Top 45 Real Estate Startup Investors in Russian Federation (September 2026)

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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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• Ivitech — IVITECH financial platform works in SEA region and develop unique scoring models for risk evaluation and risk management.
• TraceAir — Construction platform providing drone flights, 3D mapping, analytics, and data processing services to accelerate site work.
• iFarm — Technologies to grow fresh vegetables, berries and greens

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• MFPay — Secure cryptocurrency payment management for businesses
• Puzzle PropTech — Puzzle PropTech is working on an AI virtual assistant to construct houses.
• Darkstore at Home — Darkstore at Home is a solution for organizing hyperlocal delivery.

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• Abc Doc — Abc Doc is a web-based service that recognizes bureaucratic letters, provides a summary, and suggests next steps.
• GuestReady — Premium Airbnb Management Service for your vacation rental. Maximise your revenues and become a Superhost with GuestReady's 5* property management service.
• Vecna Robotics — Vecna Robotics is the leading autonomous mobile robot (AMR) company that provides logistics automation and workflow optimization solutions.

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• FOODZA — Foodza is a B2B food-distribution platform that connects farmers, food producers and importers directly with Retail and HoReCa businesses across CIS region. We are creating an innovative technology-driven logistics platform that enables on-demand harvesting of vegetables, fruits and also meat and dairy production. Foodza provides mobile-app andweb-based interfaces that help farmers interact directly with retailers in a fast and easy way, and we also manage "door-to-door" logistics and fulfillment solutions inspired by the on-demand power of internet applications. Our mission is to remove all middlemen in the food supply industry, return farmers higher income and provide retailers with higher quality fresh produce.
• Tnomer — Tnomer is a home renovation service provider. The company offers ready-made repair solutions. It also carries out architectural and technical supervision in the process and at the end of the work.
• Car Next Door — Hire a car, van or ute from our community of local car owners, or rent out your car and make extra money. Peer-to-peer car share in Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle.

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• IGdesign — IGdesign is a furniture company. Their product categories such as cushioned furniture, cabinet furniture, chairs, tables, storage, decor items, beds, cabinet furniture, cushioned furniture, mirrors, children's beds, beds and cradles, children's chests of drawers, children's tables, children's chairs, and carpets for children.

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• Efeks Company Group — Efex is a dynamically developing group of engineering companies that has been operating in the market since 2008 in the field of investment and construction project management. Efex Group of Companies carries out a comprehensive implementation of turnkey projects in the civil, energy, infrastructure and industrial construction sectors, and alsoprovides certain professional services.

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• Arevo — Arevo enables ultrastrong, lightweight continuous carbon fiber products on demand.
• Perfobur — Perfobur – a next-gen radial drilling technology that provides a new life to old and marginal oil wells. Perfobur gets access to oil rich side pockets by drilling up to 50m long horizontal perforation channels. The only radial drilling technology available in sandstones (50%+ of wells). 100% controlled trajectory of channels solves a majoremergency risk problem of state of the art jet drilling.
• Welldone — WE MAKE DELICIOUS, NUTRITIOUS AND AFFORDABLE PLANT-BASED MEAT. AND WE ARE GOING WELL. Plant-based meat producer leveraging strong R&D and sourcing in Russia. We are building brand #1 in country to cater plant-based meat to 140+ mln people and to expand abroad. Targeting to reach price parity with meat in 2022 to address the wider consumeraudience.

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• Domopult — Domopult” is more than just a program to ensure the operation of a management company or homeowners ’association, it’s a single system that solves all the above tasks simultaneously, transferring management to a new, modern level. Designed for all forms of property management, it is equally suitable for managing an apartment building as it is for acottage village or residential complex.

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• Refin.online — Refin.online provides a range of services, including mortgage, refinancing, insurance, and more. The company offers programs for self-employed people and families with mortgages. The company supports mortgage refinancing at the most affordable rate, lower monthly payments, or accelerate repayment time.
• Proaction.pro — Proaction testing system was developed based on the experience of domestic HR experts in banking, telecommunications, commercial, construction and other industries.

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• Armut — Armut is the leading local services marketplace in Turkey, focusing on home improvement, moving and cleaning.
• Native Commerce — Grow your business with Jiffy SaaS platform which includes app/website, picking, delivery, supply chain & replenishment services
• Native Commerce — A unified e-commerce platform combining CMS, OMS, WMS, Delivery & Logistics to help modern retailers operate, scale & deliver great e-commerce experiences.

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• Tough Commerce — White-label commerce solutions for merchants, distributors, suppliers and manufacturers in complex industries such as construction. Touch Commerce provide operation management, dispatch, e-commerce, customer portal, trucking, delivery and finance solutions to complex industries.
• PapaJobs — PapaJobs offers a hiring app for blue-collars in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
• GdeMaterial — GdeMaterial - DIY marketplace operates a DIY marketplace which provides quick delivery of any materials. DIY marketplace that helps to customer find the closest shop with best prices and order delivery.

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• Zyfra — We are IIoT & AI solutions provider. No hype, but the real thing.
• Profilum — Profilum is an educational technology company that offers innovative career counseling methodologies and IT solutions to teenagers. The company is working on a service that will help school-age children determine the best educational and professional path for them. They assist teenagers in recognizing new opportunities and selecting appropriateprofessions, and parents assist them along the way. It helps schools build systematic professional navigation work and get high results.
• Urent — Micro-mobility company based in Russia with 30k scooters. Urent is an e-scooter and bike-sharing service provider of e-scooter and bikes for public transportation and urban mobility.

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• GeoJet — Geojet is a marketing tool for promotion of business on online maps and review services.
• Botkin.AI — Botkin.AI is a software-based platform for medical image processing and analysis based on artificial intelligence. The Company provides AI for analyzing radiograms and diagnosing the risk of tumors. The solution is based on deep machine learning. Botkin.AI significantly expands the radiologists’ ability to diagnose tumors and speeds up theprocessing of an increased flow of the patient’s clinical data without losing the quality of medical conclusions.It was founded in 2015 and is based in Moscow, Russian.
• MEL Science — MEL Science is an educational startup focused to change early science education with a combination of up-to date technologies and hands on experience. Our main products are monthly subscription to chemistry kits and chemistry lessons in VR for schools.

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• Manufaqtury — Manufaqtury and developer of an office management platform intended to build and develop built-to-suit spaces. They create, repair, and purchase office furniture. The platform of the company is enabling for medium-sized businesses and corporations.

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• SimpleEstate — SimpleEstate is a commercial real estate investment platform that allows any investor to invest in professionally selected properties through a collective investment mechanism to obtain a stable rental income and increase capital

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• Nooah — AI companion with memory of your life. Every morning tells you what matters. Start in Telegram in 2 minutes.
• Uplify — Uplify makes it easy for any streamers to monetize their content as their audience grows and create new authentic content your followers will love.
• Monetization Solutions, Inc. — Monetizr™ is a turn-key solution enabling game developers and game IP holders to sell personalized game gear from inside the game’s UI and create meta-experiences for high-value players. Give players more than they expect!★ Platform to design, import, and control product inventory, launch, and manage campaigns in real-time. ★ A technologysolution that enables a to sell personalized game gear or give away physical rewards right from the game itself. ★ Support for multi-languages and multi-currencies with the most popular payment methods, including ApplePay, GooglePay, CreditCards, PayPal, Bitcoin. ★ Handling product procurement, fulfillment, legal compliance, and customer support for you. ★ Knowledge-base with the best campaign tactics recommendations to enhance the experience for your most high-value players.We've increased customer lifetime value (CLTV) by up to 25% and our conversion rates are as high as 10.6%. Today we're working with more than 30 game publishers, reaching 17 million monthly active users. Monetizr is focused on Mobile Games - the fastest growing (29% YoY) segment of the gaming industry with 41% of market share and $56.4 Billion dollars spent on digital currencies annually.Learn more at www.themonetizr.com

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• Sqore — Smart Recruitment - Automate the process between your job ad and the first interview.Increase screening efficiencyEfficiently screen your candidates based on their skills and motivation - automagically - regardless of number of candidates.Deepen candidate engagementEngage today’s generation of candidates through rewarding experiencesand allow them to get insights into your company before the interview.Lower your hiring costsWe don't charge per candidate. Evaluate 100,000 candidates at the same cost as 100 - no need to limit yourself in the search for new talent.
• Labster — Labster empowers educators to reimagine their science courses with immersive online simulations. Request a demo to discover how Labster engages students, trains lab skills, and accelerates learning.
• HappyOrNot — With HappyOrNot you learn when, where and why customers are happy or not. Take action and improve with real-time customer feedback insights.

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• SODIS Lab — SODIS Lab (earlier NPO SODIS) is a company that provides its customers with services for buildings and constructions monitoring, security measures, and software development. The leader for BIM development in Russia (the best BIM-company 2014, named by Autodesk). The designer of all monitoring and security systems for SOCHI 2014 venues and FIFA 2018World Championship stadiums.The company is the leader in the domain of structures and buildings security and SHM systems development in Russia. SODIS Lab is one of the first participants of Skolkovo foundation project.SODIS Lab, has its base in 7 years of research towards the technologies in structural monitoring. From 1998 to 2005 the experts of the company have studied the gathering of objective data concerning structural sustainability, structural age, and deterioration of civil structures such as buildings. These research results permit the creation of safety reports for a diverse range of civil structures.The experience and skills of the SODIS LAB team allowed for the development of many breakthrough technologies in building and construction monitoring. The systems of SODIS LAB were adopted in the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics venues, FIFA 2018 venues, many high-rise buildings of the Moscow International Business Center "Moskva-City" and many other structures.
• ThermoLaser — ThermoLaser is an innovative company working in the field of laser technology in mechanical engineering. We are developers and manufacturers of industrial laser systems for heat hardening, surfacing, welding.The company provides comprehensive engineering services to machine-building enterprises for the introduction of laser technologies inproduction cycles, adapting production technology for these tasks.

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• Tochno — Tochno is a construction technology company that provides IT solutions to digitize the entire construction process to increase efficiency.

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• Planoplan — Planoplan is an apartment on site.
• reMYNd — reMYnd is an evidence-based brain health program for adults aged 40 to 65, built around four things: Move, Eat, Think and Connect.
• Urban Inventors — Urban Inventors is a patented storm water inlet retrofit which intercepts litter to reduce blockages, with the option of IoT monitoring.

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• STRGY AI — The strategy was never the problem. The evidence was correct, sitting in someone's hands, and it died anyway because nothing in the organization was built to carry that evidence from where it was seen to where it could be acted on, and keep it alive long enough to matter. Not a bad plan. Not bad people. A structural gap between signal andauthority that every existing tool — decks, dashboards, status meetings — is too static and too easy to ignore to actually close.STRGY exists because that gap is the default state of every organization above a certain size, and closing it has always required either a heroic individual repeating themselves for years or luck (the corporate pilot needed one person to remember "do not drop this" at the right moment, and no one did). That's not a strategy problem to solve with a better framework — it's an infrastructure problem. You need something that holds the signal, doesn't forget it, doesn't get bored repeating it, and resurfaces it automatically the moment the gap between evidence and action starts to widen. That's what a human can't do reliably at scale, and what software with real memory can.
• Amplifiles — Amplifiles is a PropTech startup that turns real estate listing photos into fully branded, high-quality videos in minute, no filming or editing required. Our video engine helps agents, photographers, and marketplaces boost engagement, generate more leads, and unlock new revenue streams.
• Bahn Express — Bahn Express is a global car transportation company that supports independent contractors while offering quick and easy auto shipping throughout Europe.

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• Edgify — Edgify runs product recognition, loss prevention and real-time store intelligence on the retail hardware you already own. 8,000+ devices, 2,042 stores, 12 countries.
• Sifflet — You make important business decision based on your data. Sifflet ensures the data is reliable, traceable and easy to navigate.
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• Intento — Machine Translation and multilingual Generative AI platform for global businesses. We deliver immediate, tailored, and personalized language experience in all the software systems your customers and teammates already use, supporting over 650 languages.
• Kodland — We teach children a practical skill that will be useful in the future: computer literacy creation of sites and games, programming. Classes are held online, and instead of boring tests, children create real projects.
• SimpleEstate — SimpleEstate is a commercial real estate investment platform that allows any investor to invest in professionally selected properties through a collective investment mechanism to obtain a stable rental income and increase capital

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• Imot.io — Imot.io converts phone calls to text, determines the reasons for appeals, recognizes customer emotions, and alerts employees when they make mistakes. The call database contains information about lead generation and missed sales. It enables one to assess how well staff are able to handle disputes. It enables people to prevent clients from switchingto competitors.
• Neatsy.ai — Access top orthopedic surgeons virtually for you and your family. Expert guidance, virtual consultations, and comprehensive support from injury to full recovery at a reasonable cost.
• Proaction.pro — Proaction testing system was developed based on the experience of domestic HR experts in banking, telecommunications, commercial, construction and other industries.

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• Adwisely — Automate Facebook and Google ads for your Shopify store with AI. Get 6x ROAS. Trusted by 1,000+ Shopify brands. Install Adwisely and set up in minutes.
• Pitchly — Freakishly fast & perfectly consistent document solutions because we're different than everyone else. Click, if you want to learn more.
• Collectly — Collectly is an innovative tool for practices that want to demystify the medical billing process and boost patient collection rates. Collectly helps healthcare organizations collect patient payments, automate, and streamline internal revenue cycle operations, and elevate the patient financial experience. It also helps hospitals and health systemsboost self-pay and after-insurance-responsibility engagement.

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• Particle.One — Particle AI captures and processes structured and unstructured data for commodity market participants, translating data into actionable intelligence.
• Eat Mubarak — Eat Mubarak is Pakistan's fastest-growing, SaaS-based, digital food ordering and delivery platform. Currently operational in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad & Hyderabad with more than 3,000 restaurants on-board.Eat Mubarak provides strategic services to partner restaurants, enabling them to concentrate on coreactivities, such as: Omni channel ordering solutions: Facebook, App, and Website- White-label app / website solutions - POS integration solutions - Fulfillment solutions with nationwide coverage
• Via.Delivery — Powering pureplay e-commerce to deliver at a fraction of the cost of traditional carriers

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• 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.
• HomeMe.ru — We make furniture available as much as possible in Russia today: eliminate all the links that increase the price of goods.No rental stores, expensive advertising and pay vendors. We are manufacturers of furniture, not speculators. With its factories, we bring your savings up to 50% of the competitors' prices! Every day we make furniture moreaccessible, saving you money - spend it better for themselves.

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• ROBOTECH — ROBOTECH is an engineering firm that specializes in the design and implementation of high-performance automated machinery for businesses in a variety of industries.
• UAV & Drone Solutions — UDS - UAV and Drone Services - expert solutions for aerial mapping, inspections, security & data capture. Get custom drone solutions now!
• Drone Solutions — Drone Solutions provides a semi-automatic complex for the protection of the object 24/7 from the air.

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• Vien — Vien is a provider of automated translation services of large volumes of video in HD quality in guaranteed time at the lowest price.
• Tango Vision — One platform for wayfinding, maintenance, leases, equipment and sensors, all on a single model of the building. Runs in your cloud or on your own servers.
• Automatica — Automatica is a Corporate messenger with a chat bot and artificial intelligence for employees without stationary jobs.

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• HomeBro — HomeBro is a free robot assistant company in your messenger that operates in the real estate industry, and it is an AI chatbot helping to find apartments.

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• Remont Fm — Remont FM offers renovation of apartments, home renovation, designer renovation of apartments, draught apartment renovation, and interior design services. It is an apartment renovation service provider. For inquiries, email, telephone numbers, and physical addresses are available on their website.
• Stock Pro — Stock Pro is a stock management company. They advertising of spare parts and sale of spare parts. The application will then use big data to set the best prices for parts so that the seller does not waste time and profit.

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• Bairro Direct — Bairro developed a mobile application that allows fast delivery of supermarket products, food, and essential goods in the heart of the Portuguese capital, available between 10 am to 12 pm, ensuring that the user experience is always of high quality, regardless of the type of product desired or delivery time.
• Agoprene — Agoprene develops a seaweed-based rubber material with properties similar to rubber foam (skumgummi).
• Boomerangme — Digital loyalty cards for your business - give bonuses to regular customers, send personal offers by free push-notifications. App for iOS / Android.

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• Yandex — Yandex is a multinational technology company that provides internet-related services and operates a search engine platform in Russia. It is one of the largest internet companies in Europe, operating Russia’s most popular search engine and its most visited website.According to LiveInternet, for the three months ended September 30, 2015, theygenerated 57.1% of all search traffic in Russia. They also operate in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Turkey.
• StoreDot — StoreDot develops battery technology that supports extreme-fast charging for electric vehicles and related uses. The company focuses on silicon-dominant lithium-ion cells designed to deliver a significant driving range with only a few minutes of charging. StoreDot provides sample cells to automotive manufacturers and collaborates with industrypartners to explore the integration of its technology into future vehicle platforms. The company also advances research aimed at reducing charging times further while maintaining performance characteristics.
• Weedingtech — Foamstream by Weedingtech is the leading herbicide-free solution for controlling unwanted vegetation, combining heat with our patented biodegradable foam.

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• Tiggy — 15 minute grocery delivery on a mission to forever change the way we buy everyday essentials. Now live in Vancouver
• Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
• MoonAI Inc — MoonAI enables businesses to deploy no-code AI agents—referred to as “AI salespersons”—within one day, with no installation cost. These agents automate lead qualification, escalate warm leads to managers, schedule meetings, and integrate with CRMs, messaging platforms.The solution operates 24/7, supports multiple languages (includingRussian, English, and informal Kazakh), and processes customer interactions in just seconds. It has helped companies double the volume of processed inquiries, reduce response times from minutes to seconds, and even autonomously close a portion of leads—all while reducing sales team workload and improving customer satisfaction.

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• Butler — Butler is a proptech company that provides apartment building management services such as maintenance and improvement of local areas.

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• NFCkey — NFCkey is a smart door locks company that ensures secure exchange with encrypted digital key through mobile app using NFC technology.

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• Traive — Traive is an ag-fintech that unlocks credit to farmers by connecting them to lenders and providing ML-based credit risk assessment and monitoring. Traive brings farmers state-of-the-art technology to offer a novel and fair credit risk assessment, opening the door for affordable funding for their businesses. For lenders, Traive provides adifferentiated analysis applied over alternative farming and individual data, while allowing access to a much larger and diversified portfolio of borrowers.
• GPU AUDIO — GPU Audio's Early Access program is a free community for users and developers to be part of the benchmarking process for new audio plugins and technology. GPU Audio is the world's only full-stack solution for powering the future of audio using the power of modern GPUs like NVIDIA and AMD.
• GoalProfit — GoalProfit is the world’s first low code retail optimization platform empowering retailers to build customized intelligence applications. It was founded by former IBM executives, Maxim Morozov and Oleg Sidorkin. GoalProfit is on a mission to make big data solutions available for all retailers and help them to survive in a new post-covid reality.

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• Zalando — Zalando is a European online fashion platform- offering a broad assortment of fashion for men, women and children. It carries over 1.500 brands and over 150.000 product choices for over 17 million customers in 15 countries. By constantly optimising its processes and platform offerings, using its e-commerce expertise and lots of can-do spirit,Zalando have become Europe's leading online fashion retailer in only a few years. Its goal is to create the world’s best online fashion experience. The cores of its business are what the company focuses on, always striving to be cutting-edge in fashion, technology, marketing, and logistics. Zalando SE in Berlin is the group’s centrepiece which focuses on the development of its core product: the online shopping experience. Zalando SE operates the international business and takes care of their business development. Zalando SE comprises functions like the management, marketing, administration, and technology.
• Oda — Oda is an online grocery retailer that provides door-to-door delivery services. It offers a huge range of fresh produce groceries to millions of doorsteps. Using the data-driven methodology, with a focus on sustainability all the way along the chain, the company aims to build an efficient retail system in the world. The company was founded in2013 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.
• Global Fashion Group — Global Fashion Group (GFG) is the leading fashion and lifestyle destination in LATAM, SEA & ANZ.

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• VEON — VEON is a Nasdaq-listed digital operator headquartered in Dubai that provides converged connectivity and digital services to nearly 160 million customers. Operating across six countries that are home to more than 7% of the world’s population, VEON is transforming lives through technology-driven services that empower individuals and drive economicgrowth. For more information visit: www.veon.com
• Veon — Veon is an international communications and technology company, headquartered in Amsterdam, and driven by a vision to unlock new opportunities for customers as they navigate the digital world. Present in some of the world’s most dynamic markets, Veon provides more than 200 million customers with voice, fixed broadband, data and digital services.Veon’s heritage as a pioneer in technology is the driving force behind a major transformation focused on bringing the digital world to each and every customer. Veon offers services to customers in 14 markets including Russia, Italy, Algeria, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Georgia, Laos, and Zimbabwe.
• O2O Holdings — Formed by a JV between Sberbank and Mail.ru Group, provides an O2O services platform focusing on key areas of food and transportation.

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• Monocl — Monocl empowers life science professionals with the complete global expert solution designed to drive impactful outreach and strategic engagement. Our cloud-based expert platform - powered by machine learning - continuously analyzes an unrivaled amount of data across all therapeutic areas and regions, providing invaluable context and actionableinsights.
• Playtomic — Playtomic operates an online sports court booking platform intended to become a social network for sports players. It provides a platform to reserve courts, find other players with similar skill levels, and join a social sports community dedicated to learning that helps sports clubs to optimize the use of their facilities and step into the digitalage.Playtomic was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
• Connex One — Explore an AI solution that seamlessly engages in conversation, automates support, and provides real-time insights to drive growth and enhance customer satisfaction.

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• Refin.online — Refin.online provides a range of services, including mortgage, refinancing, insurance, and more. The company offers programs for self-employed people and families with mortgages. The company supports mortgage refinancing at the most affordable rate, lower monthly payments, or accelerate repayment time.
• Proaction.pro — Proaction testing system was developed based on the experience of domestic HR experts in banking, telecommunications, commercial, construction and other industries.

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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.
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• BLÓM — BLÓM offers bakuchiol crave eye cream, microneedle patches for moisturizing the skin under the eyes skin plumper, trinity microneedle hand patches, decollete microneedle patches, trinity microneedle hand patches, decollete microneedle patches,  and more. They provide beauty, cosmetic, and skincare products.
• GdeMaterial — GdeMaterial - DIY marketplace operates a DIY marketplace which provides quick delivery of any materials. DIY marketplace that helps to customer find the closest shop with best prices and order delivery.

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• RealPrice — RealPrice develops a solution for conducting online real estate transactions.