Top 10 Sports Startup Investors in Russian Federation in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Sports startups based in Russian federation. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from Russian federation. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Sports Startup Investors in Russian Federation in January 2026

Investor	Sports Russian Federation investments
Digital Disrupt	4
Moscow Seed Fund	1
AdFirst.vc	1
Iskra Ventures	1
Baring Vostok Capital Partners	1
AddVenture	1
Sberbank	1
Impulse VC	1
Andrey Belozerov	1
RTP Global	1

Find investors that fund startups like yours. Automatically.

Our algorithm will find investors that invest in your industry, stage, and geography.

Investor list

Using our experience, networking and expertise, we help projects grow so that they change life around the world to the best.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, E-Commerce
Seed, Private Equity, Pre-Seed
United States, Russian Federation, Israel

Portfolio highlights

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.
OverPRO — Next generation eSports platform for players of any level
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

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.

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.

AdFirst.vc is a venture capital firm designed to co-invest with other VCs in early and expansion stage start-ups. They perform Marketing Due Diligence ads tests for start-ups and help the investor evaluate the reachable audience, check the marketing competencies of the team, and reduce the cost of attracting customers. Testing allows to confirm thecompany's capitalization and eliminate marketing risks. In the future, they oversee the marketing strategy of the project in order to control KPI.

Investment focus

E-Learning, Mobile Apps, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Russian Federation, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Adapty — The all-in-one service for in-app subscriptions. Develop, optimize and grow apps with iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, Unity and Web support.
Synchronization — Synchronization is an online education platform.
Akademiya Peremen — Akademiya Peremen is an educational platform that focuses on the life style segment of health, beauty, style, and psychology.

Iskra early stage startup fund

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Rental Property
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Russian Federation, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Agently.com — Automate your real estate marketing to win more listings and close more deals.
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.
Hotellab — Hotellab provides data analytics to hotel industry by developing price analytics software using AI for efficient revenue management.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Private Equity, Series B
Russian Federation, United States, Poland

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.

AddVenture is a region & stage agnostic venture capital fund with a Russian origin. Our investment range is $1-10M.

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.
Cloud Retail — Grow your business with Jiffy SaaS platform which includes app/website, picking, delivery, supply chain & replenishment services

Sberbank today is the largest credit institution in Russia and CIS, accounting for 26% of the aggregate Russian banking assets and 30% of banking capital. According to The Banker magazine, as of July 01, 2010, Sberbank was ranked 43th in the world in terms of Tier 1 capital.Established in 1841, Sberbank has grown into a universal commercialbank with diversified businesses. Sberbank is the biggest taker of deposits in the country and the key lender to the national economy. As of January 01, 2011, Sberbank accounted for 47,9% of retail deposits, 31% of consumer loans and 31% of corporate loans in Russia.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Corporate Round, Funding Round
Russian Federation, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Eruditor Group — Bringing businesses and freelance professionals online
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.

Fund for technological internet companies

Investment focus

Advertising, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Russian Federation, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

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.

Andrey Belozerov is an entrepreneur and investor. Expert in the field of digital technologies and digital transformation, co-founder Digital Disrupt investment club, United Nations Development Program expert.