Top 25 Travel Startup Investors in Russian Federation (September 2026)

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• Smarterer — Individuals and Fortune 500 companies use Smarterer to help close the gap between the skills they have and the skills they need. Their dynamic assessment engine leverages the freshest crowdsourced tests around, to rapidly pinpoint skill level with a credible score. In November 2014, Pluralsight, the global leader in online learning for serioussoftware developers, IT specialists and creative technologists, acquired Smarterer. As the world's largest curated e-learning library for professionals, the company offers instant access to more than 3,500 courses authored by top experts. Smarterer will continue to power crowdsourced assessments for freelancer marketplaces, e-learning providers and enterprise companies anywhere people need to prove their skills to connect with professional opportunities. The Smarterer community has answered over 56 million during 1.7 million test sessions, across hundreds of tests.
• LeagueApps — The leading youth sports management platform and online registration software to manage waivers, payments, schedules, facilities, teams, and more.
• Umi Kitchen — Umi Kitchen offers an application that enables its users to order homemade food from local chefs. The meals are delivered with reheating instructions and an ingredient list.Umi Kitchen enables its customers to rate and review services of the chefs. The company provides chefs with marketing, packaging, and delivery services.Umi Kitchen wasfounded by Khalil Tawil, Derek Gottfrid, and Hallie Meyer in March 2015. It is based in New York.

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• HipClub — Our first project was conceived HipWay.ru in April 2009, when we, its creators, not for the first time confronted with the problem of organizing your own holiday, we decided to create a project that will be useful for those looking for a fun and unconventional holiday. And thus, in contrast to the large number of already existing at the time oftravel social networks, forums and so on, we will set a goal that will be exactly hipway.ru shop travel, with the possibility of booking and payment online. A year later, in April 2010, appeared hipway.ru - the first project that brings together all the most interesting and unusual travel in one convenient directory, with the possibility of booking and payment online.Immediately after starting hipway.ru ranked sites day rambler.ru, it is absolutely without our knowledge - the unprecedented influx of visitors we have learned from that page hipway.ru opened a few seconds and broke off from the phone calls. Project immediately had to switch to a new server and organizers inspire and start looking for investors. Up to this point the project was funded entirely by private funds.In parallel with the search for an investor we planned to start a second project - hipclub - private club offers a great vacation c exclusive discounts. We gave the project to the development of our IT-team and continued to search for funding.In mid-2010 we were lucky - we got a great project investors - Javier Pérez-Tenessa, founder of eDreams, Michael van Swaaij, former CEO Skype and eBay top manager and several other equally wonderful "business angels". These people are now helping us not only financially, but also valuable advice.In October 2010, we launched hipclub, who became the first Internet cafe, specializing in tourism and leisure. In a short time hipclub not only got wide coverage on the Internet , but also got great reviews from its customers that we are particularly pleased, as it was initially the main task of both projects is to create a travel company with the best customer service.
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• Ovo Automotive — OVO Automotive is providing Cloud based App Delivery Platform for Connected Cars, driving open innovation for in-vehicle interactions, experiences and services.Auto makers, Google and Apple are locked in a battle to control the last unconquered screen - the in-vehicle dashboard - for direct interaction with captive audience and monetizing newconnected vehicle services. OVO Automotive provides a novel platform for delivery of apps to the in-vehicle screen, which enables customer interaction independent of automakers, Apple and Google. Our platform enables fleet owners, car dealers, smart mobility service players and connected car service providers to interact with their customers directly on the go, thus improving customer experience and creating new revenue streams. Our automotive grade cloud platform enables the delivery of any connected car app directly to any in-vehicle interactive touchscreen dashboard in a secure and transparent way, providing drivers and passengers a rich connected vehicle experience.

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• YCLIENTS — YCLIENTS is an online booking system and appointment scheduling software: online calendar, scheduling system and app, employee scheduling software, erp system and more.
• DocDoc — DocDoc.ru owns and operates an online recruitment portal for medical professionals. It allows patients to rate the medical professional. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in the Russian Federation.
• Level Travel — Level Travel service for online booking of tours with round the clock customer support.

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• Feastables — Feastables is setting out to build the most engaging brand on the planet, bringing the games, stunts and spectacle.
• Berkshire Grey — Berkshire Grey provides AI-powered robotic automation solutions to transform warehouse, ecommerce, retail, and 3PL logistics operations.
• Sunlight Financial — Sunlight Financial offers seamless financing home improvement projects, helping contractors grow and homeowners save. Get started today!

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• Tiggy — 15 minute grocery delivery on a mission to forever change the way we buy everyday essentials. Now live in Vancouver
• Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
• MoonAI Inc — MoonAI enables businesses to deploy no-code AI agents—referred to as “AI salespersons”—within one day, with no installation cost. These agents automate lead qualification, escalate warm leads to managers, schedule meetings, and integrate with CRMs, messaging platforms.The solution operates 24/7, supports multiple languages (includingRussian, English, and informal Kazakh), and processes customer interactions in just seconds. It has helped companies double the volume of processed inquiries, reduce response times from minutes to seconds, and even autonomously close a portion of leads—all while reducing sales team workload and improving customer satisfaction.

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• CarPhone — CarPhone offers a marketplace for sharing private parking that helps drivers to find a parking space close to the office by renting from another user.
• Surprise Me — Surprise Me - self-guided tours with the mobile app around the world.
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• Boontar — Boontar Live is a video streaming service with a trading module that allows viewers to buy products from a video without going to other pages.
• Malivar — video face swap solution for businesses based on a single image
• Watchout!AI — Watchout!AI is a company offering a range of marketing services for native advertising. The platform of the company uses artificial intelligence to examine video content frame by frame and establishes brand safety thresholds for accurate native ad placement, allowing users to display ads in secure locations.

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• Moola — By making an investment, your capital is at risk. The value of your portfolio with Moola depends on market fluctuations outside of our control and you may get back less than you invest. Past performance is not necessarily a guide to future performance. The value of investments and the income of any financial instruments mentioned in the websitemay fall as well as rise, and investors may get back less than the amount originally invested.
• Missbeez — Missbeez is a mobile application that enables its users to book beauty and lifestyle services to their home or office 24/7.The application’s list of services include manicures, pedicures, massage, spray tan, hair removal, hair styling, and makeup. The services can be offered at its users’ homes. Therapists are able to join the application’sprogram and offer their beauty services to others.Missbeez was launched in 2015 by Maya Gura and Gil Bouhnick.
• Datamaran — Trusted by blue-chip companies, Datamaran is the only software analytics platform in the world that identifies and monitors external risks, including ESG.

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• HipWay — Hipway is an online travel company maintaining two websites - hiplcub.ru and hipway.ru. Hipclub.ru - is a private online travel club running 10-15 flash sale deals per week. The deals include hotel stays and hotel+flight packages. Hipway.ru - is a travel package specialist offering wide range of hotel+flight packages of Russian touroperators. Hipway recieved angel funding from superangels such as Michael van Swaaij and Chamath Palihapitya in 2010.
• SaaStock — SaaStock was founded by Alexa Theuma on a simple belief: When the SaaS community comes together, the result is collective improvement.That’s why SaaStock events connect key players in the world of SaaS, by serving as a platform for learning, networking, demos, and investments. The premier 3-day SaaStock conference occurs annually in Dublin,Ireland. It attracts 3000+ attendees, all in the business of growing and scaling B2B SaaS companies.The conference includes satellite events such as: 1. SaaS.City - A series of SaaS management bootcamps. 2. InvestStock - An investor-only, content and networking event. 3. Startup Programme - An opportunity for startups to showcase products, connect with investors, and accelerate their growth. 4. Global Pitch Competition - A hunt to find the year’s “Best SaaS Startup” with a $25,000 grand prize.SaaStock also hosts 1-day, SaaStock On Tour events in locations including Paris, London, Sydney, Helsinki, Berlin, and New York.
• Solarize — Solarize provides a SaaS solution for energy production, distribution, and billing for commercial microgrids. Solarize enables utility companies, microgrid operators, and owners of electricity production units to sell electricity on-site without detours by combining an intuitive user interface, smart automation, and monitoring in a single app.Solarize makes it simple to sell electricity.

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• Ema — Ema is developing next-generation AI technologies to help every employee in the workplace be their most creative and productive. Ema is a seamless, accurate, and secure Enterprise Generative AI system that simplifies complex tasks using enterprise tools.
• Lendflow — Lendflow provides embedded credit infrastructure solutions to provide brands and lenders the technology to drive the most efficient flow of funds to businesses and people everywhere.
• OnRamp — Move onboarding projects along faster by putting customers at the center of a simple, guided experience. OnRamp is the customer onboarding platform built for customer success and implementation teams.

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• Helio AI — Automated AI-powered recruiting platform with ATS and gamified personality test. Reduce daily workload by 60% and hire top talents in a few clicks.
• Crosscheck — Crosscheck's AI agents automate document workflows and ensure 100% requirement-to-evidence traceability across your supply chain, backed by vetted auditors and industry-leading Certification Bodies.
• JobHire.AI — JobHire.AI for job search. Your AI Career Assistant that helps you land an interview 10 times faster, match with top employers, and boost your career growth.

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• 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.

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• SaaStock — SaaStock was founded by Alexa Theuma on a simple belief: When the SaaS community comes together, the result is collective improvement.That’s why SaaStock events connect key players in the world of SaaS, by serving as a platform for learning, networking, demos, and investments. The premier 3-day SaaStock conference occurs annually in Dublin,Ireland. It attracts 3000+ attendees, all in the business of growing and scaling B2B SaaS companies.The conference includes satellite events such as: 1. SaaS.City - A series of SaaS management bootcamps. 2. InvestStock - An investor-only, content and networking event. 3. Startup Programme - An opportunity for startups to showcase products, connect with investors, and accelerate their growth. 4. Global Pitch Competition - A hunt to find the year’s “Best SaaS Startup” with a $25,000 grand prize.SaaStock also hosts 1-day, SaaStock On Tour events in locations including Paris, London, Sydney, Helsinki, Berlin, and New York.
• NexHealth — Join thousands of doctors, hundreds of developers, and millions of patients using NexHealth for EHR-integrated real-time online scheduling, patient communications, digital paperwork, and more.
• Server Density — Server Density is a SaaS-based product that helps users manage and monitor their infrastructure. The tool syncs with major cloud providers and allows users to monitor their websites and servers from a single console, API, and mobile app; enabling them to diagnose problems, maintain uptime, and maximize performance. Server Density is available onLinux, Windows, OS X, and FreeBSD servers.Server Density offers automatic agent installation for Puppet, Chef, and Ansible as well as alternative installer for scripts and packages that works in any environment.Users can receive server monitoring alerts in the form of emails, SMS, push notifications, PagerDuty, and web hooks. They can stack, collect, and compare alerts with graph dashboards across servers and clusters. Metrics can be automatically pulled in from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Rackspace.Server Density was launched in 2009 by David Mytton and is operated from London, United Kingdom.

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• 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.
• 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.

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• Enlightra — Extreme-bandwidth data transmission enabled by light
• Axiom Trust — Axiom Trust is an AI-powered trust startup that modernises professional trust administration during the "Great Wealth Transfer" of over $100 trillion in assets.
• Lace Lithography — Lace is building the patterning technology that will power the next 100 years of semiconductor manufacturing.

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• 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.
• Printify — Sell custom t-shirts, phone cases, and 800+ products with your designs printed on demand. We will handle printing and shipping to your customers.
• Menu Next Door — Menu Next Door's chefs are enthusiasts from all walks of life who want to share their talents. So you'll always enjoy freshly-made, delicious meals originating from all over the world.On Menu Next Door, you'll find these quality meals at affordable prices because they're homemade and prepared locally with no delivery charges.It's great food for the many, not the few.What brings people together more than food? Community is the magic ingredient in Menu Next Door.Meeting your chef and getting the chance to talk to them about the dish they've prepared is what makes this something more than just a takeaway.

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• Aniways — Aniways has an SDK for adding "intelligence and interaction" to mobile communication services, giving any chat/IM/social networking service an amazing way to monetize their traffic. Aniways allows users to easily add dynamic, expressive and fun emoticons to their conversations.
• Optix — Optix is the only coworking software enhanced with end-to-end automation capabilities to save time and accelerate your growth.
• Immediately — Compare sweepstakes casinos rated for game variety and Sweeps Coins value. See welcome offers, redemption rules and how the free-to-play model works.

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• Alcatraz AI — The Rock is an all-in-one touchless biometric access control device that combines facial biometrics, AI, and machine learning for top-notch security.
• Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
• Acumatica — Acumatica Is the Complete Cloud ERP Solution For All Your Business Management Needs Today and In The Future.

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• Windeln.de — windeln.de, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an online retailer of products for babies, toddlers, children, and young mothers in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Spain, and China. It operates through German Shop, International Shops, and Shopping Clubs segments. The company offers a range of products, including diapers,baby food, drugstore products, clothes, toys, strollers, child car seats, baby monitors, and children’s furniture.
• ANSWEAR.com — 200 fashion brands with free delivery in 24h!
• Telematics Technologies — Telematics Technologies sp. z o.o., a Polish technology company, until December 2017 operating as NaviExpert sp. z o.o. The company is a leading provider of insurance telematics and premium navigation solutions for smartphones on the Polish market. The company's portfolio also includes, among others, a system for managing fleets of vehiclesup to 3.5 tonnes called NaviExpert Telematics. In terms of telematics insurance, since 2015 Telematics Technologies has been working with PZU Group, which is one of the largest financial groups in Central and Eastern Europe. As a result of cooperation between the entities, the first offers of Usage-Based Insurance appeared on the Polish market (Safe driving with LINK4, LINK4 Cash Returns) as well as offers of accident detection and reconstruction (PZU GO). Individual customers know Telematics Technologies primarily as a navigation application provider NaviExpert. The application is available on the market under its own brand, as well as in a white label model in offers of all mobile network operators in Poland as Navigation Orange, Navigation Play, Navigation Plus, Navigation T-Mobile. Every month, the system is used by nearly 600 thousand paying users. The company creates solutions that aim to increase road safety by improving drivers' driving styles. Since 2012, the company's CEO has been Adam Bąkowski. The majority shareholder of Telematics Technologies company is Noble Fund Private Debt Fundusz Inwestycyjny Zamknięty Aktywów Niepublicznych with its registered office in Warsaw.

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• HipWay — Hipway is an online travel company maintaining two websites - hiplcub.ru and hipway.ru. Hipclub.ru - is a private online travel club running 10-15 flash sale deals per week. The deals include hotel stays and hotel+flight packages. Hipway.ru - is a travel package specialist offering wide range of hotel+flight packages of Russian touroperators. Hipway recieved angel funding from superangels such as Michael van Swaaij and Chamath Palihapitya in 2010.
• idemama — Idemama is an online platform that provides its users with web and graphic design services. It is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
• Lime&Tonic — Consumer demand for unique ways to spend scarce leisure time is increasing. Hospitality merchants (particularly restaurants) struggle to attract and retain consumers. Delivery of services is not personalized due to exceedingly high labor costs. Via mobile, L&T curates online marketplace focusing on discovery (vs. search) of the bestculinary experiences and unique activities. $2.0 trillion leisure sector with a nice focus on the $160bn fine dining and $227bn activities segments.Proven success with leading merchants including Mandarin Oriental, Intercontinental, Four Seasons, Park Hyatt. Over 1,600 experiences created since company launch.www.limeandtonic.com

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• CrowdSystems — CrowdSystems serves leading Retailers and Manufacturers delivering solutions to increase returns on trade and communication activities. Through innovative IT solutions in mobile, online and analytics specialists turn insights into strategy execution which results in enhanced revenue and profitability. Our people are experts with a senior levelexperience at working within and for Global Brands. CrowdSystems' IT platform allows to collect in real time retail visibility and brand insights directly from consumers disrupting traditional ways for conducting Retail Audit and Consumer Research studies.
• Level Travel — Level Travel service for online booking of tours with round the clock customer support.
• Second pilot — Second pilot is a service that offers drivers information about road conditions.

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• amber — info@amberoad.aiambeRoad is developing an intelligent enterprise search engine to help employees to find all relevant documents easily and quickly by integrating all company internal data sources into one search engine. Our solution allows access to all company-wide files from anywhere. Even if you don't exactly know what you are lookingfor, our cutting-edge AI will know because of a range of features implemented in our software.No need to tag documents manually, all in milliseconds - only one search request away.
• Credoxys — Credoxys develops organic electronic materials for OLED displays, OLED lighting, organic photovoltaics, and sensors. Its portfolio includes dopants and transport materials designed to influence charge transport, optical transmission, power consumption, and energy generation in organic electronic devices. The company also develops materials forscale-up and customer-specific applications.
• ENGO Eyewear — engo3 is a next generation heads up display built for endurance athletes. Instant, frictionless, hands free access to performance metrics with long battery life and an ultra lightweight form factor. Unlock your data, and experience an entirely new way to train and compete

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• 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 a business to business online trading company. Their entire range of product categories includes food, products for beauty and health, household products, pharmaceuticals, summer cottages, goods for hobbies and creativity, clothes and shoes, industrial goods, and furniture and interior design.
• Parkly — Find, book, and save on parking with convenient garages and lots. Find parking near work, home and airports.

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• Edgify — Edgify runs product recognition, loss prevention and real-time store intelligence on the retail hardware you already own. 8,000+ devices, 2,042 stores, 12 countries.
• Sifflet — You make important business decision based on your data. Sifflet ensures the data is reliable, traceable and easy to navigate.
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• Oyl — Oyl offers customers access to the latest trading tools in a single application. Oyl additionally provides an eponymous browser-based wallet enabling inscription swapping within the wallet.
• Q Platform — Q Platform is a First globally connected fintech- multi-banking platform in Russia and CIS.Its platform for banks provides access to the whole ecosystem of fintech solutions available on the market with detailed analysis; allowing quick integration and management. The platform for Fintechs allows to enter new markets and works with new audiencesin different countries using interbank distribution model.The company was founded in 2017 and based in Moscow, Russia
• Woo X — Founded in 2018, high-performance trading workspace. Built by traders for traders. Backed by YZi Labs @yzilabs (Previously Binance Labs) @WOO_X_Japan