Top 10 Retail Angel Investors in Russian Federation in January 2025
A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Retail startups based in Russian federation. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Russian federation. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Retail Angel Investors in Russian Federation in January 2025
Investor | Retail Russian Federation investments |
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James Gutierrez | 1 |
Anton Anohin | 1 |
Fabrice Grinda | 1 |
Eugene Timko | 1 |
Sergey Solonin | 1 |
Roman Pavlushko | 1 |
Victor Lysenko | 1 |
Bogdan Iarovoi | 1 |
Roman Abramovich | 1 |
Jose Marin | 1 |
James Gutierrez is a leading social entrepreneur and innovator in lending and financial technology. Prior to Insikt, James founded and was CEO of Oportun (formerly Progreso Financiero), the leading provider of responsible, unsecured loans to Hispanics in the US that recently surpassed $1.5 billion in loans and over half a million borrowers sinceits founding. As CEO from 2005-2012, James led Oportun from its development as a nascent start-up to a market leader in the lending industry and raised over $250 million of debt and equity to fund its growth. Under James’ leadership, the company scaled its loan originations to over 200,000 per year with revenues of $65 million, 85 retail stores in California and Texas, and 600 employees.James Gutierrez has served on Federal Reserve Board’s Consumer Advisory Council and the Centennial Advisory Committee, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences on financial services innovation. James also co-authored and helped pass two federal and state laws to help increase the availability of safe and affordable small dollar loans. In 2010, BusinessWeek selected James as one of America’s most promising social entrepreneurs and in 2012, Goldman Sachs named James one of America’s top 100 most intriguing entrepreneurs.In addition to Insikt, James also serves on the boards of Talent Inc., Listo!, SEO-SF, and the Silicon Valley Leadership Group. James is a founding partner of Insikt Ventures, an early stage fund with investments in OnDeck Capital, Listo!, and Blend Labs. James was also an early investor in many leading technology companies including Trulia, OkCupid, StubHub, and Symphony Commerce. James graduated with a BA in Economics from Yale University and a MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Children, E-Commerce
- Series A
- Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
- BabyBoom — BABYBOOM.ru is baby and kid's goods online retailer in Russia.
Anton Anohin
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Investment focus
- Sales, Retail, Grocery
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
- Manychat — Automate two-way, interactive conversations in Instagram Direct Messages, Facebook Messenger, and SMS to grow your brand
- SberMarket — SberMarket is the #1 e-grocery company in Russia providing consumers and businesses with convenient same-day delivery and click-and-collect services. The company operates a proprietary technology platform, connecting retailers, consumer packaged goods companies, and customers. Founded as Instamart in 2013, it was rebranded SberMarket in 2019after becoming part of a JV between Sber and Mail.Ru Group. In 2020, SberMarket became a part of Sber's ecosystem and foundational unit of Sber's e-commerce.
Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Alpagga — Alpagga is the online marketplace for purchase and sale of decommissioned agri-food equipments.
- OTPless — Explore top-notch authentication solutions like WhatsApp, SMS or email-based Numeric codes and Magic Link with OTPless. High conversion, flexible integrations, and robust security features await you!
- PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.
Eugene has over 9 years of corporate finance, management consulting and engineering experience.Before Xploration Capital, Eugene held the position of investment director in Finstar Financial Group with strong focus on fintech and InVenture Partners specializing in disruptive technology startups across industries. He also worked in InvestmentBanking department of Morgan Stanley, focused on technology sector.Prior to that Eugene has done fixed income research in BCP Securities.
Eugene has also spent 3 years as a consultant in McKinsey and Company and before that worked as an automotive engineer at Scania AB in Sweden.Eugene holds MBA from Columbia Business School.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Construction, Delivery
- Seed, Series A
- Russian Federation, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Sergey Solonin is the Chief Executive Officer of Russian FinTech Association.
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Investment focus
- Education, Video, Video Editing
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Russian Federation, Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- NeuraLoom — By using neural network technologies and artificial intelligence, NeuraLoom allows users a quick and cost-efficient way to create narrated video presentations, with virtual characters, videos for online courses, Learning management system, Education and learning films without any expert knowledge or expensive equipment.
- EBAC Online — EBAC Cursos Online is a fast-growing edutech company in Brazil. The company provides more than 50 courses in design, coding, marketing, data science to more than 15 thousand paying students. Students choose EBAC for the high relevance of courses and close collaboration with industry leaders.
- SkillFactory — SkillFactory is a data science education startup offers a range of assets, including an online big data analysis and coding school.
Angel Investor, CEO & Founder Parkly, ex-CTO Avito (Classified #1 in Russia),
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Travel, Apps
- Angel, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Russian Federation, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Luxxy — Luxxy is the leader in the resale luxury consignment niche on the Russian market. We are a dedicated community of more than 250 thousand users and 140,000 products from individual sellers with good price offers compared to the average prices on the market.We have built an easy-to-use APP with many filters and detailed descriptions of productsthat offer convenience to our community. Our own team of experts guarantees the authenticity of the items purchased. At the same time, a customer has the ability to return the product if it does not match the description on the website which makes expensive purchases online easy and secure. We sell pieces from designers such as Chanel, Hermès, and Louis Vuitton; jewelry and watches from Cartier, Rolex, and Van Cleef & Arpels. Our consignors earn 70-90% of the sale price. The apparel industry accounts for about 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and it consumes more energy than aviation and shipping combined. Help us to make the world greener together with LUXXY.
- B2BTRADE — B2BTRADE is an online trading platform for organizing wholesale sales and purchases
- Parkly — Find, book, and save on parking with convenient garages and lots. Find parking near work, home and airports.
Victor is a serial entrepreneur with two exits as CEO & Founder.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Internet, E-Commerce
- Angel
- Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
- Invisible — Invisble is online retailer of wine
Bogdan Iarovoi is a Managing Partner of SmartHub Investments.
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Investment focus
- Internet, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
- Snipfeed — Snipfeed is building Shopify but for content creators. The platform allows them to build their storefront directly on top of social and consolidate all the monetization tools they need in one place. Snipfeed lets them monetize their audience in one click through on-demand content, direct interactions, tips, and commerce. On the back-end,Snipfeed's dashboard helps you optimize and grow your business by integrating with all the third-party tools you need as a creator (analytics, financial tools...).
- Ondaka — Ondaka makes Industrial Knowledge Accessible for critical infrastructure & heavy industry.
- Cattle Care — Cattle Care is a revolutionary dairy management software using your existing parlor cameras and artificial intelligence to save money.
Roman Abramovich is a Russian businessman, investor and politician. He is the main owner of the private investment company Millhouse LLC and owner of Chelsea Football Club, an English Premier League football team.According to Forbes, Abramovich's net worth in 2015, was US$ 9.1 billion (2015). This makes him the 12th richest person inRussia and the 137th richest person in the world.
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Investment focus
- Email, Construction, Advanced Materials
- Series C, Seed, Series A
- Russian Federation, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- 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.
- TARIS Biomedical — TARIS Biomedical a specialty pharmaceutical company with deep domain expertise in therapeutics and drug-delivery, is focused on local minimally-invasive drug-device convergence products. The TARIS core technology and development efforts are being applied to disease areas with high unmet medical need in which current therapies or systemic treatmentshave failed.
Senior Executive with more than 20 years of professional experience with Start-Ups. Advisor on complex and fast-changing environments, with broad vision of the organization and ita adaptability.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, France, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Printi — Printi is a B2B e-commerce company that aims on breaking the lack of transparency and efficiency in printed products.. Printi is disrupting the inefficient US & Latin American printing market. Utilizing sophisticated technology and the scale of the internet, Printi offers lowest prices, high quality, and a broad product portfolio tocorporations of all sizes.Printi was founded on 2012 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.
- Guestmob — Guestmob is a next generation discount hotel booking platform.One of Guestmob's innovation is offering customers the ability to book clusters of hotels that are equivalent in location, quality, ratings, at prices significantly lower than the published rates of each of these hotels. These discounted prices are determined via a learningalgorithm that anticipate how much a hotel is likely to discount.Customers are guaranteed a room at one of the top hotels selected in the collection, and these rooms are secured via last minute mob auctions, where hotels sell in bulk the rooms they expect to stay empty.
- TextMaster — Online translation: Welcome to TextMaster, the leading professional translation service available online. Online translation quote. Quality guaranteed.
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