Best Media & Entertainment Companies in Russia
The 306 best Media & Entertainment companies in Russia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Rambler&Co.
When you're mapping the best Media & Entertainment companies in Russia by disclosed equity funding and recent funding momentum, the numbers tell you exactly where the energy is sitting. Across 306 tracked companies, total disclosed funding reaches $293M, with Rambler&Co commanding a striking $167M of that pool alone, and Zvuk pulling $25M as audio streaming heats up. The global prize these players are competing for sits around $1,960B, and even at a 7.41% CAGR that's a curve bending hard in one direction.
So what's the ground-level signal? Median Play Store installs across 3,108 media and social apps grew roughly 12% YoY, which I find genuinely telling as a momentum read. No unicorns yet in this market, but the emerging themes, audio editors, playback engines, and mindfulness content, are exactly where coverage is climbing fastest. Investors like Baring Vostok and IIDF are already positioned. The funding base is concentrated right now, but that concentration is the story: capital is finding its conviction early, and the gap between Rambler&Co's lead and the rest of the pack means there's real room for the next breakout name to emerge.
- Statista
Ranked: Best Media & Entertainment companies in Russia
| # | Company | App-install YoY | Disclosed funding | Last round | Founder | Employees | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zvuk Music streaming platform | +21% | $25M | 120 mo ago | — | 119 | SentryNode.jsMUI+13 | — |
| 2 | Kassir Online ticketing marketplace for events | +17% | — | 95 mo ago | — | 69 | Node.jsPHPTailwind CSS+13 | — |
| 3 | Bookmate e-book Reading & digital library | +9% | $3M | 144 mo ago | Simon Dunlop Co-Founder & CEO | 81 | ReactNginxLodash+11 | — |
| 4 | LitRes Online retailer of ebooks in Russia | +7% | $5M | 80 mo ago | Sergey Anuriev CEO | 131 | Cart FunctionalitySentryNode.js+24 | — |
| 5 | Rambler&Co Provider of youth football training and development programs | — | $167M | 81 mo ago | Alexander Mamut Co-Founder | — | Node.jsVue.jsNginx+9 | — |
| 6 | RIFGO Provider of solutions to monetize educational content | — | $200K | 56 mo ago | — | 6 | — | — |
| 7 | Hello Tickets Ticketing platform for events in the United States and London | — | $2M | 78 mo ago | Alberto Martine Co-Founder & COO | 32 | Node.jsTailwind CSSGoogle Cloud+19 | — |
| 8 | Doctor At Work Provider of social networking platform for medical practitioners | — | $8M | 140 mo ago | Ilya Kupriyanov Co-founder | 73 | TypeScriptWindows ServerMicrosoft ASP.NET+12 | — |
| 9 | Dream Industries Technology solution provider for the music industry | — | $11M | 144 mo ago | Victor Frumkin Co-Founder | 51 | — | — |
| 10 | Revain Blockchain based customer review platform | — | $10M | 105 mo ago | Rinat Arslanov CEO | 2 | Node.jsReactNext.js+11 | — |
| 11 | Surfingbird Aggregator and recommendation platform for news, photos, video | — | $5M | 147 mo ago | Sergey Shalayev Co-Founder | — | Amazon Web ServicesNginxAmazon SES | — |
| 12 | Tvigle Video syndication network and Over-the-Top (OTT) delivery service provider | — | $13M | 177 mo ago | Evgenia Petrova CEO | — | SentryNode.jsReact+9 | — |
| 13 | Rebelation On-demand music streaming platform | — | $1M | 85 mo ago | Alexander Volgin Founder | 4 | — | — |
| 14 | Ticketland Ticketing Platform | — | $10M | 150 mo ago | — | 201 | — | — |
| 15 | Eticket4 Event ticketing platform | — | $325K | 83 mo ago | Daniil Kruchinin Founder & CEO | — | JavaUbuntuGoogle Sign-in+16 | — |
| 16 | Bookmaker Rating Developer of an online publication about sports betting | — | $10M | 156 mo ago | Paruyr Shahbazyan Founder | — | Cart FunctionalityNode.jsVarnish+12 | — |
| 17 | Dulton Media B2B and B2C solutions provider for video management and monetization | — | $4M | 172 mo ago | Anatoly Vorontsov CEO | 10 | — | — |
| 18 | PlatformaVR Developer of exclusive entertainment content in the location-based VR segment | — | $550K | 93 mo ago | Andrej Gospodarjov Owner | 3 | — | — |
| 19 | iFamous.Me Community driven virtual magazine | — | $1M | 147 mo ago | Gigi Janelidze CEO | — | — | — |
| 20 | Vidimax On demand video | — | $4M | 200 mo ago | Sveta Belova CEO | 12 | — | — |
| 21 | RT News channel | — | $3M | 201 mo ago | Margarita Simonyan Founder & CEO | 2,683 | FirebaseReactPlausible+18 | — |
| 22 | Professionali.ru Online social platform for professionals | — | $2M | 180 mo ago | — | 162 | — | — |
| 23 | Capturica Video monitoring and analysis services provider | — | $130K | 88 mo ago | Vlad Gafarov Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 24 | Frolik Provides online content for children and allows parents to track their activity. | — | $2M | 155 mo ago | Stanislav Borisov CEO | — | — | — |
| 25 | ponominalu.ru Russian online ticketing company | — | $2M | 160 mo ago | Mikhail Minin Founder & CEO | 28 | — | — |
| 26 | Tagbrand Photo-based social platform to discover the latest trends & products | — | $600K | 162 mo ago | Ivan Olenchenko CEO and Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 27 | Spontana Online community platform for fashion enthusiasts | — | $130K | 93 mo ago | Danat Bulavko Founder | — | — | — |
| 28 | Mixupload Online on-demamd music distribution platform | — | $316K | 128 mo ago | — | 3 | Vue.jscore-jsjQuery+9 | — |
| 29 | Domosite Social network for joint management of residential buildings | — | $1M | 164 mo ago | Ilya Korobeinikov Founder | — | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+19 | — |
| 30 | TheQuestion Social Q&A community | — | $500K | 119 mo ago | — | 30 | — | — |
| 31 | Friends Around Geo-aware mobile social network | — | $1M | 198 mo ago | Dmitry Altukhov Co-founder | — | — | — |
| 32 | iPressPad SaaS platform to publish news & magazines | — | $400K | 144 mo ago | Roman Nikitin Co-Owner | 3 | — | — |
| 33 | OdinOtvet Russian private expert community | — | $500K | 181 mo ago | Elena Rakhimova CEO | — | — | — |
| 34 | Vibrow Social Virtual Browser | — | $300K | 192 mo ago | — | — | — | — |
| 35 | Doctoriya Online consultations and guidance for patients and social network for doctors | — | $100K | 136 mo ago | Vilgelm Menshov Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 36 | Sosediya Social network for neighbors, owners and tenants | — | $100K | 159 mo ago | Alexey Nikolaenko Founder | — | — | — |
| 37 | Manifest Opinion sharing platform | — | $100K | 173 mo ago | Igor Zelenov Co-Founder | — | — | — |
Top 12 Media & Entertainment companies in Russia
#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
Seed · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2021 · 6 employees$200Kraised▾
Provider of solutions to monetize educational content
- Sep 2021Seed$200K
#3
Seed · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2017 · 32 employees$2.2Mraised▾
Hello Ticket is a ticketing platform for events in the United States and London. It allows users to find an upcoming and nearby event and buy tickets for the events. It enables users to browse tickets based on city and date. It provides ticketing solutions for sports, movies, theatres, concerts and Broadway shows.
- Dec 2019Seed$2.2M
- 2018Seed$20K
#4
Series A · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2009 · 73 employees$7.6Mraised▾
Doctor At Work is a social networking platform for doctors. It also offers its mobile app and enables the practitioners to connect with other doctors, securely collaborate on patient treatment, diagnostic plans and discover new career opportunities with the vacant positions around their locations. They also conduct new competitions and pay for the clinical cases published in the portal.
- Oct 2014Series A$2.8M
- Mar 2014Series A$3M
- Jun 2012Seed$1M
- Mar 2011Seed$500K
#5
Series A · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2005 · 131 employees$5Mraised▾
LitRes, founded in 2005 is one of the leading retailers of ebooks in Russia. It is the winner of Runet Award 2014. It has a collection of more than 750,000 e-books in Russian and foreign languages, among which about 25 000 are free books. Each month, the company provides a new catalog of more than 2000 books. LitRes deals with the largest publishing houses in Russia (Eksmo, AST, Ripol Classic, myth, Azbuka-Atticus, Peter et al.) and many leading authors.The company has also developed an ebook reading applications LitRes.
- Oct 2019Series A$5M
- 2014Series A—
#6
Series A · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2011 · 119 employees$25Mraised▾
Zvuk is a music streaming platform. It enables users to stream music from a wide range of categories and genres such as Pop, Classic, House, Children's, Chason and Russian Pop. It also includes ready-made playlists, charts, and personal recommendations for activities and moods. Also allows the user to download tracks and listens to them offline. The application is available for iOS and Android devices.
- Jun 2016Series A$5M
- Aug 2014Series A$20M
#7
Deadpooled · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2009 · 51 employees$11.1Mraised▾
Dream Industries is a technology solution provider for the music industry. The company offers products including Zvooq- a provider licensed digital music for emerging markets. Bookmate that Provides subscription-based e-reading services. DI Telegraph- a provider of tech-oriented co-working, education, and event venue solution. Unisound- a provider of digital audio advertising solution.
- May 2014Series A$3M
- Apr 2012Series A$5M
- 2011Angel$3.1M
#8
Funding Raised · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2017 · 2 employees$9.7Mraised▾
Revain is a blockchain based customer review platform. It is a decentralized feedback platform which doesn't allow the users to change or delete reviews. Users get rewarded in RVN token for submitting reviews. Offers multiple features including AI-based service, reviews' immutability and machine learning based automatic filtration. Monetizes through business subscription.
- Sep 2017ICO$9.7M
#9
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
#10
Series A · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2007$13Mraised▾
Tvigle is a video syndication network and Over-the-Top (OTT) delivery service provider. Offers ad-supported video-on-demand service which allows users to stream TV shows, webisodes, and other videos from BBC Worldwide, Fox, ABC, Nickelodeon, Channel One and other smaller networks. Offered only to users in Russia and Ukraine in Flash Video and HTML5 format. Also, offers SaaS-based video publisher services for Russian media television channels such as Forbes, Dailymotion, MTV Russia, and Muz-TV.
- Sep 2011Series A$8M
- 2007Series A$5M
#11
Seed · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2015 · 4 employees$1Mraised▾
Rebelation is an on-demand music streaming platform. It allows users to browse, search, and stream music. Also, allows users to like artists, genres, and create a playlist of songs of their choice and share with friends. Claims to utilise its proprietary algorithms to provide song recommendations based on the temporal noises, genres, and other attributes of the listener favourite songs.
- May 2019Seed$1M
#12
Acquired · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2003 · 201 employees$10Mraised▾
Ticketland controls three services in the Russian events market. United Art Tickets, which operates Ticketland.ru, is a provider of tickets for concerts, theatre, shows and sports events, while it also offers ERP and e-ticketing services for venues. Ticketland also runs MDTZK, a ticket retail chain in Moscow with 130 outlets, and Arena Group, which processes tickets for sporting events.
- Dec 2013Series A$10M
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