# Russia Partners

> Russia Partners is a VC fund in Moscow backing Software, Fashion and Database. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Russian Federation
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jul 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/5036848?trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Acompany%2CclickedEntityId%3A5036848%2Cidx%3A2-1-2%2CtarId%3A1469532671702%2Ctas%3ARussia%20Partners
- Website: http://www.russiapartners.com

Russia Partners is a VC fund in Moscow focused on Software and Fashion. Russia Partners, a pioneer in private equity investing in Russia and the CIS, has over $1 billion of assets under management. The firm, one of the oldest and largest private equity firms in Russia and the CIS, consists of a highly-specialized team of approximately 20 investment professionals and approximately 40 total employees in two offices(Moscow and New York). The senior investment professionals combine high levels of education and on-the-ground work experience in Russia with advanced Western education and experience with Western firms. Since its founding in 1991, Russia Partners has become the leader in attracting and managing long-term private equity investments from U.S. and foreign institutional investors into the region. The firm has managed investments in more than 60 companies since its inception, the most notable of which include MTV Russia, EPAM Systems, Syktyvkar Pulp & Paper, MDM Bank, Orient Express Bank, Parallels, MD Medical Group, Invitro and KupiVIP. Russia Partners’ success has come from its focus on supporting management and entrepreneurs of growing businesses, not only with capital, but also with unique insight, experience and perspective. Russia Partners views its entrepreneurs as long-term partners, and strives to ensure the ultimate long-term success and viability of their business. Russia Partners is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Siguler Guff & Company, LP, a multi-strategy private equity investment firm serving corporate and public employee benefit plans, endowments, corporations, government agencies, financial institutions, family offices and high net worth individuals. Siguler Guff and its affiliates, which have over $10.0 billion in assets under management, invest opportunistically in sectors of market inefficiency.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| Fashion | 1 | 17% |
| Database | 1 | 17% |
| Internet | 1 | 17% |
| Shopping | 1 | 17% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 33% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 33% |
| Series B | 1 | 17% |
| Series C | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 33% |
| Russian Federation | 2 | 33% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Maximum Education | Maximum Education is an education and technology company that delivers educational services and products to students and partners. It was founded in 2013 by Michael Magkov, Pavel Belorusskiy, and Alexey Chalimov. Maximum Education is headquartered in Moscow, Russian Federation. | $6.8M | Series B | Jul 24, 2019 |  |
| Maximum Education | Maximum Education is an education and technology company that delivers educational services and products to students and partners. It was founded in 2013 by Michael Magkov, Pavel Belorusskiy, and Alexey Chalimov. Maximum Education is headquartered in Moscow, Russian Federation. |  | Series A | Feb 11, 2015 |  |
| Plesk | Plesk is a WebOps platform to run, automate, and grow applications, websites, and hosting businesses.Plesk allows its users to create cloud-based web applications and websites for SMEs and it secures their applications and websites automatically. The company offers its users with solutions such as shared hosting, WordPress management, WebOpsfor developers, and infrastructure for providers.Plesk is headquartered in Switzerland and has 6 global offices including Toronto/CA, Cologne/DE, Barcelona/DE, Tokyo/JP and Novosibrisk/RU |  |  | Jun 26, 2013 |  |
| Odin | Odin provides the software that powers the cloud ecosystem, from small and local hosters to some of the world’s largest telecommunication companies. By partnering with Odin, service providers gain access to industry expertise, a catalog of the most in-demand cloud applications, and the most comprehensive selection of software including web servermanagement, server virtualization, provisioning, and billing automation. |  |  | Jan 01, 2013 |  |
| RethinkDB | RethinkDB is the first open-source scalable database for the realtime web. It exposes an exciting new access model -- instead of polling for changes, the developer can tell the database to continuously push updated query results to applications in realtime. RethinkDB allows developer to build scalable realtime apps in a fraction of the time withfewer engineering resources.RethinkDB features a pleasant and powerful query language that has useful queries like table joins and groupBy, a highly parallelized architecture, and web tools for managing clusters. | $3M | Series A | Sep 16, 2011 |  |
| KupiVIP | KupiVIP is a Russian online fashion retailer selling discounted fashion and home goods from high-street and luxury brands. It has grown rapidly to become a household name in Russia, with 6 million customers. The online fashion retailer hosts up to 20 private online flash sales every day.KupiVIP was launched in 2008 by Vladimir Kholyaznikov,Mikhail Konoplev, and Oskar Hartmann. It is based in Moscow, Russia. | $55M | Series C | Apr 14, 2011 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Russia Partners invest in?

Russia Partners invests primarily in Software, Fashion and Database startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Russia Partners last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Russia Partners closed in Jul 2019. Shizune tracks 6 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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