Runa Capital

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Runa Capital
legal form Limited partnership
founding 2010
Seat Palo Alto , California , USA
management Serguei Beloussov, Dmitry Chikhachev, Ilya Zubarev, Andre Bliznyuk, Dmitry Galperin
Branch Venture capital
Website https://www.runacap.com

Runa Capital is an international venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto , California , USA , in early stages in Deep-Tech ( AI , Machine Learning , middleware , open source , etc.), Cloud Business Software , Fintech , Edutech and digital health -Startups invested. From 2010 to 2019, Runa Capital had three funds and invested in more than 60 companies in Europe and North America including - Nginx , MariaDB , Zopa , Brainly, drchrono, Smava and Mambu.

history

Runa Capital Partners (from left to right): Dmitry Galperin, Dmitry Chikhachev, Andre Bliznyuk, Serguei Beloussov, Ilya Zubarev

Runa Capital was founded by technology entrepreneurs Serguei Beloussov and Ilya Zubarev (founders of Acronis and Parallels ) and their friend Dmitry Chikhachev from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology . The idea of ​​a venture capital firm took shape in 2009 and was officially adopted in 2010. The partners contributed their own money to the first fund and raised capital from friends and other international investors, including Achim Weiss and Andreas Gauger, founders of the German hosting provider 1 & 1 , and Edward Nicholson, former CEO of Brunswick-UBS in Russia. In 2011 Andrey Brilnyuk, former head of the Russia / CIS Equity Capital Markets Group in Goldman Sachs , joined Runa Capital as an investment partner. As of July 2019, the company managed over $ 340 million in 3 funds.

Funds

  • Runa Capital I, the company's first fund launched in 2010, reached its final size of $ 135 million by 2012 and focused on investing from seed capital to the B series. The initial idea was to bring globally oriented Russian startups into the To finance the areas of cloud computing , machine learning, virtualization , mobile and internet apps, the partners later expanded the investment area to include Europe and the USA.
  • Runa Capital II was founded in 2014 and reached $ 135 million in 2016 with great commitments from the backers of the first fund. The second fund targeted the rounds of Series A and B. The company's new office opened in 2015 in California .
  • Runa Capital III raised the first $ 70 million in July with a target of $ 135 million. The third fund followed the strategy of the second fund with an increased focus on deep tech startups.

Investments

Runa Capital invests $ 1-10 million primarily in Series A rounds. From 2010 to 2019, she invested in over 60 companies, equally divided between North America and Europe . In Germany, Runa Capital invested in Mambu, Smava, Vehiculum and Kreditech.

Companies description HQ location Invested Acquired Acquirer
Nginx Open source web server San Francisco 2011 2019 F5
Metabar Plug-in recommendations Moscow 2011 2014 Yandex
ThinkGrid Cloud computing platform London 2012 2012 Colt Technology Services
Capptain Mobile analytics Paris 2012 2014 Microsoft
StopTheHacker Anti-malware Burlingame (California) 2012 2014 CloudFlare
Acumatica Cloud ERP software Bellevue (Washington) 2013 2019 EQT Partners
Zopa Peer-to-peer credit London 2013 - -
Rocket bank Mobile banking Moscow 2013 2016 Otkrytije FC Bank
BackupAgent Cloud backup service Delft 2013 2014 Acronis
Brainly Social learning network Kraków 2014 - -
SchoolMint Registration service for US schools San Francisco 2014 2017 Hero K12
MariaDB Corporation Open source relational database management system Espoo; Redwood City, California 2015 - -
Critizr Experience management platform for retail Paris 2015 - -
Procurify Procurement software Vancouver 2016 - -
drchrono Electronic health data platform Mountain View (Santa Clara County, California) 2017 - -
Smava Consumer credit portal Berlin 2016 - -
Final Credit card startup Oakland (California) 2016 2018 Goldman Sachs
Mambu SaaS banking platform Berlin 2019 - -
Vehicle Car leasing start-up Berlin 2019 - -
Credit tech Electronic banking Hamburg 2019 - -

Affiliated Funds

Runa Capital's partners have been involved in setting up several other venture funds:

  • Boston- based Quantum Wave (QWave) is a $ 30 million early stage fund focused on companies involved in quantum technology. Serguei Beloussov is QWave's venture capital partner. According to TechCrunch , QWave effectively served as the " materials science " arm for Runa Capital. The notable investments include the Swiss quantum cryptography startup ID Quantique, which was acquired by SK Telecom in 2018 .
  • Phystech Ventures was founded in 2013 by several technology entrepreneurs, including Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (known as Phystech) alumni Serguei Beloussov and Dmitry Chikachev. In 2019, Phystech Ventures and North Energy Ventures combined their portfolios and founded the Terra VC Venture Company.

Individual evidence

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