Runa Capital is a global technology-focused venture capital and private equity firm that is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and was founded in 2010 by Andre Bliznyuk, Dmitry, Chikhachev, Ilya Zubarev, and Serguei Beloussov. It provides early-stage funding for cloud computing services, hosted services, virtualization tools, complex software, and IT solutions for financial technology, education, healthcare, and public services. Runa Capital typically makes investments between $1 million to $10 million (mostly in series A rounds) in early stage companies. Notable exits made . by Runa Capital include: Nginx, Acumatica, CouldLinux, StationX, SchoolMint, Metabar, ThinkGrid, StopTheHacker, Rocketbank, LendingRobot, and Capptain.
On May 18, 2016 Runa Capital completed raising money for their second investment fund with $135 million in capital. The firm is planning on using their second fund to invest in American and European technology companies. The co-founder and managing partner of Runa Capital, Dmitry Chikhachev, made the following statement regarding the firms second fund:
The new fund logically follows our development over the past years. While Runa Capital I dedicated a part of its means to early-stage series, now we fully focus on more mature companies. We will support those who aim to gain significant shares on highly competitive markets.
On July 11, 2019 Runa Capital announced raising $70 million in funding for its third venture capital fund. The firm plan on using the funds to make early stage investments in 'deep-tech', according to an article published by TechCrunch.
Timeline
Funded Companies
DrChrono is a company providing EHR, Practice Management, and Revenue Cycle Management Solution APIs. It participated in the W11 cohort of Y Combinator.
Procurify was developed to streamline purchases, give spending reports and visibility throughout the purchasing process.
AppOnboard is a company that is known for offering a no-code development platform, primarily for marketers.
Monedo, formerly known as Kreditech, is a financial platform that allows users to better understand their credit.
Mambu is a Berlin-based software-as-a-service banking company offering lending and deposit software.
Educational technology company based in Krakow, Poland
Zype is the enterprise video content management system that enables organization to distribute video everywhere.
Oxygen is a digital bank provides banking and lending services for contractors and freelancers.
A company developing and providing application and API security for the web
EchoPixel develops medical imaging devices that enable doctors to use CT images of a patient's abdomen and display a 3D model.
Acumatica is a provider of cloud-based business management software for small and mid-size businesses.
Exwid is an e-commerce platform which can be embedded in websites and supports white label products.
MightyCall is a Palo Alto, California-based company.
Artificial Intelligence company
Spectrm is a company founded by Jendrik Höft.
Rollbar is a San Francisco-based local search company founded in 2012.
People
Alexander Vidiborskiy
Employee
Andre Bliznyuk
Employee
Dmitry Galperin
Employee
Dmitry Pozdyakov
Employee
Konstantin Gnyp
Employee
Konstantin Vinogradov
Employee
Liliana Pertenava
Employee
Masha Drokova
Employee
Nick Tomaino
Employee
Nikita Hertz
Employee
Olga Maslikhova
Employee
Peter Bauert
Employee
Ruslan Sarkisyan
Employee
Soeren von Varchmin
Investor