Top 15 Payments Startup Investors in Russian Federation in January 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 January 2025
Investor | Payments Russian Federation investments |
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Life.SREDA | 3 |
PULSAR | 2 |
Prokofiev Alexander | 2 |
PARSIQ | 1 |
ESN Group | 1 |
Mr. Block | 1 |
Victor Koch | 1 |
Batuhan Dasgin | 1 |
Shima Capital | 1 |
The Spartan Group | 1 |
Leonid Rumyantsev | 1 |
Axia8 Ventures | 1 |
USM Holdings | 1 |
Red Building Capital | 1 |
Inventure Partners | 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 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.
Prokofiev Alexander is the founder of KudaGo.
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Investment focus
- 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.
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Investment focus
- 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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Investment focus
- Mobile, Credit Cards, Apps
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- Hong Kong, Russian Federation
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.
- 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.
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".
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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Investment focus
- FinTech, Trading Platform, Health Care
- 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.
Batuhan Dasgin
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Investment focus
- 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.
Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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- Stashh — Collect, create, trade, share, discover, and decrypt digital collectibles on Stashh - the omnichain NFT hub.
- Ava Protocol — Ava Protocol is an event-driven EigenLayer AVS that seamlessly automates cross-chain transactions for DeFi, NFTs, games, and more.
- Goldilocks DAO — Goldilocks is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) dedicated to creating custom defi infrastructure for Berachain. The Goldilocks Protocol is comprised of three primary components: Goldiswap, Goldilend, Goldivaults.
We advise, invest and build with the best entrepreneurs in Web3.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Canada
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- Zkcandy — Zkcandy is an Ethereum-based game network.
- OpenLayer — OpenLayer increases web3 with positive verifiable computation.
- Fraction AI — Fraction AI is the best human-generated data for training your AI models.
Leonid Rumyantsev is the CEO of Platim.
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Investment focus
- Payments, Software, Financial Services
- Seed
- Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Apps, Banking
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Russian Federation, Spain
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- 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.
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,
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.
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