Top 40 Payments Startup Investors in Russian Federation (October 2026)

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• Platim — Platim provides payment solutions to freelancers and self-employed individuals. Their platform offers payment acceptance services to freelancers and self-employed individuals for accepting Russian and foreign payments, along with purchase receipts, return checks, correction checks, checkout limit balancing, and cash desk rental, enabling users toaccess a marketplace for advertising.

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• 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.

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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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• Alcatraz AI — The Rock is an all-in-one touchless biometric access control device that combines facial biometrics, AI, and machine learning for top-notch security.
• 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.
• Acumatica — Acumatica Is the Complete Cloud ERP Solution For All Your Business Management Needs Today and In The Future.

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• 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 — Founded in 2018, high-performance trading workspace. Built by traders for traders. Backed by YZi Labs @yzilabs (Previously Binance Labs) @WOO_X_Japan

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• Platim — Platim provides payment solutions to freelancers and self-employed individuals. Their platform offers payment acceptance services to freelancers and self-employed individuals for accepting Russian and foreign payments, along with purchase receipts, return checks, correction checks, checkout limit balancing, and cash desk rental, enabling users toaccess a marketplace for advertising.

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• CarPhone — CarPhone offers a marketplace for sharing private parking that helps drivers to find a parking space close to the office by renting from another user.
• Surprise Me — Surprise Me - self-guided tours with the mobile app around the world.
• We Remember You —

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• PayQR — Make purchases and payments with their phone PayQR much easier, more profitable and safer than plastic cards and cash!• In retail outlets, • In the cafes, bars and restaurants, • In the online shops and online services, • In the cab, • At petrol stations, • on receipt of the apartment, electricity, gas, water and telephone, fines traffic police,tax and duties, as well as any other accounts ... ... and more!

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• Kalshi — Kalshi is a regulated exchange & prediction market where you can trade on the outcome of real-world events. Buy and sell Event Contracts.
• Thirty Madison — Thirty Madison is a human-first healthcare company, powering access to affordable specialized healthcare through brands like Keeps and Cove.
• The Boring Company — The Boring Company constructs safe, fast-to-dig, and low-cost transportation, utility, and freight tunnels.

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• LazyBear — LazyBear is a Web3 cryptocurrency trading platform with no thresholds and industry-low costs.

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• LazyBear — LazyBear is a Web3 cryptocurrency trading platform with no thresholds and industry-low costs.

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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.

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• LazyBear — LazyBear is a Web3 cryptocurrency trading platform with no thresholds and industry-low costs.

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• LazyBear — LazyBear is a Web3 cryptocurrency trading platform with no thresholds and industry-low costs.

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• LazyBear — LazyBear is a Web3 cryptocurrency trading platform with no thresholds and industry-low costs.

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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.

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• LazyBear — LazyBear is a Web3 cryptocurrency trading platform with no thresholds and industry-low costs.

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• LazyBear — LazyBear is a Web3 cryptocurrency trading platform with no thresholds and industry-low costs.

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• SYNTHR — SYNTHR is redefining instant and slippage-free asset movement across chains
• Cryptoverse — Cryptoverse develops a 3D metaverse composed of a collective imagination.
• Bora Finance — Bora Finance is a financial service provider that offers a platform for funding education for people in need.

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• Ferra — @ferra_xyz is now @ferra_protocol
• Shrapnel — Shrapnel is an AAA Extraction FPS powered by next-gen community-driven tools, built on the blockchain to offer true ownership.
• Mill City Venture III — Mill City Ventures III is a non-bank lender and specialty finance company. Mill City Ventures fund the client's operations whether it’s real estate bridge mortgages and loans, cash for operations, or general-purpose loans with sufficient collateral.

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• B9 — B9 is a fintech which allows underbanked Americans to demonstrate and build their creditworthiness based on their economic behavior.
• QIWI — QIWI is a payment service that enables its users to make payments to individuals, the internet, and mobile communication channels. It offers two products: QIWI Kiosks and QIWI Wallet. QIWI was founded in 2007 and is based in Moscow, Russia.
• Flapper Technologies — Flapper Technologies is Brazil's first boutique private airline. The company was born of a need for accessible on-demand private aviation services, including flights to Premium destinations inaccessible to commercial aviation. Building on the rising popularity of sharing economy, the company sells individual seats on general aviation aircraft,as well as offers on-demand charters, including helicopters, private jets and large corporate airliners.With more than 550 certified aircraft available on its charter platform Flapper boasts the most complete private aviation offer in Latin America.

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• TraderBox — TraderBox is a SAAS trading terminal that allows users to trade on different cryptocurrency exchanges using one interface and extended functionality that is not available on exchanges. They offer the possibility of overlaying the technical analysis indicators, trade recommendations, and events calendar, which will allow you to improve yourdecision-making process.

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• LazyBear — LazyBear is a Web3 cryptocurrency trading platform with no thresholds and industry-low costs.

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• Boontar — Boontar Live is a video streaming service with a trading module that allows viewers to buy products from a video without going to other pages.
• Malivar — video face swap solution for businesses based on a single image
• Watchout!AI — Watchout!AI is a company offering a range of marketing services for native advertising. The platform of the company uses artificial intelligence to examine video content frame by frame and establishes brand safety thresholds for accurate native ad placement, allowing users to display ads in secure locations.

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• LazyBear — LazyBear is a Web3 cryptocurrency trading platform with no thresholds and industry-low costs.

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• OpenPad AI — OpenPad - The 1st AI Decentralized Launchpad
• Stabble — Stabble is the first frictionless exchange protocol on Solana that eliminates financial losses for all DeFi users.
• AI Cross Matrix — AI Cross Matrix is a DeFi platform that makes the crypto economy simple by streamlining the exchange process with useful solutions.

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• Kapkap — Kapkap is a web3 platform that uses AI for attention based value distribution in gaming.
• PERPTools — PERPTools combines crypto perpetual trading with activity points and risk-free market predictions.
• Open Campus — The Open Campus is a community-driven protocol that leverages the power of blockchain and invites all to build the future of education by putting the power of learning back in the hands of educators, students, and the community.

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• LazyBear — LazyBear is a Web3 cryptocurrency trading platform with no thresholds and industry-low costs.

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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, 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,

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• Solana — Solana is the high performance network powering internet capital markets, payments, and crypto applications. Fast. Decentralized. Scalable. Energy efficient. Solana can power thousands of transactions per second.
• Saturn — Onchain Structured Digital Credit | Disciples of @Saylor | Incubated by @YZiLabs | Backed by @AD_VenturesX @SoraVentures @TheSpartanGroup
• THEA-AI — AI that amplifies human performance

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• Predicate — Policy for blockchain applications
• Astria — The easiest way to deploy decentralized rollups.
• SpaceComputer — SpaceComputer uses satellites to create a secure blockchain system that resists cyberattacks and physical tampering.

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• Utexo — Instant, private USDT payments on Bitcoin. Move stablecoins the way you move money.
• Oh Gamers — Gamer-centric, leading Web2 gamers into the Web3 world!
• Ink Finance — Ink Finance is the scalability solution for web3 DAOs, protocols and asset managers, enabling them to customize asset management and governance frameworks through a no-code interface, to effectively establish on-chain credit and financial competence. Ink Finance allows a one-stop and frictionless solution for organized financial activities, with scalability and customizability.

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• Ubirator — Ubirator is a waste management service for reasonable business.
• ML One — The solutions offered by ML One will allow producing from all sidetracks of a multilateral well and enable precise re-entry into the mainbore and laterals during production. We offer solutions suitable for new wells and existing multilateral wells with casing strings of any size.
• Drone Solutions — Drone Solutions provides a semi-automatic complex for the protection of the object 24/7 from the air.

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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
• ConsenSys — Build next-generation apps, launch blockchain-based financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web with ConsenSys' Ethereum product suite.

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• LazyBear — LazyBear is a Web3 cryptocurrency trading platform with no thresholds and industry-low costs.

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• LazyBear — LazyBear is a Web3 cryptocurrency trading platform with no thresholds and industry-low costs.

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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.

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• Platim — Platim provides payment solutions to freelancers and self-employed individuals. Their platform offers payment acceptance services to freelancers and self-employed individuals for accepting Russian and foreign payments, along with purchase receipts, return checks, correction checks, checkout limit balancing, and cash desk rental, enabling users toaccess a marketplace for advertising.

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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".

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• UNXD — UNXD is a curated NFT marketplace for the best of digital luxury and culture. Featuring NFTs from Dolce&Gabbana, Jacob & Co., and more.
• DeNet — DeNet connects computers, and devices into a single network creating a database of hundreds of thousands of devices, accessing unlimited storage and processing
• Agoric — Agoric is a framework that provides security and ease in programming smart contracts, beyond anything available today. Agoric’s mission is to provide a secure smart contracts framework to the entire blockchain ecosystem. With Agoric, which makes it easier to build and deploy smart contracts in JavaScript, millions of programmers worldwide will havesafer, simpler tools to build smart contracts and applications. In addition, composability enables rapid development and competitive advantage. With secure smart contracts, we envision unprecedented, widespread forms of global cooperation, and entrepreneurs creating fundamentally new businesses enabled by digital assets. Agoric is here to make that opportunity a reality.The Agoric team includes world-class technologists, economists, business leaders and community builders on a quest to bring smart contracts into the future. Members of the Agoric team have been professional collaborators in smart contracts technology for over 30 years, and have now reunited to enact this mission. Agoric has collaborated with Cosmos and other well-known projects, and is backed by Outlier Ventures, Kilowatt Capital, gumi Cryptos Capital, MetaStable Capital, Lemniscap, Xpring, Rockaway Blockchain and the Interchain Foundation, as well as additional funding from Naval Ravikant and Polychain.