Top 15 Payments Startup Investors in Russian Federation in May 2025
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 May 2025
Investor | Payments Russian Federation investments |
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Life.SREDA | 3 |
PULSAR | 2 |
Prokofiev Alexander | 2 |
The Spartan Group | 1 |
Victor Koch | 1 |
Almaz Capital | 1 |
Batuhan Dasgin | 1 |
PARSIQ | 1 |
ESN Group | 1 |
Inventure Partners | 1 |
Red Building Capital | 1 |
Mr. Block | 1 |
Leonid Rumyantsev | 1 |
Axia8 Ventures | 1 |
Moscow Seed Fund | 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
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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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Russian Federation, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Oyl — Oyl offers customers access to the latest trading tools in a single application. Oyl additionally provides an eponymous browser-based wallet enabling inscription swapping 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.
Prokofiev Alexander is the founder of KudaGo.
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- Payments, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Russian Federation
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- Platim — Platim offers mass payment solutions to freelancers and self-employed.
We advise, invest and build with the best entrepreneurs in Web3.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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- Blum — Blum is a decentralized 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.
Vic Koch was the CEO and Founder of Stickeroid and managing partner of the Koch Foundation. He was also one of the early investors in Stripe, Grab, Robinhood, iQiyi, Elastic and other companies.
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- FinTech, Trading Platform, Health Care
- Secondary Market, Seed, Series B
- United States, China, United Kingdom
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- 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.
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.
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- Software, Mobile, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Russian Federation, Germany
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- 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.
Batuhan Dasgin
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- Database, Web Hosting, Data Storage
- Seed
- Russian Federation
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- 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.
Explore the future of blockchain with PARSIQ - Your gateway to advanced blockchain monitoring, smart triggers, and real-time intelligence. Empower your crypto journey with cutting-edge technology and unparalleled insights. Join us in revolutionizing the way you interact with the blockchain ecosystem
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Vietnam, Singapore
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- Starbots — Starbots is Solana's first-ever battle NFT game.
- Mint Gate — Create and enjoy gated experiences from your NFT communities. A NFT based social platform where you`re NFTs come alive.
- Arcade2earn — Arcade is a GameFi platform, built on Ethereum and powered by Avalanche, that offers users the opportunity to earn meaningful rewards from various video games through the strategic infrastructure.
ESN GROUP offers a wide range of services from market-entry assistance, business support in the West African market as well as facilitating trade and investment promotion focused on particular sectors. And also the key intermediary agency for companies, organizations and entrepreneurs doing business or seeking to do business in Ghana/WestAfrica.Are you interested in doing business with Ghana/West Africa? Maybe export products, expand your business, find a trade partner or learn and share innovative expertise? Ghana/West Africa offers endless trade possibilities and is the ideal gateway to West Africa. ESN Group is the partner to turn your international entrepreneurial vision into reality. We can facilitate trade missions that suit your company’s needs to explore the opportunities in your sector.
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- Mobile, Credit Cards, Apps
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- Hong Kong, Russian Federation
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- 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.
- iboxPro — In 2015 ibox merged with 2can ( SME mPOS provider in Russia )Besides of mPOS, they have products and services that provide us additional income sources. 1. Payments — the all-in-one mobile payment and Point of Sale (POS) solution enable SMEs to process payments cost-effectively from E-wallets & Messengers.2. Software as a Service (SaaS)— a platform for SME, merchants can drive business via a centralized SaaS toolkit.3. Financial products — short term cash advances and short term loans to select merchants provided from their financial partners.
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.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Mobile, Apps
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Russian Federation, France, United States
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- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Russian Federation
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- 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's award-winning Freight Forwarding Software empowers Freight Forwarders with an all-in-one cargo tracking solution that is easy to use and deploy.
- 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.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Sports, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, Israel, Singapore
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- 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.
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Investment focus
- Payments, Software, Financial Services
- Seed
- Russian Federation
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- Platim — Platim offers mass payment solutions to freelancers and self-employed.
At Axia8 Ventures, we back early-stage founders bold enough to innovate in emerging Web3 frontiers.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Taiwan
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- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Advertising, Information Technology
- Seed, Debt Financing, Funding Round
- Russian Federation, United States, Israel
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- 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.
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