Best Artificial Intelligence Companies in Russia
The 55 best Artificial Intelligence companies in Russia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Retail Rocket.
Tracking the best Artificial Intelligence companies in Russia by disclosed equity funding puts a sharp number on a market that's easy to overstate: 55 companies, $28M total disclosed, zero unicorns. Retail Rocket accounts for $24M of that alone, which means the remaining 54 tracked firms share roughly $4M between them. Botkin.AI's $4M raise is the only other figure that registers. So the capital pool is thin, concentrated, and almost entirely driven by two names. That's the honest picture, and it matters before you read anything else.
What makes this quarter interesting is the coverage momentum. Hot themes right now are AI hardware, AI research, AI frameworks, and threat intelligence sharing, and I'd expect those to pull more capital toward the infrastructure layer in the near term. Data privacy regulation continues to shape what's buildable and what's not. Globally, the AI market sits at roughly $235.3B in 2024 and is forecast to reach $1,811.8B by 2030, a 34.3% CAGR, driven by deep learning advances and the sheer growth of data-dependent systems. AI democratization is accelerating that curve internationally, and vertical applications are multiplying fast, from AI in healthcare deployment to spare-parts pricing optimization. Russia's funded cohort hasn't matched that breadth yet, but the 55-company count signals the ecosystem is at least being built.
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$81.0b in tracked funding; 96% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Artificial Intelligence companies in Russia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Employees | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Web popularity | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joom Web and mobile-based marketplace for products across multiple categories | — | 415 | Pavel Glushkov Co-Founder & Developer | 2016 | Cart FunctionalitySentryApple iCloud Mail+20 | Top 5k | — |
| 2 | Retail Rocket Provider of a platform for customer retention and marketing automation | $24M | 109 | — | 2013 | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | Top 50M | — |
| 3 | Andata Andata offers consulting, implementation, support and customization services of different solutions from… | — | 40 | — | 2008 | TildaGoogle Font APIYandex.Metrika+11 | Top 5M | — |
| 4 | Nanosemantics Provider of conversational solution for businesses | — | 36 | Stanislav Ashmanov CEO & President | 2005 | TypeScriptGraphQLTailwind CSS+6 | Top 10M | — |
| 5 | Oz Forensics Platform for preventing biometric and deepfake identity fraud | — | 35 | Svetlana Efimova Founder & CEO | 2017 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+29 | Top 5M | — |
| 6 | Open Source Computer Vision Library Open source library for computer vision programming functions | — | 29 | — | 1999 | TeachableWordPressMySQL+32 | Top 500k | — |
| 7 | Botkin.AI Provider of AI-based decision support solution for healthcare professionals | $4M | 28 | Sergey Sorokin Founder & CEO | 2015 | TildaGoogle Font APIDDoS-Guard+1 | Top 50M | — |
| 8 | RoadAR Provider of AR app for driving assistance and video recording | — | 26 | Evgeniy Nikolskiy Founder | 2013 | — | — | — |
Top 4 Artificial Intelligence companies in Russia
#1
Series A · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2013 · 109 employees$24.4Mraised▾
Provider of a platform for customer retention and marketing automation. The platform offers tools for customer segmentation, personalization, and campaign management across multiple channels. It includes modules for data warehousing, AI-driven personalization, and customer intelligence. The platform aims to facilitate strategic customer database marketing and boost customer lifetime value.
- Jul 2022Series A$24M
- Oct 2013Seed$450K
#2
Series B · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2015 · 28 employees$3.8Mraised▾
Botkin offers AI-based decision support solution for healthcare professionals. The solution offered by the company detects abnormalities in MRI and CT Scan reports for radiologists and detects the length and exact location of tumor.
- Dec 2020Series B$2.1M
- Jun 2019Seed$1.5M
- Aug 2017Seed$183.1K
#3
Seed · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2015$211.8Kraised▾
Tardis provides AI-based fitting solutions for fashion retailers. The company creates 3D scanning system with its proprietary cloud-based technology platform that uses computer vision and augmented reality techniques to measure the size of shoppers.
- Feb 2018Seed$211.8K
#4
Seed · Russia · founded 2015—raised▾
Developer of intelligent vision systems based on neural networks. Its neuromorphic processors help in the detection and recognition of objects in video or images, identification of people and analysis of their actions, fixing violations of official duties by employees, and controlling the visual quality of products including high-speed conveyors. It applies to logistics, manufacturing, retail, and personnel control.
- Jun 2022Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
How research on Artificial Intelligence is moving in Russia
A read on the academic research around Artificial Intelligence — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 288 Russia-affiliated papers.
- Institute of Cytology13
- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology10
- National Research University Higher School of Economics10
- National University of Science and Technology9
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology8
- Artificial neural network1→6
- Inference1→5
- Feature (linguistics)1→4
- Artificial neural network10
- Visualization9
- Key (lock)8
- Feature (linguistics)7
- Relevance (law)7
- Generative grammar5
- Context (archaeology)5
- Higher education4
- Corporate governance3
- Predictive analytics3
Where artificial intelligence is researched across Russia
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
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