Egor Gurev
Angel Investor
Perm, Russian Federation
Egor Gurev is a seed investor in Perm focused on Video Games and Information Technology. Started my first IT business in 2009. With the team of talented experts in development, marketing, sales, and business development launched Enaza - a platform for carriers to increase their value-added services by offering games, music, software to the carrier customers. Sold this business to Softline in 2017.Co-founder of Playkey - a cloudgaming platform, that helps people to play computer games on low-end computers and laptops. Acquired great expertise from 2013 on cloud gaming and streaming technologies.Specialties: Marketing, Internet projects, business administration, cloud gaming, games, and digital distribution.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 20%
Last updated:
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Industries Egor Gurev invests in
Stages Egor Gurev invests in
Countries Egor Gurev invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $369k–$1M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Video Games 2 (40%)
- Information Technology 2 (40%)
- Gaming 1 (20%)
- Software 1 (20%)
- Cloud Computing 1 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (60%)
- Series B 1 (20%)
Country
- United Kingdom 2 (40%)
- Russian Federation 1 (20%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Online B2B platform for managing your employees and contractors in one place. Payroll, KYC, onboarding and paperwork automatization services. | $1M / Seed / Apr 11, 2025 | ||
| We are at Rokky creating a digital games platform, helping game developers and publishers to officially distribute their games worldwide. We have integrated with 150+ game stores and 30+ game publishers. | $500K / Seed / Feb 24, 2022 | ||
| Playkey is a breakthrough technology that enables a high-quality gaming experience for users, regardless of the type of device they have (smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, and even outdated, low-performance equipment). Our adaptive game streaming protocol is driven by AI and based on decentralized infrastructure, achieving a significant reductionin the cost of delivery for content providers and low latency for end-users. Playkey Streaming Protocol enables FullHD picture at 120 frames per second and latency of 4 ms. Playkey is a cloud gaming solution, invented to make all hardcore games available on any device (Smart TV, PC, Mac, IPTV set-top-box, gaming console, tablet) without requirements to high productivity CPU and GPU. Playkey service is based on streaming technology when the game is launched on a server and streamed to the end-user device. Users just need a device capable to display the video streams and a broadband internet connection of 4mbps+. Adaptive bit rate used to personalize stream to high speed and low broadband speed customers. To play the game you just need a controller (gamepad, keyboard, or mouse) and download a small plugin on your device. Playkey mission is to make games available everywhere and for everybody. | $2.5M / Series B / Dec 28, 2018 | ||
| Playkey is a breakthrough technology that enables a high-quality gaming experience for users, regardless of the type of device they have (smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, and even outdated, low-performance equipment). Our adaptive game streaming protocol is driven by AI and based on decentralized infrastructure, achieving a significant reductionin the cost of delivery for content providers and low latency for end-users. Playkey Streaming Protocol enables FullHD picture at 120 frames per second and latency of 4 ms. Playkey is a cloud gaming solution, invented to make all hardcore games available on any device (Smart TV, PC, Mac, IPTV set-top-box, gaming console, tablet) without requirements to high productivity CPU and GPU. Playkey service is based on streaming technology when the game is launched on a server and streamed to the end-user device. Users just need a device capable to display the video streams and a broadband internet connection of 4mbps+. Adaptive bit rate used to personalize stream to high speed and low broadband speed customers. To play the game you just need a controller (gamepad, keyboard, or mouse) and download a small plugin on your device. Playkey mission is to make games available everywhere and for everybody. | $580.6K / Seed / Mar 31, 2016 | ||
| Playkey is a breakthrough technology that enables a high-quality gaming experience for users, regardless of the type of device they have (smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, and even outdated, low-performance equipment). Our adaptive game streaming protocol is driven by AI and based on decentralized infrastructure, achieving a significant reductionin the cost of delivery for content providers and low latency for end-users. Playkey Streaming Protocol enables FullHD picture at 120 frames per second and latency of 4 ms. Playkey is a cloud gaming solution, invented to make all hardcore games available on any device (Smart TV, PC, Mac, IPTV set-top-box, gaming console, tablet) without requirements to high productivity CPU and GPU. Playkey service is based on streaming technology when the game is launched on a server and streamed to the end-user device. Users just need a device capable to display the video streams and a broadband internet connection of 4mbps+. Adaptive bit rate used to personalize stream to high speed and low broadband speed customers. To play the game you just need a controller (gamepad, keyboard, or mouse) and download a small plugin on your device. Playkey mission is to make games available everywhere and for everybody. | $369.4K / Seed / Aug 20, 2015 |
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FAQ
What does Egor Gurev invest in?
Egor Gurev invests primarily in Video Games, Information Technology and Gaming startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Egor Gurev invest in?
Egor Gurev typically joins rounds of $369k–$1M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Egor Gurev's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Egor Gurev took part in.
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When did Egor Gurev last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Egor Gurev closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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