Altair LLC

Altair LLC is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in early and growth stage startup companies across various sectors. The firm seeks out businesses with disruptive ideas and significant return potential, aiming to support promising teams and key players in the startup ecosystem. Altair's portfolio includes notable companies that have emerged from top incubators, highlighting its commitment to fostering innovation and entrepreneurship. Through its strategic investments, Altair LLC plays a vital role in nurturing the next generation of industry leaders.

Artem Bezrukov

Senior Associate

Dmitry E. Firskin

Managing Director

Igor Ryabenkiy

Managing Partner

Mikhail Zakharov

Senior Investment Associate

Past deals in Russia

Getfaster

Funding Round in 2021
OOO Getfaster, an online hypermarket, retails food, drinks, household chemicals, and home products. The company offers groceries, water, drinks, ready made meals, and baby food. It also offers stationery, including folders, writing accessories, office tools, coloring books; cosmetics and cleaning products, including hair care products, wet wipes, deodorant, razor, and cleaning liquid; kitchen crockery, including kitchenware, utensils, frying pans, teapot, cookware, drinking glasses, and cutlery; and pet supplies, including toys, food bowls, and animal food. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Moscow, Russia.

Cherry Labs

Series A in 2018
Cherry Labs Inc. is a company based in Cupertino, United States, specializing in home security solutions powered by artificial intelligence. Founded by experienced entrepreneurs with successful track records in technology, the company focuses on enhancing home safety through innovative products. Cherry Labs employs a diverse team of over 20 engineers, AI scientists, and product designers across locations in Cupertino, Berlin, Moscow, and Shenzhen. In addition to its home security camera, the company has developed a video analytics tool aimed at improving efficiency and safety in various environments. This platform utilizes computer vision to automatically detect and analyze human behaviors in video streams, helping organizations to gain valuable insights into work processes, identify safety hazards, and enhance operational efficiency.

Smartcat

Series A in 2018
Smartcat Platform Inc. offers a comprehensive platform designed to connect linguists, companies, and agencies, facilitating the on-demand translation of diverse content into multiple languages. Established in 2016 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with additional operations in Moscow, Russia, and Limassol, Cyprus, Smartcat serves various sectors, including translation companies, businesses, game localization services, freelancers, and educational institutions. The platform integrates a collaborative workflow solution with a network of translation professionals, enhancing efficiency in the translation process and promoting satisfaction among both customers and vendors. By leveraging technology, Smartcat aims to optimize the language industry and streamline translation delivery.

Prod.Center

Seed Round in 2018
Prod.Center is a Russian trading platform for the sale and purchase of products that provides the ability to buy wholesale meat, fish, vegetables, fruits, cereals, canned goods, convenience foods, seafood, offal, etc.

Cherry Labs

Venture Round in 2017
Cherry Labs Inc. is a company based in Cupertino, United States, specializing in home security solutions powered by artificial intelligence. Founded by experienced entrepreneurs with successful track records in technology, the company focuses on enhancing home safety through innovative products. Cherry Labs employs a diverse team of over 20 engineers, AI scientists, and product designers across locations in Cupertino, Berlin, Moscow, and Shenzhen. In addition to its home security camera, the company has developed a video analytics tool aimed at improving efficiency and safety in various environments. This platform utilizes computer vision to automatically detect and analyze human behaviors in video streams, helping organizations to gain valuable insights into work processes, identify safety hazards, and enhance operational efficiency.

REGA

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
REGA Risk Sharing develops decentralized crowdsurance platform based on smart contracts, scoring systems, and artificial intelligence technologies. It develops insurtech platform on blockchain, that helps to create and deploy all types of crowdsurance products for end users. It offers technologies, such as Facial scoring, Application scoring, Underwriting, REGA pools, REGA tokens, and Voting. The company offers its platform under the brand name REGA. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Moscow, Russia.

Shelly

Venture Round in 2017
Shelly inc provides manicure, depilation, correction, and coloring of eyebrows services with home delivery. The company also develops an application and provides its beauty salon. Shelly inc was founded in 2015 and is based in Moscow, Russia.

Smartcat

Seed Round in 2017
Smartcat Platform Inc. offers a comprehensive platform designed to connect linguists, companies, and agencies, facilitating the on-demand translation of diverse content into multiple languages. Established in 2016 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with additional operations in Moscow, Russia, and Limassol, Cyprus, Smartcat serves various sectors, including translation companies, businesses, game localization services, freelancers, and educational institutions. The platform integrates a collaborative workflow solution with a network of translation professionals, enhancing efficiency in the translation process and promoting satisfaction among both customers and vendors. By leveraging technology, Smartcat aims to optimize the language industry and streamline translation delivery.

Zavento

Seed Round in 2016
Zavento, based in Moscow, Russia, operates an event booking platform that was established in 2015. The company specializes in facilitating the arrangement and management of events, providing users with a streamlined way to book venues and services for various occasions.

Cherry Labs

Seed Round in 2016
Cherry Labs Inc. is a company based in Cupertino, United States, specializing in home security solutions powered by artificial intelligence. Founded by experienced entrepreneurs with successful track records in technology, the company focuses on enhancing home safety through innovative products. Cherry Labs employs a diverse team of over 20 engineers, AI scientists, and product designers across locations in Cupertino, Berlin, Moscow, and Shenzhen. In addition to its home security camera, the company has developed a video analytics tool aimed at improving efficiency and safety in various environments. This platform utilizes computer vision to automatically detect and analyze human behaviors in video streams, helping organizations to gain valuable insights into work processes, identify safety hazards, and enhance operational efficiency.

Getintent

Seed Round in 2015
GetIntent USA Inc is an advertising technology company founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Moscow. The company specializes in providing a customizable AI-powered programmatic suite designed for agencies, publishers, broadcasters, and content owners. Its solutions enable clients to effectively manage their advertising campaigns and enhance programmatic revenue through a proprietary technology stack and AI-driven real-time optimization. GetIntent operates as a subsidiary of JSC Gazprom-media Holding.

GBooking

Seed Round in 2015
GBooking Ltd. is a company that specializes in designing and delivering online booking and appointment scheduling systems tailored to various industries, including healthcare, automotive, food, sports and fitness, legal services, government, education, and beauty care. Founded in 2010 and based in Providence, Rhode Island, the company aims to enhance the efficiency of buyer-seller relationships by streamlining the process of selecting and comparing services. The founder, Alexander Naslednikova, initially focused on market optimization services and developed methods to improve enterprise profitability through optimization algorithms. GBooking’s mission revolves around maximizing convenience and time savings for both providers and customers while refining its customer-centric strategy.

CarPrice

Seed Round in 2014
CarPrice is an online platform based in Russia that specializes in the auction of second-hand cars. It offers sellers instant online valuations and connects them with a network of over 4,000 dealers who participate in competitive bidding. The auction process typically lasts around 30 minutes, allowing dealers to determine the best price for vehicles. CarPrice has rapidly established itself as a leading player in the Russian used car market, ranking among the top three sellers within its first year of operation. The company operates from more than 20 locations, including major cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg. Despite a challenging economic environment that saw a significant decline in new car sales, CarPrice has continued to grow, aiming to increase its monthly auction volume from 4,000 to 10,000. The platform's services not only streamline the selling process but also help buyers access fair market prices for used vehicles.

Mersibo

Seed Round in 2014
Mersibo is focused on the development of educational games for children. It is focused on the child’s development of speech, memory, attention, reading, and numeracy. Mersibo offers Saving Princess, Rags in Order, Trendy Python, Marsh Wedding, and Wolf teaches letters. Mersibo was founded by Vitally Bardalim in 2013.

FlexyMind

Series A in 2014
FlexyMind LLC offers educational gaming applications for mobile devices. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in St. Petersburg, Russia.

BlackCat

Seed Round in 2014
BlackCat, a service for managing brand pages in several social networks from a single window. BlackCat provides the possibility of multi-user work: the team of content managers can interact with each other within the same service, without going beyond it. Also, the BC team is working to create a content premoderation on the part of the customer / brand or department head. The service is currently working with Facebook, Twitter, Vkontakte. And in the near future it is planned to add LinkedIn and Instagram.

Alytics

Seed Round in 2014
Alytics is the system which optimize context advertisement traffic and increase sales with constant budget. Alytics platform supports key pay TV: Google AdWords, Yandex Direct and Yandex Market. In Alytics provides several modules: Module analytics, bid management module and the module generation product ads. More details in the presentation of "System Overview" or Alytics wiki. Alytics platform helps to optimize the budget for contextual advertising to boost sales with content and automate routine work to save time.

Invisible

Seed Round in 2013
Invisible is an online retailer based in Moscow, Russia, specializing in selecting and delivering wine for its customers. The service aims to simplify the wine purchasing experience by curating choices tailored to individual preferences, making it convenient for consumers to access a diverse range of wines. Through its platform, Invisible provides a personalized service that caters to various tastes and occasions, enhancing the overall wine-buying experience for its clients.

Mixupload

Pre Seed Round in 2013
Mixupload is the service for DJs and music lovers. It is the most popular in eastern Europe and Northern Asia, with ambitious plans of world expansion.

POSFinance

Seed Round in 2013
POSFinance is an opportunity to increase the sales. It is integrated with Russian and foreign banks. The company allows its users to send applications for credit at the same time to all the banks that are connected to the system. The system can be used with any device and it supports iPhones, iPads, smartphones on Android and other devices with Internet access. The features of the system are personal area, statistics, messaging, employee management, and control points. POSFinance is a Russia-based company that was founded in 2013 by Sergey Antonov.

Qwenty

Seed Round in 2013
Qwenty, an app from Dmitry Trachuk Within the app, as seen in screenshots on the company’s site, users will be able to filter positions by position, scheduled-hours, location, and wage. As Trachuk stated in an interview from earlier this year, they are mainly interested in offering vacancies for restaurants, retail, mobile-telephone shops, entry-level positions at offices, banks, and automobile services. He goes on to say that the service will be monetized by requiring the user to select a subscription plan after the initial month-long trial period.

Checkout.ru

Seed Round in 2013
Checkout.ru is a technology-based logistics services company. It provides information technology systems for online stores to order checkout and delivery options. They automate the ordering process for buyers and saves the trouble of paper work and contracts. The company offers a full range of order fulfillment services such as processing, customer counselling, reception and storage of goods; and packaging and distribution. Additionally, they provide quick money, a service that reduce the costs of current assets exclude cash gap and achieve predictability in repayment of funds to the account; and Insurance against nevykupa. Checkout.ru was founded by German Ivkin in 2013 and is headquartered in Moscow, Russia.

Getintent

Seed Round in 2013
GetIntent USA Inc is an advertising technology company founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Moscow. The company specializes in providing a customizable AI-powered programmatic suite designed for agencies, publishers, broadcasters, and content owners. Its solutions enable clients to effectively manage their advertising campaigns and enhance programmatic revenue through a proprietary technology stack and AI-driven real-time optimization. GetIntent operates as a subsidiary of JSC Gazprom-media Holding.

GOODWIN

Seed Round in 2013
Goodwin is an Instant shopping mobile platfrom. Easy start for small and middle-size internet shops on the mobile commerce market. Upload your goods and start selling. Snap'n'Shop Visual shopping for everyone. Make a photo of something and buy it!

Opiner

Seed Round in 2013
Opiner is a company based in Moscow, Russia, that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence engine designed to aggregate and structure consumer reviews from various online sources. By leveraging advanced technology, Opiner collects and organizes public opinions, facilitating easier access to insights for businesses and consumers alike. This focus on the systematic collection and analysis of user-generated content positions Opiner as a significant player in the realm of consumer feedback aggregation.

GdeSlon

Seed Round in 2013
GdeSlon.ru is a Russia-based affiliate marketing network that specializes in partner marketing within the e-commerce sector. The company collaborates with a diverse range of advertisers from Russia, the USA, and Europe, focusing on both e-commerce and lead-based offers, which include activities such as registrations and surveys. GdeSlon.ru primarily targets Russian and Ukrainian traffic through its network of affiliates, facilitating connections between advertisers and potential customers in these regions.

iBinom

Seed Round in 2013
iBinom Inc. offers a cloud-based solution for genomic data analysis. It provides iBinom, a SaaS platform that provides genome interpretation solution for the diagnostics of Mendelian diseases. The company’s solution also enables revealing a single mutation across various nucleotides, as well as clinical interpretation of human genome and exome data. Its platform is used by medical professionals in the Russian Federation and internationally. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Moscow, Russian Federation.

GBooking

Seed Round in 2013
GBooking Ltd. is a company that specializes in designing and delivering online booking and appointment scheduling systems tailored to various industries, including healthcare, automotive, food, sports and fitness, legal services, government, education, and beauty care. Founded in 2010 and based in Providence, Rhode Island, the company aims to enhance the efficiency of buyer-seller relationships by streamlining the process of selecting and comparing services. The founder, Alexander Naslednikova, initially focused on market optimization services and developed methods to improve enterprise profitability through optimization algorithms. GBooking’s mission revolves around maximizing convenience and time savings for both providers and customers while refining its customer-centric strategy.

Showrooms

Series A in 2013
Showrooms is an online retailer based in Moscow, established in 2012 by Nikolay Lavrentiev. The platform specializes in a diverse range of clothing and cosmetics for women, men, and children. The women's collection includes footwear, clothing, accessories, and cosmetics, while the men's line features similar offerings. For children, Showrooms provides footwear, clothing, toys, and gifts. The platform aims to enhance customer engagement by allowing users to accumulate points on purchases, which can be redeemed for discounts on their favorite brands. This model not only benefits customers by providing access to curated fashion collections at lower prices but also increases profitability for sellers by attracting a larger audience.

Proberry

Seed Round in 2013
Proberry is a Moscow-based company founded in 2008 that operates a website offering a wide range of free product samples and services. The platform connects buyers with various goods, including perfumes and medical services, while providing sellers and manufacturers an opportunity to expand their market reach without incurring significant costs associated with developing dealer and retail networks. By facilitating this connection, Proberry helps consumers discover new products and services while enabling businesses to promote their offerings effectively.

Appiny

Seed Round in 2013
Appiny Inc. provides operating systems, web services, and online shop for developers. Its products include OSX and iOS. The company is based in the Russian Federation.

Cashsquare

Angel Round in 2013
What is Cashsquare? Cashsquare is an exciting new location-based gaming app that brings the most loved board-game features into the real world on your mobile phone and lets you experience an entirely new way of entertainment. Cashsquare allows you to buy a tremendous variety of real venues from foursquare and earn rent as people check in at your venues in real-time! Cashsquare. Own the places you love.

HiConversion.ru

Seed Round in 2013
We automate advertising in the social. networks. try to be better.Help save money on advertising, which may be invested in improving the product our customers. We make automation system targeted advertising. Mostly for myself, but share with all :) When working for yourself, then combine our automation tool with internal methodology of work. External users give tools and freedom :) wish to tell all that we can.

Onlinebillage

Seed Round in 2013
Onlinebillage is an online ticket-booking platform designed to offer commercial flight bookings.

Uplift.io

Seed Round in 2013
Upliftme is Game service for brain training, its memory, attentiveness, speed, flexibility, computing abilities.

SocialMart

Seed Round in 2013
SocialMart owns and operates an online contextual advertising platform. It offers SocialMart product widgets, an online tool that allows users to give and receive advice on what and where to buy. It serves online media, site owners, advertisers, and bloggers. SocialMart was formerly known as Social Market. SocialMart was founded in 2012 and is based in Moscow, Russia.

iVengo

Seed Round in 2013
iVengo is a mobile advertising platform based in Moscow, providing solutions for global advertising agencies and large advertisers, particularly within the Russian Federation. The company offers tools that enable the delivery of advertisements in mobile applications, focusing on high-quality traffic and custom solutions that enhance overall advertising campaigns. iVengo's product line features an intelligent full-screen banner designed for mass audiences, aiming to facilitate the purchasing of mobile advertising for advertisers and online agencies. Additionally, the platform attracts successful developers and application owners looking to monetize their products, offering automatic traffic payments for high-demand applications. With a goal to secure a significant share of the mobile advertising market and expand internationally, iVengo has demonstrated effectiveness in past campaigns, achieving a click-through rate of 17%. The company's strategy includes integrating its software development kit (SDK) with developers under exclusive terms to foster collaboration and growth within the advertising ecosystem.

MSU Business Incubator

Seed Round in 2013
The MSU Business Incubator provides a structured environment for aspiring entrepreneurs to develop their ideas into viable businesses. With 29 resident companies and over 1,000 applications processed, the incubator supports young innovators through various stages, including invention, design, presentation, and realization. In its five-month program, teams can refine their concepts and prototypes into market-ready products while minimizing common pitfalls. The incubator has successfully generated a turnover exceeding 100 million rubles for its resident companies and graduates, attracting investments totaling over 500 million rubles. The overall market valuation of these companies has surpassed 1 billion rubles, illustrating the incubator's significant impact on fostering entrepreneurship and innovation.

Alytics

Seed Round in 2013
Alytics is the system which optimize context advertisement traffic and increase sales with constant budget. Alytics platform supports key pay TV: Google AdWords, Yandex Direct and Yandex Market. In Alytics provides several modules: Module analytics, bid management module and the module generation product ads. More details in the presentation of "System Overview" or Alytics wiki. Alytics platform helps to optimize the budget for contextual advertising to boost sales with content and automate routine work to save time.

Alloka

Seed Round in 2013
Alloka is a technology company based in Moscow, Russia, that specializes in developing innovative solutions for customer interaction and analytics. The company offers a suite of products designed to enhance how businesses manage customer inquiries and track engagement. Alloka Media focuses on live calls software and a cloud platform that streamlines the conversion of traffic calls, while the Alloka Product Family includes tools such as Alloka Reteller, which consolidates all communication channels into a collaborative workspace. Additionally, Alloka Analytics provides marketers with insights into the effectiveness of their campaigns by tracking how online interactions convert into phone calls and inquiries. Other offerings include Alloka Calldrone, which automates customer research through polls, and Alloka Prospecthero, a platform that captures and enriches prospect data from various touchpoints. Overall, Alloka aims to improve business efficiency and customer engagement through its comprehensive analytics and communication tools.

Paybyway

Seed Round in 2013
Paybyway is an online payment service provider focused on providing electronic payment solutions for its users. The company’s solutions are based on web and mobile technologies to offer the payment process on any device. Its payment process is optimized for security and simplicity to optimize the conversion in the purchase process, and its products have been certified with PCI DSS information security certification of credit card industry. Paybyway also offers tailored online payment solutions for e-commerce and other e-services that need way to accept payments or are complex multi-merchant setups. It was founded in 2012 and is based in Moscow, Russia.

Product Test

Seed Round in 2012
Product Test is a Russian website created for testing and evaluation of consumer goods. It selects professionals and technologists for each test category of the platform. Its staff reviews all the existing methods of testing this commodity group and determines the method of testing for Product Test. After the obligatory certification of the proposed methods by independent professionals of Product Test, the test specimens are purchased in retail stores. Founded by Almaz Ayupov, Wyatt Ford, and Eugene Bychkov, Product Test is based in Moscow, Russia.

profi.ru

Series A in 2012
profi.ru operates an online marketplace that allows users to find freelancers and professionals in categories such as tutors, doctors, beauty masters, artists and musicians, handymen, personal trainers, and driving instructors. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Moscow, Russia.

Printio.ru

Series A in 2012
Printio.ru is an interactive online store for self-designed garments and stationery, as well as a photo-realistic rendering service for user-created products. Printio.ru enables consumers and businesses to create personalized items such as t-shirts, mugs, business cards, cakes, phone cases, and more. The company was co-founded by Juriy Zaytsev in Russia.

Groulion

Seed Round in 2012
Groulion

GFRANQ

Seed Round in 2012
GFRANQ is a photo editing service with social features. The service is available via web, mobile, Android and iOS applications. It provides amature and professional users with simple and fast tools for photo editing of high quality: 48 custom designed and constantly updated filters and photo collages on all platforms. GFRANQ makes it possible to upload, edit, download and share photos of big sizes and any shapes. Also, GFRANQ provides a number of social features: photo sharing to Facebook, Twitter, Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki, Tumblr, Flickr, likes, following, comments, news, hashtags, geotags, photo streams, TOP, photo-map, Russian creative blog about photography and people. About 2M users have registered on gfranq.com by summer, 2013. GFRANQ is monetized via freemium, ads, and merchandising.

Foodik

Seed Round in 2011
Foodik is a Moscow-based company that specializes in online restaurant ordering and food delivery services. Founded in 2009 by Alex Alpern and Aleksandr Shamis, the company partners with a variety of restaurants, including popular chains like Mu-Mu, Papa Johns, Yaposha, Maki-Maki, and Fresita, to provide customers with a diverse selection of dining options. Foodik's operations have expanded through a merger with Delivery Hero Group, enhancing its capabilities in the food delivery sector.

UGIG

Seed Round in 2011
UGIG

Eruditor Group

Seed Round in 2010
Eruditor Group owns and operates online search portals connecting customers with professional service providers for private tutors, sports coaches, beauty specialists, driving instructors, artists, musicians, photographers, doctors and medical professionals, repair technicians and building contractors. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Moscow, Russia.

Lingualeo

Seed Round in 2010
Lingualeo.com is an online service for learning and practicing English, used by 17 million people around the world! They solve the main problem of foreign language learners - they support motivation. Their users study English using authentic materials in English (movies, music, books), undergo exciting training sessions to consolidate vocabulary, master courses for their goals (for work, communication, travel) , perform tasks and monitor the satiety of the Leo character. Lingualeo is a multi-platform service. It is available on the web platform and in the form of free mobile applications for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and browser extensions .