Top 15 Retail VC Funds & Investors in Russian Federation (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Moscow Seed Fund
VC Fund
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4 | Russian Federation, United States, Israel | Seed, Debt Financing | Software, Advertising, Information Technology | $40k–$363k |
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TealTech Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Russian Federation, United States | Seed, Series A | Health Care, E-Commerce, Fashion | $2k–$1.2M |
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Phystech Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Russian Federation, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Oil and Gas, Energy | $200k–$16M |
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VK (ex. Mail.Ru Group)
VC Fund
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2 | Russian Federation, United States, Cyprus | Seed, Series A | Social Media, Education, Mobile Apps | $500k–$11M |
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Baring Vostok Capital Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Russian Federation, United States, Poland | Private Equity, Series B | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | $9M–$200M |
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Admitad
VC Fund
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1 | Russian Federation, United States, Cyprus | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Marketing, E-Commerce, Software | $207k–$3M |
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AddVenture
VC Fund
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1 | Russian Federation, United States, Spain | Series A, Seed | Internet, E-Commerce, Software | $300k–$8M |
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Softline Venture Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Russian Federation, United States, Belarus | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $200k–$3M |
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DV Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Russian Federation | Seed | Retail, Analytics, Marketing | |
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NuVX Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Russian Federation, United States, Malta | Seed, Pre-Seed | Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Drones | |
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Red Rowant
VC Fund
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1 | Russian Federation | Seed | Drones, Retail, Logistics | |
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Impulse VC
VC Fund
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1 | Russian Federation, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | Advertising, Software, E-Commerce | $450k–$6M |
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Index Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | $1.3M–$100M |
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WONDERWALL CAPITAL
VC Fund
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1 | Russian Federation, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Rental, Retail, Fashion | |
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Prosus
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Brazil | Series B, Series A, Series C | E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech | |
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The Fund for the Promotion of Venture Investment in Small Enterprises in the Scientific and Technical Sphere of Moscow was established by the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy of Moscow.
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- Industry: Software, Advertising, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: Russian Federation, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Seed $40k–$363k; Debt Financing $80k–$267k
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vestem — Vestem is a biotechnology company that develops new bioveterinary cell therapies for regenerative therapy and next-generation pharmaceuticals for the treatment of pets.
- Picvario — DAM systems allow centralizing, systematizing, searching, and sharing all types of digital files (images, video, audio, etc.). Picvario platform is a reliable storage of the files. Flexible management. API Integration
- Qummy — Qummy produces and freezes dishes for restaurants using its patented Smart Ice technology, which preserves the dish's nutritional and organoleptic features.
invests in the advancement of innovative start-ups .
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- Industry: Health Care, E-Commerce, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Russian Federation, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $2k–$1.2M; Series A $360k–$620k
- Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- FoodMiles — Food Miles is a digital service company that helps local producers and farmers in logistics and delivery of goods.
- Charmstore — Charmstore is a women's clothing brand.
- Poison Drop — Poison Drop operates an online multi-brand store of designer jewelry.
Early supporters of global distribution in deeptech.
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- Industry: Software, Oil and Gas, Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Russian Federation, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $200k–$2.6M; Series A $1M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $48M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Mail.ru Group was founded by Yuri Milner and is the largest Internet company in the Russian-speaking world. It is one of the largest Internet companies in Russia, and the world's seventh largest Internet business in terms of page views. Mail.ru Group operates two of the three largest Russian language social networking sites(Odnoklassniki.ru and Moi Mir@Mail.Ru), the two largest instant messaging networks in Russia (ICQ and Agent), Russia's leading email service, Russia's second largest Internet portal and Russia's largest online games company.Mail also holds strategic equity stakes of 32.49% in vKontakte, Russia's largest social networking site, and 25.09% in QIWI, formerly OE Investments, one of Russia's leading payment-processing companies. It also holds small minority stakes in Facebook, Zynga and Groupon.
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- Industry: Social Media, Education, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Russian Federation, United States, Cyprus
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3.9M; Series A $1M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Magisto — Magisto online video editor is a fast & powerful video maker. Turn your photos and video clips into video stories with Magisto movie editor. Start free!
- 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.
- AliExpress Russia — AliExpress Russia is a leading cross-border and domestic e-commerce platform in Russia.
Baring Vostok Capital Partners Limited is a venture capital and private equity firm based in Russia. It invests on early venture, acquisitions, buy-outs, growth capital, later-stage, mid-market, and medium-sized enterprises that operate in sectors such as natural resource extraction, particularly oil and gas; competitive industrial companiesthat operate in local or export markets; mass media and telecommunications; utilities; construction materials; specialty manufacturing; real estate development; residential real estate development; internet; software; retail; and service management. Baring Vostok Capital Partners was founded in 1994 and is based in Moscow, Russia with additional offices in Limassol, Cyprus and Gernsi, Channel Islands.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Private Equity, Series B
- Geography: Russian Federation, United States, Poland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Series B $9M–$75M; Private Equity $13M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
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.
- Ozon — leading e-commerce platform in Russia, first russian marketplace
- EVAA Protocol — The first decentralized lending protocol on TON that lets users lend or borrow assets without going to a centralized intermediary.
Admitad partnership management platform helps advertisers and publishers of all sizes grow their businesses globally.
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- Industry: Marketing, E-Commerce, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Russian Federation, United States, Cyprus
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $207k–$1.8M; Pre-Seed $220k–$550k; Series A $400k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pampadu — Pampadu is an IT startup on online insurance.
- RevGlue — Become a successful affiliate with RevGlue monetisation tools designed for content creators, influencers and affiliates to create instant affiliate websites and monetise existing web, mobile and social followers.
- White Label — White Label is a coupon window service for online publications. White Label provides promo-code displays that the platform offers gives media resources an additional channel for monetizing the audience, and partner brands open up access to native sales attraction from the sites of leading media.
AddVenture is a region & stage agnostic venture capital fund with a Russian origin. Our investment range is $1-10M.
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Russian Federation, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $300k–$3.6M; Series A $1M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $65M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Borzo — Borzo is a global delivery service that enables intracity same-day delivery. Our algorithms optimize numerous parallel deliveries taking into account the geographical routes, packages’ contents, couriers and many others to ensure the feasibility of the same-day delivery. The services are available in 10 countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia,Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam and are used by 3 million customers ranging from SMEs to enterprises.
- MetroSpeedy — MetroSpeedy is a leading technology based local delivery company providing on-demand, same day or scheduled delivery services.
- Cloud Retail — Grow your business with Jiffy SaaS platform which includes app/website, picking, delivery, supply chain & replenishment services
Softline Venture Partners is a corporate venture fund of Softline Group. Since 2008, Softline Venture Partners have invested about US$20 million in 20 portfolio companies on Russia&CIS market. The amount of investment to one project is from $100 thousand to $1 million. As a stage agnostic investor, the firm works with companies across a widerange of technologies, such as cybersecurity, cloud computing, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things и Edge Computing.The possibilities and competencies of Softline Group as a service provider operating in 50 countries with more than 60000 customers and leading IT vendors, allows unique opportunities for the Fund's portfolio companies to scale business model and boost sales through developed Softline’s sales channels across the globe.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Russian Federation, United States, Belarus
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $200k–$1M; Series A $1M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Exodrive — Exodrive provide telematics-based solutions for insurance providers, leasing firms, corporate and taxi fleets, and car-sharing services.
- Kickidler — Kickidler is employee monitoring software trusted by 5,000+ companies in 60+ countries. Track employee PC activity, boost productivity by up to 30%, and find growth points. Start your free trial today.
- Workclass — Apply for any jobs and get hired in 24 hours now!
We invest in rapidly growing digital early-stage companies with a vision and the grit to turn this vision into reality. We support the development of these companies strategically and operationally to build the next generation of unicorns and deliver attractive returns to our investors.
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- Industry: Retail, Analytics, Marketing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Russian Federation
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- wowworks — Service that allows federal retail companies to support operating processes in their stores by finding local employees.
- Yoloco — Best solution to work with opinion leaders for business and agencies
Company’s strategy is to assemble a diversified portfolio of investments in leading deep tech technology companies.
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- Industry: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Drones
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Russian Federation, United States, Malta
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Imot.io — Boost your Sales team with AI-powered Quality Assurance
- 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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- Industry: Drones, Retail, Logistics
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Russian Federation
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- UVL Robotics — UVL Robotics is a provider of Al-driven & drone-based inventory solutions, we help our corporate clients to automate routine and to boost productivity. We have launched the fully autonomous indoor drone solution for warehouse inventory management that’s 50x times faster than obsolete methods, reduces operating costs by 10x times and provides100% accuracy.
Fund for technological internet companies
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- Industry: Advertising, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Russian Federation, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $450k–$4M; Series A $800k–$6M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Endel — Personalized soundscapes to help you focus, relax, and sleep. Backed by neuroscience.
- Abc Doc — Abc Doc is a web-based service that recognizes bureaucratic letters, provides a summary, and suggests next steps.
- Vecna Robotics — Vecna Robotics is the leading autonomous mobile robot (AMR) company that provides logistics automation and workflow optimization solutions.
Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1077
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $5M–$35M; Series B $10M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $117M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Sanlo — Run live ops and accept payments across web shops, web games, and alternative app stores. Break free from the walled gardens.
- Personio — Personio is the Intelligent HR platform for companies from 10-5,000 employees, powering over 1 million people worldwide. Book your free demo today.
- Privalia — Privalia is an e-commerce website that enables users to buy and sell fashion and household products. Customers can search for goods based on brand name or product type.Privalia sells clothing products such as tops, cardigans and sweaters, jackets, shoes, accessories, sportswear, and swimwear for men, women, and children. The products in the homeand décor tab are classified as kitchen and dining, furniture, textile, electronics and gadgets, suitcases, and leisure.L’Oreal Professionnel, Fred Perry, McGregor, Dr. Scholl, Troll kids, Kayoom, La Morena, and Mr. Fox are of the brands available on the website.Privalia has an office in Sao Paulo, Brazil and was launched in 2006 by Jose Manuel Villanueva and Lucas Carne, and is operated from Barcelona, Spain.
Impact Investments, Private Equity, Venture Capital. Founder, CEO Konstantin Klyuka
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- Industry: Rental, Retail, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Russian Federation, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Ex-bags — Ex-bags primarily engages in the resale of luxury bags.
- Bewearcy — Bewearcy is a trade-in service for exchanging clothes for discounts.
- Whizz — My Device is a subscription-based rental service provider for devices like electric scooters, bicycles, home sports equipment, etc.
Prosus is the international internet assets division of Naspers. The global investment group is the largest consumer internet company in Europe, and among the largest technology investors in the world, operating across a variety of platforms and geographies.Prosus is a unique blend of venture capital and operating company that funds, acquires,builds and scales technology businesses. It combines venture capital investing with deep operational experience in the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The company has meaningful investments in Tencent, Mail.ru, Ctrip.com International Limited, and DeliveryHero.Prosus has a primary listing on Euronext Amsterdam (AEX:PRX) and a secondary listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (XJSE:PRX), and is majority owned by Naspers.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- GoStudent — GoStudent is a platform for online teaching and is the future of tutoring. The EdTech company was founded in Vienna in 2016 by Felix Ohswald (CEO) and Gregor Müller (COO). Currently, GoStudent is operational in 15 markets. Via its platform, GoStudent provides paid, one-to-one, video-based tuition to primary, secondary, and college-aged students in20+ subjects, using a membership model. Lessons are booked via the GoStudent platform and accessed using a computer or a mobile device. During each tutoring session, students and tutors interact live in a virtual classroom. Integrated features, such as a whiteboard and the option to share a screen and edit documents together, are included. The cornerstone of this concept was laid in 2015 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Müller when they established a WhatsApp-based homework chat service for students. GoStudent employs more than 600 people and has opened 12 international offices. Over 400,000 tutoring units are booked each month. Currently, GoStudent has around 15,000 customers and works with 5,500 international tutors. To date, GoStudent has raised more than €291m. Investors include Left Lane Capital, DN Capital, Coatue, and DST Global.
- PayU — PayU operates as a financial services provider focusing on payment solutions for merchants and consumers. It offers a comprehensive suite of payment processing tools and services, including local and cross-border transactions, catering to a wide range of industries. With operations in over 50 countries, PayU supports 150+ payment methods, aiming tofacilitate seamless and secure online and offline transactions. The company also engages in innovative financial services, extending credit through various lending programs to customers beyond the reach of traditional banking. PayU's global presence is bolstered by its local expertise, ensuring high transaction success rates and support for businesses and consumers in emerging markets.
- Cashify — Buy & Sell Old Mobile Phones, Smartwatches, Laptops, Tablets And Other Gadgets Online, Get Exclusive Monthly Deal, Instant Quote And Free Doorstep Pickup At Cashify
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