1 Artificial Intelligence in Russia Landscape Overview 2017 First Edition Table of Content
Introduction: State of AI industry in Russia…………………………...... 3 Russia AI Landscape Mind Map….…………………..…………………………………...………...... 6 AI Companies Function / Industry Applications Mind Map….……………...……………………...7 AI Investors Stage / Volume…………………………………….………………………...…………..8 List of Top 100 Russia AI Companies…………………………....……………………………………9 List of Top 35 Russia AI Investors……………..………………..……………………………………10 List of Top 10 Russia AI Tech Hubs………...………………….……………………………………..11 List of Top 15 Russia AI Influencers……..…………………….……………………………………..12 Appendix 1: Top 100 Russia AI Companies Profiles………....……………………………………..13 Appendix 2: Top 35 Russia AI Investors Profiles…………….……………………………………...48 Appendix 3: 10 Russia AI Tech Hub Profiles………………….……………………………………..61 Appendix 4: 15 Russia AI Influencers Profiles………………….……………………………………66 Top 15 Russia AI Journalists…………………………………….…………………………………….72 Russia AI 2017 Report Advisers and Contributors….………………………………………………73 Introduction 3 State of AI industry in Russia 2017 The AI sector in Russia is considered to be very lucrative over the next three years. Machine learning technologies are going to attract investments from the largest Russian companies and investment funds. One in every five organizations intends to invest in robotics, deep learning and computer vision. Entrepreneurs expect AI systems integrated into user interfaces to increase productivity, decrease losses and increase revenue.
A survey conducted by Prostor Capital and the analytical company Data Insight indicated AI to become one of the most perspective trends. Investment funds Larnabel Enterprises and VP Capital are planning to invest more than 100 million USD in IT projects built with Artificial intelligence. The venture fund of the biggest Russian bank Sberbank is about to invest more than 100 million USD in AI startups.
Russia’s Artificial Intelligence sector is booming and the technology is transforming the way businesses operate. Russian start-up Prisma received 2 million USD investments from Mail.ru Group. A company that is developing AI-based decision-making algorithms, Choicy became a resident of IIDF accelerator that is one the largest investment funds in Russia. VisionLabs, a project that develops facial recognition technologies for business purposes, became a resident of Skolkovo IT-cluster. Startup Segmento, that implements machine learning technologies for targeting digital advertisement, received capital from Sberbank and venture fund Sistema VC.
Russian banks and recruitment agencies are highly interested in applications of AI technologies. Sberbank embedded a bot “Iron Lady” that calls those in debt. Another Russian bank VTB24 launched a chatbot for small businesses, Alpha-bank offers trade bots for traders and Modulbank announced development of a virtual advisor. The most well-known Russian recruitment agency HeadHunter launched a recommendation system based on Machine Learning (ML) technologies. It has already had an experience in a successful implementation of an algorithm for ranking applicants’ responses based on ML. A large retail company Svyaznoy used robotics automation solutions from another recruitment agency SuperJob for interviewing applicants. The biggest Russian search engine Yandex is developing a wide spectrum of AI technologies for computer vision, information retrieval and natural language processing. Introduction 4 State of AI industry in Russia
Russian state-owned organizations have already invested more than 23 billion roubles in Artificial Intelligence services over the last 10 years. 1229 of 1400 projects developed were not-for-profit and received state funding. Russian government invested in projects focused on data analysis (33%), decision-making algorithms (16.5%), image, and video recognition (13.9%) in different industries namely military, transport, natural gas and healthcare. Geopolitical issues determine a demand on Artificial Intelligence systems for military industry. Data analysis and recognition systems are applied in logistic management. The latest AI project funded by National Technological Initiative is iPavlov open source framework for neural conversational intelligence. This project has a goal to create a technological launchpad for startups in the field of bots and conversational interfaces. In commercial sector projects are emerging in domains of image and video recognition (34%), speech recognition (19%), decision-making (15%) and data analysis (12%). Commercial sector invests in projects related to hi-tech (19%), healthcare (10%) and transport (7%).
Companies leading in Artificial intelligence are designing their strategy for entering developed markets. Russian start-ups have the potential to operate in the global market even as they deal with “gaps” in the Russian innovation environment.
Potential investors are experiencing lack of information. Russia was ranked 17th out of 20 countries in the Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking. The absence of experts in technology companies’ top-management leads to lower amounts of successfully sold AI projects.
Russian corporations in AI market ecosystem disclose less information than international partners. It makes the process of machine learning on big data complicated. In the European Union and the USA companies disclose and make big data publicly available. Only few Russian companies disclose data. Yandex provides data for advertisement targeting and Sberbank discloses information necessary for predicting user behavior. However, in order to boost the development of Russian startup industry companies are advised to make datasets public. 5 Introduction State of AI industry in Russia
Russian companies and experts are not fully integrated into international academic exchange. Although Russian AI research has strong history but now it is only ranked 20th by the number research publications in the field in 2016. The communication with researchers and the awareness of the latest developments in AI technologies is more productive if a company is based either in London or in San Francisco rather than in Moscow. Doing a research in one of the Western European capitals gives access to the European knowledge base.
AI startups in Russia are facing challenges with recruitment of machine learning specialists. Hiring foreign specialists and keeping Russian specialists from moving abroad makes the recruitment process complicated. Companies are advised to open borders for international experts. In this case, the Russian government is expected to stop Russian companies from moving abroad, in order to retain AI specialists in Russia.
Overall, Russia has a strong position in the global Artificial Intelligence market. The overview of Russian influencers, startups and researchers in the sphere of Machine learning is showing a great perspective for development of the Russian AI market. The amount of investments from businesses and government is rising. However, there are challenges for Russian AI ecosystem. The unwillingness to disclose information, the absence of integration of Russian companies in the global economy as well as the problem of retention and recruitment of AI professionals creates obstacles for Russian start-ups to boost. Computer Vision 6 RUSSIA AI LANDSCAPE 2017
Intelligent Data Analysis
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Chatbots & Robotics Assistants
Big Data Services Search Engines & Language Processing Application Russia AI Companies (Application / Industry) 7
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1. Al Today 26. N-Tech.Lab 51. Intento 76. Clever Data 2. Alfa Robotics 27. Ocutri 52. Data Mining Lab 77. IQMen 3. Alpha Smart Systems 28. OhMyBetl 53. Roadar 78. BaseGroup Labs 4. AnyWalker 29. OMI Robotics 54. ABBYY 79. Antiplagiat 5. Biosoft.ru 30. Opiner 55. Icon8 80. ClevAPI 6. ChatFirst 31. Orience 56. YourAppi 81. Nanosemantic Lab 7. Cognitive Technologies 32. Promobot 57. Yurburo 82. VA Technologies 8. Costume.ai 33. Pureso 58. Optimal drive 83. Kribrum 9. Cubik robotics 34. Rambler & Co 59. Semantic Hub 84. Youscan 10. Datadvance 35. RoboCV 60. Talkbank 85. PMT Group 11. Findo 36. Robodem 61. Zoom TV 86. Socmedica 12. Emlid 37. Speech Technology Center 62. Choicy 87. SocioHub 13. Emotian 38. Sberbank Technologies 63. Encom Aurora 88. Deep Systems 14. Expasoft 39. Sherlock Platform 64. Scriptology 89. Segmento 15. Forecsys 40. Smart Engines 65. Scorista 90. Akilio 16. HowPop 41. Social Data Hub 66. RYNKL 91. FindFace 17. Vocord 42. Statsbot 67. Romir 92. Api.ai 18. Iceberg 43. Test4startup 68. Prognoz 93. Apreso 19. Rubbles 44. Tsuru Robotics 69. Avrora Robotics 94. Vocalize 20. Inleksys 45. Verso 70. WebSemantic 95. Speereo 21. Lexy 46. VisionLabs 71. Maugry 96. Prisma 22. Mail.Ru 47. Wicron 72. re:hub 97. DCS Talk Analytics 23. Mr.Chatbot 48. Wunder Fund 73. Double Data 98. Kaspersky Lab 24. MyMind 49. xTurion 74. StocksNeural.net 99. WorkFusion 25. NativeOS 50. Yandex 75. F-Score Lab 100. GeoCV 10 List of Top 35 Russian Investors in AI Top 35 Russia AI Investors
1. AltaIR Capital 18. RTP Ventures
2. Artsofte IT Company 19. Runa Capital
3. Baring Vostok capital 20. Skolkovo Foundation partners 21. Titanium Investments
4. Emery Capital 22. Universe Ventures
5. FASIE 23. Vaizra Investments
6. Finstar Financial Group 24. VTB Capital
7. Flint Capital 25. Yandex
8. Grishin Robotics 26. Sistema JSFC
9. I2BF Global Ventures 27. Pulsar Venture Capital
10. Gagarin Capital Partners 28. Starta Capital
11. IIDF 29. Winter Capital
12. GVA 30. Inventure Partners
13. iTech Capital 31. LIfe.SREDA
14. Larnabel VC 32. BAUR
15. LETA Capital 33. Target Global
16. Maxfield Capital 34. RWM Capital
17. Sistema Venture Capital 35. The Untitled List of Top 10 Russian Tech Hubs in AI Top 10 11 Russia AI Tech Hubs
1. AI Community 6. OpenData Science
2. Eclass 7. Rusbase
3. IIDF 8. Science Guide
4. iPavlov 9. School of Data Analysis (Yandex)
5. Neuronet 10. Skolkovo Foundation List of Top 10 Russian Influencers in AI 12 Top 15 Russia AI Influencers
Mikhail Burtsev Evgeny Burnaev Herman Gref Head of laboratory, Researcher, CEO, Sberbank MIPT Skoltech
Andrey Ivaschenko Andrey Gulin Arkady Volozh Head, NeuroNet Search specialist in Yandex founder Yandex
Andrey Sebrant Konstantin Vorontsov Major Albert Efimov Director of marketing, Scientist, Chief of Skolkovo Yandex MIPT Robotics
Dmitry Vetrov Victor Lempitsky David Yang ABBYY Head of Bayesian Associate professor, founder Methods department at Skoltech HSE
Alexander Dyakonov Dmitry Grishin Data science specialist, Ilya Munchik CEO, Mail.ru Moscow State University Main researcher, School of Data Analysis TOP 100 RUSSIA AI COMPANIES PROFILES 14
1. AI today 2. Alfa Robotics 3. Alpha Smart Systems
Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia
Employees: 1-10 Employees: ——— Employees: 10-50
Established: 2012 Established: ——— Established: 2011 Alfa Robotics is a division of Russian AI today is the company which integrate Alpha Smart Systems is an international developer of company AlfaLED specializing in production, sales and AI technologies into your business robots and robotized ecosystem, innovative solutions leasing of commercial robots. and artificial intelligence. The core product is interactive mobile promoter robot KIKI.
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Software B2B / Advertising All / Robotics
AI Sphere AI Sphere Machine AI Sphere learning AI Assistants, Robotics, Machine Chatbots Total investments Learning
Total investments ——— Total investments
——— 40K 15
4. AnyWalker 5. Biosoft.ru 6. ChatFirst
Base: Krasnodar, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia
Employees: ——— Employees: 10 - 100 Employees: 10 - 50 Established: 2015 Established: 2008 Established: 2015
The company develops a robot which can move in any type Biosoft aims to become a conductor between fundamental ChatFirst is an Artifical Intelligence Robots Creator. They of environment which includes stairs, overcoming obstacles science and services. It helps business representatives to introduce AI Officer (Artificial Intelligence State Aware and opening doors. find appropriate scientific partners.Biosoft aims to put on Automation Controller) - AI unit in their constructor. They stream fundamental science problems that provide a full set of tools to create, maintain and integrate it phramaceutical and other lifesciences companies into your applications. are forced to deal with in order to get a desired result.
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions
Electronics / Manufacturing Lifescience / consulting, All / Software outsourcing AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere Robotics AI Assistant Creator Biotechnology;AI;ML Total investments Total investments Total investments 500K ——— ——— 16
7. Cognitive Technologies 8. Costume.ai 9. Cubik robotics
Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Saint Petersburg, Russi
Employees: 500 - 1000 Employees: 1 - 10 Employees: 10 - 50
Established: 1993 Established: 2017 Established: 2012 Visual Recommendation and Search for Cubic Robotics manufactures robots for home use. Its Cognitive Technologies – a leading Russian developer of robotic systems, software for Fashion E-commerce features include recognizing human speech, answer machine vision and business systems (ERP, questions, and search for information SRM, EAS). in the Internet.
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions
Industries / Functions Cubic Robotics manufactures robots for home use. Its features Fashion / E-Commerce include recognizing human speech, answer questions, and All / Administration search for information in the Internet. AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere Image Recognition, Image Recognition, Text Recognition, Speech Text Recognition Deep Learning; Image recognition; Recommender Recognition, Computer Vision systems; Voice recognition; NLP Total investments Total investments —— Total investments —— — — 1.5 M 17
10. Datadvance 11. Findo 12. Emlid
Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Menlo Park, USA Base: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Employees: >40 Employees: 10 - 50 Employees: 10 - 50
Established: 2011 Established: 2016 Established: 2014 Emlid makes Linux based Raspberry Pi autopilot DATADVANCE develops and offers its Findo is a smart search assistant that works customers software and consulting across personal emails, files, images, notes in Navio2 and first truly affordable RTK GPS Reach. services for predictive modelling, Gmail, Google Drive, Dropbox, Evernote, Outlook, intellectual data analysis and OneDrive, YahooMail, iCloud Mail (@me.com, multidisciplinary optimization. @icloud.com), notebooks, among others. The system “intuits” human-like language and can do a search by description.
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions All / consulting, outsourcing All / Administration Transport / Autopilot & navigation
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere
Predictive Analytics, Data analysis, Semantic search, AI, NLP Machine learning Optimization
Total investments Total investments Total investments
——— 7 M 81 K 18
13. Emotian 14. Expasoft 15. Forecsys
Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Novosibirsk, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Employees: 1 - 10 Employees: 10 - 50 Employees: 10 - 50 Established: 2000 Established: 2015 Established: 2010
Service for analysing human emotions and Predictive analytics service in the areas: Forecsys is a Russian vendor of BI solutions. displaying it on interactive map. bioinformatics, oil&gas, healthcare, The company creates software and offers Emotian uses NLP techniques and fraud-detection consulting services in the following areas: data analyses social networks. analysis, forecasting, modelling and improving business processes
Industries / Functions
Entertainment / Analytics (Human Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Emotion Analysis) Oil & Gas, Health / consulting, All / Finance, Marketing outsourcing AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere Text Recognition, Text Analysis Big Data; Machine Learning; Predictive AI;Big Data Analytics; NLP
Total investments Total investments Total investments
——— ——— ——— 19
16. HowPop 17. Vocord 18. Iceberg
HowPop.io
Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Employees: 1 - 10 Employees: 100 - 500 Employees: 10 - 50 Established: 2017 Established: 1999 Established: 2015 Service HowPop uses AI to analyse texts and Vocord is a developer and manufacturer of Iceberg is the hockey sport analytics platform predict their popularity. It also provides high-tech security systems based which fixate the player’s activity every 0.1 recomendations for author how to improve text. on computer vision and intelligent seconds and use mathematics algorithms to video processing algorithms. analyze the player’s actions and make the conclusions, useful for couches, team manager and team doctors. Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Entertainment / Analytics (Text popularity prediction) Health / Manufacturing Entertainment / Analytics
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere
Text Recognition, Computer vision Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Data Machine Learning Analysis
Total investments Total investments Total investments
——— 140 K ——— 20
19. Rubbles 20. Inleksys 21. Lexy
Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia
Employees: 10 - 50 Employees: 1 - 10 Employees: ———
Established: 2014 Established: 2017 Established: 2014
Rubbles is a professional video production, Inleksys provides services for big data analysis, Lexy - is a desktop device with artificial marketing, and editing company data mining and machine learning intelligence and fully voice interface.
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions
B2B / Finance, Marketing All / consulting, outsourcing Electronics / IoT
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere
ML, Big Data, Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning, Data Analysis Robotics, Speech Recognition Recommender system
Total investments Total investments Total investments
——— ——— ——— 21
22. Mail.Ru 23. Mr.Chatbot 24. MyMind
Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia
Employees: 5000 - 10000 Employees: 1-10 Employees: 1-10 Established: 1998 Established: 2016 Established: 2016
Mail.Ru Group is an internet company that operates Mr. Chatbot allows ecommerce shops to MyMind is engaged in the creation of social networking sites, create their own helpful chatbot. technological products using machine learning IM networks, email services, and internet portals. in both the B2B segment (retail, financial sector, insurance, medicine, telecom) and B2C (applications, web services)
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions
Telecommunications / All Retail / Software All / consulting, outsourcing
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere Text Recognition, Data Analysis NLP; Deep Learning AI Assistant, Recommender Systems
Total investments Total investments Total investments
——— ——— 500k 22
25. NativeOS 26. N-Tech.Lab 27. Ocutri
Base: Saint Petersburg, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia
Employees: 1 - 10 Employees: 10 - 50 Employees: 11 - 50
Established: 2016 Established: 2015 Established: 2014
NativeOS creates native ads with NTechLab develops and implements artificial Full cycle custom software development and neural networks intelligence algorithms. R&D for non-standard and science intensive The company is composed of experts tasks. in machine and deep learning, focused on building software that makes the world a safer and more comfortable place.
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions
All / Advertising All / Security All / consulting, outsourcing
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere
Neural Networks, Mobile AI Assistant ML;AI;CV:Big Data Content Analysis
Total investments Total investments Total investments
——— ——— ——— 23
28. OhMyBet! 29. OMI Robotics 30. Opiner
Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Perm, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Employees: 1 - 10 Employees: 1 - 10 Employees: 1-10 Established: 2013 Established: 2013 Established: 2016 OMI Robotics - a new high-tech company which is Artificial intelligence for collection and aggregation OhMyBet! is an Artificial Intelligence tool for engaged in the design and creation of unique robots. of people opinions from web. sports bettors that predicts outcomes of Snow removal become tennis matches using machine learning a fascinating computer game with the use algorithms of a mobile application and software product for PC.
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions
Entertainment / Analytics Electronics / Manufacturing Media / Marketing, Analytics
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere
Recommender systems; Forecasting Hardware, robotics Deep Learning; NLP; Social systems Networks analysis
Total investments Total investments Total investments
100 k ——— ——— 24
31. Orience 32. Promobot 33. Pureso
Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Eindhoven, Netherlands Base: Perm, Russia Employees: 1 - 10 Employees: 10 - 50 Employees: 10 - 50 Established: 2016 Established: 2017 Established: 2015 Artificial neural network models, high-load Special device for blind and visually impaired, that Company develops robots for advertising and solves three major problems: obstacle avoidance, promotion. Robots are designed to work in areas calculations, cascade analytics, big data geo-navigation of high concentrations of people in which the analytics and image recognition. robot helps people with navigation, answers any questions, translates promotional materials and remembers everyone with whom had to communicate.
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions
Health / Manufacturing Electronics / Advertising All / consulting, outsourcing
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere
Computer vision Robotics, speech recognition Neural networks; Big data; High-load calculations
Total investments Total investments Total investments 140 K 2 M ——— 25
34. Rambler & Co 35. RoboCV 36. Robodem
Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Employees: 10 - 50 Employees: 1 - 10 Employees: 1700 Established: 2012 Established: 2013 Established: 2013 RoboCV develops intelligent autopilot systems. Robodem offers unique software and engineering One of the biggest Russian company working The company’s flagship product, RoboCV solutions in the field in the sphere of media, technology and X-MOTION NG, is a multifunctional system of control systems of autonomous mobile e-commerce designed to automate all types robots. of floor movements for pallet goods at warehouses.
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions
Media / Analytics Transport / Autopilot & Navigation B2B / Manufacturing
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere
Big Data, NLP, Machine Learning, Deep Learning; Image recognition; AI;Robotics Recommender Systems Autopilots
Total investments Total investments Total investments
——— 3.5 M ——— 26
37. Speech Technology 38. Sberbank Technologies 39. Cherlock Platform Center
Base: Saint Petersburg, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia
Employees: 100 - 500 Employees: >8500 Employees: 1-10
Established: 1990 Established: 2011 Established: 2015
STC Group is the leading developer of voice Sberbank Technology is an IT company Sherlock is the platform which provide text and multimodal biometric systems, as well as providing services in software development and analytics and chatbots for the popular solutions for implementation for Sberbank of Russia. messengers audio and video recording, processing and analysis.
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions
All / Security, Administration Banking / Finance All / Marketing
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere
Speech recognition Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, Big Recommender systems; Data Forecasting systems
Total investments Total investments Total investments
——— ——— ——— 27
40. Smart Engines 41. Social Data Hub 42. Statsbot
Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Base: San Francisco, USA
Employees: 10 - 50 Employees: 1 - 10 Employees: 1 - 10
Established: 2010 Established: 2014 Established: 2016
Smart Engines Ltd. is a company aimed at Social Data Hub provides product for Statsbot is a Business Intelligent developing systems for image processing comprehensive analysis of media, social assistant to explore data and get and character recognition i n a video stream. networks, forums and blogs. analytical insights
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions
All / Administration Media / consulting, outsourcing B2B / E-commerce
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere
Image Recognition, Text Recognition, Big Data, Data Mining, Data Analysis Chatbot, Analytics Machine Learning
Total investments Total investments Total investments
——— ——— 1.93 M 28
43. Test4startup 44. Tsuru Robotics 45. Verso
Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Base: USA Employees: 1 - 10 Employees: 1 - 10 Employees: 1-10 Established: 2016 Established: 2016 Established: 2016 Verso is an AI-experiment with computer Tsuru robotics creates multicopters and vision software to monitor any type of media Research the market in just 7 convertoplans at all stages of robots (TV, YouTube, Instagram, cams) and seconds with the help of Big Data development. Company also provides analyze the impact. Its goal is to discover and Artificial Intelligence consulting services patterns of how the messages spread across all platforms.
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Finance / Analytics (Market research) Transportation / Manufacturing B2B / Finance, Marketing
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere
Machine Learning; Predictive Analytics; Big Robotics, hardware ML, Big Data, Predictive Analytics, Data Recommender system
Total investments Total investments Total investments
——— ——— 100 K 29
46. VisionLabs 47. Wicron 48. Wunder Fund
Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Employees: 1-10 Employees: 10 - 50 Employees: 1 - 10 Established: 2014 Established: 2012 Established: 2012 VisionLabs is a team of computer vision and machine Exchange fund which is developing trade Wicron is engaged in the development and learning experts cpecializing in developing products platforms using AI technologies and solutions in the promotion of Webot, a remote presence robot. areas of face recognition, object recognition, augmented reality and virtual reality.
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions All / Retail, Finance, Security Electronics / Administration Services / Finance
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere
Deep Learning; Image recognition Machine learning Forecasting systems; Recommender systems
Total investments Total investments Total investments
5.5 M 100 K ——— 30
49. xTurion 50. Yandex 51. ABBYY
Base: Saint Petersburg, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia
Employees: ——— Employees: 5000 - 10000 Employees: 2500 - 5000
Established: 2012 Established: 1997 Established: 1989
xTurion is a mobile robotic platform for Yandex is one of the largest internet companies ABBYY provides document conversion, in Europe, operating Russia’s most popular advanced monitoring of home. optical character recognition, data search engine and its most visited website. capture, and linguistic software and services.
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions
Electronics / IoT Telecommunications/ All All / Software : AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere
Robotics; Machine Learning; Autonomous Text Recognition, Neural Networks, Data fi Vehicles; Arti cial Intelligence, Computer Analysis, Machine Vision, Geodata OCR, NLP: Vision, Objects Recognition Analysis
Total investments Total investments Total investments
170 K ——— 31
52.YouAppi 53. Icon8 54. DSC Talks Analytics
Base: San Francisco, USA Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia
Employees: 50-100 Employees: 1-10 Employees: 2500 - 5000
Established: 2011 Established: 2016 Established: 1989
YouAppi platform combines the power of machine Icon8 is an artificial intelligence that helps its users learning with their proprietary predictive transform their selfies into a wide range of arts. Icon8 is Cloud Service for speech analysis for algorithms, and cohort technology, to analyze the used through the iOS and Android platforms and through call-centers of all sizes mobile content consumption patterns of over 1.5B the Facebook Messenger application. It allows its users to users, converting data into profitable users. snap selfies, apply styles, and share the new look with their friends.
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions All / Advertising Entertainment / Software B2B / Human Resources
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere Machine Learning, Big Data, Mobile Neural networks, Deep Learning, Image Neural Networks, Machine Applications Processing Learning, Speech Recognition, NLP
Total investments Total investments Total investments ——— ——— 32
55. Yurburo 56. Optimal Drive 57. Semantic Hub
Base: Saint Petersburg, Russia Base: Saint Petersburg, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia
Employees: 1-10 Employees: 10-50 Employees: 1-10
Established: 2014 Established: 2014 Established: 2015 System for optimization and automation of company’s Company offers services for finding promising business processes (laboratory, security, control for products for pharmaceutical companies by printing, equipment service means of big data analysis and semantic search
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions All / administration Pharmacy / Optimization, Administration Pharmacy / Analytics
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning Machine Learning, Image Recognition NLP, Big Data, Data Mining
Total investments Total investments Total investments ——— ——— ——— 33
58. Talkbank 59. Zoom TV 60. Choicy
Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Tomsk, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia
Employees: 1-10 Employees: 1-10 Employees: 1-10
Established: 2016 Established: 2013 Established: 2016
TalkBank is digital bank in ZOOM TV - is a Smart TV application that allows Choicy is a platform for internet services messengers that understands user to watch TV-channels right on their Smart TV of choice – choice of restaurants, events, banking commands in natural via the internet (over the top) without using any movies, hotels, tickets, etc. It allows language. cables, satelites, set-top boxes and other customers to make their choice in the additional infrastructure. fastest way by automatically asking them clarifying questions in natural language in chat interface.
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Finance / HR Telecommunications / Analytics Entertainment / Administration
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere NLP, chatbots Recommender systems, ML NLP, Chatbots
Total investments Total investments Total investments ——— 150k ——— 34
61. Encom Aurora 62. Scriptology 63. Scorista
Base: Irkutsk, Russia Base: Saint Petersburg, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia
Employees: 1-10 Employees: 1-10 Employees: 1-10
Established: 2016 Established: 2015 Established: 2013 Website-widget, which is capable of System of interactive customized sales scripts. Scorista - a unique online service for answering the user's questions and making Service helps to see weaknesses in sales and assessing the borrower. With our dialogue with both voice and text. provides solutions for effective sales scripts analytical system to perform detailed and qualitative assessment of the solvency of the borrower for one minute without any extra costs for you and install additional software.
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions All / Human Resources Retail / E-commerce Banking / Finance
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere NLP, Chatbots Recommendation system, NLP Machine Learning, Predictive systems
Total investments Total investments Total investments ——— ——— ——— 35
64. RYNKL 65. Romir 66. Prognoz
Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Saint Petersburg, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia
Employees: 1-10 Employees: 1-10 Employees: 50-100
Established: 2016 Established: 1987 Established: 1991 RYNKL is a mobile application aimed to Romir is a private research company that Prognoz develops Business Intelligence detect and track wrinkles in order to specializes in marketing, media, and and Business Performance Management evaluate various anti-wrinkle treatments socio-economic studies. The company is the solutions that help corporations and and interventions using AI algorithm for representative of Gallup International or WIN, the government agencies harness the power facial wrinkles recognition from international association in market research and of data to make informed decisions. high-resolution facial photos (selfies) polling, in Russia and CIS countries, which allow people to share experience and exchange technologies.
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions LIfe Sciences, Analytics All / Marketing, Analytics B2B / Analytics
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere Image Analysis, AI Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning Predictive Analytics, Data Mining
Total investments Total investments Total investments ——— ——— ——— 36
67. Avrora Robotics 68. WebSemantics 69. Maugry
Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Perm, Russia
Employees: 10-50 Employees: Employees: 10-50
Established: 2009 Established: Established: 2010 Avrora robotics produces self-driving WebSemantics.ru develops software which uses Maugry is a mobile guide for navigating autonomous cars for farmers. advertising to locate target audience through museums social networks and helps convert them into customers.
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions
Agriculture / Manifacturing Media / Optimization Entertainment / Analytics
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere Robotics, Computer Vision Machine Learning, Data Analysis Computer Vision, Navigation
Total investments Total investments Total investments ——— ——— ——— 37
70. StocksNeural.net 71. Double Data 72. re:hub
Base: San Francisco, USA Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia
Employees: 1-10 Employees: 10-50 Employees: 1-10
Established: 2014 Established: 2014 Established: 2015 Deep learning for time series analysis and Double Data targets banks and other financial REHub is a modern multipurpose hybrid prediction. institutions who need to improve their theme. Theme covers many modern performance for a variety of processes – from Business models for profitable websites. customer acquisition and assessment to debt Each part can be configured and used collection. The Double Data software combines separately or can be combined all in one Big Data analysis tools, computer-aided learning site. methods and data mining.
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Finance / Analytics Finance / Analytics Media / Optimization
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere Deep Learning, Neural Networks Big Data, Predictive Analytics Predictive Analytics, Data Analysis
Total investments Total investments Total investments ——— 3.2M ——— 38
73. F-Score Lab 74. CleverData 75. IQMen
Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia
Employees: 1-10 Employees: 50-100 Employees: 10-50
Established: 2016 Established: 2014 Established: 2014 System using machine learning and face Clever Data creates solutions for clients in such Intellectual real-time analysis of information recognition techniques for credit scoring spheres as analysis of customers databases, for applied business tasks, decision making implementation of AI-based advertising and digital support. marketing solutions
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Finance / Analytics All / consulting, outsourcing All / consulting, outsourcing
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere Predictive Analytics, Computer Vision Big Data, Machine Learning, Predictive Big Data, Machine Learning, Analytics Predictive Analytics
Total investments Total investments Total investments ——— ——— ——— 39
76. BaseGroup Labs 77. Antiplagiat 78.ClevAPI
Base: Ryazan, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Makhachkala, Russia
Employees: 50-100 Employees: 10-50 Employees: 1-10
Established: 2014 Established: 2005 Established: 2015
Analytical Platform with several Platform that helps to find plagiat in works. Clevapi provides automatic image recognition implemented machine learning solutions. The SaaS technology combines algorithms such as self-organizing real-time visual recognition with artificial maps, neural networks, decision trees, intelligence to provide information about the etc and with various tools for data objects and concepts presented on the visual visualization content. That brings opportunities to use recognized objects for in-image advertising, social media analytics and to power visual search.
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions
All / consulting, outsourcing Education / Analytics All / Marketing, Advertising
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere
Natural Language Processing Image Processing, Deep Learning
Total investments Total investments Total investments ——— ——— ——— 40
79. Nanosemantic Lab 80. Video Analysis Technology 81. Kribrum
Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia
Employees: 10-50 Employees: 10-50 Employees: 100-250
Established: 2016 Established: 2010 Established: 2010 Company specializes in applied R&D in the field of Chatbot imitating real person. Kribrum is a social media monitoring and computer vision with primary focus on video analysis. Collects data, sells goods, helps with analysis system for online reputation Range of possible applications of technologies technical support. Chatbot is easily management. Kribrum is a cloud-based service includes security surveillance systems, audience implemented to social networks, web for automated monitoring and analysis of analysis for Digital signage, intelligent search in video online discussions of selected object (brands, sites, mobile apps. archives, augmented reality systems, etc. companies, events, personalities) in social
networks, blogs and microblogs, online media,
forums and communities, etc.
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions
All / Human Resources All / Security Media / Analytics
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere
Chat bot, Natural Language Processing Computer Vision Big Data, Natural Language Processing
Total investments Total investments Total investments ——— ——— ——— 41
82. Youscan 83. PMT Group 84. Socmedica
Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia
Employees: 10-50 Employees: 1-10 Employees: 1-10
Established: 2009 Established: 2016 Established: 2012
YouScan is a social media monitoring PMT Group provides remote medical services Socmedica creates expert systems in the platform that helps brand owners to listen sphere of medicine to consumer opinions posted online about their products and competitors, and manage their brands online.
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions
Media / Analytics Medicine / Analytics Medicine / Analytics
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere Big Data, Natural Language Processing Big Data Analysis Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning
Total investments Total investments Total investments ——— ——— ——— 42
85. Sociohub 86. Deep Systems 87. Segmento
Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia
Employees: 1-10 Employees: 10-50 Employees: 50-100
Established: 2013 Established: 2015 Established: 2011
Sociohub provides software for collecting Deep Learning solutions for various business Segmento is a major Russian programmatic open data from social networks in order to sectors. Company’s primary focus — computer platform, which employs machine learning improve quality of data for credit scoring vision and recommendation systems. Company technology to target digital advertising. takes on the entire development cycle: from R&D to production deployment.
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions
Banking / Finance All / consulting, outsourcing All / Advertising
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere
Data Mining, Predictive Analytics Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Predictive Machine Learning, Reccomendation Analytics Systems
Total investments Total investments Total investments ——— ——— ——— 43
88. Akilio 89. FindFace 90. api.ai
Base: Saint Petersburg, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Base: California, USA
Employees: 1-10 Employees: 1-10 Employees: 10-50
Established: 2015 Established: 2015 Established: 2010
Expert System for business. FindFace’s technology offers high face recognition API.AI is a conversational UX platform accuracy, and is proven for fast, large-scale search of enabling brand unique, natural language photos. interactions for devices, applications, and services.
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions
All / Analytics All / Security All / Human Resources
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere
Deep Learning, Neural Networks Computer Vision, Deep Learning Chat bots, Natural Language Processing
Total investments Total investments Total investments ——— ——— 8.6M 44
91. apreso 92. Vocalize 93. Speereo
Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Engand
Employees: 1-10 Employees: 10-50 Employees: 10-50
Established: 2016 Established: 2016 Established: 1998
System for face recognition and System for optimization and automation of Company owns and develops Speereo biometrical identification. company’s business processes (laboratory, Speech Recognition (SSR) system. It creates security, control for printing, equipment service and distributes SW, HW and systems based on SSR. Latest product – universal Voice Remote.
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions All / Security All / Security, Administration All / Security
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere
Computer Vision Speech recognition, Natural Language Speech Recognition Processing
Total investments Total investments Total investments ——— ——— ——— 45
94. GeoCV 95. Prisma 96. Roadar
Base: New York, USA Base: San Francisco, USA Base: Kazan, Russia
Employees: 10-50 Employees: 1-10 Employees: 1-10
Established: 2011 Established: 2016 Established: 2013
GeoCV is a venture capital backed 3D Prisma transforms photos into artworks using the Mobile application for drivers with road capturing technology company. Company’s styles of famous artists: Van Gogh, Picasso, Levitan, as signs recognition and navigation in vision is to enable everyone to capture the well as world famous ornaments and patterns. A Augmented Reality world in 3D with a phone and share it in unique combination of neural networks and artificial virtual and augmented reality. intelligence helps turn memorable moments into timeless art.
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Real Estate / Software Pharmacy / Optimization, Administration Transport / Autopilot & navigation
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere
Virtual Reality, 3D Technology Neural networks, Deep Learning, Image Virtual Reality, Image Recognition Processing
Total investments Total investments Total investments
2.5M ——— 2.5M 46
97. Intento 98. Kaspersky Lab 99. WorkFusion
Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Base: New York, USA
Employees: 1-10 Employees: 1000-5000 Employees: 100-250
Established: 2016 Established: 1997 Established: 2011 Intento benchmarks Cognitive Services and Kaspersky Lab is the world’s largest privately held WorkFusion is the complete automation provides a single API to use all of them. Intento vendor of endpoint protection solutions. The solution for global operations, combining into helps to discover and use the best Artificial company is ranked among the world’s top four one platform the core capabilities you need to Intelligence services without spending human vendors of security solutions for endpoint users. digitize complex business processes: business effort on integration and switching providers. For process management (BPM), robotic process each service category, Intento provides a Single automation (RPA), workforce orchestration, API to clients. The service requests are routed to and machine learning-powered cognitive the best provider based on the data, client's automation. preferences, and our unique benchmarks.
Industries / Functions Industries / Functions Industries / Functions B2B / Analytics, Human Resources, All / Security, Software All / Analytics (Market research) Administration
AI Sphere AI Sphere AI Sphere Machine Learning; Search Engine Machine Learning, Data Analysis Optimization, Machine Learning, RPA
Total investments Total investments Total investments 210k 71.3M 47
100. Data Mining Lab
Base: Moscow, Russia
Employees: 1-10
Established: 2013
Data Mining Labs provides leading expertise in data analytics with top-notch solutions that boost business efficiency
Industries / Functions All / Analytics
AI Sphere Data Mining, Data Analysis
Total investments ——— TOP 35 RUSSIA AI INVESTORS PROFILES 49
1. IIDF (Internet initiatives 2. Baring Vostok capital 3. LETA Capital development fund) partners
Base: Moscow Base: Moscow Focus Region: Global Base: Moscow Focus Region: Russia LETA Capital is a corporate boutique venture Focus Region: Russia Baring Vostok Capital Partners Limited is a fund investing in innovative IT startup companies Investment fund with more than 200 venture capital and private equity firm. at their seed or early growth stage portfile companies
Investment size Investment size Investment size 15 k - 5 M 3 M - 200 M 300 k - 5 M
Number of investments Number of investments Number of investments
100 - 500 10 - 50 10 - 50 50
4. VTB Capital Investment 5. GVA Capital 6. Universe Ventures Management
Base: Moscow Base: San Francisco, California Base: Russia Focus Region: Global Focus Region: US, Europe, Russia Focus Region: Russia
Founded in 2008, VTB Capital Investment Founders: Magomed Musaev, Pavel Universe Ventures is a Russian Management offers investment banking products Cherkashin. GVA Capital is an early-stage, company providing early-stage and Silicon Valley based VC firm with $120m venture capital and startup services to Russian and international clients. under management. The firm is focused on acceleration services since 2013. science-intensive innovations across a variety of verticals, including Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Robotics, Big Data, Cloud, Consumer Mobile, Advertising, and Autonomous Vehicles.
Investment size Investment size Investment size 3 M - 60 M 100 k - 10 M 30 k – 75 k
Number of investments Number of investments Number of investments
10 - 50 10 - 50 10 - 50 51
7. Artsofte IT Company 8. Yandex 9. Larnabel VC
Base: Moscow Base: Moscow Base: Moscow Focus Region: Russia, US, Europe Focus Region: Russia Focus Region: Russia Venture Capital Fund of Larnabel Enterprises, a Yandex is one of the largest internet Studio Artsofte - professional IT-company, company founded by the Gutseriev family to companies in Europe, operating Russia’s most specializing in web technologies invest in the information technology sector. popular search engine and its most visited website.
Investment size Investment size Investment size 50 k – 400 k 50 k – 5.5 M 200 k – 10 M
Number of investments Number of investments Number of investments
1 – 10 10 - 50 ——— 52
10. Skolkovo Foundation 11. Finstar Financial Group 12. AltaIR Capital
Base: Moscow Base: Moscow Base: Tel Aviv
Focus Region: Russia Focus Region: Europe Focus Region: USA, Europe, Russia, Israel
Skolkovo Foundation is a Russian organization that fosters Finstar Financial Group is one of the Founder: Igor Ryabenkiy largest private investment groups. startups and venture capitals focused on the areas of energy, AltaIR Capital is a venture capital firm that Finstar has a significant experience in IT, biomedicine, nuclear, and space. The IT cluster develops invests in very early/seed stage tech strategic directions of information technologies launching start-up projects and in restructuring and expanding of companies companies, primarily in the areas of Internet in selected industries. and Mobile.
Investment size Investment size Investment size 45 k - 6.7 M 3 M – 31.5 M 50 k – 500 k
Number of investments Number of investments Number of investments
10 - 50 1 – 10 100 53
13. Emery Capital 14. iTech Capital 15. Flint Capital
Base: California Base: Moscow Base: Moscow Focus Region: Europe, US, Israel, Russia Focus Region: Global Focus Region: Global Founders: Dmitry Smirnov, Oleg Seydak Flint Emery Capital is a venture capital management iTech Capital invests up to US$10 mln. Capital I, II is an international venture capital company that invests per deal in the digital world globally. Quick and $200 million funds investing across in global-focused early stage technological startups. effective due diligence is based on recognised Europe, Israel and US with offices in Palo Alto, professional experience of Boston and Tel Aviv. Flint Capital focuses on the international investment team AI/ML, SaaS, Advertisement, Automotive, CyberSecurity and Enterprise sectors.
Investment size Investment size Investment size 75 k – 9 M 1 – 10 M 500 k – 5 M
Number of investments Number of investments Number of investments
1 - 10 ——— 10 - 50 54
16. Grishin Robotics 17. Gagarin Capital 18. Sistema Venture Capital
Base: Moscow Base: California Base: California Focus Region: Russia, CIS Focus Region: Europe, US, Russia Focus Region: USA, Israel, CIS
Founder: Dmitry Grishin. VC firm based in A venture firm focusing on the A venture capital firm focused Silicon Valley and London, currently investing its on investments in the growth-stage Internet Internet and high-tech. second early-stage fund. companies (or at least Series A Round). Grishin Robotics has been one of the first to start supporting entrepreneurs in robotics, IoT, AI, smart hardware and associated software.
Investment size Investment size Investment size 250 k – 20 M 1 M – 3.5 M 1.1 M – 6.2 M
Number of investments Number of investments Number of investments
10 – 50 1 - 10 1 - 10 55
19. Almaz Capital 20. Titanium Investments 21. I2BF Global Ventures
Base: California Base: Moscow Base: New York
Focus Region: Eastern Europe Focus Region: Global Focus Region: Asia, Russia, Europe, US
An early stage venture capital firm Titanium Investments invests Founder: Ilya Golubovich. I2BF Global Ventures is an investing in entrepreneurs and in young performing start-ups world wide. international clean technology venture capital firm with a global investment mandate. Established in engineering talent in high-growth tech 2005, I2BF Global Ventures manages four venture sectors. capital vehicles: I2BF Holdings, I2BF Venture Fund, Russia-Kazakhstan Nanotechnology Fund and late-stage venture fund I2BF-RNC Strategic Resources Fund.
Investment size Investment size Investment size
250 k – 25.7 M 600k - 11M ———
Number of investments Number of investments Number of investments 10 - 50 10 - 50 10 - 50 56
22. Runa Capital 23. Maxfield Capital 24. RTP Ventures
Base: New York Base: California Base: New York Focus Region: US, Russia Focus Region: US, Europe, Russia, Israel, Focus Region: USA, Russia, Israel, Europe Southeast Asia Invested in: Founders: Kirill Sheynkman, Invested in: Founders: Oleg Koujikov, Alexander Leonid Boguslavsky. RTP Ventures is an Invested in: Founders: Ilya Zubarev, Serguei Lazarev, Alexander Turkot Maxfield Capital - early-stage venture capital fund investing Beloussov, Dmitry Chikhachev, Andre Bliznyuk. Runa helps startups go global in companies that create applied solutions – it specializes on early stage opportunities that Capital is a technology-focused venture capital firm for Financial Services and Healthcare are prepared to tackle global markets. whose investments have created or incubated using IT and IoT Technologies as a companies with more than $10B in assets. foundation. These companies almost always provided B2B products and usually deliver these products as SaaS.
Investment size Investment size Investment size 1M - 10M 500k - 2.5M 1M - 10M
Number of investments Number of investments Number of investments
50 - 100 10 - 50 10 - 50 57
25. Vaizra Investments 26. Sistema JSFC 27. Pulsar Venture Capital
Base: New York Base: Moscow Base: New York Focus Region: Russia, Israel, US Focus Region: Global Focus Region: Asia, Russia, Europe, US
Vaizra invests in talented teams with creative Established in 1993, today Sistema is a large private Pulsar Venture Capital is an active player of the global solutions to existing or emerging consumer investor operating in the real sector of the Russian venture capital market with a strong network of experts economy. Sistema's investment portfolio comprises stakes both in Russia, USA and worldwide. Besides traditional needs. Vaizra invests both in early and late investments, Pulsar Venture Capital's professional team stage opportunities as syndicate participants or in predominantly Russian companies from various sectors of economy, including telecommunications, utilities, retail, specializes in accelerating the growth of new high-tech lead positions high tech, pulp and paper, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, businesses and also works to grow the innovation railway transportation, agriculture, finance, mass media, infrastructure. Pulsar Venture Capital offers financing and tourism, etc. Sistema made invested in Vision Labs and mentorship to clean tech, robotics, and electronics Segmento in 2016. startups.
. Investment size Investment size Investment size ——— 10k - 15M ———
Number of investments Number of investments Number of investments 10 - 50 10 - 50 10 - 50 58
28. Starta Capital 29. Winter Capital 30. Inventure Partners
Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia Base: Moscow, Russia
Focus Region: Russia, Europe Focus Region: Europe, Russia, USA, Israel Focus Region: Russia, CIS
Starta Capital provides venture assistance Winter Capital is an investment advisory Inventure Partners is an innovative and strategic advice to European firm focused on private equity and investment fund focused on funding entrepreneurs working on early stage venture capital. The primary focus of the disruptive technology startups. The fund breakthrough technologies. team over the subsequent years was to looks for teams with a novel approach to manage and ultimately advise on the business models, and companies that are disposal of Interros legacy holdings in able to solve real problems and remove technology, media & entertainment, inefficiencies in the market.
agriculture and other sectors.
Investment size Investment size Investment size
75k – 3M 600k – 11M 100k – 500k Number of investments 1-10 Number of investments Number of investments 10 - 50 1-10 59
31. Life. SREDA 32. BAUR 33. Target Global
Base: Singapore Base: Ekaterinburg, Russia Base: Berlin, Germany Focus Region: Russia, Asia, Europe Focus Region: Russia Focus Region: Russia, Europe,
Life.SREDA VC is an international venture Baur is a structure uniting like-minded people who Target Global is an international VC firm with capital firm, established in 2012 and are, or are willing to become business angels. The over $450 million in assets under management headquartered in Singapore. Being one of need to join due to the fact that the use of the best and offices in San Francisco, Berlin, Tel Aviv the first FinTech-only non-corporate VC fund international experience in the analysis and and Moscow. Target Global focuses primarily preliminary assessment of long-term projects, as in the world, Life.SREDA has already on fast-growing digital-enabled B2C and B2 well as build relationships with other investors - SMB companies in e-Commerce, finTech, invested in more than 20 FinTech companies venture capital and seed funds travel, software and mobile. around the world
Investment size Investment size Investment size
2M 200k – 25M 315k – 2M Number of investments Number of investments Number of investments 10 - 50 1-10 10 - 50 60
34. RWM Capital 35. The Untitled
Base: Moscow, Russia Base: California, USA Focus Region: Russia Focus Region: Russia
RWM Capital is a Moscow-based private The Untitled is a venture capital company based in California that finances seed and equity firm specialized in direct fund early stage companies. Managing Partner - investments in IT sphere. Konstantin Siniushin
Investment size Investment size
10k – 1.5M 100k – 500k Number of investments Number of investments
10 - 50 1-10 TOP 10 RUSSIA AI TECH HUBS 62
1. OpenData Science 2. IPavlov 3. HSE Business incubator
Base: Moscow Base: Moscow Base: Moscow
Focus Region: Russia, CIS Focus Region: Russia Focus Region: Russia The biggest russian-language online community The main goal of the iPavlov project is HSE Business Incubator is a department of about data science, machine learning and artificial сonversational intelligence. To solve this National Research University “Higher School of intelligence with more than 6000 participants. ambitious task, iPavlov does research Economics”. Open Data Science actively supports conferences, to advance existing state of the art in the Our main aim to provide an environment where meetings and hacathons. field. iPavlov creates platform that makes it possible to easily test ideas and develop young entrepreneurs can build and develop scalable solutions for dialogue systems their own start-ups. HSE Business Incubator also organizes workshops, contests, public seminars, meetings and consultancies with Investment size Investment size Investment size experts 15 k - 5 M ——— ——— in business.HSE Business Incubator is open for Number of investments Number of investments Number of investments all student, staff, alumni and friends of Higher ——— 100 - 500 ——— School of Economics 63
4. IIDF (Internet initiatives 5. Science Guide 6. Neuronet development fund)
Base: Moscow Base: Moscow Base: Moscow Focus Region: Russia Focus Region: Russia Focus Region: Europe Investment fund with more than 200 Science Guide brings together developers, Neuronet is an organization that fosters projects portfile companies scientists and businesspeople at multidisciplinary in the field of neural networks. It accelerates conferences, meetups and hackathons. neuronet projects, organizes conferences, These collaborations provide the solutions for meetings and other events scientific problems and the development of knowledge-based business projects
Investment size Investment size Investment size
——— ——— ———
Number of investments Number of investments Number of investments
——— ——— ——— 64
7. AI Community 8. Skolkovo Foundation 9. School of Data Analysis (Yandex)
Base: Russia Base: Moscow Base: Russia Focus Region: Russia, CIS Focus Region: Russia Focus Region: Russia The School of Data Analysis is a free Master’s-level Skolkovo Foundation is a Russian organization Community of AI specialists. AI Community program in Computer Science and Data Analysis, which that fosters startups and venture capitals organized 7 hacathons, 15 meet-ups and is offered by Yandex since 2007 to graduates in focused on the areas of energy, IT, conferences and 3 expert sessions. It helps engineering, mathematics, computer science or related biomedicine, nuclear, and space. The IT companies to find investors and specializats fields. The aim of the School is to train specialists in cluster develops strategic directions of in such spheres as neural networks, data analysis and information retrieval for further information technologies, including search chat-bots, big data, machine learning and employment at Yandex or any other IT company systems and cloud calculations. The biomed computer vision cluster supports and develops innovations in the field of biomedical technologies
Investment size Investment size Investment size 45k - 6.7M ——— ———
Number of investments Number of investments Number of investments 10 - 50 ——— ——— 65
10. Eclass
Base: Russia
Focus Region: Russia, CIS, Europe, USA, China
Eclass is an online class giving their emphasis on complex and sophisticated disciplinary skills and understandings
Investment size
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Number of investments
——- TOP 15 RUSSIAN AI INFLUENCERS 67 Arkady Volozh
Arkady Volozh is a principal founder and largest individual shareholder of search engine Yandex, Russia’s Google. In 2016 Volozh co-founded Turkish food delivery outfit Getir and became investor and board member in Israeli firm, NeuroSteer, brain monitoring and neurofeed technology firm
Company Education / degree Position Yandex Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas Founder and CEO of Yandex
Alexander Dyakonov
Alexander Dyakonov is one of the best specialists in data science in Russia. For a long period of time he held the 1st place in Kaggle AI specialists rating. Currently Alexander is a professor at MSU.
Company Education / degree Position Moscow State University Doctor of Physics and Mathematics Professor
Dmitry Vetrov
Dmitry Vetrov is a head of Bayesian Methods research group. He believes that we’re moving towards The New Mathematics or the mathematics of big data age where completely new learning, inference, optimization and storage technologies will appear. The first steps (deep learning, tensor decomposition, stochastic optimization) has been made already but many more to be made in recent years. The creation of those new technologies is his mission.
Company Education / degree Position Higher School of Economics, Phd in Physics and Head of Bayesian Methods Yandex Mathematics department at HSE, Senior Researcher at Yandex 68 David Yang
David Yang is the founder of ABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies and services.
Company Education / degree Position Yandex Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas Founder and CEO of Yandex
Konstantin Vorontsov
Researcher, expert in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Predictive Analytics
Company Education / degree DSc in Position Theoretical Yandex, HSE, Professor at HSE, MSU, MIPT, Foundations of Computer deputy director of science at MSU, MIPT, Science Forecsys Forecsys
Dmitry Grishin
Dmitry Grishin is a Russian businessman, investor and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known as co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Mail.ru Group. Grishin also made significant contributions to Russia’s internet presence, Runet, in its early days. In 2012, Grishin invested $25 million to found the first-ever robotics investment company, Grishin Robotics, to focus exclusively on consumer robotics.
Company Education / degree Position Mail.Ru Group Graduate from Bauman State University Сo-founder, Chairman and CEO of Mail.ru Group 69
Andrey Gulin Arkady Volozh is a principal founder and largest individual shareholder of search engine Yandex, Russia’s Google. In 2016 Volozh co-founded Turkish food delivery outfit Getir and became investor and board member in Israeli firm, NeuroSteer, brain monitoring and neurofeed technology firm
Company Education / degree Position Yandex Moscow Engineering Physics Institute Search specialist
Herman Gref Herman Gref is a Russian statesman and top manager. He was the Minister of Economics and Trade of Russia from May 2000 to September 2007. He currently is the CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board of Sberbank.Herman Gref actively supports and promotes AI and ML technologies. He fis also a member of boards and supervisory boards of a number of companies, including Yandex Company Education / degree Position Sberbank PhD in economics CEO
Mikhail Burtsev
The field of scientific interests is connected with creating artificial cognitive systems
Company Education / degree Position MIPT PhD, Candidate of Head of the Laboratory of Physical and Neurointelligence and Neuromorphic Mathematical Sciences. Systems of the Kurchatov NBICS Center 70
Albert Efimov Albert Efimov is currently the most cited Russian expert in the field of robotics . Known for public speechesand work with all types of media. Permanent member of expert councils of the federal level that devoted to the issues of new production technologies
Company Education / degree Position Skolkovo Foundation PhD Chief of Skolkovo Robotics
Evgeny Burnaev
Evgeny’s research interests encompass the areas of regression based on Gaussian Processes, bootstrap, confidence sets and conformal predictors, volatility modeling and nonparametric estimation, statistical decisions and rapid detection of anomalies in complex multicomponent systems.
Company Education / degree Position Skoltech, MIPT, HSE, PhD in computer Science Researcher (IITP RAS) Yandex, RAS
Andrey Ivaschenko
Andrey Ivaschenko serves as the Chairman and Director of ChemRar, the Moscow-based pharmaceutical and biotechnology services company at Viriom Inc. Also, he is a leader at Neuronet working group.
Position Company Education / degree Co-founder and leader of Neuronet Doctor of technical sciences working group 71
Andrey Sebrant
Andrey Serbrant is a director of marketing services at Yandex. He is a big machine learning popularizator and speaker at many AI-related events
Company Education / degree Position PhD in Physics and Neuronet Mathematics Director of marketing services
Victor Lempitsky
Viktor is a computer vision expert and researcher. He is a head of several CV groups in Skoltech and Yandex, teacher in 3 universites and regular member of machine learning conferences.
Company Education / degree Position Skoltech, School of Data PhD in applied mathematics Researcher, head of computer Analysis, Yandex vision team
Ilya Muchnik
Ilya Muchnik is a head of “School of Data Analysis” and research supervisor of 17 doctors of sciences.
Company Education / degree Position School of Data Analysis Doctor of Sciences Research supervisor 72 TOP 15 RUSSIA AI JOURNALISTS
1. Denis Shiryaev 6. Pavel Kantyshev 11. Larisa Katysheva
vc.ru Vedomosti Radio Russia
2. Alexander Baulin 7. Evgeniy Morozov 12. Mikhail Romkin
Forbes The New York Times, The Economist, The Wall Street Naked Science Journal, Financial Times
3. Elizaveta Ivtushok 8. Alexey Paevsky 13. Andrey Serbrant
N+1 http://neuronovosti.ru Yandex (marketing director)
4. Open Data Science 9. tproger 14. Oleg Ovechkin
ODS blog Blog about AI on tproger.ru: Rusbase on habrahabr.ru https://tproger.ru/tag/ai/
5. NIkita LIkhachev 10. Elena Verevkina 15. Stanislav Mydry
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