Top 5 Recruiting Startup Investors in Russian Federation in January 2026

Startup Lab Russia is a pre-seed/early seed venture capital fund. Startup Lab Russia invests in projects in the early stages and helps them grow, build a network of contacts, scale sales channels, optimize the business model and internal processes with leading experts, and then enter international markets.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Russian Federation, United States, Canada

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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.
Agently.com — Automate your real estate marketing to win more listings and close more deals.
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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We invest in technology-intensive startups reimagining HR and Education. We are interested in co-investing with VC firms focusing on early stage startups.

Investment focus

Human Resources, Recruiting, Staffing Agency
Series A, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Russian Federation

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VCV — VCV is an AI-powered recruiting bot that searches for candidates, calls them with questions using voice recognition, and then invites them to record a video interview. VCV can save recruiters over 20 hours of work with recruiting bots working 24/7 to find, chat, and interview.
VCV.RU — VCV is the first video interviewing service in Russia. It is an innovative system especially developed according to local features of hiring process that allows recruiting managers to conduct interviews while saving time and increasing company’s efficiency.
SmartUp.io — SmartUp is the ultimate platform for peer-to-peer knowledge creation, sharing and exchange.Conceived and developed by a seasoned team of founders and investors behind Founders Forum, Spotify, Siri, lastminute.com and others, SmartUp now hosts more than 150,000 members and is used around the world by startup founders, companies, innovators,business schools and curious entrepreneurs.SmartUp’s intuitive learning system provides communities engaging and fun ways to contribute and consume bite-sized pieces of knowledge and insight. Its powerful platform unlocks your community’s real knowledge to help every member unleash their potential.

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Mikhail Gavrilov is a CEO at StockBattle. He attended Education Kazan State University.

Investment focus

Wellness, Education, Psychology
Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Russian Federation

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Solvery — Solvery provides service for recruiting mentors in digital hard skills.
Therappy — Improve your psychological health with self-therapy courses by certified psychotherapists

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Will Group is a branding company

Investment focus

Recruiting, Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Japan, United States, Singapore

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Conoc — Conoc specializes in the cloud-based business management system, cloud storage, and portal management for the construction business.
Lbose — Lbose is an internet based company.
LAPRAS — LAPRASis an Artificial Intelligence company.

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