Top 10 Sports VC Funds &amp; Investors in Russian Federation (August 2026)

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Investment focus

Industry: Software, Apps, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Private Equity, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, Russian Federation, Cyprus

Investor stats

Total investments: 35
Round size: Seed $50k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.2M
Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

Nooah — AI companion with memory of your life. Every morning tells you what matters. Start in Telegram in 2 minutes.
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.
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

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Polygon Ventures is an investment firm that focuses on early-stage Web3 startups.

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 82
Round size: Seed $1.6M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $4M–$20M
Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

OpenEden — Mint and redeem TBILL tokens instantly 24/7 on the OpenEden TBILL Vault, and enjoy direct exposure to the U.S. risk-free rate.
Ekiden — Onchain infrastructure for institutional derivatives markets. Hybrid RFQ + CLOB architecture for efficient execution. Built on @CantonNetwork
Perceptron Network — AI agents that learn, earn, and reward trust. Perceptron powers a decentralized mesh of reputation and revenue. Perceptron Network is the first AI-powered system where interactions drive growth and earn real rewards.

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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

Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Russian Federation, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 13
Round size: Seed $100k–$11M
Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

Fideum Group — Explore tailored digital asset solutions for institutions at Fideum. Offering secure banking, custody, trading, staking, and remittance services to help institutions confidently navigate and capitalize on cryptocurrency opportunities.
Synchronization — Synchronization is an online course for music, philosophy, fashion and design, architecture, art, psychology, special projects, master classes, and cinema. They provide biology and a healthy lifestyle, film history, and film language.
Academy of Changes — Akademiya Peremen is an educational platform that focuses on the life style segment of health, beauty, style, and psychology.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, Advertising
Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
Geography: Russian Federation, United States, Israel

Investor stats

Total investments: 92
Round size: Seed $40k–$380k; Debt Financing $80k–$267k
Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

Ubirator — Ubirator is a waste management service for reasonable business.
ML One — The solutions offered by ML One will allow producing from all sidetracks of a multilateral well and enable precise re-entry into the mainbore and laterals during production. We offer solutions suitable for new wells and existing multilateral wells with casing strings of any size.
Drone Solutions — Drone Solutions provides a semi-automatic complex for the protection of the object 24/7 from the air.

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Fund for technological internet companies

Investment focus

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.

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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

Industry: Internet, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Corporate Round, Series A
Geography: Russian Federation, United States, The Netherlands

Investor stats

Total investments: 29
Round size: Seed $30k–$250k; Series A $52k–$8.5M
Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

VEON — VEON is a Nasdaq-listed digital operator headquartered in Dubai that provides converged connectivity and digital services to nearly 160 million customers. Operating across six countries that are home to more than 7% of the world’s population, VEON is transforming lives through technology-driven services that empower individuals and drive economicgrowth. For more information visit: www.veon.com
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.

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A global, early-stage venture capital firm, backing founders who use technology to reimagine how the world works like Datadog, DeliveryHero and Cred.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
Geography: United States, India, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 263
Round size: Seed $2M–$13M; Series A $6M–$25M; Series B $11M–$80M
Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $650M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

OUTZIDR — Trendy GenZ western wear. Vacation, Party & Casual Wear. FREE Shipping on All Orders. COD Available. Easy 7-Days & Returns. Code OUT400 for FLAT 400 OFF.
Dasha.AI — Dasha AI empowers developers to create ultra-realistic voice and text AI agents for telephony, WebRTC, and text channels with sub-second latency.
Appsdaily Solutions — AppsDaily Solutions develops mobile applications for Android, Blackberry, Symbian, and Java phones. AppsDaily Solutions was formerly known as Onward Mobility Solution Pvt. Ltd. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Mumbai, India.

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Iskra early stage startup fund

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, Software, SaaS
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Russian Federation, Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 17
Round size: Seed $154k–$2.1M; Series A $3.5M–$50M
Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

WeGoTrip — Book self-guided audio tours with skip-the-line tickets to museums, galleries, and many other attractions.
Dolgozhitel — Dolgozhitel is an online booking platform for boarding houses, nursing homes and rehabilitation centers.
Pixorion.ai — AI platform for maximizing marketplace sales through intelligent product analytics, AI-generated descriptions, and visual content creation

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AngelsDeck Global Ventures. Joint investments and exclusive community.AngelsDeck was created:01 For comfortable and mutually beneficial communication among its members, who share venture capital and self-development values. 02 For priority access to venture capital deals with a recommendation from trusted syndicators.03 By and forinvestors who have an impeccable business reputation and capital transparency.Our Values:* Expertise * We are proud of our members' combined expertise. We create and maintain an environment where all members can conveniently and comfortably share their valuable knowledge.* Exclusivity * In the venture capital market, there is a lot of competition among investors for promising projects. We showcase exclusive deals that are not on the surface.* Syndication * We have created a marketplace where experienced syndicate investors can compete for members' attention by the quality of their deals. Everyone can try the role of a syndicator.* Communication * "As a fish needs water, an investor needs a network," and we have created an exclusive club with a unique atmosphere of online and offline communication between members of equal enthusiasm, aspiration, and motivation.

Investment focus

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Education
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Geography: United States, Russian Federation, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 49
Round size: Seed $231k–$6M; Angel $80k–$895k; Pre-Seed $200k–$621k
Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

CLOSO — CLOSO connects sellers to brands that have excess inventory, making it easy to source, list and sell.
Rhino — First-class armored rides
Receiptable — Deliver digital receipts to an app already installed on consumers' phones. Unlock the receipt data to better monetise your customers through more personalised services. We deliver convenience, augmented data and positive impact for the environment.

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