Victor Remsha

is Leading Global Technology Investor

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Overview

• Viktor Remsha is the founder and chairman of the board at Finam Group, a leading global stock brokerage.
• Mr. Remsha received a top rating among executives by the Russian Managers Association, a major national business association.
• He was awarded the V.V. Leontyev Medal of Honor «For Achievements in the Economy», which was established by the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
• Remsha has invested in over 50 high-tech projects in 15 countries around the world.
• He has been consistently been ranked by Forbes magazine among Russia’s Top 200 affluent businessmen, with his fortune estimated at over USD 850 mn (112th, 2020).
• Top business media have repeatedly referred to the activity of Victor Remsha as a venture investor.

Bio

Victor Remsha was born in Krasnoyarsk in 1970. He graduated from the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, majoring in radio electronic systems. As a student, he became a co-founder of Finam in 1994 and later became the sole shareholder of Finance Analytics. Initially, the company provided information services while expanding into financial services, enabling retail investors to access Russia’s major stock exchanges. Finance Analytics was turned into Finam Investment Holding and a year later all of the holding’s companies began to operate under the single Finam brand.

Finam was the first Russian brokerage to come out with educational marketing programs and set up a training center. At a later time, the company was one of the first investment industry players to establish its own bank, that was renamed Finam Bank. With a wealth of IT expertise, Finam launched Comon, a social trading network which is currently one ofthe largest auto-tracking service.

Finam has rapidly expanded not only its domestic, but also foreign networks. Nowadays, the group’s subsidiaries and representative offices operate in Europe, Asia, South America and North America.

Victor Remsha one of the first who assessed the outlook for investment in venture projects and startups, and started making money in this field. Businessman heavily invested in Russian and foreign IT startups in different countries since the 2000s. Key investment areas are social networks, banner exchange systems and fintech projects. Major projects include contextual advertising company Begun, dating platforms Mamba (on the list of the most expensive RuNet companies according to Forbes) and Badoo, interactive agency E-generator, payment system Delta Telecom, banking marketplace Banki.ru and social network MirTesen. Now Victor Remsha holds equity stakes in a number of the most promising and rapidly expanding Russian and foreign projects, since 2004 having invested in over 50 projects, and the investment portfolio is currently valued at over USD 1 bn.