Runa Capital
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| Industry | Venture Capital |
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| Founded | 2010 |
| Founder |
Serguei Beloussov Ilya Zubarev Dmitry Chikhachev |
| Headquarters | Palo Alto, California, United States |
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Number of locations
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Silicon Valley Moscow |
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Area served
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United States, Canada, Europe, Russia, Israel, Southeast Asia |
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Key people
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Serguei Beloussov Ilya Zubarev Dmitry Chikhachev Andre Bliznyuk Peter Bauert |
| Total assets | $270 million |
| Website | runacap.com |
Runa Capital is a global technology-focused venture capital firm. It provides early-stage funding for cloud computing services, hosted services, virtualization tools, complex software, and IT solutions for fintech, education, healthcare, and public services.
The firm was founded on August 2, 2010 by Phystech classmates Serguei Beloussov, Ilya Zubarev and Dmitry Chikhachev. Before launching Runa Capital Sergey and Ilya founded several global companies including Acronis and Parallels, while Dmitry used to be chief operating officer at Uvenco Holding Limited. Andre Bliznyuk, former head of Goldman Sachs’ Russia/CIS Equity Capital Markets Group became a partner in March 2011.
Runa Capital’s first fund, Runa Capital I, began with a $30 million initial commitment and reached $135 million by 2012. The company is now aiming to raise $200 million for Runa Capital II, focusing on investments in USA, European Union, Israel and Eastern Europe
So far the firm has made 48 investments, including Nginx, Lingualeo, Brainly, Ecwid, Acumatica, Jelastic and Zopa.
Invested companies have access to the infrastructure of technological partners. Acronis, Parallels and other companies from the technology industry act as experts and help to find technical solutions and solve organizational and legal issues. At the same time they create a demand for cloud solutions of these startups. Additionally, Runa Capital organizes its own educational activity for startups - Runa Bootcamp where participating startups receive education and advice from the fund's team, as well as guest speakers from the likes of Parallels, Acronis and other IT-companies.
Most recently the firm opened offices in San Francisco's SOMA district with plans on doing more investment in North America, as well as to better support the existing investments it has already made in US companies.
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