# Top 10 Platforms Startup Investors in Russian Federation in October 2023

## Skolkovo Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Robotics

Skolkovo Foundation is a Russian organization that fosters startups and venture capitals focused on the areas of energy, IT, biomedicine, nuclear, and space. The IT cluster develops strategic directions of information technologies, including search systems and cloud calculations. The biomed cluster supports and develops innovations in the field ofbiomedical technologies. The energy Efficiency cluster supports innovations and advanced technologies, aimed at the reduction of energy consumption by industrial and residential objects as well as lower energy consumption by communal services and municipal infrastructure facilities. The space technologies cluster handles space projects and the development of telecommunication technologies based on space tourism, satellite navigation systems, and more. The nuclear technology cluster supports the creation of new products for power markets, development of new materials, and designing of complex technological systems.In order to carry out its operations, Skolkovo Foundation manages Skolkovo Innovation Center, Technopark, Skolkovo Institute of Technology (Skoltech), and Skolkovo city.Several companies, including Boeing, Cisco Systems, EADS, GE, Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Siemens, Nokia, and Samsung have signed R&D partnership agreements with Skolkovo Foundation.Skolkovo Foundation was founded in September 2010 and is based in Moscow, Russia.

## Moscow Seed Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Igor Ryabenkiy
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Igor Ryabenkiy is the Managing Partner at AltaIR Capital.
Igor is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor with over twenty years of successful executive and investment experience including Internet startups and IT companies. He has funded, developed, and exited a significant number of investment projects worldwide.

## FASIE
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Foundation’s main tasks include the implementation of government policy for the development and support of small innovative enterprises (SME); offering direct financial, informational and other aid to small innovative enterprises, implementation of projects to develop and produce new high-tech products; and creating and developing an infrastructurefor SME.

## Pulsar Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kazan, Tatarstan, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Oskar Hartmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Grocery, Food Delivery

Oskar Hartmann - (born May 14, 1982) is an entrepreneur, super business angel, international investor and philanthropist.
He is the founder and partner of Hartmann Holdings, Fastlane Ventures, Simile Ventures Partners and HR CAPITAL LARIX. He himself has been the founder and CEO of 10 companies and an investor in over 100 Internet companies inthe US, Europe, India, Japan, Russia and the Middle East. Since 2012, he has also supported and helped create 25 non-profit projects to promote entrepreneurship around the world.
In Germany, he was one of the first investors in automotive marketplace AUTO1 Group, beverage delivery service FLASCHENPOST,, grocery delivery service FLINK, and after Everoad was acquired by SENNDER, he also invested in this logistics marketplace. In India, notable holdings include CARS24, SPINNY, SLICE, NINJACART and SALARYBOOK. In America, Hartmann Holdings specializes in real estate technology, with his biggest investment in JUNE HOMES. In Russia, CarPrice is the market leader and real estate platform AKTIVO is a driver of innovation in the industry. Other important holdings include SellAnyCar.com in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, OniGO in Japan, Tiggy in Canada and MYNE in Germany. He conducts his philanthropic work through the World Entrepreneurship Leadership Foundation with projects such as PRO WOMAN, EQUIUM, PREACTUM, FONDRE Scholarship and MENTORI.
In total, Hartmann's ever-growing portfolio of venture capital investments now includes more than seventy companies. Fourteen companies in which Hartmann was a founder, investor, and business angel have exceeded one billion dollars in capitalization. Unfortunately, many other companies no longer exist. This is also part of entrepreneurship. Oskar Hartmann is a member of the supervisory board of the development group Samolet, the Moscow Stock Exchange, and the RYBAKOV Foundation.
In 2015, Hartmann was named the winner in the "Master of Investment" category of the international Entrepreneur of the Year competition by Ernst & Young in Russia. Hartmann is an ambassador and participant in annual entrepreneurial competitions, in particular the "Breakthrough of the Year" competition, and a member of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year community.

## Grigory Firsov
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Art, iOS, Education

Grigory Firsov - Co-Founder, Executive Partner @ Impulse VC

## 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.

## Kirill Belov
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Art, Digital Media, Productivity Tools

Angel investor in IT and hardware startups
Managing partner at Impulse VC (impulsevc.com)

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

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

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