Robotics
Secondary Market, Seed, Series B
United States, China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zenfuse — The ultimate solution for cryptocurrency trading with built-in connectivity to major exchanges, a next-gen toolset, analytics, portfolio management, news aggregation, set within an ecosystem extensible by developers.
Thirty Madison — Thirty Madison is a human-first healthcare company, powering access to affordable specialized healthcare through brands like Keeps and Cove.
Gokin Solar — Guangdong Gaojing Solar Energy Technology is a solar energy technology.

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