Top 10 Finance Startup Investors in Russian Federation (May 2026)

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.

Investment focus

Industry: Finance, Apps, Sales
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Russian Federation, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

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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Pulsar Venture Capital, a business acceleration program, offers financing and mentorship to clean tech, robotics, and electronics startups.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Russian Federation, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

Total investments: 52
Round size: Seed $54k–$230k; Pre-Seed $54k–$136k
Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

ZEVS — ZEVS platform consists of three elements: • Mobile App ZEVS for EV (station map, session booking, payment, available in the App Store and Google Play); • Web interface: monitoring and managing charging stations network ZOI; • ZEVS CS – IT-system core: unites stations into a manageable network.In summary, it provides a service cycle for EVcharging from App user registering and billing to receiving funds for charging sessions to the station owner’s account, monitoring and customer support.
Videoforce — VideoForce is a best video chat app for your business. Make your sales and conversion higher
Beauty Tech — Beauty Tech is an application with a variety of consumer DNA tests, as well as personalized cosmetics, dietary supplements and nutrition kit

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Venture capital investments

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Series A, Seed
Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 84
Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $1.2M–$18M
Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

Cyolo — Zero trust depends on securing high-risk access. Cyolo extends modern controls to remote workers and third parties, OT and legacy apps, in just minutes.
Circles - Online Group Support — Participate in online video meetings guided by an expert facilitator and gain tools for reflection that will help you feel less alone.
Oneday — Join a community of founders on OneDay. Gain access to business ideas, successful mentors and even startup funding.

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FINAM Global is a private equity and venture capital arm of Financial Analyst Investment Holding specializing in investments in growth capital, incubation, seed/start-up, early, mid, and late venture, later stage, and buyouts in mid- sized middle market technology companies. The firm primarily invests in technology, media, andtelecommunications sectors with a focus on consumer Internet, Internet retail, communications equipment, online services, production of software and games, payment systems, social networks, instant messengers, online advertising, e-commerce, publishing and digital media globally.It seeks to acquire control positions or significant minority interests in its portfolio companies and offers flexible financing structures, including additional share issues and buy-out opportunities. FINAM Global was founded by Victor Remsha in 2004 and is headquartered in Moscow, Russia.

Investment focus

Industry: Credit, Gaming, Finance
Stage:Series A
Geography: United States, Russian Federation

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
Alawar Entertainment — Alawar Entertainment is neck-deep into the casual gaming industry with involvement in development, publication and distribution of games titles like The Treasures of Montezuma, Magic Ball, Snowy and Gamextazy. They work with game developers to create games for Alawar's own sites and they provide website owners with their own casual gamingsolutions. Alawar games can also be played on mobile phones. Alawar has plans to become a top five global casual games company. They are working on this goal furiously with over 60 development partners and publishing & promoting games through partners Real, Yahoo, Shockwave and CNet.The Alawar Games Showroom Network is one of the casual games solutions for website owners. It lets them put Alawar's whole game catalogue on their site via embedded code. Alawar pays website owners a fifty percent fee on each game sold. They also have Alawar Wrapper, which protects game content with demo time limits and game play limits, and Alawar Game Box, which is downloadable desktop client that keeps gamers updated with new games and news. In August 2007, Russian investment firm Finam Investment Holding acquired a minority stake in the company. Casual game competitors include Big Fish Games, MSN Games and their partner Yahoo Games.

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Venture Capital Firm 2.0 focused on Deep Tech, It-logistics and Digital Healthcare industries.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Geography: Ukraine, United States, Russian Federation

Investor stats

Total investments: 9
Round size: Pre-Seed $200k–$610k
Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

Promin Aerospace — Democratizing space and making it available to every country, organization and person.
Onlizer — Onlizer allows connecting services and automates processes fast and efficient without coding.
Drope.me — We connect gaming companies, micro streamers and their communities in performance marketing campaigns.

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Dmitry Shklyar is the founder of JobTop. Dmitry Shklyar attended Saint Petersburg State University of Finance and Economics in 2002.

Investment focus

Industry: Finance, Grocery, Crowdfunding
Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Geography: Portugal, Russian Federation

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

Bairro — Produtos em minutos
JetLend — JetLend is a crowdfunding platform through which private investors lend to small businesses.
Geeek club — Learn without realizing. Unique DIY bots and models. Made of PCB.

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Runa Capital is a global venture capital firm built by serial entrepreneurs that invests in early-stage software startups around the world...

Investment focus

Industry: Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
Geography: United States, Germany, Russian Federation

Investor stats

Total investments: 133
Round size: Seed $800k–$5.4M; Series A $1.5M–$10M; Series B $1.4M–$19M
Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

PandasAI — PandasAI is a Python library that integrates generative artificial intelligence capabilities into pandas, making dataframes conversational
Akhetonics — Creating the first all-optical RISC Processor
Dashbot — Actionable Voice & Chatbot Analytics. Optimize Response Effectiveness; Understand User Behaviors; Increase User Satisfaction, Engagement, and Monetization.

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The Fund for the Promotion of Venture Investment in Small Enterprises in the Scientific and Technical Sphere of Moscow was established by the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy of Moscow.

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

Total investments: 80
Round size: Seed $40k–$380k; Series A $87k–$10M; Debt Financing $80k–$267k
Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

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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Andrey Chernetsov

Investment focus

Industry: Finance, Crowdfunding, Financial Services
Stage:Series A
Geography: Russian Federation

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

JetLend — JetLend is a crowdfunding platform through which private investors lend to small businesses.

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