R-Founders
Business community focused on global markets
Inside are the best AI workflows for business, hundreds of case studies for going global, and support from experienced founders and C-level executives who are already on this journey
R-Founders participants are company owners and team leaders who are building businesses internationally
Among us are those who have already integrated AI into sales, support, and marketing, as well as launched AI-first products from scratch
Founder, CEO Rick.ai & heroes.camp
Founder of a proactive analytics service saving companies millions. Creator of the Heroes.camp product course. Consulted 2,670+ startups in the USA and Europe
Ilya Krasinsky
Сo-founder SkyEng, co-founder uForce
Completed 500+ marketing and lead generation projects globally for serial entrepreneurs and enterprises. $1M+ revenue projected for 2024
Denis Smetnev
Founder & CEO Elly Analytics
Attracted $1M in investments. Funds: AltaIR Capital, PTV
Seva Ustinov
Co-founder & СЕО Saola
Ex-Tiggy, q-com #1 in Canada with ARR of $6.5M and $10.5M attracted. Ex-Enso, real estate agency with GMV/Y of $100M. Saola is developing an AI agent platform for real estate, attracting top funds from Singapore
Evgeny Bisovka
VP of Performance Marketing TripleTen
US market
Maxim Epifanov
Co-founder & CPO Windy.app
30M+ users. Markets: Global
Anton Frolov
Co-founder & COO Savvy Kid App (Seneka Inc)
Co-founder and board member at MEL Science. 10 years of B2C experience in the USA. $100M total revenue from US/EU projects
Sergey Safonov
Investor in Bery Zaryad, Founder WE53 (power bank sharing)
Developed Bery Zaryad's international direction before selling to Yandex: 6M users and $40M revenue in 2024. Now WE53 operates separately in Europe (Cyprus, Greece, Portugal)
Bogdan Leonov
CEO Algorithmics
1.5M+ students globally across 90+ countries. Attracted $14M in investments
Andrey Lobanov
Co-founder & СЕО Jet Admin
Jet Admin went through Y Combinator
Anton Svetlov
Co-Founder at INXY Payments
$500M in 2 years. Attracted $3M in investments from Flashpoint
Sergey Kuznetsov
СЕО Chatfuel
Investors include Greylock, Knight Enterprise Fund, and Y Combinator. Over $4M in investments
Fedya Pak
Co-founder & СЕО Aurora First
Natalia Shagarina
Founder & CEO Skipp, Leading AI expert ManyChat
Top 10 AI products in 2023 with 100+ clients, including ManyChat, Replika, Aurora, MyStylus, and Number One AI
Lesha Odin
Ex-founder Rask AI, COO
$6M ARR in 9 months, team growth from 20 to 70 people in six months, author of the podcast and book "Almost Divorced."
Lenya Ivanov
Co-founder & CMO 1tab
Co-founder of a cryptocurrency-to-fiat exchange service helping over 6,000 entrepreneurs and individuals transfer money abroad. Target markets are Georgia and the UAE
Ilya Nemchenko
CEO & founder в Scade.pro
Founder of the Scade.pro platform for creating autonomous SMM agents. Over 10 years as CPO in various industries, from travel to fin/prop tech companies, market leaders. Led kupibilet.ru to 10,000 sales per day and grew m2.ru's mortgage broker to 3,500 mortgages per month
Sergey Anosov
General Partner, Superabundance.vc
Serial IT entrepreneur with real operational experience. Raised over $2M for personal projects. Grew an IT service company 15 times, from $19M to $296M in 4 years
Sam Yakushev
Co-Founder Superabundance.vc, Aventica, Spektr
We create profitable products in the AI era. Before the exit in '24, I built and led two great agencies with 150 people — Aventica and Spektr
Misha Belyaev
Founder LFG (acq by Xsolla), prev founder Prisma & Capture
Prisma has 120M+ users and $6M in investments. Capture raised $2M+ from venture investors, including General Catalyst and KPCB. LFG is a popular Discord bot with 1.5M+ users and $1M+ from Grishin Robotics and Goodwater Capital
Lesha Moiseenko
Co-founder Lookverse.ai
Built and scaled products in tech unicorns (Gett, Joom, Instamart) and in the New York food tech startup Fridge No More ($40M ARR)
Oksana Maurina
Co-Founder & CEO в Aparta
AI agents for hotels and hospitality companies in the USA. Over 14,000 properties worldwide have used the service. Ex-Yandex, ex-McKinsey
Vitaly Likhachev
working groups by industries
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startups
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hours saved through automation
500
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AI integrations from founders
100
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AI integrations from founders
100
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hours saved through automation
500
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offline locations around the world
30
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hours on launching products in different markets
1000
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working groups by industries
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members
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startups
200
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hours on launching products in different markets
1000
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members
1200
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offline locations around the world
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Examples of events held in the group:
R-Founders Global EdTech
Experienced founders and C-level executives in companies creating educational products for global markets
Group leader:
Katya Kurashova
Founder and CEO R-Founders
Group leader:
Denis Smetnev
Co-founder at uForce and SkyEng
R-Founders
B2B Global SaaS
Examples of events held in the group:
Group leader:
Dmitry Zaryuta
Entrepreneur, S16, SLP, FRII, 500 startups alumni
Group leader:
Dmitry Popov
Founder Tomi.ai
For SaaS and B2B model products, Pre-seed/Seed, with a focus on global markets
Examples of events held in the group:
R-Founders B2B Global Services
For experienced founders and top executives in the agency business with a focus on marketing and sales when entering international markets
Group leader:
Yulia Kholodova
Founder Ailove-Founders
Group leader:
Vadim Stolberg
Founder DCBL-Founders
Examples of events held in the group:
Group leader:
Igor Gurovich
Co-founder of Volna, Refocus, and Qmarketing
R-Founders PreScale
A community of early-stage entrepreneurs creating products for global markets. Participants, regardless of experience, have the resources and desire to grow their businesses while reducing mistakes through the support of like-minded individuals
Examples of events held in the group:
Group leader:
Igor Lyubimov
founder Web2App, ex-CPO FindMyKids
R-Founders Mobile Apps
Experienced founders and C-level executives in companies creating mobile applications for global markets
Examples of events held in the group:
Group leader:
Sergey Anosov
Founder of the company Scade.pro
R-Founders Generative AI startups
A group for founders and C-level employees of companies developing generative AI products. Goal: to exchange experiences and accelerate growth through synergy
Examples of events held in the group:
Group leader:
Kirill Gurbanov
Managing partner of the consulting agency FT Board, ex-manager at Samolet Bank, ex-Chief Digital Officer at MTS Bank
R-Founders
Global Fintech
Experienced founders and C-level executives in fintech companies with businesses in international markets
R-Founders
Fundraising
For expert exchange of experience and knowledge on the process of attracting funding for IT project founders
Group leader:
Max Chizhov
Co-founder of Revoltech and iFarm — over $15M in investments and $5M+ in revenue across 3 regions. Forbes 30 Under 30
🏁 Start — June 2025
R-Founders
Market Research
The group brings together entrepreneurs, C-level executives, and product owners in companies that plan to enter new markets and seek new products, wanting to tackle this challenge together by exchanging knowledge and experience
Group leader:
Vadim Glazkov
Entrepreneur and Fractional Business Development, founder of the JTBD research agency (ex. Zamesin & Glazkov research agency)
R-Founders
AI for Business
A closed AI group for founders and company leaders, where we share case studies, process automation, and tools that truly save time and money. No fluff — only practical solutions and communication with those who have already implemented AI in marketing, support, product, and operations
🕚 In the launch stage
We want to communicate as directly and equally as possible, diving into practical details and depth, which is why we bring together founders and C-level executives with similar stages and requests into industry tracks
R-Founders community is divided into working groups
I don’t know what to choose, help me! 🥵
Global Edtech
For Edtech startups with their own resources or investments for entering the global market
Global Edtech
We want to communicate as directly and equally as possible, diving into practical details and depth, which is why we bring together founders and C-level executives with similar stages and requests into industry tracks
R-Founders community is divided into working groups
I don’t know what to choose, help me! 🥵
Global Edtech
For Edtech startups with their own resources or investments for entering the global market
Reviews
I wanted to express my gratitude, as this community has really helped me a lot. A few months ago, I reached out in the chat for help in building a sales process for B2B SaaS, looking for someone with experience in the Head of Sales position who could get involved in the work.

I would like to give special thanks to @ArtemArtem555 and @RomanIshchenko from Raised for their prompt response and assistance in finding a suitable candidate. Thanks to this, we were able to significantly improve many aspects of our sales
Founder Volna
Igor Gurovich
Collaboration
Network
Thanks to a post on your job board, I got a job at a company whose founder reached out to me after seeing the post from you. Thank you 🙌🏼
Alina
Another
In another community, coffee pairs are chosen independently, with only 1−2 out of 10 meetings happening. In your community, networking-ready people are added randomly. I have calls every week
Denis Gribkov
Another
Thank you very much. It’s for such presentations that I love R-Founders. When you can directly message the CMO during the presentation: 'Let's review the entire work with the pipeline tomorrow
CEO at Jet.Style
Alexey Kulakov
Another
I wanted to share my WOW about the job search chat in R-Founders! I’ve never seen such a lively response anywhere else. Just 3 hours after posting the vacancy, I received 4 replies. Haha, that’s impressive!
Product Manager at Soul App
Sonya Utrom
Another
Another
We shifted our focus from the product to monetization — partly thanks to this community. We underestimated the work with onboarding and the paywall: we didn’t offer to buy at the start of the session. We experimented little with trials and discounts and poorly sold how we solve pain points.

We are already seeing results: for example, the paywall conversion rate has increased to 80%, and November was a record month for revenue — $ 5.5K
From Mobile App
Guys, I want to share my experience working with @Artembabinov. Everything went quickly, pleasantly, and at a high level. I was promptly contacted, offered great options, and invoiced to a legal entity. The manager, a very pleasant girl, immediately provided the address, and I was able to order bank cards.

Katya, thank you for tagging Artem! Artem, thank you so much!

I temporarily don’t have an assistant, and I don’t like handling such tasks, but everything went smoothly and without any issues with you. Thank you all very much!
СЕО at luckyhunter.co.uk
Tatiana Melnychuk
Saved time
You have gathered in the GenAI group people with the highest expertise in AI in Russia. You don’t need to invite external specialists; an exchange of experience within the group is sufficient
Founder SoulStory_bot
Egor Zheleznyak
Another
To everyone in the chat, I want to recommend consultations with Lesha @terehoff — we had a very substantive conversation, and I gained a lot of insights on referrals/affiliates
PMM at 4dev
Mikhail Smirnov
Another
The Mobile App group has provided a lot of value, especially in finding experts for urgent tasks. Over the past 1.5 months, we haven’t used the group, as we’ve resolved 80% of our issues.

Now the focus is on ramping up a new B2B direction, where we use our data for hypotheses. We decided to fully transition to the B2B group and add new participants to have access to consultants.

I reviewed the class catalog and contacts in B2B and decided that the transition will involve a different composition
Co-founder AIstats
Alexey Vorobey
Collaboration
Network
I liked it) There was an interesting entrepreneur from the USA, and I will call him separately about my product. It seemed like a great exchange of give-and-take happened
Head of Innovations Ray App
Suzanna Sarkisyan
Network
Hi. We resolved the SEO issue. We hired an agency from acquaintances. We are currently talking to a couple of people from the community for the CTO position. The quality is high
Founder boomerangme
Ivan Matveev
Network
What's in the subscription?
with contacts of verified contractors and experts, which is constantly updated
Database
Serious selection and filtering, only experienced founders and C-levels with resources and a focus on global markets
Closed community
Also:
English Networking — we practice English and connect with fellow founders
Offline meetings in 30+ locations around the world
Random Coffee with community members every week
Detailed database with metrics on global products in your industry
Regular masterminds — addressing requests and gaining strategic insights from those who have experienced this journey
Monthly Online Speed-Dating and 5 new warm contacts in an hour
Job Board with verified candidates and job postings for the global market
Offline community outings and our own Side-event at WebSummit
How to join?
Choose your industry or topic of interest
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Answer additional questions from our scout and interview with the group lead
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