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Best Cybersecurity Companies in Russia

The 83 best Cybersecurity companies in Russia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: N-Tech Labs.

83companies tracked
$23.8Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
8have raised
Sources & further reading
  • Cybersecurity market grows 16% despite deteriorating economic conditio
  • Cybersecurity market researchers forecast significant growth
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · CYBERSECURITY × RUSSIA

Our analysis of 174 Cybersecurity companies

$16.2b in tracked funding; 96% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.

174companies analysed
96%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
20unicorns
2018median founding year

Ranked: Best Cybersecurity companies in Russia

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackRecent signals
1N-Tech Labs
Provider of an AI platform for facial recognition
$16M69 mo agoPublic—2015WordPressMySQLPHP+22—
2Webinar
Virtual events and webinar solutions
$7M141 mo agoAcquiredAlex Alpern
Founder & CEO
2008SentryAtlassian StatuspageMUI+8—
3KeyCAPTCHA
Captcha plugin for content management systems
$25K171 mo agoFunding RaisedNikolay Prays
Co-Founder
2010——
4Friday
Chat-based HR automation platform for remote teams
—60 mo agoSeedIgor Bakutin
Founder
2020——
5Kaspersky
-
—65 mo agoFunding RaisedVadim Bogdanov
Co-Founder
1997WordPressMySQLRedis+34—
6InfoWatch
Data Leak Prevention Technologies
—110 mo agoSeed—2003toastrjQuerycore-js+7—
7Phishman
Anti phishing solution for internet frauds
—119 mo agoFunding RaisedNikolay Agrinsky
Founder & CEO
1999Tildacore-jsjQuery+8—
8Clevapi
Provider of object recognition for in-image advertising solutions
—128 mo agoDeadpooledTimur Luguev
CEO
2015——

Top 10 Cybersecurity companies in Russia

#1
Public · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2015 · 93 employees
$16.5Mraised
▾

N-Tech Labs provides an AI platform for facial recognition. Offers FindFace Security that provides intelligent video analytics employing facial recognition technology, and FindFace SDK, that leverages facial recognition on neural networks & provides detection, extraction of biometric template, & verification solutions. Also features face identification, and age, gender or emotion identification solutions.

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2020Series B$15M
  • May 2017Seed$1.5M
Investors
Impulse VC, Russian Direct Investment Fund, Mubadala, Day One Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementDdos-GuardGoogle Tag ManagerHttp/3
#2
Acquired · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2008 · 114 employees
$7.3Mraised
▾

Webinar is a corporate learning solution provider. Used by enterprises & individuals for online meetings, marketing, and training. Claims to be based on HTML5 and WebRTC technology. Prominent clients include Lenovo, Bittner Pharma, and others.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 5k LinkedIn followers — 66.8% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2014Series A$7.3M
Founders & team
Alex AlpernFounder & CEO
Investors
VTB Capital, Flint Capital, EBRD, Intel Capital
Tech stack
Atlassian StatuspageCarrot QuestCloudflareCore-JsExpressHsts
#3
Funding Raised · Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast · founded 2010
$25Kraised
▾

KeyCaptcha is a spam filter which uses interactive captcha in form of a puzzle with an inbuilt monetization mechanism. It provides plugin for 19 major content management systems namely concrete5, phpBB, Simple machines forum, MediaWiki and others.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers — 13.0% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2012Grant (prize money)$25K
Founders & team
Nikolay PraysCo-FounderMax VladykinCo-FounderIgor NikiforovCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
IIDF
#4
Seed · London, England · founded 2020 · 16 employees
—raised
▾

Chat-based HR automation platform for remote teams. The platform offers features such as employee communication & onboarding. support for training courses & HiPo programs, and skill development courses.

Funding rounds
  • 2021Seed—
Founders & team
Igor BakutinFounder
Investors
Startup Wise Guys, Ingria-Startup
#5
Funding Raised · Moscow, Moscow · founded 1997 · 3795 employees
—raised
▾

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Founders & team
Vadim BogdanovCo-FounderAlexey MonderikCo-FounderNatalya KasperskyCo-Founder
Investors
Europa
Tech stack
1C-BitrixAddshoppersAdformAdmitadAlgoliaAll In One Seo
#6
Seed · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2003 · 300 employees
—raised
▾

InfoWatch is a Group of companies, which includes several software developers in the IT security area. Their goal is to protect enterprises from various risks and threats. The Group includes InfoWatch (Data Leak Prevention technologies), EgoSecure GmbH (Protection for working space incl. transparent encryption in cloud and mobile management), Cezurity (technology for targeted attacks detection), Kribrum (Social media monitoring), Appercut Ltd. (automatic analysis of source code for vulnarabilities). InfoWatch Traffic Monitor Enterprise is a comprehensive solution for data protection, loss prevention and monitoring the transmission of sensitive information outside a company, as well as for the protection of the company from internal threats.

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2017Seed—
Investors
Russian Direct Investment Fund
Tech stack
AosCore-JsDdos-GuardDrupalGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Tag Manager
#7
Funding Raised · Moscow, Moscow · founded 1999
—raised
▾

PhishMan provides phishing protection systems to protect users from internet frauds. Products include PHISHMAN for user management services and solutions and RISKMAN an information security and business continuity management system. PHISHMAN sends emails with traps and evaluates user's actions on the letters.

Founders & team
Nikolay AgrinskyFounder & CEO
Investors
Softline Venture Partners, Moscow Seed Fund
Tech stack
Core-JsDdos-GuardFacebook PixelGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font ApiGoogle Tag Manager
#8
Deadpooled · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2015
—raised
▾

Provider of object recognition for in-image advertising solutions. It provides an image recognition solution for display advertising to make ads more relevant and interactive. It allows using native advertising concepts by understanding the optimal parts of the visual content for relevant and engaging ad placements. Its image recognition is based on deep learning techniques.

Funding rounds
  • Oct 2015Seed—
Founders & team
Timur LuguevCEO
Investors
Startup Sauna, Hacker Unit
#9
Acqui-Hired · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2008
—raised
▾

SiteSecure provides website monitoring and security solution. Solution are focused at the security of the content management system (CMS). Features include virus checks, banwidth theft detection, backlisting checks and tampering attempt detection. Pricing starts at $7/month for monitoring only and $20/month for monitoring and security. Claims to have over 1600 customers. Project is developed with the support of TexDrive accelerator and incubator of MSU.

Funding rounds
  • 2013Seed—
Founders & team
Oleg MikhalskyCo-FounderVlad AndersenCo-Founder
Investors
IIDF, Genezis Technology Capital, INVESTORO
#10
Series A · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2006 · 6 employees
—raised
▾

SafenSoft develops security solutions for home and business computer users and for ATMs, kiosks, POS systems and other unattended devices. Product SysWatch SafenSoft is anti-virus solution for desktops to prevent malicious software. Its solutions are built around technology core that combines adaptive profiling, sandboxing, and a behavior-based rules engine to deliver dynamic, proactive application integrity. Member of the PCI Security Council and serves on the Security Best Practices committee of the ATMIA. Formely known as Safe'N'Sec and was part of Starforce where it developed its firest anti-virus solution.

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2009Series A—
Founders & team
Michael KalinichenkoFounder
Investors
Troika Dialog

Funding & investor landscape

$23.8Mtotal disclosed funding
3companies funded
4disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
IIDF5 rounds
Russian Direct Investment Fund2 rounds
Day One Ventures1 rounds
Dot Edu Ventures1 rounds
EBRD1 rounds
Europa1 rounds
Flint Capital1 rounds
GenerationS1 rounds
Genezis Technology Capital1 rounds
Hacker Unit1 rounds

Notable founders

Alex Alpern
Founder & CEO · Webinar
Nikolay Prays
Co-Founder · KeyCAPTCHA
Max Vladykin
Co-Founder · KeyCAPTCHA
Igor Bakutin
Founder · Friday
Vadim Bogdanov
Co-Founder · Kaspersky
Alexey Monderik
Co-Founder · Kaspersky
Nikolay Agrinsky
Founder & CEO · Phishman
Timur Luguev
CEO · Clevapi
Oleg Mikhalsky
Co-Founder · SiteSecure
Vlad Andersen
Co-Founder · SiteSecure
Michael Kalinichenko
Founder · Safe'n'Soft
Prism market signals · Russia · country-scoped Prism corpus, 2,027,704 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Cybersecurity coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH SIGNALS · Russia

How research on Cybersecurity is moving in Russia

A read on the academic research around Cybersecurity — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 336 Russia-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
201420202026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 9% → 31% across 2014–2026.
top research entities
  • Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University33
  • ITMO University21
  • St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation17
  • Moscow Engineering Physics Institute12
  • Orenburg State University11
leading researchers
Igor Kotenko · Irina Bolodurina · Elena Doynikova · Nаtalia Miloslavskaya · Denis Parfenov · Maxim Kalinin · Sergey V. Morzhov · Oleg Makarevich
▲ Breakthroughs65 · 19%
▲ 19%→22% share
▲1.2× share momentum0 median citations62% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (19%→22% of field), led by Intrusion detection system.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Intrusion detection system2→16
  • Network security5→9
  • Scalability1→4
Newly emergingArtificial neural network 0→9
Landmark Proof-of-Reputation: An Alternative Consensus Mechanism for Blockchain Systems · 19 cites
◆ Advancements169 · 50%
▲ 49%→50% share
▲1.0× share momentum1 median citations53% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are rising (49%→50% of field), led by Network security.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Network security14→29
  • Artificial neural network1→13
  • Intrusion detection system8→19
  • Denial-of-service attack3→9
  • Key (lock)1→7
Newly emergingAnomaly detection 0→10 · Node (physics) 0→8 · Cluster analysis 0→5
Landmark Security intrusion detection using quantum machine learning techniques · 84 cites
▼ Concerns48 · 14%
13%→13% share
▲1.0× share momentum1 median citations50% since 2021mostly methods-led
Concerns are cooling (13%→13% of field), led by Computer security.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Computer security6→10
  • Network security6→10
Newly emergingIntrusion detection system 0→8
Landmark Opportunities and Challenges of Software-Defined Mobile Networks in Network Security · 86 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Russia

Where cybersecurity 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.

Saint Petersburg45 · +0.48
Hot · Network securityAdvancing · SoftwareOpportunity · Honeypot
St Petersburg22 · +0.48
Hot · Intrusion detection systemAdvancing · Data miningOpportunity · Artificial neural networkConcern · Computer security
Moscow20 · +0.39
Hot · Network securityAdvancing · Anomaly detectionOpportunity · Intrusion detection system
Rostov-on-Don13 · +0.13
Hot · Information securityOpportunity · Key (lock)Concern · Network security
Yekaterinburg11 · +0.43
Hot · Computer network
Novosibirsk6 · +0.30
Opportunity · Blockchain
Nizhny Novgorod5 · +0.36
Opportunity · Information security

Common questions

How many Cybersecurity companies are there in Russia?
Radar tracks 83 indexable Cybersecurity companies headquartered in Russia that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Cybersecurity companies in Russia?
The Cybersecurity companies in Russia on this list have raised a combined $23.8M in disclosed equity funding across 3 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Cybersecurity company in Russia?
N-Tech Labs is the highest-funded Cybersecurity company in Russia, with $16.5M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Cybersecurity companies in Russia are funded?
3 of the 83 Cybersecurity companies in Russia on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Cybersecurity unicorns are there in Russia?
None of the Cybersecurity companies in Russia on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Russia Cybersecurity companies?
The most active investors in Russia Cybersecurity companies on this list include IIDF, Russian Direct Investment Fund, Day One Ventures, Dot Edu Ventures, EBRD.
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