Industry Venture Capital Total assets $270 million | Number of locations Silicon Valley
Moscow Founded 2010 | |
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Headquarters Palo Alto, California, United States Area served United States, Canada, Europe, Russia, Israel, Southeast Asia Key people Serguei Beloussov
Ilya Zubarev
Dmitry Chikhachev
Andre Bliznyuk
Peter Bauert Founders Serguei Beloussov, Dmitry Chikhachev, Ilya Zubarev | ||
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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.
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- Science and industry relations
- Exits
- References
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.
Science and industry relations
MIPT graduates Serguei Beloussov and Dmitry Chikhachev are also founding members of Phystech-Union NP, an association of high-profile Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology alumni that serve the University as consultants and financial supporters.
Phystech-Union, together with MIPT, Runa Capital, Parallels, Acronis, 1C Company, ABBYY and Competentum, form the Phystech IT-cluster, a non-profit partnership chaired by Dmitry Chickachev. The organisation supervises the development of the Phystech XXI innovation cluster and Phystechpark, an innovation park based on MIPT’s campus. Runa Capital also cooperates with Innopolis University in Kazan, where Serguei Beloussov is a supervisory board member.
Exits
Runa has made 5 exits to date:
Financial details for these deals have not been disclosed.