Gagarin Capital Partners

Gagarin Capital Partners is a Cayman Islands-registered venture capital firm (with operating principals historically linked to Russian and post-Soviet AI-and-machine-learning technical communities, though now operating as an international investor from Grand Cayman) focused exclusively on early-stage global artificial intelligence and machine-learning company investments, named after Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin reflecting the firm's Russian-Silicon-Valley founder roots. The firm invests in seed and Series A AI-and-ML-focused technology companies globally, with historical investment focus on US, Israeli, Central and Eastern European, and selectively CIS-region AI start-ups, emphasising technical-depth founders with strong ML research backgrounds. Notable portfolio companies have included Prisma Labs (the AI photo-editing app behind viral ''Prisma'' and Lensa), MSQRD (acquired by Facebook / Meta), AIFactory, AIMatter (acquired by Google), WaveOptics, Neuromation, and other AI-native companies. Detailed current-fund AUM, named general partners in 2026, and Cayman-jurisdiction-registered-entity operational status are not comprehensively disclosed.