# Top 50 Gaming Startup Investors in Russian Federation in May 2026

## AddVenture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Software

AddVenture is a region & stage agnostic venture capital fund with a Russian origin. Our investment range is $1-10M.

## Rinat Salikhov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Cooking, Robotics, Food Delivery

Rinat Salikhov

## Mail.Ru Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Leningradskiy, Chukot, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Social Media, Mobile Apps, Education

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.

## Moscow Seed Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Advertising

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.

## AltaIR Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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

## Target Global
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Target Global is a venture capital firm that invests in tech companies across their lifecycles. Target Global follows a lifecycle approach, investing in tech companies. Their partners have been investing for more than 15 years in the digital technology space, backing some of the European success stories.

## Sergey Ashin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food Delivery

Sergey Ashin - President & CEO @ Chefmarket.ru

## s16vc
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Castle, Delaware, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

s16vc is an early-stage founder-centric angel fund. The fund focuses on early stage technology investments, operating globally in Europe, and the US. We have brought together more than 80 founders & operators to support early stage companies in their growth. Fund partners are active founders and operators: - Oleg Bibergan - Co-founder &Co-Managing Partner at s16vc, venture investor & corporate finance executive with 15 years of experience spanning early, growth, and late stage deals as equity investor with GS SSG, Kismet Capital Group, and personal angel portfolio- Aleks Shamis - Co-founder & Co-Managing Partner at s16vc. Ex-Deputy CEO at Borzodelivery.com (global on-demand delivery business, operating in 10 countries)- Mike Peregudov - Founder & CEO at Pivot.ws (EdTech startup in the US market), Food Party (exit to Yandex)- Leo Batalov - Partner, Global Co-Head of Emerging Growth Companies & Venture Capital at DLA Piper, top international law firm- Egor Rudi - Founder & CEO at Profi.ru (leading services marketplace in Eastern Europe), Co-founder at Hands.ru (first Uber-like marketplace in home improvement market)- Tolya Marin - Founder at Payment systems (fintech company with profit per employee > PayPal
& 20m installs/ 5m MAU)- Andrey Khusid - Founder and CEO of Miro, the world's most popular visual collaboration platformBeing founders ourselves, we are confident that people succeed, not ideas, and feel immense respect for every founder who perseveres to the point of creating impact and monetizable value. We invest in teams who share our values: - People succeed, not ideas- Community, not individual- Trust- Transparency- Intrinsic motivation to help- Pay forward- Beginner mindset

## Egor Gurev
- Type: Angel
- Location: Perm, Permskiy Kray, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Gaming, Software, Video Games

Started my first IT business in 2009. With the team of talented experts in development, marketing, sales, and business development launched Enaza - a platform for carriers to increase their value-added services by offering games, music, software to the carrier customers. Sold this business to Softline in 2017.Co-founder of Playkey - a cloudgaming platform, that helps people to play computer games on low-end computers and laptops. Acquired great expertise from 2013 on cloud gaming and streaming technologies.Specialties: Marketing, Internet projects, business administration, cloud gaming, games, and digital distribution.

## Angelsdeck Global Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Software, Education

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

## St. Nicolas Trust
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Focus: E-Commerce, Consumer Goods, Food Processing

St Nicholas Trust focuses on assisting imprisoned families who share common interests, both as a group and as individuals.

## Sergey Rodionov
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Cooking, Robotics, Food Delivery

Sergey Rodionov

## Raison Asset Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Secondary Market, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, SaaS, Software

Global investment firm

## Impulse VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Advertising, Software, E-Commerce

Fund for technological internet companies

## JOINT JOURNEY
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Limassol, Limassol, Cyprus
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Fores Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Grocery, Delivery

We help entrepreneurs grow their business using our expertise, network and money

## Danil Filatov
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Cooking, Robotics, Food Delivery

Danil Filatov

## Larix
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, B2B, AgTech

LARIX is a fund created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs and aims to align itself with the most active founders globally who believe in digital transformation and want to take action to capture this value.

## Krasnodarzernoprodukt Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Krasnodar, Krasnodar, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Grocery, E-Commerce, Food Delivery

Krasnodarzernoprodukt Group produces various agricultural commodities and offers processing, logistics, and management services.

## Victor Lysenko
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Retail, Internet, E-Commerce

Victor is a serial entrepreneur with two exits as CEO & Founder.

## Anton Anohin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Sales, Retail, Grocery

Anton Anohin

## TMT Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: St. Helier, NA - Jersey, Jersey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Social Media

TMT Investments PLC invests in high-growth technology companies across a number of core specialist sectors and has a significant number of Silicon Valley investments in its portfolio. Founded in 2010, TMT has invested in over 65 companies to date. The Company’s objective is to generate an attractive rate of return for shareholders,predominantly through capital appreciation. The Company is traded on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. www.tmtinvestments.com.

## FJ Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

## Baring Vostok Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce

Baring Vostok Capital Partners Limited is a venture capital and private equity firm based in Russia. It invests on early venture, acquisitions, buy-outs, growth capital, later-stage, mid-market, and medium-sized enterprises that operate in sectors such as natural resource extraction, particularly oil and gas; competitive industrial companiesthat operate in local or export markets; mass media and telecommunications; utilities; construction materials; specialty manufacturing; real estate development; residential real estate development; internet; software; retail; and service management. Baring Vostok Capital Partners was founded in 1994 and is based in Moscow, Russia with additional offices in Limassol, Cyprus and Gernsi, Channel Islands.

## Sistema_VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Machine Learning, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Venture capital firm that backs growth-stage technology companies.

## Mindrock Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Secondary Market, Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, FinTech

Mindrock Capital offers access to the best venture deals in Silicon Valley for investors around the world. We invest in emerging tech leaders when they show the highest growth rate.

## Elbrus Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: George Town, Midland, Cayman Islands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Series B
- Focus: B2B, Information Technology, Advertising

Elbrus Capital Funds are CIS-focused private equity funds with US$1 billion of assets. Since the establishment of the first fund in 2007, Elbrus Capital Funds have made over 90 acquisitions. The funds focus on investments in leading Russian and CIS companies looking for further growth and consolidation opportunities. The funds seek to acquirecontrolling or significant minority equity stakes in fast-growing businesses, and partner with entrepreneurs who have the ambitions to take their business to the next level of development.Since the foundation, Elbrus Capital Funds have invested in 18 platforms across different industries, including the leading players in the digital area (HeadHunter, Mail.ru Group, CIAN Group), FMCG (Great Beer Holding), outsourcing and logistics (DPD Russia, PickPoint, OSG Records Management, Intercomp), private healthcare (National Medical Network), media (UTH, Vyberi Radio) and others.

## BCG Digital Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Manhattan Beach, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Shipping, Software, Marine Technology

Founded in January 2014, BCG Digital Ventures is a first-of-its-kind digital-innovation product development and commercialization firm that works with the world’s leading companies to develop, launch, and grow digital products, platforms, and businesses. The firm, headquartered in Manhattan Beach, California, has offices in Berlin, Boston, London,Seattle, San Francisco, and Sydney. Its world-class, multidisciplinary team of innovators and investors possesses a vast range of experience and insight to create disruptive market offerings for BCG’s clients.

## Alex Menn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Focus: Apps, Food Delivery, Information Technology

Partner at Begin Capital (early stage VC in UK)
Prior to Begin worked 12 years in Private Equity in Austria, France, UK + Business angel with 12 portfolio companies (4 exits)

## Yum!
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Louisville, Kentucky, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage

Yum! is a quick-service restaurant brand that primarily operates the likes of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell. Yum! Brands has over 39,000 restaurants in more than 130 countries and territories and more than 1 million associates worldwide. It was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.

## Lever VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology

Lever VC is a U.S.-Hong Kong venture capital fund founded by Managing Partner Nick Cooney and investing in early stage companies in the alternative protein sector (plant-based and “clean”/cell-based meat, egg and dairy companies). Lever VC operates globally, with offices in Hong Kong and the U.S. and staff in the US, Hong Kong, Europe, andIsrael. Entrepreneurs and startups interested in connecting with Lever VC about possible investment can reach the team and submit information about their company at http://www.levervc.com.Managing Partner Nick Cooney is the Co-Founder and former Managing Trustee of New Crop Capital, a private venture capital trust vehicle investing in the alternative protein space, and is Co-Founder of the Good Food Institute, the world’s largest non-governmental organization working to grow the alternative protein space. The General Partners at Lever VC have deployed over $1.5 billion in capital over the past decade across a variety of sectors, including over thirty deals in the alternative protein space.

## My.Games Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, PC Games

MGVC is a global gaming investor

## GEM Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paphos, Paphos, Cyprus
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Online Games

GEM Capital is an international investment company that operates in private equity and venture capital markets.

## Pulsar Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kazan, Tatarstan, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

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

## Bonduelle
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Villeneuve, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Delivery, E-Commerce, Food Delivery

The Bonduelle Group is a French family-owned business present in nearly 100 countries, whose mission is to inspire the transition toward a plant-based diet to contribute to people's well-being and planet health.

## Dmitry Gorelik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, E-Commerce

Dmitry Gorelik

## Startup Lab
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Software

Startup Lab Russia is a pre-seed/early seed venture capital fund.
Startup Lab Russia invests in projects in the early stages and helps them grow, build a network of contacts, scale sales channels, optimize the business model and internal processes with leading experts, and then enter international markets.

## Binomial Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Apps, SaaS, Banking

Binomial Ventures is a Moscow-based investment firm that focuses on fintech and cybersecurity companies. The VC firm invests in early and medium stage companies in Europe and North America.

## Petr Zhukov
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: iOS, Apps, Mobile

Petr Zhukov - Co-founder and CEO @ Indigo Capital Partners

## KamaFlow Business Launcher
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Manufacturing

KamaFlow is an independent investment firm that was founded in 2012 in Moscow, Russia. Kama Flow is specialized in innovative technologies in the fast-growing sectors. Kama Flow's competitive advantage has been grounded in a value-added investment approach that has enabled the firm to deliver high level services to its clients.

## Iskra Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Software, Rental Property

Iskra early stage startup fund 

## Agranovsky IT
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Marketing, Online Games, Graphic Design

Agranovsky IT is an investment company that primarily invests in technology and Internet companies at the seed and pre-seed stages.

## Alexandr Chernyak
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kiev, Kyyivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Restaurants, Apps, B2B

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

## Boris Ryabov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Food Delivery

Boris Ryabov is a Co-founder, President at Steamology Inc. He attended the University of Warwick - Warwick Business School.

## Phystech Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Oil and Gas, Energy

Early supporters of global distribution in deeptech.

## Lawrence W. Lepard
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Series A
- Focus: Banking, Finance, Delivery

Lawrence W. Lepard

## Skolkovo Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Digital Marketing

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

## Voskhod Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Cooking, Robotics, Food Delivery

Voskhod Venture Capital is an investment firm.

## 101 Startups
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Mobile, Software

101Startups is an investment firm based in Spain that specializes in early-stage startup companies.
The company is an investment fund which aims to invest in early stage digital and new technology companies.

## Alexey Romanov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, E-Commerce

Alexey Romanov

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