Top 20 Travel Startup Investors in Russian Federation (June 2026)

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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.
• Siftery — Siftery is a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks. Siftery compares companies with similar stacks and looks for differences to make some recommendations.
• 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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• Feastables — Feastables is setting out to build the most engaging brand on the planet, bringing the games, stunts and spectacle.
• Berkshire Grey — Berkshire Grey develops a materials handling system intended to automate omnichannel fulfillment. Its system utilizes artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning, and novel sensing to deploy intelligent robotic systems that automate tasks never before performed by machines in commercial settings, enabling customers to achieve higheraccuracy and throughput speeds than traditional approaches as well as handle the broadest assortment of products, packaging, and parcels with ease.
• Sunlight Financial — Sunlight Financial offers seamless financing for solar and 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.
• June Homes — June Homes is a network of fully furnished bedrooms in prime spots available on flexible month-to-month terms in major American cities.

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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.
• Scramble — Investing made easy with Scramble. Start your investment journey effortlessly, ensuring a smooth and secure path to build your investment portfolio.
• 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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• 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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• 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 — Own this domain today. We make your shopping experience easy. Friendly and quick customer service.
• 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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• YCLIENTS — YCLIENTS is an online booking system and appointment scheduling software: online calendar, scheduling system and app, employee scheduling software, erp system and more.
• Level Travel — Level Travel service for online booking of tours with round the clock customer support.

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• D2X Group — Trade digital asset options and futures on the EU-regulated market infrastructure for institutions.
• SuperWorld — The Virtual World mapped on top of the real world to create, discover and monetize content.
• Knowledge Gate Group — Connect with global experts in life sciences and accelerate your innovation pipeline with AI-assisted insights.

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• Crobox — Crobox's next generation guided selling solution humanizes your product data and discovery experience with product finders and product data enrichment.
• Antidot — Antidot is a software vendor that leverages 20 years of advanced research in semantic search and content enrichment to develop its content delivery platform (CDP). The company’s products multiply the value of content by delivering dynamic information in a personalized and contextualized form. Antidot helps more than 150 customers around the worldimprove their operational efficiency.
• Custom Surgical — Custom Surgical is democratizing hardware and software to record microscope procedures easily and quickly without any professional engineer to attach or cables to share live.

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• 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.

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• NFWare — The World's Fastest Network Functions Virtualization. High-Performance NFV applications for carriers, data centers and enterprises
• Acumatica — Acumatica Is the Complete Cloud ERP Solution For All Your Business Management Needs Today and In The Future.
• StarWind Software — StarWind delivers Software-Defined Storage solutions, HyperConverged and Storage Appliances designed to build highly resilient IT infrastructures.

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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 — Immediately is mobile sales enablement, designed for the always-on workforce.Sales can no longer be a 9-5 job; over 70% of lost deals are due to slow reaction time. Immediately brings the full sales workflow into one mobile app designed to enable capturing opportunities and closing deals in real time. From getting intelligence on leads, tosending instrumented emails, to making and logging phone calls and updating opportunity status. Immediately is the sales rep’s best weapon. We plug into Google Apps and Salesforce to integrate seamlessly with existing workflows.We believe the future of sales is not CRM, but a beautiful data-driven, highly automated, and platform-agnostic integrated sales experience. Creating it is our passion. Our customer is the closer - and we believe that in sales, everyone should be a closer.

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• iZettle — iZettle is reinventing technologies and banking services that help small-business owners live better, work less and earn more. Based in Stockholm, the financial technology company revolutionized mobile payments in 2010 with the world’s first mini chip card reader and software for mobile devices. Today, small-business owners around the world useiZettle’s powerfully simple services to improve the speed and ease of payments at checkout, business management, sales analytics, customer engagement, and funding
• Allegro — Allegro provides a safe shopping platform for a computer, tablet, and smartphone. It owns and operates online auction portals. The company is based in Poznan, Poland. Allegro Group operates as a subsidiary of MIH Internet Europe.
• Auctionata — Auctionata | Paddle8 is an online auction platform specializing in art and luxury collectibles. As of February 29, 2017, Auctionata has announced it has ceased operations, declaring insolvency. The company had offices in Berlin, New York, London, Los Angeles, Rome, Zurich, and Madrid. Following the conclusion of its preliminary insolvencyproceedings on February 28, 2017, Auctionata Paddle8 AG ceased its German operations. The subsidiaries Paddle8 in the US and Value-my-Stuff in the UK were sold and continue to operate.

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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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• 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 an online trading platform for organizing wholesale sales and purchases
• Parkly — Find, book, and save on parking with convenient garages and lots. Find parking near work, home and airports.

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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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• WalkMe — Using technology should be the way we overcome challenges, not the challenge itself.
• Sifflet — You make important business decision based on your data. Sifflet ensures the data is reliable, traceable and easy to navigate.
• Lightico — AI Intelligent Document Processing, IDP, ID Verification, KYC and Compliant Customer Journeys for Banks, Auto Finance, Telecoms.

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• Oyl — Trade Alkanes tokens, swap on Bitcoin Layer 1, and access DeFi directly on Bitcoin. Non-custodial wallet optimized for Bitcoin smart contracts.
• 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 — Woo X is a high-performance crypto trading platform.

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• 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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• Ubitium — Ubiquitous computing, universal RISC-V microprocessor
• Akhetonics — Creating the first all-optical RISC Processor
• Twenty — Twenty builds the modern salesforce, powered by the open source community.