Best Internet First Media Companies in Moscow, Russia
The 40 best Internet First Media companies in Moscow, Russia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Rambler&Co.
Ranked: Best Internet First Media companies in Moscow
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rambler&Co Provider of youth football training and development programs | $167M | 84 mo ago | Series C | Alexander Mamut Co-Founder | 1994 | Node.jsVue.jsNginx+9 | — |
| 2 | Bookmaker Rating Developer of an online publication about sports betting | $10M | 159 mo ago | Series B | Paruyr Shahbazyan Founder | 2011 | Cart FunctionalityNode.jsVarnish+12 | — |
| 3 | Surfingbird Aggregator and recommendation platform for news, photos, video | $5M | 150 mo ago | Series B | Sergey Shalayev Co-Founder | 2011 | Amazon Web ServicesNginxAmazon SES | — |
| 4 | Frolik Provides online content for children and allows parents to track their activity. | $2M | 158 mo ago | Deadpooled | Stanislav Borisov CEO | 2012 | — | — |
| 5 | iFamous.Me Community driven virtual magazine | $1M | 150 mo ago | Seed | Gigi Janelidze CEO | 2010 | — | — |
| 6 | Riot Pixels Onlin content platform | — | 142 mo ago | Seed | Andrey Shevchenko Co-Founder & CEO | 2012 | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | — |
| 7 | Pandorama Content discovery engine | — | 171 mo ago | Deadpooled | Farit Khusnoyarov Co-Founder | 2012 | — | — |
| 8 | Kanobu Russia-based media company providing gaming and entertainment contents | — | 212 mo ago | Acquired | Gadji Makhtiev Founder | 2007 | SentryNode.jsViqeo+17 | — |
Top 8 Internet First Media companies in Moscow
#1
Series C · Moscow, Moscow · founded 1994$166.5Mraised▾
Provider of youth football training and development programs. It offers structured training programs for boys and girls, encompassing skill development, participation in leagues and tournaments, and opportunities for advancement. The organization also runs summer football camps, collaborating with other football clubs for enhanced training experiences. A football museum showcasing the history of local football is also maintained.
#2
Series B · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2011$5.4Mraised▾
SurfingBird is an aggregator of news, photos, videos and acts as a web page recommendation system. The content is curated by their in-house experts. The users need to pick topics of their interest and keep liking and disliking the recommendations. The algorithms of the platform make future recommendation accordingly.
- Feb 2014Series B$2.5M
- Sep 2011Angel$2.5M
- Seed$400K
#3
Seed · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2010$1.4Mraised▾
iFamous.me is an online magazine created by content generated by its community members. It claims to have 100,000 community members, as of April, 2016. The platform also claims to have 10M+ subscribers in social networks. Its user base is mainly from Russia and abroad (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Minsk). It's driven by people from various professions - bloggers, journalists, photographers, musicians, artists, actors, models, students and focused on content related to culture.
- Mar 2014Seed$1.4M
- Feb 2014Seed$40K
#4
Series B · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2011$10Mraised▾
Developer of an online publication about sports betting. It offers a platform that covers topics related to sports betting, and disputes between players and bookmakers.
- Jun 2013Series B$10M
#5
Deadpooled · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2012$1.6Mraised▾
Frolik is an online space for kids which features games, audio, video and other educational content and it also allows parents to track their child's activity in the digital world. The service features a cloud platform for Android, as well as content and teaching methods designed by the startup and by other contributors. The platform is built on open API, a programming interface that allows other apps to be integrated into a single system that generates statistics and offers rewards.
- Jun 2013Seed$1.6M
#6
Seed · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2012 · 6 employees—raised▾
Riot Pixels is an online content platform exclusively for video game industry. The platform hosts game recommendations, reviews, and news on upcoming game events across PC, Console and mobile platforms.
- Oct 2014Seed—
#7
Deadpooled · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2012—raised▾
Pandorama is a service that finds the articles and posts most relevant to users. Using advanced linguistics technology as well as community as an editorial team, it delivers an endless feed of content tuned according to individual interests. There are no tags to set up and you don’t need to use twitter to see the content that people are sharing. Pandorama tracks content from over 50,000 sources and across hundreds of topics. Content is organized by relevance, ensuring that the most appealing and interesting content is always at the top of the feed. It intelligently mixes random content into the feed to identify other relevant themes. Depending on your reading and sharing habits, you may be rewarded for developing expertise in particular hobbies or interests.
- May 2012Seed—
#8
Acquired · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2007 · 11 employees—raised▾
Kanobu Network is a Russia-based media company providing gaming and entertainment contents. The company provides the information such as news, reviews, and articles related to games and entertainment for users. Also operates other websites including "OGL.ru", "GamesLife.ru", and "WorldGames.ru". Monetizes through the display advertisements.
- Jan 2009Seed—
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