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Top 35 Automotive Startup Investors in Russian Federation in October 2023

A list of 35 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Automotive startups based in Russian federation. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Automotive companies from Russian federation. We update this investor list every month.

Top 35 Automotive Startup Investors in Russian Federation in October 2023

Investor Automotive Russian Federation investments
Flashpoint 6
Roman Pavlushko 2
Moscow Seed Fund 2
Dmitry Stepanov 2
Marco Valta 1
Headline 1
Fastlane Ventures 1
JOINT JOURNEY 1
Maxim Loginov 1
Teodoro D'Ambrosio 1
TA Ventures 1
Mitsubishi Corporation 1
Bogdan Iarovoi 1
FinSight Ventures 1
Kima Ventures 1
AltaIR Capital 1
Philip Ilyin-Adaev 1
Almaz Capital 1
Digital Disrupt 1
Impulse VC 1
Softline Venture Partners 1
Jose Marin 1
Avenir Foundation 1
VTB Bank 1
Igor Kaloshin 1
CLoud4Auto Ventures 1
SmartHub 1
Fabrice Grinda 1
Skolkovo Ventures 1
Prostor Capital 1
Alexandr Chernyak 1
Ivan Dubrovin 1
Mail.Ru Group 1
Sberbank 1
Güimar Vaca Sittic 1

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Flashpoint
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in the past 12 months

Flashpoint is an international technology investment firm that manages venture capital, secondary buy-out and venture debt funds.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Algori — Improving FMCG growth with the fastest and most granular insights from 45,000 shoppers in Spain
  • Hotelmize — Our Big Data Solutions for the booking Industry identifies and takes advantage of booking price volatility, automatically increasing your profitability.
  • Welcome Pickups — Book a trusted local driver to pick you up and introduce you to your next destination, pre-order travel essentials.
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Roman Pavlushko
Angel · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation

Angel Investor, CEO & Founder Parkly, ex-CTO Avito (Classified #1 in Russia),

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Travel, Apps
  • Angel, Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Russian Federation, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Moscow Seed Fund
VC Fund · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation

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, Information Technology, Advertising
  • Seed, Debt Financing, Series A
  • Russian Federation, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • 4Blind — Help to socialize and improve the health and well-being of people with visual disabilities with the help of technologies.
  • Tamburin — Tamburin is a platform which allows marketers to evaluate and predict the effectiveness of advertising and optimize budgets.
  • Refin.online — online mortgaging platform
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Dmitry Stepanov
Angel · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation

Dmitriy Stepanov hold a position of Director New Product Development at Yandex, the leading player on Russian online market. Before taking responsibility for Yandex’s new product development, Dmitriy headed Yandex’s marketing. Mr. Stepanov is an entrepreneur, marketer and internet pioneer with a proven track record in building consumer digitalbusinesses with leading business models. He has an extensive experience working in highly competitive and fast paced industries such as the internet (20 yrs), media (20 yrs), entertainment (15 yrs). Mr. Stepanov worked on the top positions (mostly product management and/or marketing related) for the biggest Russian Internet and media companies such as Mail.ru, RBC, Afisha, Rambler. In addition, Mr. Stepanov cofounded several leading projects and companies – Afisha Picnic (the biggest Moscow music festival), RBC Hosting Center (one of the leading hosting companies in Russia), Sports.ru (one of the leading Russian online sports media companies), Journey (event agency), as well as several popular restaurants and bars. Mr. Stepanov also acts as a VC angel investor. Mr. Stepanov has his own author's courses at one of the leading universities of Russia The National research university Higher School of Economics. In 2011 Mr. Stepanov was listed by Forbes magazine as one of the 30 most influential people of the Russian Internet. Russian Managers Association (RMA) rated Dmitriy Stepanov as the best CMO 2017.

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Investment focus

  • Automotive, Consumer Goods, Service Industry
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

  • CARL — CARL provides digital communication for the automotive market and brand new test-drive experience.
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Marco Valta
Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Marco Valta is an Entrepreneur and Investor with over 12 years experience in the tech/web industry. As an internet investor, Marco has a portfolio of more than 150 companies including Appnexus, Soldo, Revolut, Prima, Bolt, Flexport, Deliveroo, Space X, Brex, Fabfitfun, Cloudkitchens, Raya, Playco, Public, Coinbase, Pacaso, Relativity, Monthly.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
  • Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • MIRA BEAUTY™ — MIRA BEAUTY is the world’s first universal store and collaborative library for makeup and skincare — made up of over 100,000 products and counting — which translates over 10 million product pages, reviews, and videos into one clear, simple, and personalized shopping experience. Community members are able to add products, post reviews, and answereach other’s questions based on their own, unbiased experience, all while shopping for the best products for their unique features and approach to beauty. For more information, please visit mirabeauty.com and @officialmirabeauty.
  • SmartPrice — SmartPrice specialize in the sale and certification of electronics, which was once used. They are a team of entrepreneurs who build business on the culture of ReCommerce. This culture suggests that in the world there are so many things that can be reused without losing quality.
  • Salty. — Salty Dot, Inc. is the Embedded Insurance® technology company. Salty removes existing consumer impediments to buying the right policy and having the proper coverage. The company’s platform is a proprietary Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that enables carriers and distribution partners to offer a customized policy to insure a product orservice in real-time during the purchase process. Salty uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze unique data sources about the buyer and the purchase. It then sorts through multiple carriers to seamlessly offer the right insurance. Salty is licensed in all 50 states. For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.wearesalty.com.
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Headline
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 28 investments in the past 12 months

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Mission Brasil — Mission Brasil is an information technology solution that provides a digital outsourcing platform for business development. Their services include legal and administrative, retail and monitoring, research and audit, hidden shopper, data and accreditation, logistics, and direct sales.
  • NUMA Group — Life's hard. Travelling shouldn't be. Book a fully furnished room or apartment in some of Europe's coolest neighbourhoods and see how simple travel can be.
  • Trellis Research — Trellis Research is a research tool for litigators.
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Fastlane Ventures
VC Fund · Limassol, Limassol, Cyprus

Fastlane Ventures is a Russian company focused on the development, launch and promotion of innovative internet businesses.Founded in 2010 by a team of experienced entrepreneurs with a track record of successful investments, the company has launched 20 internet start-ups to capitalize on the increasing demand for online services and growingappetite for investment in the Russian internet market by Western and Russian investors.The company has attracted more than $85 million from international investment funds. Key strategic investment partners of Fastlane Ventures are Direct Group, e.ventures and VTB Capital. Among the investors of the company also Intel Capital, Kinnevik, Mangrove Capital, ru-Net, UMJ Russia, and some others to launch companies across the online retail, travel, relationship, health and recruitment areas. The strategic focus of Fastlane Ventures is to target business-to-consumer niche markets with low levels of competition. The Company's aim is to anticipate the not yet satisfied needs of Russian customers.Fastlane Ventures acts as both an operational and investment partner at the same time. It is the sole Russian company that provides an initial seed investment in addition to having a hands-on operational role with its businesses through its team of high calibre professionals. To launch its business quickly and effectively, Fastlane Ventures has adopted proprietary solution called Fast 50, which enables a new venture to launch in just 50 days and ensures an efficient path between launch and exit. Fastlane Ventures has established a team of highly regarded professionals, who possess unique knowledge and expertise in management, entrepreneurship, e-commerce, business development, marketing and PR, investment generation, HR management, web design and much more. Once the new business venture is operating effectively, Fastlane Ventures helps its investment partners realize their investment return through the sale of the business to other strategic investors. This usually takes place approximately 2-3 years after the initial business launch. For more information about Fastlane Ventures and its portfolio companies, please visit http://fastlaneventures.ru/en/

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Investment focus

  • Internet, FinTech, Medical
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Russian Federation, Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Carprice — Car Price is a Motor vehicle company.
  • CarPrice.ru — CarPrice is the largest online auctioneer for second-hand cars in Russia, providing buyers with free online valuations in mere seconds. More than 4,000 dealers from across the country can then determine the best price during an average 30-minute online bidding process to complete auctions.Within a year from being set up, CarPrice became a topthree Russian used car seller operating from more than 20 locations including Moscow, St. Petersburg and the regions. CarPrice achieved this position while an adverse economic environment translated into a 40% drop in new car sales in Russia. The Company intends to increase total monthly auctions from 4,000 currently to 10,000 until the end of 2015.The company's Round B was adjudged as "Deal of the Year" by Venture Awards Russia 2015 (investors included Baring Vostok Capital Partners & Almaz Capital).
  • Double Data — Founded in 2012, Double Data targets banks and other financial institutions who need to improve their performance for a variety of processes – from customer acquisition and assessment to debt collection. The Double Data software combines Big Data analysis tools, computer-aided learning methods and data mining.
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JOINT JOURNEY
VC Fund · Limassol, Limassol, Cyprus · 3 investments in the past 12 months

Active investment firm that calling founders with a great product vision across diverse industries

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Russian Federation, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • WeGoTrip — Book self-guided audio tours with skip-the-line tickets to museums, galleries, and many other attractions.
  • Altris.AI — AI for Ophthalmology & Optometry is the future of eye care. It will set high diagnostic standards for the industry and bring better patient outcome as a result. Together we will solve the preventable blindness problem.
  • Whizz — My Device is a subscription-based rental service provider for devices like electric scooters, bicycles, home sports equipment, etc.
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Maxim Loginov
Angel · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation

Maxim Loginov

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Investment focus

  • Automotive, Consumer Goods, Service Industry
  • Series A
  • Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

  • CARL — CARL provides digital communication for the automotive market and brand new test-drive experience.
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Teodoro D'Ambrosio
Angel

Teodoro is serial entrepreneur with 20 years of experience and investor.Teodoro is director of Jetcost Group and Prima.it, former director of Bravofly-Rumbo Group until IPO. Co-founder of Emaze, Hotelscan (acquired by JetCost), Prima, Bravoavia (acquired by Bravofly), Yeldo, Abiby, Impossible Brands.Founder and partner of Luxembourg investmentvehicle Neurone Ventures with an investment portfolio of over 80 investments with 14 successful exits.Current investment portfolio include companies like: Coinbase, Adoreme, Deliveroo, Wallapop, Justeat.Teodoro started his career, as a techie, in year 2000 by joining the founding team of Emaze; he brought the company to become market leader in Italy for software and network security.Teodoro has engineering degree and an executive degree from Berkeley.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Automotive, Marketplace
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • United States, Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

  • HAPPYCAR — As a metasearch engine HAPPYCAR offers customers an extended transparency of offers showing insurance packages, kilometer fees and one-way fees, among many others. By providing an easy, user-friendly booking process and a free customer service hotline in case any questions arise, they ensure that their customers can enjoy a hassle free rental cartrip. To conclude, customers benefit from HAPPYCAR by saving time and money.HAPPYCAR (www.happycar.de) is one of the fastest growing online car rental companies in Europe. HAPPYCAR is operating within the tourism sector as a meta-search engine for rental cars. Their goal is to provide the best prices for rental cars worldwide, while comparing all offers of their partners. To achieve this, HAPPYCAR has access to more than 1.000 car rental companies for eight countries through Europe and worldwide destinations – further expansion is going on.
  • SmartPrice — SmartPrice specialize in the sale and certification of electronics, which was once used. They are a team of entrepreneurs who build business on the culture of ReCommerce. This culture suggests that in the world there are so many things that can be reused without losing quality.
  • CarPrice.ru — CarPrice is the largest online auctioneer for second-hand cars in Russia, providing buyers with free online valuations in mere seconds. More than 4,000 dealers from across the country can then determine the best price during an average 30-minute online bidding process to complete auctions.Within a year from being set up, CarPrice became a topthree Russian used car seller operating from more than 20 locations including Moscow, St. Petersburg and the regions. CarPrice achieved this position while an adverse economic environment translated into a 40% drop in new car sales in Russia. The Company intends to increase total monthly auctions from 4,000 currently to 10,000 until the end of 2015.The company's Round B was adjudged as "Deal of the Year" by Venture Awards Russia 2015 (investors included Baring Vostok Capital Partners & Almaz Capital).
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TA Ventures
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 4 investments in the past 12 months

TA Ventures is globally-minded and network-driven VC firm investing in early-stage tech startups in Europe and North America shaping the industries of tomorrow. Our ticket size starts from $100k up to $1M. We offer speed of execution, proactive support, and access to a broad international network. Drawing upon our network, we support our portfoliocompanies by proactively soliciting large, growth-minded co-investors in subsequent rounds. We utilize our industry knowledge and network to give portfolio companies and partner VCs access to the highly skilled and cost-effective R&D outsourcing teams in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Germany, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Giza — Giza changes this by using zero-knowledge cryptography to bring model inferencing on-chain, unlocking a new depth for smart contract design.
  • Utorg — Utorg is a fintech company that offers а modern on/off-ramp and web3 consumer infrastructure to deliver а top-notch user experience. The company is EU-based and holds a license for providing a virtual currency service, in particular exchanging a virtual currency against fiat currency, virtual currency wallet service, and exchanging virtualcurrency against a virtual currency.Utorg was founded in 2020 and is based in Tallinn, Estonia.
  • Cube3.ai — CUBE3.AI is a web3 security platform that provides real-time transaction protection for smart contracts, safeguarding against cyber exploits, fraud, and compliance risks.
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Mitsubishi Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in the past 12 months

Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) is a global integrated business enterprise that develops and operates businesses across virtually every industry including industrial finance, energy, metals, machinery, chemicals, living essentials, and environmental business. MC's current activities are expanding far beyond its traditional trading operations asits diverse business ranges from natural resources development to investment in retail business, infrastructure, financial products and manufacturing of industrial goods.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Corporate Round
  • Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Amogy — Amogy develops a novel carbon-free energy storage system using ammonia as a fuel, exhibiting unprecedented energy density
  • KoBold Metals — KoBold is a mineral exploration company driving the clean energy future by accelerating the discovery of critical metals.
  • Kyoto Fusioneering — Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors.
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Bogdan Iarovoi
Angel · Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad, Russian Federation

Bogdan Iarovoi is a Managing Partner of SmartHub Investments.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, SaaS, Software
  • Seed, Convertible Note, Angel
  • United States, United Kingdom, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

  • Snipfeed — Launch your own social storefront and make money online with ease! Our platform allows creators to easily create and manage their online store.
  • Ondaka — Ondaka makes Industrial Knowledge Accessible for critical infrastructure & heavy industry.
  • Cattle Care — Cattle Care is a revolutionary dairy management software using your existing parlor cameras and artificial intelligence to save money.
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FinSight Ventures
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months

Capital + Hiring + Infrastructure

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Series A, Seed, Secondary Market
  • United States, India, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

  • Betr — At betr, It provides tools to support responsible play and give you control over your gambling. It encourage you to use these tools to keep the experience fun and within your personal limits.
  • Qase — Qase is a modern test management platform for manual & automated QA testing & reporting that helps your team deliver a higher quality product, faster.
  • Betterhalf — Best matrimony app in India with AI matchmaking. Get compatible life partner from lakhs of genuine, Govt ID and selfie verified profiles of brides & grooms. Download Betterhalf marriage app now!
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Kima Ventures
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 42 investments in the past 12 months

Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Mimbi — Mimbi provides brands and agencies with a platform that allows them to better measure & optimize the impact of retail media campaigns
  • OnlyDust — OnlyDust is a contribute to the best StarkNet projects, and get paid in USDC or Tokens.
  • Depot — The fastest place to build Docker images.
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AltaIR Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in the past 12 months

We foster innovation and work together to find and grow breakthroughs all over the world

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Israel, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

  • Browse AI — Monitor any webpage for changes. Download any data on the web as a spreadsheet. Turn any website into an API.
  • Hints — Taking notes is not enough
  • Giraffe — Giraffe develops an investment engine to help individuals and companies to improve the world. It provides an engaging learning environment about impact and investing. Giraffe is located in New York, New York.
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Philip Ilyin-Adaev
Angel

Philip Ilyin-Adaev is the CEO and Founder of Banki.ru.

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Investment focus

  • Sales, Automotive, Home Decor
  • Angel
  • Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

  • Remont Fm — Remont FM is a turnkey company that repairs houses and apartments.
  • Stock Pro — Stock Pro offers car purchasing, product ratings, warehouse management, and sales management services.
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Almaz Capital
VC Fund · Portola Valley, California, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Almaz Capital is an international venture capital firm investing in early stage, capital efficient technology companies. A unique bridge fund headquartered in Silicon Valley, Almaz Capital connects Eastern European/former Soviet engineering and entrepreneurial talent to the U.S. market and helps build global businesses. The firm invests inhigh-growth sectors such as artificial intelligence and blockchain applications, data engineering, cybersecurity, industrial IoT, networking architecture and infrastructure. Its investors include Cisco, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group. Founded in 2008, Almaz Capital has invested in over 30 portfolio companies and has had nine exits to date.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • United States, Russian Federation, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • marta — German Version below:marta offers a market place for families, people in need of care and European caregivers. We believe that, on the one hand everyone has the right to receive appropriate care and to age with dignity and on the other hand caregivers should be able to do their work under fair conditions.We are working on software solutions toconnect caregivers with families across Europe and we support both parties during the entire process. In our own families we have seen that the current market is characterized by non-transparent services and does not deliver adequate quality. It is out mission to change that.That is why we at marta pursue the goal of making things better by applying our software solutions to fundamentally rebuilding the "24-hour" care market.Deutsche Version:marta bietet einen Marketplatz für Familien, pflegebedürftige Menschen und europäische Pflegekräfte. Aus unserer Sicht, hat zum einen jede/r das Recht darauf, angemessene Pflege zu erhalten und in Würde zu altern und zum anderen sollten Pflegekräfte unter fairen Bedingungen ihre Arbeit machen können.Wir arbeiten an dem Bau von Softwarelösungen, um Pflegekräfte mit Familien in ganz Europa zu verbinden und während der Betreuung zu begleiten. In unseren eigenen Familien haben wir gesehen, dass der derzeitige Markt von intransparenten Dienstleistungen geprägt ist und keine angemessene Qualität liefert.Deswegen verfolgen wir bei marta das Ziel, es durch unsere Softwarelösungen besser zu machen und den Markt der "24-Stunden" Pflege grundlegend neu aufzubauen.
  • WORKERBASE — Agile manufacturing to increase production flexibility and ensure business continuity. Intelligent process execution for the connected worker to increase operational flexibility and reduce costs in Industry 4.0
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Digital Disrupt
VC Fund · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation

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

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Investment focus

  • Software, Apps, Information Technology
  • 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
  • Monetizr — Monetizr is a unique in-game advertising platform that enables brand marketers to engage with GenZ and Millennial audiences. Monetizr offers sequential multi-touch brand placements, scalability across hundreds of mobile games, high engagement, and data collection in exchange for valuable rewards.
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Impulse VC
VC Fund · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation

Fund for technological internet companies

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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.
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Softline Venture Partners
VC Fund · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation · 2 investments in the past 12 months

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!
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Jose Marin
Angel · Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Jose Marin started his professional career as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.In 1999 he co-founded DeRemate.com (eBay model for Latin America). The company raised 75 M USD, did a partial cash-out sale to Terra and later merged with Mercado Libre that went Public in Nasdaq .Currently Jose is co-Founder and co-CEO of IGExpansion. IG takes successful internet business models into emerging markets (main focus Brazil). IG builds one project per year and will not build more than 6 (investing the first 3 to 5 M USD per project). 5 of the 6 are already operating being Viajanet (Expedia for Latam) its biggest success.Jose is also founder of Serendipity Investments, company that has invested in >70 start-ups. Before this, Jose invested in projects such as Bazee (auctions sold to eBay in 2005) and eDreams (European Travel site sold to TA Associates in 2006) obtaining top tier returns.Jose is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA and an MA in International development Economics from Stanford.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Farfetch — Farfetch operates an e-commerce website that unites various independent fashion boutiques. It offers bags, coats, dresses, jackets, jewellery, swimwear, trouser, shoes, knitwear, suits, shorts, and accessories. They operate a modular end-to-end technology platform purpose built to connect the luxury fashion ecosystem worldwide. Their vision wasto create a single operating system that could address the complex demands of consumers and luxury sellers alike. Their platform is built on an API-enabled proprietary technology stack, which provides the foundation for the three main components: applications, services and data. Farfetch serves women, men, and kids. Jose Neves founded the company in 2008, with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom.
  • 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.
  • 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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Avenir Foundation
VC Fund

investment firm

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Investment focus

  • Automotive, Consumer Goods, Service Industry
  • Seed
  • Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

  • CARL — CARL provides digital communication for the automotive market and brand new test-drive experience.
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VTB Bank
VC Fund · Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg City, Russian Federation

VTB Bank, its subsidiary banks and financial organizations comprise a leading Russian financial group offering a wide range of financial and banking services and products in Russia, the CIS and select countries in Europe, North America, Asia and Africa. VTB Group has more than 30 banks and financial companies in more than 20 countries. As of 31October 2015, the Group was the second largest financial group in Russia by assets (RUB 12.62 trillion) and by customer accounts (RUB 7.32 trillion).

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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Pre-Seed, Private Equity
  • Russian Federation, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Selvery — Selvery provides a SaaS platform to create & manage customized content to help bridges the gap between the product owner & the sales channel
  • KeyHabits — KeyHabits provides a platform using AI for analyzing & monitoring employee behavior and provide feedback to increase productivity.
  • CleverDATA — CleverDATA is a service for personalizing advertising and communications based on Big Data & AI.
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Igor Kaloshin
Angel · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation

CEO of Angelsdeck Global Ventures, a network of clubs focusing on building an international ecosystem for the venture deal syndication. Ex Intel.

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Investment focus

  • Software, PaaS, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
  • United Kingdom, Russian Federation, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

  • VeeRoute — VeeRoute is a fast growing company developing logistics optimization software and analytics solutions. We get hundreds of new customers on board year after year and shows stable annual growth.
  • YallaMarket — YallaMarket / Fast grocery delivery from 15 minutes
  • Wimark Systems — The WIMARK platform is able to fully replace expensive hardware-based WLAN controllers, while providing high performance and multivendor APs management. This is a fully software-based solution which can be installed both at a customer's local area network, and in the cloud of a carrier or service provider. Flexible WIMARK platform architectureand an open API allow customers to implement multiple cutting-edge Wi-Fi services, such as Hotspot 2.0 and Wi-Fi Calling.
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CLoud4Auto Ventures
VC Fund · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation

Shop used cars for sale by participating dealers; research and compare different makes, models, prices and find local dealers throughout the United States.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Automotive, Car Sharing
  • Funding Round
  • Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

  • Remoto — Remoto is unique connected car platform for OEM and dealerships, car owners and #insurance companies. Remoto system - the development of the Russian IT company bright box. It includes three main elements: a control module that integrates into a vehicle, server software in the Microsoft cloud, and a mobile application with a user-friendly interfacethat allows you to remotely control car functions from anywhere in the world.
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SmartHub
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States

SmartHub is a funding and service platform which connects the best start ups to investors, and supports at every investments.Service solutions for investors – tailor made venture portfolios: focused pipeline, extensive analysis and research of investment options, deal structuring, legal paper work, quarterly reporting, investment rightsprotection till exit.Service solutions for startups – fast communications and feedback, mutually beneficial deal making, strategic development support, networking and consulting at fundraising stage.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, SaaS, Software
  • Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • TransferGo — Send & receive money from over 30 countries with TransferGo, either online or through our app. Transfer money at low cost, quickly & safely.
  • Damon Motors — Damon is unleashing the full potential of personal mobility for the world’s commuters. With its proprietary electric drivetrain, the company has developed the world’s safest, smartest, fully connected electric motorcycle platform employing radical innovations in battery propagation resistance, sensor fusion and AI. Designed as a platform forworldwide line extension, Damon motorcycles will ship direct to consumer on subscription plans to drive scale. Based in Vancouver, Canada, Damon is a Techstars Mobility company founded by serial entrepreneurs Jay Giraud and Dom Kwong. Damon’s investors include Round 13 Capital, Techstars, Fontinalis, Extreme Venture Partners and Pallasite Ventures.
  • EWA Learn — Start learning English, French and Spanish with EWA: conversational vocabulary, interactive exercises, modern examples and fun tasks are waiting for you!
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Fabrice Grinda
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months

Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, France, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

  • OTPless — Experience the future of user authentication with OTPLESS. Our one-tap sign-in solution eliminates the need for passwords and OTPs, offering a secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative.
  • PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.
  • Le Collectionist — Le Collectionist is a luxury travel brand offering the discerning traveller a selection of exquisite holiday rentals around the world with hotel-like services.
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Skolkovo Ventures
VC Fund · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation

Investment platform for venture capital funds management, sell-side advisory for startups, developing and venture ecosystem development

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Digital Marketing
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Russian Federation, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

  • inapp — Up-to-date, fast and clear online insurance service by subscription with 100% cashback
  • Boomerangme — Digital loyalty cards for your business - give bonuses to regular customers, send personal offers by free push-notifications. App for iOS / Android.
  • Cyberphysics — Cyberphysics is a universal software solution for optimizing production operational processes.
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Prostor Capital
VC Fund · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation

Prostor Capital – a Russian venture fund focused on profitable investments in dynamically growing companies of IT & Internet markets. The Fund was incorporated in 2011 by a group of private investors. A famous Russian investor and enterpreneaur Leonid Reiman and one of the leading top-managers of IT industry Sergey Merkulov are among itsco-founders and co-investors.Fund’s investment focus – the stable growth stage (round А and above) projects having ready technological product and fast-growing clients-and-users base. These are Russian IT and Internet companies with a big local or international sales market potential, interested in external investments for the achievement of a new development level. The priority is given to the companies with a technological component in the sphere of new financial and advertising services, cloud technologies, projects in the sphere of innovational education and digital medicine. Awarded as one the TOP 20 best Russian venture investment funds (source: Hopes&Fears).TOP 5 of the most active venture funds in the Russian market (source: the research of Firrma.ru with the support of JSC «RVC» and PwC). Currently Prostor Capital’s investment portfolio includes 14 companies: Dnevnik.ru, Umisoft, Softrust, Platiza, Credit Cards Online, Federal Finance, CPA Exchange, Evrika Group, Dulton Media, Infratel, Smart CheckOut, Penxy, Carfin, AdMoment.Prostor Capital ManagementSergey Merkulov, a Managing Partner, one of the leading Top-managers in IT-industry with over 20 years of managerial experience. He is responsible for the Fund strategy, cooperation with investors, as well as a number of sectorial segments are under his management. Alexey Solovyov, a Managing Director of the Fund. He is responsible for the Fund’s overall management, organisation and functioning coordination of the Managing Company and the Investment Committee; a BOD member of several portfolio companies. Stanislav Kosorukov, an Investment Director, managing the investment analytical practice, responsible for the search and evaluation of projects’ perspective, investment deals’ structuring and portfolio companies’ operational activity control.

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Investment focus

  • Finance, Apps, Sales
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Russian Federation, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Platiza — Online microfinance service that provides short-term payday loans. After online identification and scoring process funds can be trasferred to customer's debit card, Visa Qiwi Wallet or any e-commerce partner account for purchase settlement purposes. Funds are being posted within 5-10 minutes in case of positive decision.
  • Federal Finance — The online service of internet users identification. Provider of identification services to companies.
  • Federal Finance — The online service of internet users identification. Provider of identification services to companies.
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Alexandr Chernyak
Angel · Kiev, Kyyivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine

Alexandr Chernyak is a Board Member for Allset and a Co-founder of Carprice and Smartprice.

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Investment focus

  • Restaurants, Apps, B2B
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Russian Federation, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Allset — Allset is a marketplace connecting restaurants and local diners. It provides restaurants with online ordering and contactless dining solutions to serve their customers commission-free.Customers use Allset to order ahead at nearby restaurants and coffee shops, to ensure everyday dining that is fast, easy, and healthy. Local diners supportrestaurants with commission-free orders for pickup, curbside, and dine-in.Allset is focused on connecting restaurants and diners in busy areas to drive network effect on a hyperlocal level.Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Allset was co-founded by Stas Matviyenko and Anna Polishchuk in 2015.
  • Foodfox — Foodfox makes it easy to get high-quality restaurant meals delivered to your doorstep in 45 minutes or less. Foodfox reinvents food ordering experience by selecting best restaurants and providing fast, transparent and reliable delivery. Foodfox started delivering in Moscow city center and expanded its delivery services coverage over time. Themanagement team includes people from a variety of backgrounds – top-tier management consultants, investment bankers and functional experts coming from the recognized international and local industry leaders. Try Foodfox today by ordering at www.foodfox.ru or with Foodfox app on iPhone or Android.We are always looking for talents - you can contact us via job@foodfox.ru.
  • CarPrice.ru — CarPrice is the largest online auctioneer for second-hand cars in Russia, providing buyers with free online valuations in mere seconds. More than 4,000 dealers from across the country can then determine the best price during an average 30-minute online bidding process to complete auctions.Within a year from being set up, CarPrice became a topthree Russian used car seller operating from more than 20 locations including Moscow, St. Petersburg and the regions. CarPrice achieved this position while an adverse economic environment translated into a 40% drop in new car sales in Russia. The Company intends to increase total monthly auctions from 4,000 currently to 10,000 until the end of 2015.The company's Round B was adjudged as "Deal of the Year" by Venture Awards Russia 2015 (investors included Baring Vostok Capital Partners & Almaz Capital).
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Ivan Dubrovin
Angel · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation

Ivan Dubrovin

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Automotive, Information Services
  • Seed
  • Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

  • Parkly — Find, book, and save on parking with convenient garages and lots. Find parking near work, home and airports.
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Mail.Ru Group
VC Fund · Leningradskiy, Chukot, Russian Federation

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.
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Sberbank
VC Fund · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation

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.

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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.
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Güimar Vaca Sittic
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Güimar is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor as well as Venture Partner at FJ Labs.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Software, Marketplace
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Rintin — rintin is a B2B marketplace that connects small independent retailers with curated emerging brands.
  • Lara AI — Helping leaders maximize the employee experience in a personalized manner
  • Thingtesting — Explore thousands of new online brands and share your honest reviews so everyone on the internet can shop better. Discover the best brands in personal care, home decor, clothing, food, tech and more.
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