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

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Investment focus

Industry: Software, Apps, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Private Equity, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, Russian Federation, Israel

Investor stats

Total investments: 30
Round size: Seed $50k–$2M; Pre-Seed $274k–$1.2M
Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

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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Fund for technological internet companies

Investment focus

Industry: Advertising, Software, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Russian Federation, United States, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 60
Round size: Seed $450k–$3M; Series A $800k–$6M
Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

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

Investment focus

Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Software
Stage:Series A, Seed
Geography: Russian Federation, United States, Spain

Investor stats

Total investments: 51
Round size: Seed $50k–$5M; Series A $1M–$8M
Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

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.
MetroSpeedy — MetroSpeedy is a leading technology based local delivery company providing on-demand, same day or scheduled delivery services.
Jiffy Grocery — Grow your business with Jiffy SaaS platform which includes app/website, picking, delivery, supply chain & replenishment services

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Iskra early stage startup fund

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, Software, Rental Property
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Russian Federation, Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 13
Round size: Seed $200k–$800k; Series A $3.5M–$50M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Agently.com — Automate your real estate marketing to win more listings and close more deals.
Brokrete — Brokrete is the first real-time storefront solution for suppliers in the construction industry. A specialized e-commerce platform built for the construction commodity market. Brokrete offer suppliers and partners the opportunity to build their own real-time delivery platform and offer contractors a smarter and easier way to manage ready-mixconcrete, aggregates and construction commodities orders through a centralized platform.
Hotellab — Hotellab provides data analytics to hotel industry by developing price analytics software using AI for efficient revenue management.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Stage:Private Equity, Series B
Geography: Russian Federation, United States, Poland

Investor stats

Total investments: 60
Round size: Series B $9M–$75M; Private Equity $13M–$200M
Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow

Portfolio highlights

Kodland — We teach children a practical skill that will be useful in the future: computer literacy creation of sites and games, programming. Classes are held online, and instead of boring tests, children create real projects.
Mindbox — Cloud-based marketing automation platform that unites a CDP, loyalty program, omnichannel communications and more to create personalized customer experiences
Jiffy Grocery — Grow your business with Jiffy SaaS platform which includes app/website, picking, delivery, supply chain & replenishment services

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A global, early-stage venture capital firm, backing founders who use technology to reimagine how the world works like Datadog, DeliveryHero and Cred.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
Geography: United States, India, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 165
Round size: Seed $1M–$6.6M; Series A $5M–$36M; Series B $8M–$82M
Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

Wiom — Provides affordable and unlimited Internet to Middle and lower middle income households
Alvys — Alvys is a cloud-based transportation management system with high-tech automation. Specializing in workflow efficiency for small to mid-size carriers. Alvys stands out by saving carriers and freight brokers more time per load than any other TMS! Save up to 30 minutes per load, organize your operations in one place, scale with ease and integrateall your favorite tools. The proof is in the workflows and here's a sneak peek of our popular features:• Driver App • Tracking & Tracing • Source for Truck Capacity • End-to-End Visibility • One Click Accounting • Analytics & Reporting • Safety & Maintenance • Integrations • Benefits for BrokersTRY US FOR FREE! www.alvys.com
Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.

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AdFirst.vc is a venture capital firm designed to co-invest with other VCs in early and expansion stage start-ups. They perform Marketing Due Diligence ads tests for start-ups and help the investor evaluate the reachable audience, check the marketing competencies of the team, and reduce the cost of attracting customers. Testing allows to confirm thecompany's capitalization and eliminate marketing risks. In the future, they oversee the marketing strategy of the project in order to control KPI.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Learning, Mobile Apps, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Russian Federation, Latvia

Investor stats

Total investments: 12
Round size: Seed $100k–$3.9M
Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

Adapty — The all-in-one service for in-app subscriptions. Develop, optimize and grow apps with iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, Unity and Web support.
Synchronization — Synchronization is an online education platform.
Akademiya Peremen — Akademiya Peremen is an educational platform that focuses on the life style segment of health, beauty, style, and psychology.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Internet, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
Geography: Russian Federation, United States, The Netherlands

Investor stats

Total investments: 26
Round size: Seed $30k–$250k
Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

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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