Top 15 Retail VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Russian Federation in May 2025
A list of 15 VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 15 Retail VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Russian Federation in May 2025
Investor | Retail Russian Federation investments |
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Moscow Seed Fund | 4 |
TealTech Capital | 3 |
VK (ex. Mail.Ru Group) | 2 |
Baring Vostok Capital Partners | 2 |
Phystech Ventures | 2 |
NuVX Capital | 1 |
Prosus & Naspers | 1 |
LVL1 Group | 1 |
DV Capital | 1 |
Admitad | 1 |
AddVenture | 1 |
Index Ventures | 1 |
Softline Venture Partners | 1 |
WONDERWALL CAPITAL | 1 |
Mindrock Capital | 1 |
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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Investment focus
- Software, Advertising, Information Technology
- Seed, Debt Financing, Funding Round
- Russian Federation, United States, Israel
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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Investment focus
- Health Care, E-Commerce, Fashion
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Russian Federation, United States
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.
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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Investment focus
- Social Media, Mobile Apps, Education
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Russian Federation, United States, Cyprus
Portfolio highlights
- Uchi.ru — Uchi.ru offers online courses for school students.
- 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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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Series B
- Russian Federation, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Mindbox — Innovative platform for collecting, analyzing, and managing customer data from various sources, boosting marketing efficiency and increasing revenue.
- EVAA Protocol — The first decentralized lending protocol on TON that lets users lend or borrow assets without going to a centralized intermediary.
Early supporters of global distribution in deeptech.
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Investment focus
- Software, Oil and Gas, Energy
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Russian Federation, United Kingdom
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.
Company’s strategy is to assemble a diversified portfolio of investments in leading deep tech technology companies.
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Investment focus
- Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Russian Federation, United States, Malta
Portfolio highlights
- Imot.io — Boost your Sales team with AI-powered Quality Assurance
- Neatsy.ai — The world's 1st app that detects orthopedic and podiatry health issues with a Phone camera.
- Proaction.pro — Proaction testing system was developed based on the experience of domestic HR experts in banking, telecommunications, commercial, construction and other industries.
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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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, India, Brazil
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.
- 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
- Prime Roots — Prime Roots is on a mission to provide a better cut of meat for every type of eater. Rooted in koji, Prime Roots is able to replicate the taste and texture of meat without any of the environmental costs of animal proteins.
LVL1 Group is a private investment management firm, operating across different asset classes and geographies. We were founded with entrepreneurial spirit at our core, with a natural passion for venture investing, working closely with founders to forge meaningful strategic relationships and helping them to succeed. We are not bound by mandates andinvestment periods, which allows us to be flexible and opportunistic. We look for companies that aim to make a strong global impact, particularly in Online Travel, Gaming, eSports, Content and Community Platforms.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Appetito — Buy all your groceries and household essentials from your online supermarket. Order from the comfort of your home at your finger tips.
- GRACIA.AI — AI-powered ultra-photorealistic volumetric videos for VR, MR and more
- Jiffy Grocery — Grow your business with Jiffy SaaS platform which includes app/website, picking, delivery, supply chain & replenishment services
DVC invest in fast-growing digital services and platforms that are changing people's lives . Digital venture capital fund
support the development of these companies
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Investment focus
- Retail, Analytics, Marketing
- Seed
- Russian Federation
Admitad partnership management platform helps advertisers and publishers of all sizes grow their businesses globally.
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Investment focus
- Marketing, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Russian Federation, United States, Cyprus
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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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Software
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Russian Federation, United States, Spain
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.
- Jiffy Grocery — Grow your business with Jiffy SaaS platform which includes app/website, picking, delivery, supply chain & replenishment services
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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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Duna — Meet the modern platform that accelerates business onboarding, automates manual work and grows revenue.
- Hedra — Video creation for everyone.
- Persona — Online ID verification service to help any business, from any industry, collect, verify, and manage user identities throughout a customer lifecycle.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Russian Federation, United States, Belarus
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 that explores employee PC activity levels, increases productivity and finds growth points. Start free trial to try the best employee tracking tool.
- Workclass — Apply for any jobs and get hired in 24 hours now!
Impact Investments, Private Equity, Venture Capital. Founder, CEO Konstantin Klyuka
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Investment focus
- Rental, Retail, Fashion
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Russian Federation, United States
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Mindrock Capital offers access to the best venture deals in Silicon Valley for investors around the world. We invest in emerging tech leaders when they show the highest growth rate.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, FinTech
- Secondary Market, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Russian Federation, Cyprus
Portfolio highlights
- Q-CTRL — Infrastructure software to power the quantum future
- Planetarians — Why: When the alternative meat consumption grows from the current 2% to a projected 23%, where will the industry get proteins? Isolation, fermentation, cultured… all of them require it’s own ingredients for proteins. They might be not so readily available in the food system on the Earth…What: PLANETARIANS developed a new platform to makealternative meats from animal feed (Sunflower, Corn DDGS, Pulses). Skipping protein isolation it uses just 0.5:1 water (no chemicals). Product prototypes have umami taste, improved protein quality and lower costs than meats made from isolates and concentrates.How: Solid-state fermentation converts carbs in the ingredients into extra protein in addition to inherent one and improves PDCAAS. Wet extrusion works as a kill step and creates a meat-like texture.
- Micropolis Robotics — Micropolis was founded to make functional transportation safer, cleaner, and more usable. To achieve that goal, the team created a whole new form of transportation.Micropolis will provide mobility-as-a-service in dense urban environments. We will handle the autonomous control, charging, maintenance, and upgrades for our fleet of vehicles.In2020, Micropolis joined forces with Dubai Police. And in the process, solidified the future in the autonomous rover industry. We are focused on testing on private and public roads as we move towards launching the first fleet.
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