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Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF) | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation, Europe | ||
Impulse VC | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation, Europe | ||
AddVenture | Early Stage Venture, Secondary Market, Seed | Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation, Europe | ||
Bright Capital | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed | Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation, Europe | ||
Kite Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Secondary Market | Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top Financial Services Early Stage Venture investors in Moscow. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Financial Services Investors & Funds (Moscow)
Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF)
One of the priorities of Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF) is financial and expert support to startups in their early development stages. IIDF has invested in 402 tech startups. The Fund invests between 2.5M and 324M rubles in tech companies at early stages, i.e. pre-seed, seed and series A. The Fund also plans to launch a variety of educational programs and to perform a number of legislative initiatives. These steps will help to increase transparency and ensure effective cooperation between entrepreneurs, investors, and state agencies in the field of venture capital investments in Russian online-projects. IIDF’s mission is to make Russia more attractive for tech enterpreneurs. They want to make the Russian venture market understandable and accessible to anyone who wants to begin or grow their Internet businesses.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation, Europe
Industries: Cyber Security, Financial Services, FinTech, Internet of Things, Venture Capital
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Impulse VC
Launched as Impulse VC in 2013, it is the venture investment partner providing funding and operational support to the exceptional technology and media companies. Impulse VC works across all industries but is primarily focused on adtech, B2B SaaS, Proptech and marketplaces industries. The fund’s portfolio encompasses companies from the USA, UK, and Russia, which run business globally.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation, Europe
Industries: Big Data, Financial Services, Internet of Things, Marketing, Real Time, SaaS
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Bright Capital
Bright Capital is a venture capital firm, notable for its merchant venturing approach and global reach thought the firm was originally based in Moscow, Russia. Bright Capital invests in a broad range of breakthrough and disruptive technology companies. It built its portfolio in the energy, cleantech, efficiency, water, advanced materials. It also invests in TMT (telecom – media- technology) sector through its Digital fund.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Kite Ventures
Kite Ventures is a global investment company that specializes in marketplace and transactional network investments for startups and early stage companies. It focuses on high technology and internet investments. The firm seeks to invest in companies in Europe and New York. Kite Ventures is a Russia-based company that was founded in 2008 by Edward Shenderovich.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Secondary Market
Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Marketplace, Venture Capital
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Sistema_VC
Venture capital firm that backs and mentors growth-stage technology companies. Sistema_VC supports deep tech startups and brands that push the industry boundaries. With the team sourced from technology ecosystem we share our expertise and network to connect entrepreneurs with valuable professionals and prospect partners.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Information Technology, Internet, Software, Venture Capital
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Sberbank-500
Sberbank-500 is a program for technology entrepreneurs based on the expertise and experience of one of the most powerful venture and IT business teams in the world. For 10 weeks, experts from Russia and from abroad will help you develop the product and hone your positioning.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation, Europe
Industries: Financial Services
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VEB Ventures
VEB Ventures fund was established by Vnesheconombank at the end of 2011 to invest in high technology projects of the Skolkovo Foundation. Key strategic goals of the Fund include support of the Russian government´s innovation programs, creation of innovation infrastructure in Russia, facilitation of advanced technologies transfer to Russia, and promotion of Russian innovations on the global market.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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FINAM Global
FINAM Global is a private equity and venture capital arm of Financial Analyst Investment Holding specializing in investments in growth capital, incubation, seed/start-up, early, mid, and late venture, later stage, and buyouts in mid- sized middle market technology companies. The firm primarily invests in technology, media, and telecommunications sectors with a focus on consumer Internet, Internet retail, communications equipment, online services, production of software and games, payment systems, social networks, instant messengers, online advertising, e-commerce, publishing and digital media globally. It seeks to acquire control positions or significant minority interests in its portfolio companies and offers flexible financing structures, including additional share issues and buy-out opportunities. FINAM Global was founded by Victor Remsha in 2004 and is headquartered in Moscow, Russia.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity
Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Prostor Capital
Prostor Capital – a Russian venture fund focused on profitable investments in dynamically growing companies of IT & Internet markets. The Fund was incorporated in 2011 by a group of private investors. A famous Russian investor and enterpreneaur Leonid Reiman and one of the leading top-managers of IT industry Sergey Merkulov are among its co-founders and co-investors. Fund’s investment focus – the stable growth stage (round А and above) projects having ready technological product and fast-growing clients-and-users base. These are Russian IT and Internet companies with a big local or international sales market potential, interested in external investments for the achievement of a new development level. The priority is given to the companies with a technological component in the sphere of new financial and advertising services, cloud technologies, projects in the sphere of innovational education and digital medicine. Awarded as one the TOP 20 best Russian venture investment funds (source: Hopes&Fears). TOP 5 of the most active venture funds in the Russian market (source: the research of Firrma.ru with the support of JSC «RVC» and PwC). Currently Prostor Capital’s investment portfolio includes 14 companies: Dnevnik.ru, Umisoft, Softrust, Platiza, Credit Cards Online, Federal Finance, CPA Exchange, Evrika Group, Dulton Media, Infratel, Smart CheckOut, Penxy, Carfin, AdMoment. Prostor Capital Management Sergey Merkulov, a Managing Partner, one of the leading Top-managers in IT-industry with over 20 years of managerial experience. He is responsible for the Fund strategy, cooperation with investors, as well as a number of sectorial segments are under his management. Alexey Solovyov, a Managing Director of the Fund. He is responsible for the Fund’s overall management, organisation and functioning coordination of the Managing Company and the Investment Committee; a BOD member of several portfolio companies. Stanislav Kosorukov, an Investment Director, managing the investment analytical practice, responsible for the search and evaluation of projects’ perspective, investment deals’ structuring and portfolio companies’ operational activity control.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Startup Lab
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.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Business Development, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Primer Capital
PRIMER CAPITAL is a venture capital fund focusing on investments in companies engaged in development of promising biotech and medical products for various pharmaceutical sectors. Our qualified managing Team is interested in a high-quality selection of projects that form our portfolio. Our team of qualified consultants and Scientific Advisory Board consisting of top experts in various medical, biopharmaceutical, and business fields contribute considerably to successful project selection. We cooperate with venture capital funds, business angels, government agencies interested in the development of biopharmaceutical industry, medical institutions and laboratories. Our many years’ experience and in-depth knowledge of the industry ecosystem provides portfolio companies with all opportunities for a quick start and establishment of effective relationships with their key partners throughout the whole period of its growth. Primer Capital co-invests in projects with leading venture capital funds and assists portfolio companies in fundraising.
Stages: Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation, Europe
Industries: Biotechnology, Clinical Trials, Financial Services, Pharmaceutical, Venture Capital
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Troika Dialog
Troika Dialog is a private investment bank focused on capital markets, investment banking, asset management, and personal investments. On January 23, 2012 Sberbank of Russia and Troika Dialog announced the closure of the deal to merge the two companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Semiconductor, Venture Capital
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Edison Venture Capital
Edison Venture Capital provides venture and growth-stage funding (Series A) to the most promising companies with large market opportunities in Europe, Asia Pacific, Israel, and the USA. Target sectors include but not limited to hardware and wearables, enterprise, security, telecom, mobile, data, cloud, healthcare IT, Ad-tech and Ed tech. Edison VC invests up to $3 million per deal and more in syndicates.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation, Europe
Industries: Business Development, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Binomial Ventures
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.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Secondary Market
Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Insurance, Machine Learning, Venture Capital
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EDevelopment
EDevelopment is an investment company that specializes in Internet projects. It does incubation, acceleration, and development of new internet projects to prepare them for further investment attraction. It also provides startups with the entire infrastructure, from office and equipment to accounting and sales.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture
Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Incubators
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Mint Capital
Mint Capital is a Scandinavian private equity fund providing growth capital to entrepreneurs who are building great companies in industries where competence matters more than administrative resources. Our firm is totally independent from any financial groups or multilateral institutions. Much of our $150 million under management comes from investors who are themselves entrepreneurs, having built successful companies in Scandinavia and beyond.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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DFJ VTB Capital Aurora
DFJ VTB Capital Aurora provides smart money to teams of extraordinary entrepreneurs across the world and becomes their partner in building global success stories. They invest in ideas and technologies that change the face of their industry and the World around us. They combine their ability to offer strategic guidance for business operations with giving access to the vast Russian/CIS hi-profile network of VTB Capital. Their key areas of interest are breakthrough innovations in material science, nanoelectronics, cleantech and Russian/CIS internet, e-commerce and digital media. They consider investments starting with round A and onwards with a typical size being 3-8 million USD. For companies that may require a larger capital infusion, They will also consider syndication,
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation, Europe
Industries: Business Development, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Third Rome Group
Third Rome Group is an international group of companies, focusing on offshore asset management, investment and strategic consulting, M&A and other corporate finance advisory and Family Office services.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation, Europe
Industries: Financial Services
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Finteca Holdings
Finteca is a financial and technological holding company that specializing in the development of small and medium-size businesses in Russia.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Incubators, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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FinstarLabs
FinstarLabs focuses exclusively on the financial services sector. Recent changes in consumer behaviour, coupled with advances in technology and data science are opening up new whitespace for emerging players, and challenging incumbents as never before. Our objective is to identify and deploy innovations that deliver sustainable competitive advantage to our existing operating businesses, and enable the creation of exciting and profitable new businesses.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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