# Top 35 Marketplace Angel Investors in Russian Federation in May 2026

## Maxim Poletaev
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Consumer Goods

Maxim Poletaev was born on April 6, 1971, in Yaroslavl.In 1993 he graduated from Yaroslavl State University with a degree in Accounting, Control and Business Analysis. Higher education in finance, proficient in English and German.In 1993–1995 he served as an assistant at the Chair of Economy, Organisation and Planning of Production ofYaroslavl State University.In 1994–1995 he underwent training at savings banks in Germany (Sparkasse, Kassel).In August 1995 he was appointed Head of Analysis and Marketing Division, Severny Bank of Sberbank of Russia. Later he headed the Resources Allocation and Securities Management Division.In March 2000 he was promoted to the post of Deputy Chairman of the Board of Yaroslavl Bank of Sberbank.In September 2002 he was appointed Head of Sberbank’s Baikal Bank.In 2009 he was appointed Vice-President, Director of the Corporate Development Department of Sberbank of Russia.Since October 2009 he has served as Chairman of Moscow Bank of Sberbank.In March 2013 Maxim Poletaev became a Member of the Executive Board of Sberbank of Russia.In June 2013 he was appointed First Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board where he runs the Retail, Corporate, Territorial and Welfare Blocks of Sberbank.

## 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

## Marco Valta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace

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.

## Teodoro D'Ambrosio
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Automotive, Marketplace

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.

## Dmitry Stepanov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Automotive, Consumer Goods, Service Industry

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.

## Roman Pavlushko
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Travel, Apps

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

## Fabrice Grinda
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace

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.

## Eugene Timko
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Construction, Delivery

Eugene has over 9 years of corporate finance, management consulting and engineering experience.Before Xploration Capital, Eugene held the position of investment director in Finstar Financial Group with strong focus on fintech and InVenture Partners specializing in disruptive technology startups across industries. He also worked in InvestmentBanking department of Morgan Stanley, focused on technology sector.Prior to that Eugene has done fixed income research in BCP Securities.
Eugene has also spent 3 years as a consultant in McKinsey and Company and before that worked as an automotive engineer at Scania AB in Sweden.Eugene holds MBA from Columbia Business School.

## 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.

## Jose Marin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

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.

## Anton Antich
- Type: Angel
- Location: Baar, Zug, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Delivery, E-Commerce, Food Delivery

Anton Antich manages Veeam's corporate and sales operations teams, facilitating the company's planning and execution rhythm, and providing metrics, analytics and management reporting. He also oversees business-process optimization and its implementation in backend IT systems, as well as the global maintenance-renewal business.Antonjoined Veeam in 2011 as a regional director responsible for growing the emerging markets region. He has over 15 years of sales-management and business-development experience with an analytical skill set and a metrics-driven approach to business operations.Before Veeam, Anton was a regional manager for VMware, in Russia and CIS countries. He also drove alliances business to the Russian subsidiary of Microsoft and consulted on strategy and growth issues for several startups.During the early stages of his career, he was responsible for emerging mobile and wireless product lines’ business development at Novosoft. In addition, he ran marketing at a Moscow IT-consulting company. He has a degree in chemical physics from Novosibirsk State University, where he focused on carbon nanotubes and grapheme research.

## Mark Ten
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: EdTech, Fashion, Consumer

CEO at Sports.ru, major sports media in Russia, and an angel investor.

## Güimar Vaca Sittic
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Marketplace

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

## Sergey Gribov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Enterprise Software, Machine Learning, E-Commerce

Sergey Gribov is a General Partner at Flint Capital.

## Dmitry Korobkov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Fashion, Software

Dmitry is a Mad Tech Investor, Entrepreneur and Chairman of Board of Directors at ADV, a commonwealth of agencies uniting more than 40 agencies operating on the advertising markets of Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan for 20 yearsADV unites over 40 communications agencies, both independent and those representingmajor international advertising holding companies The Interpublic Group of Companies (NYSE: IPG) and Havas. Subdivisions of international networks don't depend on each other but they realize common purchasing function and can consolidate on behalf of their clients.The ADV team is made up of over 2,200 talented people: both experienced experts in marketing communications and young ambitious specialists brimming with unconventional solutions and creativity. ADV expertise includes all existing advertising disciplines.

## Chris Herndon
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Apps

Chris Herndon is a serial entrepreneur and amateur investor that is jamming on some hare-brained schemes that he hopes will someday dent the universe. Chris is the Co-Founder of Apartment List and served as President from 2011 to 2015. Prior to Apartment List, Chris spent several years as an investor at GTCR Golder Rauner and Goldman Sachs. He is aco-founder of the 40 Acres Group, an Austin-based real estate investment firm. He is also a co-founder of Philanthropedia, an online resource for strategic donors that was acquired by Guidestar in 2011. Chris has an MBA from Stanford University and a bachelors from the University of Texas at Austin. Hook 'em Horns!

## Pavel Glushenkov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Travel, Tourism, Internet

Pavel has over 10 years of investment banking and private equity experience.Prior to joining InVenture Partners, Pavel held the position of Vice President at the leading private equity fund in Russia and supervised portfolio companies in sectors such as telecommunications, real estate, retail and information technologies since 2010.Before thatPavel served as a Chief Financial Officer at Tsargrad, a Russian regional developer, in 2007-2010.Before Tsargrad Pavel worked at MDM bank and participated in the IPO of Irkut Corporation.

## Pavel Cherkashin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Altos, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, iOS

Pavel Cherkashin is the Managing Partner at Mindrock Capital.

## Len Blavatnik
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, iOS, Messaging

Len Blavatnik is an American businessman, currently living in New York and London, including at a home on Kensington Palace Gardens.Born in the Soviet Union, he attended University in Moscow. He emigrated with his family from Russia to the U.S. in 1978, and became an American citizen in 1984. He received a master's in computer sciencefrom Columbia University and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School in 1989. In the West, he is known as Len Blavatnik.In 1986 he founded Access Industries, a New York-based international industrial group, of which he is Chairman and President. Access has long-term strategic holdings in Europe, North and South America. Initially, he moved into Russian investments, just after the fall of communism. With a friend from University, Viktor Vekselberg, he formed the Renova investment vehicle, and the two joined with Mikhail Fridman's Alfa Group to form the AAR venture. Access has diversified its portfolio to include investments in industries such as oil, aluminum, petrochemicals and plastics, telecommunications, media, and real estate.AAR gained a controlling stake in Russian oil company TNK through privatisation auctions, then in 2003 sold a 50% stake to British Petroleum to form TNK-BP, one of Russia's largest oil companies, for which he serves on the board of directors.Access Industries bought petrochemicals and plastics manufacturer Basell Polyolefins from Royal Dutch Shell and BASF in August 2005, and subsequently merged it with Lyondell Chemical Company to create LyondellBasell Industries, the world's third largest chemical company based on net sales.On January 6, 2009, the U.S. operations of LyondellBasell Industries filed for bankruptcy.On April 30, 2010, LyondellBasell announced its emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a significantly improved financial position. As part of its exit financing, LyondellBasell raised $3.25 billion of first priority debt as well as $2.8 billion through the rights offering jointly underwritten by Access Industries, Apollo Management and Ares Management. Blavatnik also has interests in UC RUSAL, the world's largest aluminum producer, where he sits on the board, and Warner Music Group.Mr. Blavatnik provides financial support and remains engaged in numerous educational pursuits. In addition to corporate directorships, Mr. Blavatnik sits on boards at Cambridge and Tel Aviv University, and he is a member of Harvard University's Committee on University Resources.An active philanthropist, Mr. Blavatnik and the Blavatnik Family Foundation have been generous supporters of The National Gallery of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate, the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Academy of Arts, the Prince's Trust and numerous other leading cultural and charity institutions. Mr. Blavatnik also sits on, inter alia, the board of directors of the 92nd Street Y in New York, The White Nights Foundation of America and The Center for Jewish History in New York. He is also a member of the Board of Governors of The New York Academy of Sciences, and a Trustee of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.In 2007, Mr. Blavatnik created the New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists to acknowledge the excellence of the most noteworthy young scientists and engineers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.In 2010, Mr. Blavatnik committed £75 million to establish the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. The Blavatnik School of Government will train outstanding graduates from across the world in the skills and responsibilities of government. Mr. Blavatnik's gift is one of the most generous in Oxford University's 900-year history.The Blavatnik Family Foundation is also the sponsor of the "Joseph R. Beyrle - A Hero of Two Nations" exhibit at the Russian Museum. The exhibit consists of 260 artifacts from the life and military career of Joseph Beyrle, an American soldier during World War II.In Forbes' The World's Billionaire's List of 2010 he was listed in 93rd place with an estimated fortune of $7.5 billion.

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

Lawrence W. Lepard

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

Dmitry Gorelik

## 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.

## Bogdan Iarovoi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Angel
- Focus: Internet, SaaS, Software

Bogdan Iarovoi is a Managing Partner of SmartHub Investments.

## Bas Godska
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Machine Learning

General Partner & Founder Acrobator Ventures, Tech Investment Fund.
Founder Acrobator.com, growth hack and marketing advisory firm.
Digital Dutchman, entrepreneur-turned-investor. eCommerce expert, growth hacker and marketeer since 2000.
Assisted 100+ companies worldwide as CMO, MD, board advisor, consultant.
Personal angel investmentportfolio, overall company value nearing $3BN, follow-ons raised (>$150 MN) from Accel, Iconiq, Insight Ventures, EBRD, Techstars, Acrobator Ventures. Ranked #1 Foreign Angel Investor in Russia (EWDN); Top 10 Angel Investor (Firrma.ru/SLON), Crunchbase: #1 Dutch (2019) & Top 50 EU angel investor. Techcrunch / Crunchbase: "Bas Godska is one of the most prolific Western investors in Eastern Europe."Roles Europe/Russia/CIS (2003-2019):
CMO lastminute.com ; Country Manager Sportingbet ; CMO Europe Ebookers.com / Orbitz.com ; MD Gogol Media.
CMO / dep. CEO Ozon.ru ; VP Marketing Gloria Jeans ; CMO Lamoda.ru (Rocket Internet) ; CMO Digital KupiVIP.ru ; eCommerce Director a.i. Enter | Svyaznoi ; MD myThings.com ; Guest Lecturer Digital Marketing at Moscow School of Management MBA (3 years).Portfolio:
miro.com; harver.com; travelata.ru (co-founder); Chocofamily Holding: chocotravel.kz, chocolife.me, aviata.kz, chocomart.kz (exit), lensmark.kz, rahmet.kz, chocofood.kz, iDoctor.kz, HRbot;
Newzmate.com (partial exit to Piano.io); storyterrace.com, getobjectiv.com; Crossss (sold to Leadhit); clockster.com; linkpizza.com; zakaz.ua; urbandine.nl; 6nomads.com, instreamatic.ai., omdena.com, aura-aware.com, awesomic.com, memoryOS.com,
VC investments: leapfunder.com; respeecher.com; letsenhance.io; studyfree.org.

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

Alexey Romanov

## Roman Loginov
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Cosmetics, Manufacturing, Consumer Goods

Roman Loginov

## Roman Abramovich
- Type: Angel
- Location: Novaya, Rostov, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series C, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Email, Construction, Advanced Materials

Roman Abramovich is a Russian businessman, investor and politician. He is the main owner of the private investment company Millhouse LLC and owner of Chelsea Football Club, an English Premier League football team.According to Forbes, Abramovich's net worth in 2015, was US$ 9.1 billion (2015). This makes him the 12th richest person inRussia and the 137th richest person in the world.

## Maxim Loginov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Automotive, Consumer Goods, Service Industry

Maxim Loginov

## James Gutierrez
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Retail, Children, E-Commerce

James Gutierrez is a leading social entrepreneur and innovator in lending and financial technology. Prior to Insikt, James founded and was CEO of Oportun (formerly Progreso Financiero), the leading provider of responsible, unsecured loans to Hispanics in the US that recently surpassed $1.5 billion in loans and over half a million borrowers sinceits founding. As CEO from 2005-2012, James led Oportun from its development as a nascent start-up to a market leader in the lending industry and raised over $250 million of debt and equity to fund its growth. Under James’ leadership, the company scaled its loan originations to over 200,000 per year with revenues of $65 million, 85 retail stores in California and Texas, and 600 employees.James Gutierrez has served on Federal Reserve Board’s Consumer Advisory Council and the Centennial Advisory Committee, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences on financial services innovation. James also co-authored and helped pass two federal and state laws to help increase the availability of safe and affordable small dollar loans. In 2010, BusinessWeek selected James as one of America’s most promising social entrepreneurs and in 2012, Goldman Sachs named James one of America’s top 100 most intriguing entrepreneurs.In addition to Insikt, James also serves on the boards of Talent Inc., Listo!, SEO-SF, and the Silicon Valley Leadership Group. James is a founding partner of Insikt Ventures, an early stage fund with investments in OnDeck Capital, Listo!, and Blend Labs. James was also an early investor in many leading technology companies including Trulia, OkCupid, StubHub, and Symphony Commerce. James graduated with a BA in Economics from Yale University and a MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.

## 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.

## Ivan Tavrin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Burbank, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Fashion, Wellness, Service Industry

Ivan Tavrin

## Stas Korostelev
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: EdTech, Fashion, Consumer

Stas Korostelev

## 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)

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

Anton Anohin

## Sergey Solonin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Education, Video, Health Care

Sergey Solonin is the Chief Executive Officer of Russian FinTech Association.

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