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

## Flashpoint
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

Flashpoint is an international technology investment firm that manages venture capital, secondary buy-out and venture debt funds.

## Moscow Seed Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 6
- 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.

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

Rinat Salikhov

## Digital Disrupt
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Private Equity, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, Information Technology

Using our experience, networking and expertise, we help projects grow so that they change life around the world to the best.

## Mail.Ru Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Leningradskiy, Chukot, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## AddVenture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## 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

## JOINT JOURNEY
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Limassol, Limassol, Cyprus
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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

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

Sergey Rodionov

## 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.

## Alexandr Chernyak
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kiev, Kyyivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## 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),

## Target Global
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

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

Danil Filatov

## Phystech Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Oil and Gas, Energy

Early supporters of global distribution in deeptech.

## Skolkovo Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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

## 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

## Elbrus Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: George Town, Midland, Cayman Islands
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Inventure Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Apps

Inventure Partners is an innovative investment fund focused on funding disruptive technology startups. The fund looks for teams with a novel approach to business models, and companies that are able to solve real problems and remove inefficiencies in the market. Inventure Partners backs a wide range of ventures across the technology industry, andthe fund’s portfolio currently includes on-demand service Gett (GetTaxi), leader in US telehealth American Well, long-distance bus tickets platform Busfor, and others.

## Fort Ross Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Grand Cayman, Midland, Cayman Islands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence

FortRoss Ventures, formerly MoneyTime Ventures, invests in early stage startups with the proven product, technology and go-to-market in the beginning of their international expansion and exponential revenue growth. The firm provides not only capital but give an access to the largest financial institution in CEE (infrastructure, customer base,go-to-market) through establishing the long term partnership (commercial contracts, JVs, other instruments) between the startup and anchor LPs.

## Davidovs Venture Collective (DVC)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Altos, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Hi, we're Marina and Nick Davidovs, a family of founders.

## Jose Marin
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Retail

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.

## Almaz Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Portola Valley, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet

Almaz Capital is an international venture capital firm investing in early stage, capital efficient technology companies. A unique bridge fund headquartered in Silicon Valley, Almaz Capital connects Eastern European/former Soviet engineering and entrepreneurial talent to the U.S. market and helps build global businesses. The firm invests inhigh-growth sectors such as artificial intelligence and blockchain applications, data engineering, cybersecurity, industrial IoT, networking architecture and infrastructure. Its investors include Cisco, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group. Founded in 2008, Almaz Capital has invested in over 30 portfolio companies and has had nine exits to date.

## 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.

## 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.

## Mubadala
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Series C, Series B
- Focus: Pharmaceutical, Health Care, Biotechnology

Mubadala Investment Company

## InPost Nowoczesna Poczta
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Delivery, Transportation

nPost provides postal and courier services for individual and institutional customers in Poland.The company’s postal services include Standard Letter, a service based on accepting, transporting, and delivering standard unregistered letters of companies and institutions; and Standard Local Letter, a service based on accepting, transporting,and delivering standard unregistered letters, which are posted and delivered within the administrative areas of the city. The company also offers Standard Express Letter, a service based on accepting, transporting, and delivering standard express letters that are labeled as Express with a bar code containing the posting number to control the delivery process; and Registered Express Letter, a service based on accepting, transporting, and delivering registered express letters in a way that prevents possible losses, damages, or breakages.In addition, InPost offers easyPack, a round-the-clock service to send and collect parcels. It also provides financial services such as invoices for money transfer services in Poland and internationally; and money transfers based on accepting cash from customers and forwarding it to the beneficiary’s bank account.InPost was founded in 2006 and is based in Krakow, Poland.

## Russian Direct Investment Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Private Equity
- Focus: Transportation, Logistics, Industrial

Russian Direct Investment Fund is a Russia’s sovereign wealth fund with reserved capital of $10 billion under management. Working alongside the world’s foremost investors, we make direct investments in leading, as well as promising, Russian companies. RDIF attracted over $40 billion of foreign capital into the Russian economy through long-termstrategic partnerships

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## Andrey Belozerov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, EdTech, FinTech

Andrey Belozerov (born 17 November 1980) is a Russian manager, entrepreneur and investor with a portfolio including SpaceX, Momentus, Pitchme and others. Expert in the field of digital technologies and digital transformation, co-founder Digital Disrupt investment club, United Nations Development Program expert.

## SmartHub
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
- Focus: Internet, SaaS, Software

SmartHub is a funding and service platform which connects the best start ups to investors, and supports at every investments.Service solutions for investors – tailor made venture portfolios: focused pipeline, extensive analysis and research of investment options, deal structuring, legal paper work, quarterly reporting, investment rightsprotection till exit.Service solutions for startups – fast communications and feedback, mutually beneficial deal making, strategic development support, networking and consulting at fundraising stage.

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

Alexey Romanov

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

Dmitry Gorelik

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

Maxim Loginov

## Sberbank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Corporate Round
- Focus: Internet, Information Technology, E-Commerce

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.

## 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)

## iTech Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Riga, Riga, Latvia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Advertising, Internet, Marketing

Welcome to iTechCapital, an innovative venture capital investment manager. We have been investing in successful businesses building new internet technology continually since 2010.

## Mitsubishi Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Corporate Round
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) is a global integrated business enterprise that develops and operates businesses across virtually every industry including industrial finance, energy, metals, machinery, chemicals, living essentials, and environmental business. MC's current activities are expanding far beyond its traditional trading operations asits diverse business ranges from natural resources development to investment in retail business, infrastructure, financial products and manufacturing of industrial goods.

## Softline Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Softline Venture Partners is a corporate venture fund of Softline Group. Since 2008, Softline Venture Partners have invested about US$20 million in 20 portfolio companies on Russia&CIS market. The amount of investment to one project is from $100 thousand to $1 million. As a stage agnostic investor, the firm works with companies across a widerange of technologies, such as cybersecurity, cloud computing, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things и Edge Computing.The possibilities and competencies of Softline Group as a service provider operating in 50 countries with more than 60000 customers and leading IT vendors, allows unique opportunities for the Fund's portfolio companies to scale business model and boost sales through developed Softline’s sales channels across the globe.

## FinSight Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Secondary Market
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Capital + Hiring + Infrastructure

## Guard Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1

Private equity and venture capital fund, specializes in investments in telecom and Internet projects with investment volumes of US$ 2 to 5 million.

## 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.

## Susquehanna International Group (SIG)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency

Discover Susquehanna, a global quantitative trading firm built on a rigorous, analytical foundation in financial markets.

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

Anton Anohin

## VTB Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Private Equity
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

VTB Bank, its subsidiary banks and financial organizations comprise a leading Russian financial group offering a wide range of financial and banking services and products in Russia, the CIS and select countries in Europe, North America, Asia and Africa. VTB Group has more than 30 banks and financial companies in more than 20 countries. As of 31October 2015, the Group was the second largest financial group in Russia by assets (RUB 12.62 trillion) and by customer accounts (RUB 7.32 trillion).

## Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Post-IPO Equity, Private Equity
- Focus: Manufacturing, Automotive, Leisure

The Public Investment Fund was originally established in 1971 to facilitate the development of the Saudi Arabian national economy. In 1974, PIF was mandated to hold equity positions in join-stock ventures within its domestic economy.

## 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.

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