Best Mobile Companies in Russia
The 163 best Mobile companies in Russia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Adtile.
Russia's Mobile startup scene is smaller than the global noise suggests, but the 163 companies we track here tell a real story about where the money flows. Total disclosed funding sits at $34M across the directory, with Adtile leading at $9M and BYYD close behind at $8M. No unicorns yet. But the global market these companies are pitching into is moving fast: from roughly $9.0B in 2025 toward a projected $24.1B by 2033, a 13.12% CAGR that keeps investors attentive even in tighter funding climates.
So what's actually driving deal flow right now? Smartphone penetration and 5G infrastructure are the structural tailwinds, and the hot themes this quarter are flagship pricing pressure, OS competition, and digital banking built mobile-first. That last one feels particularly live: soundwave-based payment tech is already drawing attention as a way to process transactions across device types without hardware dependency. MGVC and Altair Capital are the names you'll see most often backing Russian mobile plays. The directory below ranks companies by disclosed equity funding and recent funding momentum, giving you the clearest read on who's actually capitalized to compete.
- Mobile penetration in 2nd world to hit 95% by 2013
Our analysis of 127 Mobile companies
$17.0b in tracked funding; 88% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2024.
Ranked: Best Mobile companies in Russia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adtile Native mobile ad network | $9M | 122 mo ago | Series A | — | 2010 | — | — |
| 2 | BYYD Mobile advertising DSP | $8M | 177 mo ago | Series A | Ruslan Kuvaev Founder & CEO | 2008 | WordPressMySQLPHP+28 | — |
| 3 | Vintorog Game development studio | $4M | 23 mo ago | Seed | Denis Pozdnyakov Chief Product Officer | 2019 | — | — |
| 4 | AMAZY Online fitness app with game-fi features | $3M | 47 mo ago | Funding Raised | Artem Nikolaev Co-Founder | 2022 | TildaTikTok PixelYandex.Metrika+9 | — |
| 5 | AdMoment Cloud-based demand side platform | $3M | 151 mo ago | Deadpooled | Constantin Rosset Co-Founder & MD | 2012 | — | — |
| 6 | Playtox Russian game development studio | $3M | 156 mo ago | Series A | Artem Zinovev Co-Founder & CEO | 2009 | PHPNginxjQuery+3 | — |
| 7 | AdCamp Russia based mobile ad network | $2M | — | Seed | — | 2013 | — | — |
| 8 | Luden.io Independent game developer of VR games | $995K | 116 mo ago | Series A | — | 2015 | Facebook LoginGoogle Sign-inVarnish+17 | — |
| 9 | Cashsquare Location based mobile game | $575K | 162 mo ago | Deadpooled | Pavel Gusev Co-Founder | 2012 | — | — |
| 10 | iVengo Mobile advertising network | $250K | 157 mo ago | Deadpooled | Igor Eremin Founder & CEO | 2012 | — | — |
Top 12 Mobile companies in Russia
#1
Seed · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2019$3.7Mraised▾
Game development studio. It offers full cycle game development services and focuses on 2D and 3D art, porting, Unity, Unreal Engine, and VR. It has developed games such as Kamchatka, Neuro kinesis, The 90s, Word Battle, and many more.
- Jul 2024Angel$3.7M
#2
Funding Raised · Moscow · founded 2022$3.1Mraised▾
Online fitness app with game-fi features. The users can earn tokens by wearing virtual sneakers and taking a walk or jogging. The users who own sneakers can only earn rewards and move around with the GPS mode on. It offers an in-app marketplace to buy, sell or rent NFTs.
- Jul 2022ICO$3.1M
#3
Series A · Russia · founded 2010 · 7 employees$9.2Mraised▾
Adtile (earlier a product of TenFarms) is an ad network that delivers native ads in smartphone apps through iOS and Android SDKs. Also offers a white label news media solution called Adtile White. Provides ad units in different formats for publishers to use - Weather, Touch experience, Kinetic Ads for Moto360. In Jan 2014, launched Motion Ads that take advantage of a smartphone’s GPS, gyroscope, motion coprocessor, accelerometer and digital compass for users to interact with their ads. Has offices in USA and Finland. Launching a online marketplace for pre-designed and pre-coded Adtile motion ads in Fall 2014.
- Apr 2016Series A$2M
- Jul 2014Series A$4.5M
#4
Series A · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2008 · 116 employees$8.1Mraised▾
BYYD is a mobile advertising DSP which allows advertisers to buy banner, rich media, video, native ads using RTB technology. Provides real-time traffic analysis and campaign optimization solutions. Offers targeting features based on Device type, OS, location, demography etc. Has partnerships with Smaato, Doubleclick, Rubicon, Liverail, Brightroll, Pubmatic, OpenX etc for accessing inventory. Partenred with Appsflyer, Apsalar, Adjust, Kochava for tracking information.
- Sep 2011Series A$7.5M
- Aug 2010Seed—
- Nov 2009Seed$600K
#5
Deadpooled · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2012 · 11 employees$3Mraised▾
Cloud-based demand-side platform. The platform enables advertisers to automatically define the right targeting settings based on selected parameters (e.g. location, time, device type, connection type, and app category). The customer list includes Visa, McDonalds, Samsung Apps, Toyota, etc.
- Nov 2013Series A$3M
#6
Series A · Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast · founded 2009 · 30 employees$3Mraised▾
Playtox is a Russian game development studio. The company focuses on the development of browser-based games across multiple platforms. The company also operates its own gaming portal. The company has also launched the iOS and Android version of its popular games like "My Farm" and "World of Shadows".
- Jun 2013Series A$3M
#7
Seed · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2013 · 4 employees$2Mraised▾
AdCamp is a mobile advertising network which claims to serve 10M impressions per day. Provides solution for advertising in video network, mobile app or sites, rich banner ads etc. Advertisers can target based on type of connection (3G or WiFi), mobile operator, behavioral targeting. Clients include P&G, Oral-B, Unilever, Axe, MTC etc. Supports CPM, CPC, CPM, CPI pricing models. Part of Pult Group.
- Seed$2M
#8
Series A · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2015 · 11 employees$995.2Kraised▾
Luden.io is an independent game developer of VR games. The company specializes in developing cognitive learning and engaging games. The company has developed InMind2 and while True: learn. The games are available on Steam for the Google Daydream, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Samsung Gear VR devices. It generates revenue through the paid games.
- Oct 2016Series A$995.2K
#9
Deadpooled · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2012 · 11 employees$575Kraised▾
Cashsquare is a game development studio based in Russia best know known for its location based game 'Cashsquare'. The game bring the board-game features into the real world on your mobile phone by enabling users to to buy a variety of real venues from foursquare and earn rent as people check in at your venues in real-time. The studio appears to be deadpooled
- Dec 2012Angel$450K
- Feb 2012Angel$125K
#10
Deadpooled · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2012$250Kraised▾
i-Vengo is a mobile advertising network that connects application owners and developers with brands. Provides SDK for integration with developers. Client list includes Coca-Cola, Asus, PayPal, Total, Jeep, Microsoft, L'Oreal Paris, Citi Bank, Nike, Volvo etc. i-vengo is part of Vengo Group.
- May 2013Seed$250K
#11
Seed · Moscow, Moscow · founded 2011$50Kraised▾
AdWired offers an in-app online mobile ad network to engage the most receptive audience across smartphone and tablet users. Provides targeting features together with interactive banners that enable advertisers to reach their target audience. The HTML5 support allows advertisers to create fully interactive banners with audio and video clips. Enables developers and advertisers to collect app data using AdWired SDK.
- Nov 2013Seed$50K
- Nov 2013Grant (prize money)$30K
#12
Deadpooled · Nizhegorodskaya, Krasnodar Krai · founded 2009$60Kraised▾
Calleoo is an online VoIP calling platform for consumers and businesses. It provides the users the opportunity to make voice calls from their PC without installing any software. PC-to-PC calls are free, users pay for PC-to-land/cell phone calls, texts or voice messages. It also allows integration of voicemail services to customer web-site.
- Aug 2009Seed$60K
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Mobile coverage by sub-theme.
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How research on 5G / 6G Networks is moving in Russia
A read on the academic research around 5G / 6G Networks — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 382 Russia-affiliated papers.
- Saint-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications29
- ITMO University19
- National Research Tomsk State University17
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology16
- Yelets State University named after Ivan Bunin16
- Beamforming9→35
- MIMO6→21
- Electronic engineering4→9
- Extremely high frequency1→5
- Geology1→5
- Beamforming16→64
- MIMO14→40
- Antenna (radio)8→33
- Antenna array3→15
- Adaptive beamformer3→11
- Beamforming9
- MIMO6
- Electronic engineering4
- Antenna (radio)4
- Computer network3
Where 5g 6g 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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