# Dmitry Alimov

> Dmitry Alimov is a Series B investor at Frontier Ventures backing Internet and Marketplace. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Frontier Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frontier-ventures)
- Location: Cupertino, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://ru.linkedin.com/in/dalimov
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/thefrontierman
- Website: http://about.me/alimov
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alimov

Dmitry Alimov is a Series B investor at Frontier Ventures in Cupertino focused on Internet and Marketplace. Tech VC and entrepreneur. Founder of Frontier Ventures. Investing in early stage artificial intelligence companies (mostly Seed and Series A) in the United States and globally. Co-founder of ivi.tv

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 4 | 31% |
| Marketplace | 4 | 31% |
| Software | 3 | 23% |
| Video | 2 | 15% |
| Travel | 2 | 15% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 4 | 31% |
| Seed | 2 | 15% |
| Series A | 2 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 15% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Russian Federation | 5 | 38% |
| United States | 3 | 23% |
| Australia | 1 | 8% |
| Singapore | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Equi | Our mission is to provide investors the diversification benefits of consistent, alpha-driven absolute returns across market regimes. It was founded in 2020 and is based in New York, NY | $15M | Series A | Oct 03, 2022 |  |
| Turing | Turing.com connects world-class remote software engineers with world-class companies. 200+ companies, including those backed by Google Ventures, Andreessen, Founders Fund, Kleiner, and Bloomberg, have hired Turing developers. Over 1M+ developers from across 150+ countries have chosen Turing as their preferred platform for landing remote jobs. | $87M | Series D | Oct 04, 2021 |  |
| Turing | Turing.com connects world-class remote software engineers with world-class companies. 200+ companies, including those backed by Google Ventures, Andreessen, Founders Fund, Kleiner, and Bloomberg, have hired Turing developers. Over 1M+ developers from across 150+ countries have chosen Turing as their preferred platform for landing remote jobs. | $32M | Series B | Sep 14, 2020 |  |
| Turing | Turing.com connects world-class remote software engineers with world-class companies. 200+ companies, including those backed by Google Ventures, Andreessen, Founders Fund, Kleiner, and Bloomberg, have hired Turing developers. Over 1M+ developers from across 150+ countries have chosen Turing as their preferred platform for landing remote jobs. |  | Seed | Apr 14, 2020 |  |
| Expert360 | Expert360 is APAC’s marketplace and management platform powering the freelance economy. The platform enables top freelance consultants, contractors and experts to easily connect with APAC’s largest businesses to perform high quality, project orientated work. Expert360’s platform allows enterprise to respond quickly to the resource demands of thebusiness while streamlining the source-to-pay freelance management life cycle at scale. | $8.8M | Series B | Jul 16, 2017 |  |
| Storyhunter | Storyhunter is an online platform connecting media companies and brands with the world's top freelance journalists and filmmakers. For media companies, brands, and NGO's, we make it simple to find, hire, and pay freelancers anywhere for any kind of production. For journalists, filmmakers, production companies, agencies, we connect youwith some of the most interesting and rewarding opportunities on the planet.Storyhunter is based in San Francisco and NYC | $4.2M | Seed | Mar 29, 2017 |  |
| Ivi | Ivi is a Russia-based video-on-demand platform that brings the traditional television experience online with a free video player that is secure, scalable, portable (accessible by any internet connected computer), and flexible for both broadcasters and viewers.Ivi creates opportunities for desktop and independent content producers to create livestreaming channels. ivi also provides mainstream broadcasters with new audiences and revenue opportunities. | $3.5M | Secondary Market | Sep 25, 2015 |  |
| Expert360 | Expert360 is APAC’s marketplace and management platform powering the freelance economy. The platform enables top freelance consultants, contractors and experts to easily connect with APAC’s largest businesses to perform high quality, project orientated work. Expert360’s platform allows enterprise to respond quickly to the resource demands of thebusiness while streamlining the source-to-pay freelance management life cycle at scale. | $2.7M | Series A | Jul 20, 2015 |  |
| Chope | Chope is a website that enables users to find and reserve restaurants in Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Bangkok, Phuket, Jakarta, and Bali through the company’s www.chope.co, mobile apps, and plug-ins.The company offers two solutions for restaurants: a sophisticated table management system that integrates customer relationshipmanagement functions and a lighter browser-based platform. Both provide restaurants real-time control over their online availability.In addition to online reservations, it also provides diners with in-house editorials, a summary of press coverage, menus, pricing, and operational information for the listed restaurants. It also serves as an additional marketing channel for client restaurants via an active social media team and targeted offline marketing initiatives.Chope was launched by Arrif Ziaudeen and Clowie Tan in June 2011 and is based in Singapore. | $8M | Series C | Jun 29, 2015 |  |
| Eruditor Group | Eruditor Group is an online marketplace provider for freelancers and businesses in sectors including healthcare, beauty, sports and tutoring. It currently operates under several brands, including Infodoctor, Kracemasters and Vash Repetitor, offering services to professionals and businesses in all major cities in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. | $12M | Series B | Sep 02, 2013 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AltaIR Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altair) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Brainstorm Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brainstorm-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Vesey Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/company-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Foundation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundation-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Plug and Play](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plug-and-play-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Rampersand](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rampersand) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Frontier Ventures

VC Fund · Cupertino, United States

Frontier Ventures invests in early stage Internet companies with network effects and connects them with global markets. The Frontier Ventures team is based in Silicon Valley (US) and makes investments globally.

4 contacts available at Frontier Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dmitry Alimov | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dmitry-alimov |
| Jason Downes | Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-downes |
| Igor Gorsky | CFO, Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/igor-gorsky |
| Oleg Tumanov | Venture partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oleg-tumanov |

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## FAQ

### What does Dmitry Alimov invest in?

Dmitry Alimov invests primarily in Internet, Marketplace and Software startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Russian Federation. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Dmitry Alimov last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dmitry Alimov closed in Oct 2022. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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